The Amarna Scholarly Tablets

Author : Shlomo Izreʿel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789072371836
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Amarna Scholarly Tablets written by Shlomo Izreʿel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Armana archives include not only letters but also texts relating to the education of scribes in Egypt: syllabaries, lexical lists, literary texts and other educational exercises. Although the recent translation of the letters by William Moran (The Amarna Letters, Johns Hopkins, 1992) has brought our understanding of this important corpus up-to-date, the other texts have not been included in his volume. They have been waiting for renewed study in the context of literary and scholarly peripheral and core Akkadian texts. The original publications are obsolete and many of the texts are poorly copied. This book provides new editions of all the Amarna tablets not included in Moran's volume, i.e. EA 340-361; 368; 372-377; 379-381. Some of these are fragments whose genre is a matter of debate: suggestions for their attribution will be offered. This new edition includes transliterations, translations, a brief commentary, cuneiform copies, and photographs. The introduction provides an overview of the corpus and is intended to serve as an impetus for further research into some of the more difficult issues yet to be examined.

Author : William L. Moran
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801867156
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Amarna Letters written by William L. Moran and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ancient inscription identified some of the ruins at el Amarna as "The Place of the Letters of the Pharaoh." Discovered there, circa 1887, were nearly four hundred cuneiform tablets containing correspondence of the Egyptian court with rulers of neighboring states in the mid-fourteenth century B.C. Previous translations of these letters were both incomplete and reflected an imperfect understanding of the Babylonian dialects in which they were written. William Moran devoted a lifetime of study to the Amarna letters to prepare this authoritative English translation. The letters provide a vivid record of high-level diplomatic exchanges that, by modern standards, are often less than diplomatic. An Assyrian ruler complains that the Egyptian king's latest gift of gold was not even sufficient to pay the cost of the messengers who brought it. The king of Babylon refuses to give his daughter in marriage to the pharaoh without first having proof that the king's sister—already one of the pharaoh's many wives—is still alive and well. The king of Karaduniyash complains that the Egyptian court has "detained" his messenger—for the past six years. And Egyptian vassal Rib-Hadda, writing from the besieged port of Byblos, repeatedly demands military assistance for his city or, failing that, an Egyptian ship to permit his own escape.

Author : Yuval Goren
Publisher : Emery and Claire Yass Archaeology Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inscribed in Clay written by Yuval Goren and published by Emery and Claire Yass Archaeology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines letters from the Tell el-Amarna archive in Egypt, written between Egypt and other Middle Eastern nations ca. 1360-1334 B.C. Uses material and chemical analysis for provenance information and historical geography.

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Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4R/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tell Amarna Tablets written by and published by The Minerva Group, Inc.. This book was released on 1893 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C. R. Conder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332351015
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tell Amarna Tablets (Classic Reprint) written by C. R. Conder and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Tell Amarna Tablets The Tell Amarna Tablets were discovered in 1887 by a peasant woman of Egypt, amid the ruins of the palace of Amenophis IV., midway between Thebes and Memphis, at the site of the ancient Arsinoe, about 180 miles by river south of Cairo. Those tablets under present consideration date about 1480 B.C., and are written to the King of Egypt and to certain of his officials by Amorites, Ph nicians, PhiHstines and others. The names of Japhia, King of Gezer; of Jabin, King of Hazor; and, probably, of Adonizedek, King of Jerusalem - contemporaries of Joshua - occur among those of the writers. The events recorded include the conquest of Damascus by the Hittites, that of Phoenicia by the Amorites, and that of Judea by the Hebrews. The present translations, from the cuneiform characters, are based on the copies published by Dr. H. Winckler at Berlin, and Dr. C. Bezold of the British Museum, which include the whole of the letters now in Cairo, Berlin and London. In dealing with inscriptions the interpretation of which is acknowledged by scholars to present many difficulties, I do not presume to suppose that my translations are beyond criticism, or always final; but I believe that such criticism, which will no doubt lead to improvements, must be confined to details. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Author : Carl Bezold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
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Download or read book The Tell El-Amarna Tablets in the British Museum with Autotype Facsimiles written by Carl Bezold and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sara Jessica Milstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190205393
Total Pages : 265 pages
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Download or read book Tracking the Master Scribe written by Sara Jessica Milstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With collectively produced texts that underwent massive change over time, Mesopotamian literature and the Hebrew Bible confound modern notions of authorship and creativity. Tracking the Master Scribe: Revision through Introduction in Biblical and Mesopotamian Literature probes the methods employed by ancient scribes to pass down the writing that mattered most"--

Author : C R 1848-1910 Conder
Publisher : Andesite Press
ISBN 13 : 9781297760259
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tell Amarna Tablets written by C R 1848-1910 Conder and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Raymond Cohen
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801871030
Total Pages : 330 pages
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Download or read book Amarna Diplomacy written by Raymond Cohen and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-10-23 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1992, William L. Moran's definitive English translation, The Amarna Letters, raised as many questions as it answered. How did Pharaoh run his empire? Why did the god-king consent to deal with his fellow, mortal monarchs as equals? Indeed, why did kings engage in diplomacy at all? How did the great powers maintain international peace and order? In Amarna Diplomacy, Raymond Cohen and Raymond Westbrook have brought together a team of specialists, both social scientists and ancient historians, to explore the world of ancient Near Eastern statecraft portrayed in the letters. Subjects discussed include Egyptian imperial and foreign policy, international law and trade, geopolitics and decision making, intelligence, and diplomacy. This book will be of interest to scholars not only of the ancient Near East and the Bible but also of international relations and diplomatic studies. Contributors are Pinhas Artzi, Kevin Avruch, Geoffrey Berridge, Betsy M. Bryan, Raymond Cohen, Steven R. David, Daniel Druckman, Serdar Güner, Alan James, Christer Jönsson, Mario Liverani, Samuel A. Meier, William J. Murnane, Nadav Na'aman, Rodolfo Ragionieri, Raymond Westbrook, and Carlo Zaccagnini.

Author : Mark S. Smith
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802864333
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God in Translation written by Mark S. Smith and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God in Translation offers a substantial, extraordinarily broad survey of ancient attitudes toward deities, from the Late Bronze Age through ancient Israel and into the New Testament. Looking closely at relevant biblical texts and at their cultural contexts, Mark S. Smith demonstrates that the biblical attitude toward deities of other cultures is not uniformly negative, as is commonly supposed. He traces the historical development of Israel's "one-god worldview, " linking it to the rise of the surrounding Mesopotamian empires. Smith's study also produces evidence undermining a common modern assumption among historians of religion that polytheism is tolerant while monotheism is prone to intolerance and violence.