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Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible

By: Karel Van der Toorn

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Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible

By: Karel Van der Toorn

The scribes of ancient Israel are indeed the main figures behind the Hebrew Bible, and this book tells their story for the first time. Drawing comparisons with the scribal practices of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, van der Toorn details the methods, assumptions, and material means that gave rise to biblical texts. Traditionally seen as the copycats of antiquity, the scribes emerge here as the literate elite who held the key to the production and the transmission of texts.

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Harvard University Press

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0674044584

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9780674044586

Mesopotamian Magic: Textual, Historical and Interpretative Perspectives

By: Tzvi Abusch,Karel van der Toorn

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Mesopotamian Magic: Textual, Historical and Interpretative Perspectives

By: Tzvi Abusch,Karel van der Toorn

This volume, edited by Tzvi Zbusch and Karel van der Toorn, contains the papers delivered at the first international conference on Mesopotamian magic held under the auspices of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS) in June 1995. It is the first collective volume dedicated to the study of this topic. It aims at serving as a bench-mark and provides analytic and innovative but also sythetic and programmatic essays. Magical texts, forms, and traditions from the Mesopotamian cultural worlds of the third millennium BCE through the first millennium CE, in the Sumerian, Akkadian and Aramaic languages as well as in art, are examined.

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317

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BRILL

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9004496297

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9789004496293

Family Religion in Babylonia, Syria and Israel

Continuity and Change in the Forms of Religious Life

By: Karel Van Der Toorn

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Family Religion in Babylonia, Syria and Israel

Continuity and Change in the Forms of Religious Life

By: Karel Van Der Toorn

This study of family religion in the Babylonian, Ugaritic and Israelite civilizations opens up a little studied province of ancient Near Eastern religion. By focusing on the interaction between family religion and state religion, the author offers fascinating insights in to the development of the religion of Israel.

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9004668861

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God in Context

Selected Essays on Society and Religion in the Early Middle East

By: Karel van der Toorn

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God in Context

Selected Essays on Society and Religion in the Early Middle East

By: Karel van der Toorn

In this work, Karel van der Toorn explores the social setting, the intellectual milieu, and the historical context of the beliefs and practices reflected in the Hebrew Bible. While fully recognizing the unique character of early Israelite religion, the author challenges the notion of its incomparability. Beliefs are anchored in culture. Rituals have societal significance. God has a history. By shifting the focus to the context, the essays gathered here yield a deeper understanding of Israelite religion and the origins of the Bible.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161564707

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9783161564703

Becoming Diaspora Jews

By: Karel van der Toorn

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Becoming Diaspora Jews

By: Karel van der Toorn

Based on a previously unexplored source, this book transforms the way we think about the formation of Jewish identity

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Yale University Press

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0300243510

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Only One God?

Monotheism in Ancient Israel and the Veneration of the Goddess Asherah

By: Bob Becking,Meindert Dijkstra,Marjo Korpel,Karel Vriezen

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Only One God?

Monotheism in Ancient Israel and the Veneration of the Goddess Asherah

By: Bob Becking,Meindert Dijkstra,Marjo Korpel,Karel Vriezen

The view of ancient Israelite religion as monotheistic has long been traditional in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, religions that have elaborated in their own way the biblical image of a single male deity. But recent archaeological findings of texts and images from the Iron Age kingdoms of Israel and Judah and their neighbourhood offer a quite different impression. Two issues in particular raised by these are the existence of a female consort, Asherah, and the implication for monotheism; and the proliferation of pictorial representations that may contradict the biblical ban on images. Was the religion of ancient Israel really as the Bible would have us believe? This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to these issues, presenting the relevant inscriptions and discussing their possible impact for Israelite monotheism, the role of women in the cult, and biblical theology.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567232123

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9780567232120

Immigration and Emigration Within the Ancient Near East

Festschrift E. Lipiński

By: Karel van Lerberghe

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Immigration and Emigration Within the Ancient Near East

Festschrift E. Lipiński

By: Karel van Lerberghe

(Peeters 1995)

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Peeters Publishers

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906831727X

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Family Religion in Babylonia, Syria and Israel

Continuity and Change in the Forms of Religious Life

By: Karel Van Der Toorn

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Continuity and Change in the Forms of Religious Life

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God in Context

Selected Essays on Society and Religion in the Early Middle East

By: Karel van der Toorn

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Selected Essays on Society and Religion in the Early Middle East

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Becoming Diaspora Jews

Behind the Story of Elephantine

By: Karel van der Toorn

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Becoming Diaspora Jews

Behind the Story of Elephantine

By: Karel van der Toorn

Based on a previously unexplored source, this book transforms the way we think about the formation of Jewish identity This book tells the story of the earliest Jewish diaspora in Egypt in a way it has never been told before. In the fifth century BCE there was a Jewish community on Elephantine Island. Why they spoke Aramaic, venerated Aramean gods besides Yaho, and identified as Arameans is a mystery, but a previously little explored papyrus from Egypt sheds new light on their history. The papyrus shows that the ancestors of the Elephantine Jews came originally from Samaria. Due to political circumstances, they left Israel and lived for a century in an Aramean environment. Around 600 BCE, they moved to Egypt. These migrants to Egypt did not claim a Jewish identity when they arrived, but after the destruction of their temple on the island they chose to deploy their Jewish identity to raise sympathy for their cause. Their story—a typical diaspora tale—is not about remaining Jews in the diaspora, but rather about becoming Jews through the diaspora.

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Yale University Press

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0300249497

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Mesopotamian Magic: Textual, Historical and Interpretative Perspectives

By: Tzvi Abusch,Karel van der Toorn

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By: Tzvi Abusch,Karel van der Toorn

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Book's by Karel Van der Toorn

Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible

Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible

Mesopotamian Magic: Textual, Historical and Interpretative Perspectives

Mesopotamian Magic: Textual, Historical and Interpretative Perspectives

Family Religion in Babylonia, Syria and Israel

Family Religion in Babylonia, Syria and Israel

God in Context

God in Context

Becoming Diaspora Jews

Becoming Diaspora Jews

Only One God?

Only One God?

Immigration and Emigration Within the Ancient Near East

Immigration and Emigration Within the Ancient Near East

Family Religion in Babylonia, Syria and Israel

Family Religion in Babylonia, Syria and Israel

God in Context

God in Context

Becoming Diaspora Jews

Becoming Diaspora Jews

Mesopotamian Magic: Textual, Historical and Interpretative Perspectives

Mesopotamian Magic: Textual, Historical and Interpretative Perspectives

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