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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Akkadian"”.
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Historiography and Extra-Biblical Sources Related to Daniel
… the Babylonian texts. These texts are written in Akkadian and biased toward the Babylonians. The chapter includes basic information about each source and analyzes its historical reliability, literary structure, biases, and relevance for Daniel. The next two chapters include analysis of this kind. …
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The Verb in the Amarna Letters from Canaan
… scribes who failed to acquire normative Akkadian language in local schools because of the lack of access to proper educational materials and native speakers of the target language. Two linguistic mechanisms contributed to the formation of the Amarna interlanguage: the fossilization of …
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A Proposal for a Typological Reading of Daniel 11
… between Daniel 11 and the so-called “Akkadian Prophecies.” While Daniel 11 bears stylistic similarities with the “Akkadian Prophecies,” it differs from these Akkadian texts in other ways. After the verse-by-verse study of Daniel 11, chapter 5 then compares Daniel 11 and the OT passages …
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Algorithmic thinking in Babylonian planetary theory
… and dynamic programming. Although expressed in Akkadian and Sumerian rather than formal code, these procedures exhibit modularity, abstraction, and control flow structures recognizable to computer scientists. Rather than treating algorithmic paradigms as either present or absent, the study …
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The Latter Days and the Time of the End in the Book of Daniel
… latter days" in chapter 2 shows that only in the Akkadian literature do we find any parallel phrases to <em>b</em><em><em>e'a</em>harit </em><em>hayyamim</em>. However, the Akkadian phrases <em>ana ahrat ume</em> and<em> ina arkat ume</em> never appear in a religious context and lack an …
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The "Throne of God" Motif in the Hebrew Bible
… Near Eastern literatures such as Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Ugaritic, and Egyptian texts. One of theremarkable points in these texts is that thethrone was deified and/or worshiped as a cult object.</p> <p>Chapter IV presents a brief study of the throne terminology in order to provide a …
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The Use of nśʼ in the Pentateuch and its Contribution to the Concept of Forgiveness
… and closest affinity to Hebrew was found in Akkadian. Besides its usual meanings, both languages used it in the context of caring and in handling wrongdoings.</p> <p>Biblical usage reveals a syntactically and semantically flexible root. Its basic sense is a deliberate, supportive …
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A Study of the Composition of Nebuchadnezzar II’s Royal Inscriptions
… the inscriptions from the Old-Babylonian or Old Akkadian period.
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Four Greco-Roman Era Temples of Near Eastern Fertility Goddesses: An Analysis of Architectural Tradition
… Inanna who was later associated with the Semitic Akkadian deity Ishtar. The worship of Ishtar spread throughout the Near East as a result of both Babylonian and Assyrian conquests. In Syria some of the major sites of her worship were located in Ebla and Mari. The later Phoenician and Canaanite …
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The Son of the Morning and the Guardian Cherub in the Context of the Controversy Between Good and Evil
… origins and parallel material found in Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Greek, Ugaritic, as well as Biblical literature. The research demonstrated that although similar motifs and imagery are present in the passages under study as well as in literature of Israel's neighbors, a myth of Helel ben Shahar …
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The Heavenly Sanctuary/Temple Motif in the Hebrew Bible : Function and Relationship to the Earthly Counterparts
… the ANE literature, as represented by Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Ugaritic, and Egyptian texts. The investigation of these texts reveals that the heavenly sanctuary/temple motif was part of the worldview of the ANE, where the heavenly sanctuary was not only assumed as existing in heaven, but …
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What is a “Helpmate”? Using Comparative Semitic Linguistics to Propose New Translations for Ezer Kenegdo
… approach, identifying potential cognates from Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic, and Ugaritic. These lists of cognates are first analyzed according to linguistic suitability. They are then analyzed in context of the Genesis 1-3 account, with particular attention to whether semantic ranges fit the …
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The Iron Age II city gates in Palestine: The textual and archaeological evidence
… including West Semitic texts, Ugaritic texts, Akkadian and Sumerian texts, Neo-Assyrian texts, Old Babylonian legal documents, the Amarna Letters, the Mari texts, and the Nuzi texts provide supplementary information about the city gate activities. Chapter 3 presents an overview of architectural …
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The Banquet Type-Scene in the Parables of Jesus
… to 300 C.E.) were examined: Egyptian, Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Ugaritic, Old Testament, Jewish Intertestamental, Greco-Roman, New Testament, Early Christian Noncanonical, and Rabbinic literature of Tannaim. It was discovered that at the time of Jesus all banquet-type scenes bore two basic …
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Horn-Motifs in the Hebrew Bible and Related Ancient Near Eastern Literature and Iconography
… such ancient Near Eastern languages as Sumerian, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Aramaic, Sout-Arabic, and Hebrew. A complexity of meanings emerged as early as the ancient Sumerian compounds of signs. Many different meanings were reflected, in the respective language investigated, though new shades of …