The book examines biblical narratives describing the origins of holy places other than Jerusalem. The accounts are examined with three main questions in mind: Are there any common features in biblical accounts about the foundations of places of worship; Are there any particular elements in the aetiological stories that can show anything about the 'real' mythology and/or rituals of the sanctuary; and What were the circumstances of the creation of such narratives? The answer for the first question is positive, ie, the stories of the origins of holy places contain the elements relevant to local...

Table of Contents: The Urukean Archpriest En in the Archaic Period: A few remarks on his functions (Krystyna Szarzynska); 'Fear the Oath ' Stepping back from Oath Taking in First Millennium BC Babylonia (Malgorzata Sandowicz); Tre Lettere di Mercanti del Mar Nero Settentrionale Revisitate. Sui modi de organizzazione e gli attori del commercio e sulla 'giustizia privata' in poleis ed emporia (Benedetto Bravo); La Conception d'Aeternitas dans le Monnayage de Consecration Romain de l'Epoque du Principat (Katarzyna Balbuza); Jerome, Palliatae, and Veteres Comici: A note to Hier. Ep.57.5.5 (De...

The essays collected in this volume focus on methodological and historical topics related to the study of the history of ancient Israel. Contributors offer readers new readings of disputed texts, new methodological tools for study of the ancient world inhabited by an entity called aIsraela, and a variety of reinterpretations of biblical texts. Contributors include Thomas L. Thompson, Philip Davies, Niels Peter Lemche, Etienne Nodet, Mario Liverani, and many other leading academics.

The essays collected in this volume focus on methodological and historical topics related to the study of the history of ancient Israel. Contributors offer readers new readings of disputed texts, new methodological tools for study of the ancient world inhabited by an entity called aIsraela, and a variety of reinterpretations of biblical texts. Contributors include Thomas L. Thompson, Philip Davies, Niels Peter Lemche, Etienne Nodet, Mario Liverani, and many other leading academics.

Palamedes seeks to provide a forum where, within the frames of cultural history broadly defined, ancient historians, classical philologists, archaeologists, jurists and epigraphists-all those who study Greek and Roman antiquity in its material, linguistic, or intellectual manifestations-can meet with Orientalist and Egyptological counterparts.

Palamedes: A Journal of Ancient History is published on behalf of the University of Warsaw. It seeks to provide a forum where all those who study Greek and Roman antiquity in its material, linguistic, or intellectual manifestations can meet with their Orientalist and Egyptological counterparts.