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In The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit Mary Buck In Hellenistic Astronomy: The Science in This volume offers an overview of current pursues a nuanced view of populations in Its Contexts, renowned scholars address directions in the study of siege warfare from the Bronze Age Levant, with the objective questions about what the ancient science of around the ancient Mediterranean world. of understanding the ancient polity of the heavens was and the numerous contexts Ugarit as a kin-based culture that shares in which it was pursued. close ties with neighbouring Amorite populations.
November 2019 November 2019 Hardback December 2019 Hardback ISBN 9789004414174 Hardback ISBN 9789004413894 Price € 105 / US$ 126 ISBN 9789004373471 Price € 149 / US$ 179 E-ISBN 9789004414648 Price € 135 / US$ 162 E-ISBN 9789004413900 E-Price € 105 / US$ 126 E-ISBN 9789004416291 E-Price € 149 / US$ 179 Studies in Semitic E-Price € 135 / US$ 162 Religions in the Graeco- Languages and Time, Astronomy, and Roman World, 190 Linguistics, 100 Calendars, 8 Isis Pelagia: Images, Names The Semantics of Silence in Down to the Hour: Short and Cults of a Goddess of Biblical Hebrew Time in the Ancient the Seas Sonja Noll, Pontificia Universidad Mediterranean and Near Católica de Chile Laurent Bricault, University of Toulouse East Jean Jaures Edited by Kassandra J. Miller, Bard College, and Sarah L. Symons, McMaster University
In Isis Pelagia, Laurent Bricault offers a In The Semantics of Silence in Biblical This book offers perspectives on the new interpretation of many of the various Hebrew, Sonja Noll explores the meanings interplay between short-term timekeeping sources on Isis as a goddess of the seas in of the many words that refer to being silent technologies and their social contexts in the Graeco-Roman world. in biblical Hebrew and examines how they ancient Egypt, Babylon, Greece, and Rome. have been interpreted in the early versions, It explores the origins of the “hour” as a modern translations, and dictionaries. temporal unit and illuminates timekeeping activities in antiquity. Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions Journal of Egyptian History
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The Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions (JANER) focuses The Journal of Egyptian History aims to encourage and stimulate on the religions of the Ancient Near East: Egypt, Mesopotamia, a focused debate on writing and interpreting Egyptian history Syria-Palestine, and Anatolia, as well as adjacent areas under their ranging from the Neolithic foundations of Ancient Egypt to its cultural influence, from prehistory through the beginning of the modern reception. It covers all aspects of Ancient Egyptian history common era. JANER defines Ancient Near Eastern civilization (political, social, economic, and intellectual) and of modern broadly as including not only the Biblical, Hellenistic and Roman historiography about Ancient Egypt (methodologies, hermeneutics, world but also the impact of Near Eastern religions on the western interplay between historiography and other disciplines, and history Mediterranean. JANER is the only peer-refereed journal specifically of modern Egyptological historiography). and exclusively addressing this range of topics, and is intended to The journal is open to contributions in English, German, and provide an international scholarly forum for studies on all aspects French. of ancient religions. JANER welcomes submissions that introduce new evidence, revise old understandings, and advance debates on ancient Near Eastern ideas and practices of the otherworldly.
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