Biblical and Oriental Studies: Bible and ancient Oriental texts

Biblical and Oriental Studies: Bible and ancient Oriental texts PDF Author: Umberto Cassuto
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Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Biblical and Oriental Studies: Bible and ancient Oriental texts

Biblical and Oriental Studies: Bible and ancient Oriental texts PDF Author: Umberto Cassuto
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Pages : 308

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Biblical and Oriental Studies: Bible

Biblical and Oriental Studies: Bible PDF Author: Umberto Cassuto
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Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Biblical and Oriental Studies

Biblical and Oriental Studies PDF Author: Umberto Cassuto
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Category : Religion
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Biblical and Oriental Studies

Biblical and Oriental Studies PDF Author: Umberto Cassuto
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Category : Bible
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Pages : 309

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Oriental and Biblical Studies

Oriental and Biblical Studies PDF Author: E. A. Speiser
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512818828
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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Rarely has mastery of a field been combined with such style and lucidity as in the writings of E. A. Speiser. For forty years before his death, in 1965, Dr. Speiser, the renowned author of the Anchor Bible Genesis, was a leading American orientalist. Speiser was at home in the modern as well as the ancient Near East and knew its many cultures intimately. His wide-ranging biblical studies are informed with a profound knowledge of Assyriology, and to both he brought the insights of a brilliant comparative linguist. Speiser's unique vision of the whole of ancient Near Eastern culture resulted in several classic syntheses that are included in these pages. Collected in this volume are thirty-six of his now difficult-to-obtain articles. The reader will discover papers that deal not only with biblical studies and linguistics but also with the civilizations of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine; with law and political science; and with intellectual and social progress in the ancient Near East. "Speiser insisted on the simultaneous concentration upon analysis and synthesis; the first without the second he deemed sterile, the second without the first an empty playing with words. . . . [This insistence], so eloquently exemplified in his own work was . . . the most distinctive and certainly the most enduring part of his legacy as a teacher (from the Appreciation, by J. J. Finkelstein). E. A. Speiser was born in Galicia in 1902. After his graduation from the College of Lemberg, Austria, in 1918, he came to the United States, arriving in 1920. He received his M.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1923 and Ph.D. degree from Dropsie College, Philadelphia, in 1924. During World War II, Speiser was the chief of the Near East section, research and analysis branch of the Office of Strategic Services. Following the war, in 1947, Speiser was named chairman of the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1954 he became Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures at the University. One year prior to his death, he was named University Professor of Oriental Studies, the highest honor that the University of Pennsylvania awards to distinguished faculty members. Those familiar with one or another aspect of Speiser's contribution will find here a selection and arrangement designed to capture the underlying unity in approach that informed all of his work. And the nonspecialist cannot help but discover the broader, humanistic implications of oriental studies.

Biblical and Oriental Studies

Biblical and Oriental Studies PDF Author: U. Cassuto
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Biblical and Oriental Studies

Biblical and Oriental Studies PDF Author: Umberto Cassuto
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Orientalism, Assyriology and the Bible

Orientalism, Assyriology and the Bible PDF Author: Steven Winford Holloway
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press Limited
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 692

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'Orientalism' refers both to the academic study of the Orient and to Western scholarship that clings to stock images of the timeless East and oriental despotism. This landmark collection of essays, the first in its field, is written by seasoned art historians, Assyriologists and biblical specialists; it is organized under four rubrics: 1. Intellectual and Disciplinary Histories identifies waymarks in the rise of Assyriology in America, shifting images of ancient Assyria in their cultural context, Smithsonian Institution exhibits of 'biblical antiquities' at the world's fairs of 1893 and 1895, the rise of Egyptology in the nineteenth century, Mari scholarship and its impact on biblical studies, and the ancient Near Eastern text anthology as genre (Foster, Frahm, Holloway Reid, Younger). 2. Visual Perspectives suggests itself as a corrective to the academic habit of conjuring a 'texted Orient'. Here are contributions that describe Assyrianizing engravings in the famous Dalziels' Bible Gallery, the reception of ancient Assyria in nineteenth-century England versus France, and artwork for twentieth-century American histories of Israel (Bohrer, Esposito, Long). 3. Of Harems and Heroines explores gender issues in the context of the figure of Semiramis and the idea of the harem in biblical research and Assyriology (Asher-Greve, Solvang). 4. Assyriology and the Bible offers essays that focus on specific figures (Josiah), texts (Genesis 28.10-22, the Uruk Prophecy), or periods (Persian period in biblical historiography) (Grabbe, Handy, Hurowitz, Scurlock). The volume includes a Bibliography of some 1000 items, an important resource.

Biblical and Oriental Studies

Biblical and Oriental Studies PDF Author: U. Cassuto
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Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Biblical and Oriental Studies

Biblical and Oriental Studies PDF Author: Mosheh Daṿid Ḳasuṭo
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