Transliteration of 300 tablets in the British Museum dealing with provisions for messengers.

Messenger Texts from the British Museum

Reference

Sigrist, Marcel

Foreign Language Study & Reference

This book is the precipitate of a conference convened in 1997 to explore concepts of divinity as both one and many in ancient Assyria, Egypt, Greece, and Israel. The five original and provocative essays that resulted engage issues as diverse as the advantages and disadvantages of polytheism; different concepts of deity held by these closely related societies; the possibility that plural nouns may denote singular beings and vice versa; the many definitions of monotheism; and how to decide whether an ancient author in referring to a god as one was characterizing that god as numerically singular, best in quality, or simply first to appear on the cosmic stage.

One God Or Many?: Concepts of Divinity in the Ancient World (Transactions of the Casco Bay Assyriological Institute, 1)

Baines, John

Porter, Barbara Nevling

Parpola, Simo

Geller, Stephen A.

Versnel, H. S.

Religion & Spirituality

A paradigmatic conception of marking time differs so radically from our own that reading Scripture in the way in which, for nearly the whole of its reception, it has been read proves exceedingly difficult. Our conception of history forms a barrier between us and the understanding of time that defined the Judaic and the Christian encounter with ancient Israel. Judaism recast this corpus of historical thinking, substituting paradigm or pattern for narrative sequence, by redefining the received notion of time altogether. This transformation of ancient Israel's Scripture from history to paradigm defines the conception of history of Rabbinic Judaism calling into question the notion that Judaism possessed a conception of history at all.

The Presence of the Past, The Pastness of the Present: History, Time, and Paradigm in Rabbinic Judaism

NEUSNER, JACOB

The monthly market reports in the summaries of Late Babylonian astronomical diaries are a unique source of economic data. They are homogeneous; span 500 years; come from one site; and all but a few can be securely dated. This book analyzes and presents this data so as to be an essential work in understanding the economy of late first-millennium Babylonia. Topics include: the diaries and their market quotations; the role of the 6 diary commodities in Babylonian society; the role of commodity price lists within Mesopotamian tradition; the rationale for including lists of prices in mostly astronomical texts; statistical analysis of raw price data and examination of evidence for seasonal and long-term price fluctuations; statistical analysis of Euphrates River level data.

The Bourse of Babylon : Market Quotations in the Astronomical Diaries of Babylonia

History

Slotsky, Alice Louise

Ancient Civilizations

Theory of Hebrew focus structure based on word order in Deuteronomy.

Focus Structure in Biblical Hebrew: A Study of Word Order and Information Structure

Shimasaki, Katsuomi

Essays on everyday life (housing, games, sustenance, courtship, law, and more) in Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Syria, the Levant, Egypt, and the New Testament world.

Life and Culture in the Ancient Near East

Averbeck, Richard E.

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