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(0)Margaretha Folmer
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
The breakthrough of the alphabetic script early in the first millennium BCE coincides with the appearance of several new languages and civilizations in ancient Syria-Palestine. Together, they form the cultural setting in which ancient Israel, the Hebrew Bible, and, transformed by Hellenism, the New Testament took shape. This book contains concise yet thorough and lucid overviews of ancient Near Eastern languages united by alphabetic writing and illuminates...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Throughout Egypt's long history, pottery sherds and flakes of limestone were commonly used for drawings and short-form texts in a number of languages. These objects are conventionally called ostraca, and thousands of them have been and continue to be discovered. This volume highlights some of the methodologies that have been developed for analyzing the archaeological contexts, material aspects, and textual peculiarities of ostraca.
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
The Achaemenid period (550-330 BCE) is rightly seen as one of the most formative periods in Judaism. It is the period in which large portions of the Bible were edited and redacted and others were authored-yet no dedicated interdisciplinary study has been undertaken to present a consistent picture of this decisive time period.This book is dedicated to the study of the touchpoints between Yahwistic communities throughout the Achaemenid empire and the...