Leaves from an Epigrapher's Notebook
Author : Frank Moore Cross
Publisher : Harvard Semitic Studies
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 30,49 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Author : Frank Moore Cross
Publisher : Harvard Semitic Studies
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 30,49 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
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Author : Joseph Naveh
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,18 MB
Release : 2009
Category :
ISBN : 9789657755549
Author : Pieter W. van der Horst
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 15,50 MB
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 900433274X
This volume contains the papers of a workshop on Jewish epigraphy in antiquity organized at Utrecht University in 1992. Among the participants were collaborators of the Cambridge Jewish Inscriptions Project and of the Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients project. Important aspects of ancient Jewish inscriptions are highlighted in the papers, like the connection between documentary and literary texts. Several papers focus on aspects of the history of Jewish communities in the diaspora. Specialists in Jewish epigraphy will find surveys of parts of the corpus of Jewish inscriptions (curse inscriptions, metrical epitaphs, alphabet-inscriptions) and discussions of some fixed opinions, and Jewish inscriptions are discussed in a wider literary and historical contexts as well.
Author : Johanna Drucker
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 31,4 MB
Release : 2022-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0226815803
The first comprehensive intellectual history of alphabet studies. Inventing the Alphabet provides the first account of two-and-a-half millennia of scholarship on the alphabet. Drawing on decades of research, Johanna Drucker dives into sometimes obscure and esoteric references, dispelling myths and identifying a pantheon of little-known scholars who contributed to our modern understandings of the alphabet, one of the most important inventions in human history. Beginning with Biblical tales and accounts from antiquity, Drucker traces the transmission of ancient Greek thinking about the alphabet’s origin and debates about how Moses learned to read. The book moves through the centuries, finishing with contemporary concepts of the letters in alpha-numeric code used for global communication systems. Along the way, we learn about magical and angelic alphabets, antique inscriptions on coins and artifacts, and the comparative tables of scripts that continue through the development of modern fields of archaeology and paleography. This is the first book to chronicle the story of the intellectual history through which the alphabet has been “invented” as an object of scholarship.
Author : Christopher A. Rollston
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 29,77 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1589831071
Author : Jacob Hoftijzer
Publisher :
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 12,14 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Foreign Language Study
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Author : David Hamidović
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 28,99 MB
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004399291
Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture presents an overview of the digital turn in Ancient Jewish and Christian manuscripts visualisation, data mining and communication. Edited by David Hamidović, Claire Clivaz and Sarah Bowen Savant, it gathers together the contributions of seventeen scholars involved in Biblical, Early Jewish and Christian studies. The volume attests to the spreading of digital humanities in these fields and presents fundamental analysis of the rise of visual culture as well as specific test-cases concerning ancient manuscripts. Sophisticated visualisation tools, stylometric analysis, teaching and visual data, epigraphy and visualisation belong notably to the varied overview presented in the volume.
Author : Jo Ann Hackett
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 31,13 MB
Release : 2014-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1575068877
At the first meeting of his class in Northwest Semitic Epigraphy at Harvard, Frank Cross would inform students that one of the things each of them needed was an “eye for form.” By this, he meant the ability to recognize typological or evolutionary change in letters and scripts. Frank, like his teacher William Foxwell Albright, was a master of typological method. In fact, typology was the dominant feature of his epigraphic work, from the origins of the alphabet to the development of the scripts of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Indeed, he has written about the importance of typology itself. Because Frank Cross has so dominated the study of the ancient Near East in the last 60 years, Aufrecht once asked him what he considered his primary field of study to be. Without hesitation, he said, “Epigraphy.” It seems, therefore, that the field that he loved and to which he contributed so much is an appropriate subject for this Festschrift in his honor, which is being presented by his colleagues, friends, and former students. Included are an appreciation by Peter Machinist and a contribution by the late Pierre Bordreuil.
Author : D. Clint Burnett
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,9 MB
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1683071379
Studying the New Testament through Inscriptions is an intuitive introduction to inscriptions from the Greco-Roman world. Inscriptions can help contextualize certain events associated with the New Testament in a way that many widely circulated literary texts do not. This book both introduces inscriptions and demonstrates sound methodological use of them in the study of the New Testament. Through five case studies, it highlights the largely unrecognized ability of inscriptions to shed light on early Christian history, practice, and the leadership structure of early Christian churches, as well as to solve certain New Testament exegetical impasses. Key points and features: No other book like this on the market--this is the first of its kind!A practical and much-needed tool for graduate students, seminarians, and pastorsShowcases five detailed case studies, designed to show students exactly how to use inscriptionsIncludes 20+ black and white photosThree appendices provide additional information for those who want to learn more
Author : Benjamin Sass
Publisher : Saint-Paul
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 38,89 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9783525537602