Life and loyalty : a study in the socio-religious culture of Syria and Mesopotamia in the Graeco-Roman period based on epigraphical evidence /

The formula 'for the life of' is often found in votive inscriptions, cast in Aramaic and other languages, which originate from the Syrian-Mesopotamian desert and adjacent areas and which roughly date from the first three centuries A.D. They belong to objects like statues and altars that us...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Dijkstra, Klaas.

التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني

اللغة: English

منشور في: Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1995.

سلاسل: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 128.
Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Online, ISBN: 9789004299672.

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الوسوم: إضافة وسم

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رقم الطلب: BL1600 .D54 1995

جدول المحتويات:
  • Preliminary material
  • INTRODUCTION
  • FOR THE LIFE OF ... KINGS: THE NABATAEAN PERCEPTION AND EMPLOYMENT OF THE FORMULA
  • FOR THE LIFE OF ... 'FAMILY': THE PALMYRENE PERCEPTION AND EMPLOYMENT OF THE FORMULA
  • FOR THE LIFE OF ... WHOEVER: THE HATRENE PERCEPTION AND EMPLOYMENT OF THE FORMULA
  • FOR THE LIFE OF ...: INCIDENTAL FINDINGS AND GREEK AND LATIN EQUIVALENTS
  • CONCLUSIONS
  • ASSESSING DIODORUS' AND STRABO'S ACCOUNTS ON THE NABATAEANS
  • ABOUT TRANSLATING ARAMAIC ʿl ḥyy
  • SOME REMARKS ON EPITHETHS OF NABATAEAN ROYAL DEITIES
  • THE MEANING OF ʾʾ AND ʾʾt IN THE NABATAEAN CONTEXT
  • OBODAS THE GOD
  • PALMYRENE DEDICATORY INSCRIPTIONS ON INCENSE-BURNERS
  • PALMYRENE HONORIFIC INSCRIPTIONS
  • TWO TENTATIVE HATRENE FAMILY-TREES
  • LATIN AND GREEK INSCRIPTIONS FROM THE FERTILE CRESCENT EMPLOYING AN EQUIVALENT OF THE ARAMAIC FORMULA ʿl ḥyy
  • REFERENCES
  • EPIGRAPHICAL INDEX
  • RELIGIONS IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD.