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Ancient Texts for the Study of the Hebrew Bible: A Guide to the Background Literature
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KENTON L. SPARKS, Ancient Texts for the Study of the Hebrew Bible: A Guide to the Background Literature (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2005). Pp. xxxviii + 514. $39.95.
Frustrated over the lack of comparative bibliographic resources at his disposal in graduate school, Kenton L. Sparks has ventured to write a massive introduction to and overview of the Hebrew Bible in its ancient Near Eastern literary context. One is immediately struck with S.'s extensive background in ancient Near Eastern ...
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Ancient Texts for the Study of the Hebrew Bible: A Guide to the Background Literature
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; ... Near Eastern Law is wrongly attributed it to Claus Wilcke. The volume has six useful tables, a historical chart, as well as four maps of the ancient Near East. Sparks is to be congratulated for compiling such a useful reference tool; it will be of great use to ...
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Flight and Freedom in the Ancient Near East.(Book Review)
The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; Flight and Freedom in the Ancient Near East. By DANIEL C. SNELL. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, vol. 8. Leiden: BRILL, 2001. Pp. xi + 200. $60. For years Daniel Snell has been at the vanguard of Assyriologists who have desired to make their work appeal to a larger audience. Once
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Luxury goods in the ancient Near East.(books on luxury goods during ancient times)(Book review)
Antiquity
; NEAL H. WALLS (ed Cult Image and Divine Representation in the Ancient Near East. xviii+116 pages, 57 illustrations. 2005. Boston (MA): American School of Oriental Research; 0-89757-068-5 paperback 15 [pounds sterling] ALLISON KARMEL THOMASON. Luxury and Legitimation: Royal Collecting in Ancient
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Women, Crime, and Punishment in Ancient Law and Society, Volume 1, The Ancient Near East
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; ELISABETH MEIER TETLOW, Women, Crime, and Punishment in Ancient Law and Society, Volume 1, The Ancient Near East (New York/London: Continuum, 2004). Pp. xiv + 338. $35. This is the first of two volumes intended to provide an overview of the legal status of women in ancient Greece and the ancient
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Civilizations of the Ancient Near East
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
; Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Edited by Jack M. Sasson et al. 4 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1995, xxxii + 2966 pp., $449.00. This is a breathtaking publishing and scholarly accomplishment. For the first time, a comprehensive reference work is available that presents the state
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The Children of Noah: Jewish Seafaring in Ancient Times.(Review)
The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ... PATAI, with contributions by JAMES HORNELL and JOHN M. LUNDQUIST. Princeton: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1998. Pp. xix + 227, maps, illustrations. $24.95. Ancient Jewish scholars did not pay much attention to the sea. Most of them had very little knowledge ...
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The House of the Father as Fact and Symbol: Patrimonialism in Ugarit and the Ancient Near East
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; J. DAVID SCHLOEN, The House of the Father as Fact and Symbol: Patrimonialism in Ugarit and the Ancient Near East (Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant 2; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2001). Pp. xv + 414. $57.50. This substantial book, the first of two volumes, reflects Schloen's
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Bibliography of Classical Folklore Scholarship: Myths, Legends, and Popular Beliefs of Ancient Greece and Rome.
Folklore
; ... methods. See also Folklore of the Sea: Carrying an Oar, in FLS News: Newsletter of the Folklore Society 25 (June 1997):5-6. Hansen ... Hansen, William. The Stuck Couple in Ancient Greece. FOAFtale News 36 (January 1995):2-3. Compares a recent African news story about a man who cast a spell to magically ...
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Sirhak in late Choson Korea and Ancient Learning in early modern Japan from the perspective of the history of interaction.
Korean Studies
; Ancient Learning, an approach to overcoming Zhu Xi Neo-Confucian metaphysics, emerged and developed as an intellectual track at about the same time in Korea, China, and Japan. This school was introduced to Choson via Korean elites who visited Japan as members of diplomatic embassies. Upon
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Descartes and Ancient Skepticism: Reheated Cabbage?
The Philosophical Review
; 1. Lately, several commentators have argued that there are significant differences between ancient and modern (by which is usually meant Cartesian and post-Cartesian) skepticism. For example, it has been argued that ancient skeptics disavow belief, whereas the moderns disavow only knowledge.(1) It
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