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'There's Such Divinity Doth Hedge a King': Selected Essays of Nicolas Wyatt on Royal Ideology in Ugaritic and Old Testament Literature
ISBN: 9780754653301 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The ideology of power is as much a part of modern life as in the ancient world, in which it has its long-lasting roots. Communities have always provided a supernatural sanction for the maintenance of power by the few, often dressing it up in elaborate mythic fictions, rich iconography and complex rituals. This volume presents Nicolas Wyatt's discussions of royal ideology, its mythic and ritual expressions and various literary treatments in ancient Israel, viewed from a comparative perspective. Exploring the possibility that in many of the manifestations of Israelite kingship we can detect the...
The ideology of power is as much a part of modern life as in the ancient world, in which it has its long-lasting roots. Communities have always provid...
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709,67 zł |
The Mythic Mind: Essays on Cosmology and Religion in Ugaritic and Old Testament Literature
ISBN: 9781845530433 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Mythic Mind follows the tradition of works which insist on the necessity for a comparative dimension in the study of ancient Israel. The Israelite world-view was essentially a West Semitic world-view in origin, with additional deeply embedded influences from Egypt and Mesopotamia, though it produced its own distinctive character by way of synthesis and reaction. The essays in this volume explore various aspects of this process, historically and cosmologically, commonly challenging received views developed in the treatment of Israel in isolation. The importance of the Ugaritic texts in...
The Mythic Mind follows the tradition of works which insist on the necessity for a comparative dimension in the study of ancient Israel. The Israelite...
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199,71 zł |
Religious Texts from Ugarit: 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780826460486 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. An updated and corrected edition of a classic work, with new material. This book is an up-to-date translation and commentary on the Ugaritic texts. Of interest and importance for a general readership, as well as students and specialists in biblical, classical and religious studies. As well as being intrinsically fascinating, the Ugaritic texts have long been recognized as basic background material for Old Testament study. Ugaritic deities, myths, religious terminology, poetic techniques and general vocabulary are widely encountered by the attentive reader of the Hebrew Bible. The present... An updated and corrected edition of a classic work, with new material. This book is an up-to-date translation and commentary on the Ugaritic texts.... |
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735,96 zł |
'There's Such Divinity Doth Hedge a King': Selected Essays of Nicolas Wyatt on Royal Ideology in Ugaritic and Old Testament Literature
ISBN: 9781138383760 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The ideology of power is as much a part of modern life as in the ancient world, in which it has its long-lasting roots. Communities have always provided a supernatural sanction for the maintenance of power by the few, often dressing it up in elaborate mythic fictions, rich iconography and complex rituals. This volume presents Nicolas Wyatt's discussions of royal ideology, its mythic and ritual expressions and various literary treatments in ancient Israel, viewed from a comparative perspective. Exploring the possibility that in many of the manifestations of Israelite kingship we can detect...
The ideology of power is as much a part of modern life as in the ancient world, in which it has its long-lasting roots. Communities have always provid...
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241,76 zł |
Space and Time in the Religious Life of the Near East
ISBN: 9781841272887 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Space and time are basic features of the world-view, even the theology, of many religions, ancient and modern. How did the world begin, and how will it end? What is the importance of religious architecture in symbolizing sacred space? Where and how do we locate the self? The divine world? Wyatt's textbook treats ancient Near Eastern religions from a perspective that allows us to access how religion shapes and orders the world of human thought and experience. The book is designed especially for classroom use, each chapter provided with suggested reading, copious quotations from ancient... Space and time are basic features of the world-view, even the theology, of many religions, ancient and modern. How did the world begin, and how wil... |
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Handbook of Ugaritic Studies
ISBN: 9789004309678 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 916 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Over the past seven decades, the scores of publications on Ugarit in Northern Syria (15th to 11th centuries BCE) are so scattered that a good overall view of the subject is virtually impossible. Wilfred Watson and Nicolas Wyatt, the editors of the present Handbook in the series Handbook of Oriental Studies, have brought together and made accessible this accumulated knowledge on the archives from Ugarit, called 'the foremost literary discovery of the twentieth century' by Cyrus Gordon. In 16 chapters a careful selection of specialists in the field deal with all important aspects of Ugarit,...
Over the past seven decades, the scores of publications on Ugarit in Northern Syria (15th to 11th centuries BCE) are so scattered that a good overall ...
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Handbook of Ugaritic Studies
ISBN: 9781628370362 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 910 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The discovery of the archives of Ras Shamra (Ugarit) revolutionized our knowledge of the background to Greek, Phoenician and Israelite culture. This compendium treats their discovery, decipherment of script, interpretation of literary, diplomatic and legal texts, as well as analysis of languages, history, religion and iconography.
The discovery of the archives of Ras Shamra (Ugarit) revolutionized our knowledge of the background to Greek, Phoenician and Israelite culture. This c...
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Handbook of Ugaritic Studies:
ISBN: 9789004109889 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 896 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Over the past seven decades, the scores of publications on Ugarit in Northern Syria (15th to 11th centuries BCE) are so scattered that a good overall view of the subject is virtually impossible. Wilfred Watson and Nicolas Wyatt, the editors of the present Handbook in the series Handbook of Oriental Studies, have brought together and made accessible this accumulated knowledge on the archives from Ugarit, called 'the foremost literary discovery of the twentieth century' by Cyrus Gordon.
In 16 chapters a careful selection of specialists in the field deal with all important aspects of Ugarit,... Over the past seven decades, the scores of publications on Ugarit in Northern Syria (15th to 11th centuries BCE) are so scattered that a good overall ...
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1524,80 zł |