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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Ancient Near East."”.
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Pottery is king: bevel rim bowls and power in early urban societies of the ancient Near East
<p>This thesis is about how material objects, specifically ceramics, are used to create and perpetuate political power of the ruling class. My research will demonstrate how bevel rim bowls were a form of structural violence in the Uruk/Protoliterate period Mesopotamia by forcing the people to …
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Lesser Gods of the Ancient Near East and Some Comparisons with Heavenly Beings of the Old Testament
… and depicted in the texts and iconography of the Ancient Near East, and compares the variegated concept and imagery with the angelic realm in the Old Testament.</p> <p>Utilizing motifs commonly repeated in the mytho-epic literature of the Fertile Crescent--such as the divine assembly and its …
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The symbolic and theological significance of the olive tree in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew scriptures
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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The rural-urban dialectic in pre-monarchic Israel : Israel vis-a-vis the Canaanites and the Philistines, ca. 1200 to 1020 B.C.E
… rural societies and urban societies in the ancient Near East were essentially antagonistic. Urban centers were sites of consumption rather than production. They were parasitic upon their rural hinterlands, extracting the produce of the village peasantry by means of enforced tributary …
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The Ideology of the Sabbath: A Study in Comparative Religion
… light of relevant aspects of the culture of the ancient Near East, thus to clarify and relate the several motivations behind the emphasis with which the Sabbath was finally presented in the Hebrew Bible. As informative as it might be, later Jewish Sabbath ideology is specifically excluded from …
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God king or king of God? : the royal ideology presented through the Deuteronomistic history.
The civilizations of the ancient Near East show many signs of cultural exchange and influence. One shared aspect could be royal ideologies. There are common attributes, such as the importance of order and the intertwining of politics and religion. This research involves comparing the reigns of the …
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Speaking on the brink of sheol: Form and theology of Old Testament death stories
… Chapter 2 presents an overview of death in the ancient Near East and Israel. The information in this chapter introduces the reader to the topic of death in the ancient world, and it provides a basis for comparison with the thanatology derived from the death stories. Chapter 3 surveys death …
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Codes as Constitution: The Development of the Biblical Law-Codes from Monarchy to Theocracy
… commonly been categorised in recent study as ancient law-codes analogous to the cuneiform codes recovered from the ancient Near East. This has not led, however, to a more constructive and decisive stage in the study of biblical law, and conceptual and methodological problems have been imported …
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The genre of suffering in the 'ancient near eastern literature, the Hebrew bible, and in some examples of modern literature.
… of the genre of suffering starting with the Ancient Near Eastern Literature, to define the genre in its development and to characterise its features in the various literatures discussed, especially with respect to the Book of Job. The book of Job is well known for its input in world …
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Locust Imagery and the Problem of Genre in the Book of Joel
… usage of locust imagery in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East. Finally, the thesis argues that the author of Joel utilizes locust imagery to describe a literal locust plague, which best fits with a prophetic eschatological outlook on the world. This demonstrates that Joel should be classified …
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Cultural memory and imagination: dreams and dreaming in the Roman Empire 31 BC – AD 200
… cultures, especially those closest to Rome (the ancient Near East, Egypt and Greece) is provided, and dream reports in Greco-Roman historical and imaginative literature are analysed. The thesis concludes that dreams were considered to offer a possible connection with the divine within the …
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The testing of our faith: A Pentateuchal theology of testing
… the ways that "testing" is discussed in the ancient Near East. Chapter 3 applies the observations from chapter 2 and probes the Pentateuch for the way that it presents the motif of testing. Analysis of the biblical texts includes those contexts where testing occurs both implicitly and …
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A Fresh Start Comes from God
… part of the tradition of clean-slate acts in the ancient Near East. In these acts, those who have become indebted and have loss land and freedom, are given a fresh start. Through comparing the biblical clean-slate acts with the evidence of clean-slate acts in ancient Mesopotamia including the …
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PSALM 63: A STUDY OF ITS IMAGERY AND THEOLOGY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PSALTER
… and the role which imagery played in the ancient Near East, biblical and modern poetry. It includes an analysis of the nature of metaphor. Part Two constitutes the central part of this study, as it focuses on the examination of the figurative language and theology in Psalm 63. The author …
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"The windows of heaven" : temple windows in the Hebrew Bible and in comparative ancient Near Eastern evidence.
… of windows in the Hebrew Bible (HB) and Ancient Near East (ANE). This analysis includes textual, architectural, and iconographic evidence categories. The textual evidence occurs across genres and provides examples of monumental windows, cosmological windows, and figures at the window. The …
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Prolegomena To The Study Of Ancient Israelite Levirate Marriage In The Light Of Herbert Brichto's Theory Of Afterlife In The Old Testament
… Brichto has presented a theory about the ancient Israelite belief in afterlife or immortality. In support of his theory he has offered Biblical evidence that the levirate custom among the ancient Hebrews was practiced in order to provide a son to care for the deceased in afterlife by …
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Re-imaging the warrior : divine warrior imagery in the book of Revelation.
… this dissertation is to investigate whether the ancient motif of Divine Warrior imagery can aid in understanding the violent imagery in the book of Revelation. The specific strategy is to examine how John's intended readers would perceive the violent imagery in light of the horizon of …
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In heaven as it is on earth : the development of the interpreting angel motif in biblical literature of the neo-Babylonian, Persian and early Hellenistic periods.
… political intermediaries in the empires of the ancient Near East and a divinatory religious context which emphasized the interpretation of signs and symbols to discern the plans of the gods. Each chapter begins with an overview of the historical context of the period and evidence for imperial …
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Theology of Blindness in the Hebrew Scriptures
… blindness in the Hebrew Scriptures against their ancient Near Eastern background. The study looks at cultic implications, causation, social justice, healing, and social and religious meanings of blindness. Both physical and metaphorical aspects of blindness are examined. First, blindness in the …
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