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Elijah’s Cave on Mount Carmel and its Inscriptions

By: Asher Ovadiah,Pierri Rosario

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Elijah’s Cave on Mount Carmel and its Inscriptions

By: Asher Ovadiah,Pierri Rosario

Artistic and epigraphic evidence suggest that Elijah's Cave, on the western slope of Mt. Carmel, had been used as a pagan cultic place, possibly a shrine, devoted to Ba'al Carmel (identified with Zeus/Jupiter) as well as to Pan and Eros as secondary deities.

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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1784911992

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9781784911997

The Elections in Israel 2006

By: Asher Arian,Michal Shamir

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The Elections in Israel 2006

By: Asher Arian,Michal Shamir

Several dramatic events preceded the elections to the Seventeenth Knesset on March 28, 2006, beginning with the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza in August 2005 and its attendant and unprecedented removal of Jewish settlements and settlers, followed by major shifts among and within the various political parties. Most dramatic was the split in Likud when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon decided to form a new party, Kadima, leading to the breakup of the Likud party that Sharon had formed in 1973. This volume charts the 2006 elections.

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Routledge

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1351321420

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9781351321426

Israel and the Politics of Jewish Identity

The Secular-Religious Impasse

By: Asher Cohen,Bernard Susser

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Israel and the Politics of Jewish Identity

The Secular-Religious Impasse

By: Asher Cohen,Bernard Susser

The role of religion in a democratic society Best Book award given by the Israel Political Science Association Since the 1980s, relationships between secular and religious Israelis have gone from bad to worse. What was formerly a politics of accommodation, one whose main objective was the avoidance of strife through "arrangements" and compromises, has become a winner-take-all, zero-sum game. The conflict is not over who gets what. Rather, it is a conflict over the very character of the polity, a struggle to define Israel's collective character. In Israel and the Politics of Jewish Identity Asher Cohen and Bernard Susser show how this transformation has been caused by structural changes in Israel's public sphere. Surveying many different levels of public life, they explore the change of Israel's politics from a dominant-party system to a balanced two-camp system. They trace the rise of the Haredi parties and the growing consonance of religiosity with right-wing politics. Other topics include the new Basic Laws on Freedom, Dignity, and Occupation; the effects of massive immigration of secular Jews from the former Soviet Union; the greater emphasis on liberal "good government"; and the rise of an aggressive investigative press and electronic media.

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180

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JHU Press

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0801863457

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9780801863455

Elijah’s Cave on Mount Carmel and its Inscriptions

By: Asher Ovadiah,Pierri Rosario

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Worshipping the Gods

Art and Cult in Roman Eretz Israel, with 472 Illustrations

By: Asher Ovadiah,Sonia Mucznik

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Worshipping the Gods

Art and Cult in Roman Eretz Israel, with 472 Illustrations

By: Asher Ovadiah,Sonia Mucznik

Summary: This book is the result of a study of the numerous archaeological discoveries in Israel by the authors, as well as of many visits to museums and archaeological sites both in Israel and abroad over the past thirty years. Indeed, it is the absence of any research-work engaging with the art and cult in Roman Eretz Israel that relate to the deities of the Greek, Roman and Oriental pantheons, that led them to undertake this work. The methodology applied here, based on the various artistic media discussed, was selected in an attempt to respond to some of the questions and problems that arose in the course of the study. The authors examination of the wealth of material, the study of the various artistic aspects and the religious and cultic rites, as well as of the attitude of the contemporary population towards their deities, furnished them with an in-depth and thorough perception of the cultural environment and atmosphere of the period. Circa 500 pictures illustrate the deities executed in marble, basalt, bronze, sandstone, terracotta, and depicted in mosaic or on coins, glass and gems. They also show sacred sites, reconstructions, drawings and ground plans.

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9080647691

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9789080647695

Roman Temples, Shrines and Temene in Israel

By: Asher Ovadiah,Yehudit Turnheim

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Roman Temples, Shrines and Temene in Israel

By: Asher Ovadiah,Yehudit Turnheim

This work relies on the results of archaeological surveys and excavations of Roman temples, shrines and temene, discovered in Israel. Unfortunately, the literary sources are curiously silent with regard to most of the constructions. Nonetheless, literary sources, archaeological-architectural analogies and circumstantial evidence do provide some additional information for the understanding of their context, architecture, functions and religious-cultic perceptions. Their remains reflect a large scale of sacred buildings or complexes in the Roman period throughout the country, evincing the veneration and worship of many and varied deities of the Graeco-Roman and Oriental pantheons. Many temples and shrines are depicted on coins or mentioned in literary and epigraphic sources. These indicate that a large number of temples/shrines, dedicated to various gods, existed in Israel in the Roman period. Thus, it may be assumed that they reflect not only the architectural reality, but also the religious cultic atmosphere. It would seem that these architectural complexes had either been deliberately concealed and/or destroyed in Late Antiquity (fifth and sixth centuries CE) by order of the Christian authorities and Byzantine emperors, or converted into churches. Some of them were demolished by later generations, natural disasters, fires, conquests, etc. The chronological range of the temples/shrines and temene, discussed in this book, extends over a period of approximately 250 years, from Herod's reign up to the Severan era.

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155

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Bretschneider Giorgio

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8876892583

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9788876892585

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Elijah’s Cave on Mount Carmel and its Inscriptions

Elijah’s Cave on Mount Carmel and its Inscriptions

The Elections in Israel 2006

The Elections in Israel 2006

Israel and the Politics of Jewish Identity

Israel and the Politics of Jewish Identity

Elijah’s Cave on Mount Carmel and its Inscriptions

Elijah’s Cave on Mount Carmel and its Inscriptions

Worshipping the Gods

Worshipping the Gods

Roman Temples, Shrines and Temene in Israel

Roman Temples, Shrines and Temene in Israel

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