Aramaic Texts from Deir ʻAlla
Author: Jacob Hoftijzer
Publisher: Brill Archive
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9789004045743
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Aramaic Texts from Deir 'Alla
Author: Jacob Hoftijzer
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-11-13
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9004670327
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Author: Jacob Hoftijzer
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9789004093171
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book concerns the inscription written on wall plaster discovered in 1967 at Deir cAlla in the Jordan Valley, and published in 1976. Using new data and the discussions about the text available to date, it deals with six different aspects of study of the text, namely the archaeological context, the palaeography, the general interpretation as well as the interpretation of several separate passages, the language used, and its relation to Old Testament studies.
The Balaam Text from Deir `Allã
Author: Jo Ann Hackett
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-11-26
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9004387137
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Author: Hoftijzer
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9004666354
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book concerns the inscription written on wall plaster discovered in 1967 at Deir cAlla in the Jordan Valley, and published in 1976. Using new data and the discussions about the text available to date, it deals with six different aspects of study of the text, namely the archaeological context, the palaeography, the general interpretation as well as the interpretation of several separate passages, the language used, and its relation to Old Testament studies.
Studies in Aramaic Inscriptions and Onomastics
Author: Edward Lipiński
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9789068316100
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A large number of Aramaic inscriptions from the 9th century B.C. to the 3rd century A.D. are revisited in this fourth volume of Studies. After the stele of Tel Dan, the epitaph of Kuttamuwa from Zincirli, and the inscription found at Tepe Qalaichi, Aramaic dockets from Dur-Katlimmu are re-examined, distinguishing a court ruling concerning theft, agreements regarding mortgage, guarantee, indemnity, barley and silver loans, and the particular nsk-loan. Next are examined "cadastral" reports from Idumaea, some inscriptions from Hellenistic times, a divorce bill from the Roman period, several Palmyrene dedications, epitaphs, and honorific inscriptions, as well as some Hatraean texts, mainly related to Adiabene. Finally, Mercionism is considered as background of a saying on "two gods," ascribed to Rabbi Hiyya bar Abba. Like in the preceding volumes of Studies, detailed indexes list the inscriptions, the personal names and the place-names examined, as well as other subjects.
The Books of Numbers
Author: Timothy R. Ashley
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 1993-07-22
Total Pages: 700
ISBN-13: 9780802825230
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ashley's study on the book of Numbers is part of The New International Commentary on the Old Testament. Like its companion series on the New Testament, this commentary devotes considerable care to achieving a balance between technical information and homiletic-devotional interpretation.
King Manasseh and Child Sacrifice
Author: Francesca Stavrakopoulou
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-10-24
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 3110899647
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Hebrew Bible portrays King Manasseh and child sacrifice as the most reprehensible person and the most objectionable practice within the story of 'Israel'. This monograph suggests that historically, neither were as deviant as the Hebrew Bible appears to insist. Through careful historical reconstruction, it is argued that Manasseh was one of Judah's most successful monarchs, and child sacrifice played a central role in ancient Judahite religious practice. The biblical writers, motivated by ideological concerns, have thus deliberately distorted the truth about Manasseh and child sacrifice.
Images of Egypt in Early Biblical Literature
Author: Stephen C. Russell
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 3110221713
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book suggests a regional paradigm for understanding the development of the traditions about Egypt and the exodus in the Hebrew Bible. It offers fresh readings of the golden calf stories in 1 Kgs 12:25-33 and Exod 32, the Balaam oracles in Num 22-24, and the Song of the Sea in Exod 15:1b-18 and from these paints a picture of the differing traditions about Egypt that circulated in Cisjordan Israel, Transjordan Israel, and Judah in the 8th century B.C.E. and earlier. In the north, an exodus from Egypt was celebrated in the Bethel calf cult as a journey of Israelites from Egypt to Cisjordan, without a detour eastward to Sinai. This exodus was envisioned in military terms as suggested by the nature of the polemic in Exod 32, and the attribution of the exodus to the warrior Yahweh, Israel's own deity. In the east, a tradition of deliverance from Egypt was celebrated, rather than the idea of a journey, and it was credited to El. In the south, Egypt was recognized as a major enemy, whom Yahweh had defeated, but the traditions there were not formulated in terms of an exodus. While acknowledging the reshaping of these traditions in response to the exile, Images of Egypt argues that they originated in the pre-exilic period and relate to Syro-Palestinian history as it is otherwise known.
The Balaam Text from Deir Alla
