Performing death : social analyses of funerary traditions in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean /
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Proceedings from the 2nd annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute seminar held at the Oriental Institute , February 17-18, 2006. :
xviii, 317 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 26 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
1885923503
9781885923509
Making pictures of war : realia et imaginaria in the iconology of the ancient Near East /
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This work brings together the main discussions that took place at an international conference on the iconology of war in the ancient Near East, a subject never addressed at an international meeting before.
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Selected conference papers.
Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
Specialized. :
9781784914042 (ebook) :
Jewish cultural encounters in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world /
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The essays in this volume originate from the Third Qumran Institute Symposium held at the University of Groningen, December 2013. Taking the flexible concept of "cultural encounter" as a starting point, the essays in this volume bring together a panoply of approaches to the study of various cultural interactions between the people of ancient Israel, Judea, and Palestine and people from other parts of the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world. In order to study how cultural encounters shaped historical development, literary traditions, religious practice and political systems, the contributors employ a broad spectrum of theoretical positions (e.g., hybridity, métissage, frontier studies, postcolonialism, entangled histories and multilingualism), to interpret a diverse set of literary, documentary, archaeological, epigraphic, numismatic, and iconographic sources.
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1 online resource. :
9789004336919 :
1384-2161 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
The Organization of Power : aspects of bureaucracy in the ancient Near East /
: Papers of a symposium sponsodred by the Oriental Institute and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicagom, April 16-17, 1983. : xii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. : Bibliograpy : pages 158-159. : 0918986516 (pbk.)
Images as media : Images as media : sources for the cultural history of the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean : 1st millenium BCE /
: Proceedings of an international symposium, held at the University of Fribourg, November 25-29, 1997. : xxxii, 408 pages, LX pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 372781294x
The physicality of the other : masks from the ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean /
: Proceedings of a conference organized by the Institue for Old Testament Studies, Universität Leipzig, November 9-11, 2015. : ix, 570 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 9783161555138
Power and architecture : monumental public architecture in the Bronze Age Near East and Aegean /
: "Proceedings of the international conference 'Power and Architecture' organized by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the Universite Catholique de Louvain and the Westfalischen Wilhelms-Universitat Munster on the 21st and 22nd of November, 2002." : x, 236 pages : illustration, maps ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9042918314
Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East : 12 April - 16 April 2010, the British Museum and UCL, London /
: CD-ROM contains color versions of the illustrations in Colour & light in architecture, art, material culture. : xxii, 727 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. + 1CD-Rom (4 3/4in) : 9783447066853
Proceedings of the First International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Rome, May 18th-23rd 1998 /
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Proceedings.
At head of title: Università degli studi di Roma La Sapienza. :
2 volumes (vii, 1843 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
8888233008
Structures of power : law and gender across the ancient Near East and beyond /
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"Papers from the Oriental Institute Seminar 'Structures of power: law and gender across the ancient near east and beyond' held at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, March 6-7, 2015." :
volume <12> : illustrations ; 25 cm. :
1614910391
9781614910398
The Star of Bethlehem and the Magi : interdisciplinary perspectives from experts on the ancient Near East, the Greco-Roman world, and modern astronomy /
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This book is the fruit of the first ever interdisciplinary international scientific conference on Matthew's story of the Star of Bethlehem and the Magi, held in 2014 at the University of Groningen, and attended by world-leading specialists in all relevant fields: modern astronomy, the ancient near-eastern and Greco-Roman worlds, the history of science, and religion. The scholarly discussions and the exchange of the interdisciplinary views proved to be immensely fruitful and resulted in the present book. Its twenty chapters describe the various aspects of The Star: the history of its interpretation, ancient near-eastern astronomy and astrology and the Magi, astrology in the Greco-Roman and the Jewish worlds, and the early Christian world - at a generally accessible level. An epilogue summarizes the fact-fiction balance of the most famous star which has ever shone.
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Papers edited from a colloquium The Star of Bethlehem: Historical and Astronomical Perspectives held October 22-24, 2014 in Groningen, Netherlands. :
1 online resource (xxii, 695 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004308473 :
1388-3909 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
On the fringe of commentary : metatextuality in ancient Near Eastern and ancient Mediterranean cultures /
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This volume contains the papers of the second meeting of the international scholarly network "The Hermeneutic of Judaism, Christianity and Islam," held in Aix-en-Provence (September 25-27, 2008). Drawing on Gerard Genette's theory of the five different types of "transtextuality" (Palimpsestes, Paris 1982) - intertextuality, paratextuality, metatextuality, hypertextuality, and architextuality - , the volume discusses the practices of metatextuality as diverse as commentaries, hypomnemata, pesharim, targumim, Talmud, allegoresis, glosses, scholia, catenae, questions-and-responses (erotapocriseis), prophetic extracts, hypotheses, homilies, integumenta and involucra, Keys to Dreams, translations, and transliterations in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern cultures. Presented with an introduction designed to expand and re-contextualize this issue, the eighteen communications discuss common strategies of metatextuality in Greek and Jewish culture as well as its various manifestations in the Septuagint and other Jewish texts, in the literature of the Ancient Near East and Egypt, in the Greco-Roman world, and in the late antique and medieval literature.
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International conference proceedings, September 2008, Aix-Marseille University. :
xx, 472 pages ; 25 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9789042930735