... methods we have developed for the study of the ancient Near East are useful for the study of other research questions outside the field of “Digital Assyriology”. The article presents an overview of automated language processing for lexical-semantic analysis, social network analysis, and content analysis...

... that Israelite religion was embedded in a broader context of Ancient Near East (ANE) religious cultures, such that biblical stories and characters sometimes borrow from other ancient sources. Second is the problem that the scholarly understanding of ancient Israelite polytheism threatens to make God...

... religion Babylonian religion ancient Near East early Greek religion Conclusion The comparison of early Greek epos in wider Mediterranean and Near Eastern contexts has entered a new phase. The pursuit of the impressive parallel (W. Burkert) and the effort to build a cumulative case for pervasive...

... juxtaposes the formal invocation and the crude curse against Alcaeus's enemy. This chapter examines the imagery of Alcaeus fr. 129 in the context of the imagery of oaths from the ancient Near East cultural area, including Akkadian, Hittite, Hebrew, and Aramaic oaths spanning the period from 1400 bc...

... that catalyzed collective memories and community identity in both the Iron Age Levant and elsewhere in the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean. Iron Age Levant Israel Jordan Lebanon Levant Syria Turkey art objects collective memory community craft practitioners as meta narrative cultural memory...

... in the ancient Near East that would take him to Iraq, Syria, Jerusalem, and Egypt. Hale George Ellery Chicago Society of Egyptian Research Goodspeed George Stephen Harper William Rainey National Academy of Sciences Yerkes Charles T Yerkes Observatory anthropology archaeology archeology Associated Press...

... a higher salary but also a measure of nationwide fame. Not long after his return from the Middle East, he delivered the university's fall convocation address, using the occasion to reiterate his desire to launch projects that spanned the ancient Near East, and cited recent discoveries in such fields...

...It is essential that one reads Ruth in the light of a complex social environment that in many ways the book is reacting against. This means taking into account the status of women in ancient Israel and, more broadly, the ancient Near East. It also means considering the status of foreigners within...

... dependencies between Egyptian texts and Hebrew psalms. The article traces the quest for the Egyptian backgrounds to the Psalms to the world of the ancient Near East. Janowski B Keel O Schipper B U Psalms Ma’at enemy Foster J L Uehlinger C Guglielmi W Knigge C death Wilson J A Der Manuelian P...

... Gudme A K de Hemmer 9 2 14 20 30–34 Runion E Thiede B Koenig S M Pyper H 16 20–22 16 23 19 1 Esler P F Măcelaru M V 16 11–12 16 12 17 38–39 17 42 18 1 Økland J Homoeroticism homosexuality homosociability Leviticus Holiness Code masculinity ancient Near East Jonathan David...

... shepherds on the fringes of the civilizations of the ancient Near East to become a nation, a kingdom and even an empire before tragically succumbing to division, dissolution and the loss of the land that had made their nationhood possible. 1 It should be noted that by historical context I do not have...

... of Native American religion with the emotional character of African American religion. In the study of the religions of ancient civilizations, the British interest in India was superseded by the American interest in the Ancient Near East. Between 1914 and 1920, Jastrow dedicated his scholarship to analyzing...

... Scythians ancient nomads the Eurasian steppes the ancient Near East Pontic Greeks forest-steppe tribes migrations socio-political organization political culture animal style Ancient authors and some contemporary scholars have used the name “Scythians” in two different meanings: a generic name...

.... ” In Sex and Gender in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the 47th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Helsinki, July 2–6, 2001. Vol. 1, ed. Simo Parpola and Robert M. Whiting , 11-26. Helsinki, Finland: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2002 . Brenner...

... the ancient near east i. 5. Malibu, Calif.: Undena. Travellers, early excavation, and decipherment Rogers, R. W.   1901 . A History of Babylonia and Assyria , 2nd edn. New York: Eaton and Mains, i. 1–253. History (i) Sumerian King List Edzard, D. O. 1980...

... Amathus Rupp D W Alashiya Ku‐pi‐ri‐jo Iadnana cuneiform texts centralized political organization documentary evidence textual evidence eastern Mediterranean ancient Near East What does ‘protohistory’ mean, and to what period(s) does it refer in the Cypriot context? Peltenburg ( 1982 : 16–17...

...Karen Radner, Nadine Moeller, and D. T. Potts, Introducing the Oxford History of the Ancient Near East In: The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East. Edited by: Karen Radner, Nadine Moeller, D. T. Potts, Oxford University Press (2020). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso...

... provinces of the Empire. This was an uncommon occurrence in the ancient Near East as other small kingdom and nations were deported as well. However, this particular deportation was recorded in the Bible. The chapter then describes how prophets in Israel and the southern Kingdom of Judea‐most notably Hosea...

... textual comparisons. ancient Near East complexity intertextuality wisdom as concept Moynihan Daniel Patrick genre history of Israel individualism literary form Proverbs secularism Solomon theology universalism Wisdom Wisdom tradition Delkurt Holger Dell Katharine J Fox Michael V Schwáb...

...The chapter introduces the concept of urbicide to the study of the ancient world, with a focus on the ancient Near East. Urbicide refers to the premeditated and deliberate destruction of cities, their iconic architecture, and their identity. The city per se is the target...