In this interdisciplinary study, Alexander Ahrens examines Egyptian objects found in the northern Levant (covering the modern states of Lebanon, Syria, and parts of Turkey) in archaeological contexts dated to the second millennium BCE. Drawing on methods from archaeology and sociocultural theory, he provides a...
Proceedings of the Third International Colloquium of the Dominique Barthélemy Institute, held in Fribourg (October 2015). The book of Leviticus is by far the most quoted in rabbinic literature such as the Mishna or the Talmud, while it has been marginalized in the Christian tradition. Nevertheless,...
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Die Sammlung der hier veröffentlichten Skarabäen und verwandten Siegel-Amulette entstand zwischen 1975 und 2012 parallel zur Arbeit am „Corpus der Stempelsiegel-Amulette aus Palästina/Israel“. Der Zweck war, zu verhindern, dass zahlreiche ungewöhnliche und interessante Stücke in nie veröffentlichten Privatsammlungen oder als Bestandteile von Schmuck von der...
The story of the primeval cataclysmic flood which wiped out all life on earth, save for one family, is found in different ancient Mesopotamian texts whence it reached the Biblical and Classical literary traditions. The present book systematically collects the earliest attestations of the myth...
The nature of divine speech in Antiquity in the Mediterranean Basin has often been the object of scholarly analysis, especially regarding its divinatory context and questions of genre and rhetoric. The present volume not only provokes a dialogue with this past research, but seeks to...
Im Zentrum des Bandes stehen die Münzen aus der perserzeitlichen Provinz Samaria und die auf ihnen dargestellte Bildwelt. Das Corpus des sogenannten Samarian Coinage umfasst heute rund 250 Münztypen, wovon 165 mit relativer Sicherheit in Samaria verortet werden können. Dabei handelt es sich um Silbermünzen...
Actes du colloque organisé par le Collège de France, Paris, les 5 et 6 mai 2015. What was the function of representing deities and also humans in the ancient Near-East? Which were the different ways of making gods visible, and the specific functions of these representations?...
Proceedings of the 61e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Geneva and Bern, 22–26 June 2015. This book contains the proceedings of the 61e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, which was held in Geneva and Bern in Switzerland from 22nd until 26th June 2015. The overarching conference theme “Text and Image”...
Actes du colloque organisé par le Collège de France, Paris, les 19 et 20 mai 2014. Dans bon nombre de religions antiques et modernes, la question de la place de l’homme et de sa relation avec des dieux ou autres puissances supérieures occupe une place importante....