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In 1936 a French archaeological expedition to Mari, the capital of a kingdom on the Middle Euphrates in Syria, uncovered a vast archive of some 25,000 cuneiform tablets. Examining this huge corpus of Old Babylonian documents, mostly from the Mari palace, Malamat provides evidence of how the tablets reveal a vivid picture of Mesopotamia at a time when the Israelites were in their earliest formative stage. The broad spectrum of the Mari documents, from exotic prophecies to political intrigue, provides innumerable opportunities for comparative research into early Israel, the Bible, and Biblical...

A collection of papers with new insights on ancient religion, read at a colloquium in honour of Professor H.S. Versnel ("Inconsistencies in Greek and Roman Religion"). The contributions, presented by nine leading scholars in the field, cover many areas of the religious experience of the Greeks and Romans: myth and ritual (W. Burkert), the gods (F. Zeitlin), cult, festivals, sacrifice. Several papers consider methodological problems and the progress of scholarship; they highlight the contribution of H.S. Versnel to the field. The papers are based on a wide range of sources: pagan and...

"DIE WICHTIGSTE WISSENSQUELLE ÜBER DIE JÜDISCHE GESCHICHTE." ULRICH SAHM, ALLGEMEINE JÜDISCHE WOCHENZEITUNG

Dieses Standardwerk bietet einen Überblick über 3000 Jahre jüdische Geschichte vom zweiten Jahrtausend v.Chr. bis zur Gründung des Staates Israel. Das von international renommierten Autoren verfasste Werk gilt inzwischen als Klassiker. Eine vergleichbare Summe der jüdischen Geschichte wurde seither nicht mehr vorgelegt.

• Mit Beiträgen von Haim Hillel Ben-Sasson, Shmuel Ettinger, Abraham Malamat, Hayim Tadmor, Menachem Stern, Shmuel Safrai...