Threshing Floors In Ancient Israel

Author : Jaime L. Waters
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1451496605
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Threshing Floors in Ancient Israel written by Jaime L. Waters and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vital to an agrarian community's survival, threshing floors are also depicted in the Hebrew Bible as sites for mourning rites, divination rituals, cultic processions, and sacrifices. Jaime L. Waters examines these sacred functions and the various personnel active in the use and operation of the sites and shows that they were sacred spaces connected to Yahweh, under his control and subject to his power to bless, curse, and save, providing Israel a special ritual access to Yahweh.

Author : Diana V. Edelman
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575067129
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memory and the City in Ancient Israel written by Diana V. Edelman and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient cities served as the actual, worldly landscape populated by “material” sites of memory. Some of these sites were personal and others were directly and intentionally involved in the shaping of a collective social memory, such as palaces, temples, inscriptions, walls, and gates. Many cities were also sites of social memory in a very different way. Like Babylon, Nineveh, or Jerusalem, they served as ciphers that activated and communicated various mnemonic worlds as they integrated multiple images, remembered events, and provided a variety of meanings in diverse ancient communities. Memory and the City in Ancient Israel contributes to the study of social memory in ancient Israel in the late Persian and early Hellenistic periods by exploring “the city,” both urban spaces and urban centers. It opens with a study that compares basic conceptualizing tendencies of cities in Mesopotamia with their counterparts in ancient Israel. Its essays then explore memories of gates, domestic spaces, threshing floors, palaces, city gardens and parks, natural and “domesticated” water in urban settings, cisterns, and wells. Finally, the studies turn to particular cities of memory in ancient Israel: Jerusalem, Samaria, Shechem, Mizpah, Tyre, Nineveh, and Babylon. The volume, which emerged from meetings of the European Association of Biblical Studies, includes the work of Stéphanie Anthonioz, Yairah Amit, Ehud Ben Zvi, Kåre Berge, Diana Edelman, Hadi Ghantous, Anne Katrine Gudme, Philippe Guillaume, Russell Hobson, Steven W. Holloway, Francis Landy, Daniel Pioske, Ulrike Sals, Carla Sulzbach, Karolien Vermeulen, and Carey Walsh.

Author : John F. X. Sheehan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Threshing Floor written by John F. X. Sheehan and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ronny Reich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789652210821
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Excavating the City of David written by Ronny Reich and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where Jerusalemś History Began.

Author : Ernest L. Martin
Publisher : Academy for Scriptural
ISBN 13 : 9780945657958
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Temples that Jerusalem Forgot written by Ernest L. Martin and published by Academy for Scriptural. This book was released on 2000 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Giuliani
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387978764
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Is Wrong With the Bible? written by Charles Giuliani and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible is the number one best-selling book of all time. No other literary work in history has ever held so many people captive to its claims. It is viewed as "God's word," an infallible moral guidebook, and a timeless provider of hope and comfort. But is there really any truth to these views? Is the Bible really worthy of all this fanfare? This book will reveal the ugly truth that the Bible is not at all what its fans think it to be. In fact, it is the very antithesis thereof. And this book will prove all of this by using the bible itself as its own refuter.

Author : James B. Pritchard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400843189
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gibeon, Where the Sun Stood Still written by James B. Pritchard and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first book-length presentation of the results of our excavations at el-Jib has been written for the general reader who is concerned with the contribution that archaeology has made to the biblical history of the site.... In telling the story of Gibeon I have tried to show how the tale of the city unfolded week by week and year by year through excavation and study. I have sought to give in these pages a personally conducted tour, as it were, of the ruins of ancient Gibeon and what we have seen in them.... The results of the excavations at el-Jib are unique in that they can be related with a high degree of certainty to specific events described in the Old Testament. For the first time in the history of scientific archaeology in the land of the Bible an actual place name of a biblical city, neatly incised on clay, has been found under circumstances which make certain the identification of the name with the ruins.--from the Preface

Author : James Midwinter Freeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780883682906
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manners and Customs of the Bible written by James Midwinter Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a valuable resourse book through the Bible, explaining many customs practiced in Bible times. Not only is it easy to understand, but it is also filled with many helpful illustrations.

Author : Suzanna R. Millar
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 0884144348
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genre and Openness in Proverbs 10 written by Suzanna R. Millar and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2020-04-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fruitful reading strategy that reveals expansive meaning in Proverbs Interpreters often characterize Proverbs 10:1–22:16 as a dead-end of cold, disengaged dogma closed off from the realities of the world. In Genre and Openness in Proverbs 10:1–22:16, Suzanna R. Millar takes a different view, arguing that the didactic proverbs in these chapters are not dull and dry but are filled with poetic complexities open to many possible interpretations and uses. By incorporating paremiology, the technical study of the proverb genre, Millar sheds light on important debates such as character development, kingship, the connection between act and consequence, and the acquisition of wisdom. Features A clarification of the genre of the sayings in light of modern genre theory A linguistic analysis of how openness is generated in biblical proverbs An examination of the didactic use of proverbs to train the hearer’s mind

Author : Andrew Tobolowsky
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161551918
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sons of Jacob and the Sons of Herakles written by Andrew Tobolowsky and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Andrew Tobolowsky offers a new approach to biblical descriptions of the tribes of Israel as the "sons of Jacob". He reveals how shifting assumptions about early Israelite history and the absence of references to Jacob in most accounts of the tribes make it unlikely that this understanding was part of early tribal discourse. Instead, drawing on extensive similarities between the role Jacob's children plays in the biblical narrative and the role that shared descent from figures such as Hellen and Herakles play in the construction of ancient Greek histories, Andrew Tobolowsky concludes that the "tribal-genealogical" concept was first developed in the late Persian period as a tool for the production of a newly integrated, newly coherent account of a shared ethnic past: the first continuous biblical vision of Israelite history from Adam to the fall of Jerusalem and beyond.