Time at Emar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Time at Emar write by Daniel E. Fleming. This book was released on 2000. Time at Emar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The recent large-scale watershed projects in northern Syria, where the ancient city of Emar was located, have brought this area to light, thanks to salvage operation excavations before the area was submerged. Excavations at Meskeneh-Qadimeh on the great bend of the Euphrates River revealed this large town, which had been built in the late 14th century and then destroyed violently at the beginning of the 12th, at the end of the Bronze Age. In the town of Emar, ritual tablets were discovered in a temple that are demonstrated to have been recorded by the supervisor of the local cult, who was called the "diviner." This religious leader also operated a significant writing center, which focused on both administering local ritual and fostering competence in Mesopotamian lore. An archaic local calendar can be distinguished from other calendars in use at Emar, both foreign and local. A second, overlapping calendar emanated from the palace and represented a rising political force in some tension with rooted local institutions. The archaic local calendar can be partially reconstructed from one ritual text that outlines the rites performed during a period of six months. The main public rite of Emar's religious calendar was the zukru festival. This event was celebrated in a simplified annual ritual and in a more elaborate version of the ritual for seven days during every seventh year, probably serving as a pledge of loyalty to the chief god, Dagan. The Emar ritual calendar was native, in spite of various levels of outside influence, and thus offers important evidence for ancient Syrian culture. These texts are thus important for ancient Near Eastern cultic and ritual studies. Fleming's comprehensive study lays the basic groundwork for all future study of the ritual and makes a major contribution to the study of ancient Syria.
Athtart
Athtart - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Athtart write by Aren M. Wilson-Wright. This book was released on 2016-10-28. Athtart available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, Aren M. Wilson-Wright proposes a new model for studying gods in the Ancient Near East. He then illustrates the utility of this model by applying it to a detailed study of the goddess Athtart at three Late Bronze Age sites: Egypt, Emar, and Ugarit. -back of book
God in Translation
God in Translation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook God in Translation write by Mark S. Smith. This book was released on 2010-06-28. God in Translation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. God in Translation offers a substantial, extraordinarily broad survey of ancient attitudes toward deities, from the Late Bronze Age through ancient Israel and into the New Testament. Looking closely at relevant biblical texts and at their cultural contexts, Mark S. Smith demonstrates that the biblical attitude toward deities of other cultures is not uniformly negative, as is commonly supposed. He traces the historical development of Israel's "one-god worldview, " linking it to the rise of the surrounding Mesopotamian empires. Smith's study also produces evidence undermining a common modern assumption among historians of religion that polytheism is tolerant while monotheism is prone to intolerance and violence.
Poetic Heroes
Poetic Heroes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poetic Heroes write by Mark S. Smith. This book was released on 2014-09-15. Poetic Heroes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Warfare exerts a magnetic power, even a terrible attraction, in its emphasis on glory, honor, and duty. In order to face the terror of war, it is necessary to face how our biblical traditions have made it attractive -- even alluring. In this book Mark Smith undertakes an extensive exploration of "poetic heroes" across a number of ancient cultures in order to understand the attitudes of those cultures toward war and warriors. Smith examines the Iliad and the Gilgamesh; Ugaritic poems commemorating Baal, Aqhat, and the Rephaim; and early biblical poetry, including the battle hymn of Judges 5 and the lament of David over Saul and Jonathan in 2 Samuel 1. Smith's Poetic Heroes analyzes the importance of heroic poetry in early Israel and its disappearance after the time of David, building on several strands of scholarship in archaeological research, poetic analysis, and cultural reconstruction.
West Semitic Vocabulary in the Akkadian Texts from Emar
West Semitic Vocabulary in the Akkadian Texts from Emar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook West Semitic Vocabulary in the Akkadian Texts from Emar write by Eugen J. Pentiuc. This book was released on 2018-08-14. West Semitic Vocabulary in the Akkadian Texts from Emar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Part 1 of this study is a glossary with comparative analysis of non-normative Akkadian forms, Hittite and Hurrian words, West Semitic lexemes, and words of uncertain origin, with special attention given to the West Semitic forms. Part 2 consists of grammatical observations pertaining to the West Semitic forms, under the headings orthography, phonology, and morphology.
