In summer 2009 the Excellence Cluster Topoi of the Freie Universität Berlin hosted an internation... more In summer 2009 the Excellence Cluster Topoi of the Freie Universität Berlin hosted an international conference on the origins and development of the Hurriandominated state of Mittani, which exercised hegemony over northern Syro-Mesopotamia during the middle of the second millennium B. C. E. Revised versions of a dozen presentations delivered to that meeting (all in English) have been collected in the volume under review (link to Table of
The CJS program for 1997-98 will be devoted to integrating disciplines and methodologies in the s... more The CJS program for 1997-98 will be devoted to integrating disciplines and methodologies in the study of Ancient Israelite Religion. The program will attempt to bring together a diverse community of scholars in biblical philology, archaeology and art history. Furthermore, since ancient Israel existed within a broader ancient Near Eastern cultural context, the participation of those who study Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Canaanite, Hurrian and Hittite cultures, with interest in religious traditions, is deemed essential.
Did the God of Israel have a wife? Posed in the context of monotheistic Rabbinic Judaism and Chri... more Did the God of Israel have a wife? Posed in the context of monotheistic Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity this is, of course, a nonsensical question. However, even in the heavily edited Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible there remain traces of an earlier stage of belief in which Yahweh was accompanied by other beings. Among these para-human figures is Asherah, the form of whose name clearly indicates her feminine gender. In recent years numerous scholars have addressed the ticklish question of the original relationship between this lady and the Lord of Hosts, a problem that involves probing into the prehistory of the Hebrew scriptures.
2 G. BECKMAN north of Latakia in 1929,2 at Tell Hariri (ancient Mari) near the Iraqi border on th... more 2 G. BECKMAN north of Latakia in 1929,2 at Tell Hariri (ancient Mari) near the Iraqi border on the Euphrates in 1933,3 at Tell Mardikh (ancient Ebla) in the vicinity of Aleppo in 1974 and 1975,4 and at Meskene (ancient Emar) about 85 kilometers west of the provincial capital ...
In summer 2009 the Excellence Cluster Topoi of the Freie Universität Berlin hosted an internation... more In summer 2009 the Excellence Cluster Topoi of the Freie Universität Berlin hosted an international conference on the origins and development of the Hurriandominated state of Mittani, which exercised hegemony over northern Syro-Mesopotamia during the middle of the second millennium B. C. E. Revised versions of a dozen presentations delivered to that meeting (all in English) have been collected in the volume under review (link to Table of
The CJS program for 1997-98 will be devoted to integrating disciplines and methodologies in the s... more The CJS program for 1997-98 will be devoted to integrating disciplines and methodologies in the study of Ancient Israelite Religion. The program will attempt to bring together a diverse community of scholars in biblical philology, archaeology and art history. Furthermore, since ancient Israel existed within a broader ancient Near Eastern cultural context, the participation of those who study Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Canaanite, Hurrian and Hittite cultures, with interest in religious traditions, is deemed essential.
Did the God of Israel have a wife? Posed in the context of monotheistic Rabbinic Judaism and Chri... more Did the God of Israel have a wife? Posed in the context of monotheistic Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity this is, of course, a nonsensical question. However, even in the heavily edited Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible there remain traces of an earlier stage of belief in which Yahweh was accompanied by other beings. Among these para-human figures is Asherah, the form of whose name clearly indicates her feminine gender. In recent years numerous scholars have addressed the ticklish question of the original relationship between this lady and the Lord of Hosts, a problem that involves probing into the prehistory of the Hebrew scriptures.
2 G. BECKMAN north of Latakia in 1929,2 at Tell Hariri (ancient Mari) near the Iraqi border on th... more 2 G. BECKMAN north of Latakia in 1929,2 at Tell Hariri (ancient Mari) near the Iraqi border on the Euphrates in 1933,3 at Tell Mardikh (ancient Ebla) in the vicinity of Aleppo in 1974 and 1975,4 and at Meskene (ancient Emar) about 85 kilometers west of the provincial capital ...
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