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Showing 1 to 20 of 144 for “"Inscriptions"”.
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Expressions of Diasporic Identity: Transcultural Language in Jewish-Greek Inscriptions
… I explore how transcultural language in Greek inscriptions expresses the Jewish identity in a manner fitting both the boundaries of Judaism and the larger societal framework of the Graeco-Roman world. By transcultural language, I refer to cross-culturally shared vocabulary that occurs in …
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A Study of the Composition of Nebuchadnezzar II’s Royal Inscriptions
… is an analysis of the composition of the royal inscriptions of Nebuchadnezzar II (604–562 BCE). It is divided into seven chapters. The first two chapters are devoted to the identification of the compositional principles. In the first chapter, we begin with the composition of the extant …
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Memorial inscriptions from Syria-Palestine: A study in genre and theology
… a large amount of scholarly work on memorial inscriptions from Syria-Palestine, no detailed and comprehensive analysis of the genre and theology as whole has been undertaken. While the inscriptions have been individually compared and contrasted to the biblical materials, they have not been …
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Correlations Between Old Aramaic Inscriptions and the Aramaic Section of Daniel
… and linguistic character of every one of the inscriptions: Description, Nature, Structure, Vocabulary, Orthography and Phonology, Morphology, and Syntax. The discussion of each of these sections has brought its corresponding subject into contact with the text of DA.</p> <p>Eight OA …
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Epistemologies of Imperial Feminism(s): Violence, Colonization, and Sexual (Re)Inscriptions of Empire.
This doctoral thesis project brings together Indigenous theory and post-colonial feminism under a decolonial framework to highlight the significance of feminist moral epistemologies in establishing global hierarchical systems. I argue that when situated within the sexual matrices of coloniality, …
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Born of Coatlicue: Literary Inscriptions of Women in Violence from the Mexican Revolution to the Drug War
This dissertation analyzes literary representations of women and violence from Mexican, Chicana, and Spanish authors. It focuses on two historical periods of extreme violence affecting the U.S.-Mexico border region: The Mexican Revolution and the turn-of-the-century crisis of the Nation-State that …
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The Uses of ‘Bēlu’ and ‘Marduk’ in Neo-Assyrian Royal Inscriptions and other Sources from the First Millennium BC
My dissertation seeks to understand why Marduk, the chief god of ancient Babylon, was often also called ‘Bēl’ (which means ‘lord’). Although this matter has never been investigated, a consensus seems to have formed in the field that ‘lord’ is an appropriate by-name for a chief god, and that the two …
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Runic writing in Orkney: expression of a Norse identity?
… itself with the Orcadian corpus of runic inscriptions and how identity is expressed in it.<br/>In this PhD project, the 54 Viking Age and Late Norse runic inscriptions from Orkney have been reviewed, with some addition and removals from the corpus, and put into a wider context, using …
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What's in the pocket? : a critical history of land inscriptions in the Bishoplea area of upper Claremont during the British rule at the Cape (1806-1910)
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 62-66).
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An Egyptian mummy and coffin at University College Cork
… whether all four pieces belonged together. The inscriptions and subjects depicted upon it were drawn and photographed and where possible, interpreted. The provenance of the coffin was established, its inscriptions and art work recorded by drawing and photography and its present location …
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Change and Standardization in Anyang: Writing and Culture in Bronze Age China
… After discussing the dating of Shang oracle-bone inscriptions, I first address changes in Shang writing, demonstrating that it becomes increasingly regularized over the period. The earliest examples of Shang writing, especially those dating from the reign of king Wu Ding, show high levels of …
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Abydos in the Late Period: an epigraphic and prosopographic study
… source material consists of all the hieroglyphic inscriptions which are known or can be said to come from Abydos and, which can be dated to the period from c. 750-100 B.C.. Because the material has been dispersed throughout the world, often without any record of provenance, the first step is to …
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Remembering Elderly Women in Early America: A survey of how aged women were memorialized in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century tombstone inscriptions, death notices, funeral sermons, and memoirs
By analyzing the language used in tombstone inscriptions, death notices, funeral sermons, and memoirs, this thesis reviews how cultural expectations placed on women during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries impacted the reputation of aged women. Specifically, it demonstrates how the …
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A Framework for Digital Emotions
… and the body with respect to short, networked inscriptions of emotion and the (re)experience of those inscriptions within the body and through digital space. Digital emotions display five basic characteristics that can be applied to a variety of media environments: (1) They describe a process …
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Η ΠΡΟΣΩΠΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ ΚΑΙ Η ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΑΡΧΑΙΑΣ ΒΕΡΟΙΑΣ ΣΥΜΦΩΝΑ ΜΕ ΤΙΣ ΕΠΙΓΡΑΦΙΚΕΣ, ΦΙΛΟΛΟΓΙΚΕΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΕΣ ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΕΣ
… ARE DISCUSSED. A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPROACH TO THE INSCRIPTIONS IS GIVEN WITH A PRESENTATION OF THE RELEVANT PUBLICATION IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER; A DISCUSSION FOLLOWS ON THE DATING OF THE INSCRIPTIONS AND ANOTHER ON THE METHOD OF THE PROSOPOGRAPHY. THE PROSOPOGRAPHY TAKES UP THE 1ST PART OF THE WORK …
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