Author: William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Publisher: London : Murray
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Category : Archaeological expeditions
Languages : en
Pages : 530

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Author: George Walter Gawrych
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Category : Abu Ageila, Battle of, Abū ʻUjaylah, Egypt, 1956
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Author: Alexander Hool
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ISBN: 9781946351227
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Emanuel Marx
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857459325
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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The Sinai Peninsula links Asia and Africa and for millennia has been crossed by imperial armies from both the east and the west. Thus, its Bedouin inhabitants are by necessity involved in world affairs and maintain a complex, almost urban, economy. They make their home in arid mountains that provide limited pastures and lack arable soils and must derive much of their income from migrant labor and trade. Still, every household maintains, at considerable expense, a small orchard and a minute flock of goats and sheep. The orchards and flocks sustain them in times of need and become the core of a mutual assurance system. It is for this social security that Bedouin live in and retire to the mountains. Based on fieldwork over ten years, this book builds on the central theoretical understanding that the complex political economy of the Mount Sinai Bedouin is integrated into urban society and part of the modern global world.

Author: Carmen Joy Imes
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 1646022661
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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The Name Command (NC) is usually interpreted as a prohibition against speaking Yhwh’s name in a particular context: false oaths, wrongful pronunciation, irreverent worship, magical practices, cursing, false teaching, and the like. However, the NC lacks the contextual specification needed to support the command as speech related. Taking seriously the narrative context at Sinai and the closest lexical parallels, a different picture emerges—one animated by concrete rituals and their associated metaphorical concepts. The unique phrase ns' shm is one of several expressions arising from the conceptual metaphor, election as branding, that finds analogies in high-priest regalia as well as in various ways of claiming ownership in the Ancient Near East, such as inscribed monuments, the use of seals, and the branding of slaves. The NC presupposes that Yhwh has claimed Israel by placing Yhwh’s own name on her. In this light, the first two commands of the Decalogue reinforce the two sides of the covenant declaration: “I will be your God; you will be my people.” The first expresses the demand for exclusive worship and the second calls for proper representation. As a consequence, the NC invites a richer exploration of what it means to be a people in covenant with Yhwh—a people bearing his name among the nations. It also points to what is at stake when Israel carries that name “in vain.” The image of bearing Yhwh’s name offers a rich source for theological and ethical reflection that cannot be conveyed nonmetaphorically without distortion or loss of meaning.

Author: Carmen Joy Imes
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830848363
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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What does the Old Testament—especially the law—have to do with your Christian life? In this warm, accessible volume, Carmen Joy Imes takes readers back to Sinai, arguing that we've misunderstood the command about "taking the Lord's name in vain." Instead, Imes says that this command is really about "bearing God's name," a theme that continues throughout the rest of Scripture.

Author: Eli Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 714

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Author: Makhon ha-geʼologi (Israel)
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 586

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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Author: Janet Soskice
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307272346
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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Agnes and Margaret Smith were not your typical Victorian scholars or adventurers. Female, middle-aged, and without university degrees or formal language training, the twin sisters nevertheless made one of the most important scriptural discoveries of their time: the earliest known copy of the Gospels in ancient Syriac, the language that Jesus spoke. In an era when most Westerners—male or female—feared to tread in the Middle East, they slept in tents and endured temperamental camels, unscrupulous dragomen, and suspicious monks to become unsung heroines in the continuing effort to discover the Bible as originally written.