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Sowohl die Beurteilung des religionsgeschichtlichen Quellenwerts der Plutarch-Schrift "De Iside et Osiride" aus agyptologischer als auch die Bewertung der Aktualitat des Kenntnisstandes Plutarchs und anderer Autoren aus klassisch-philologischer Perspektive sind bislang durch fehlende interdisziplinare Zusammenarbeit erschwert worden. In diesem Band werden nun die Beitrage zu einer Tagung veroffentlicht, die 2014 in Wurzburg mit dem Ziel abgehalten wurde, jene Fachgrenzen zu uberwinden. Der daraus hervorgegangene Tagungsband, zu dem renommierte Plutarchforscher und Platonismusspezialisten...

In this encyclopedic text, completely revised and updated in this second edition, Joshua R. Jacobson presents the history of the ancient Jewish tradition of chanting the Bible and a comprehensive explanation of cantillation practice with its grammatical rules and regional variations. His unique step-by-step system of analysis shows how chanting dramatizes and interprets the meaning of the biblical text. Jacobson also provides complete notation for performing all six musical systems, an extensive guide to pronouncing biblical Hebrew, and pedagogical tips for cantillation teachers.

These essays represent a summation of Piotr Steinkeller's decades-long thinking and writing about the history of third millennium BCE Babylonia and the ways in which it is reflected in ancient historical and literary sources and art, as well as of how these written and visual materials may be used by the modern historian to attain, if not a reliable record of histoire evenementielle, a comprehensive picture of how the ancients understood their history.

The book focuses on the history of early Babylonian kingship, as it evolved over a period from Late Uruk down to Old...

The Book of Psalms holds a special place in the affections of believers. However distressing or unusual our experiences, whatever our depths of temptation or fear, or heights of joy and consolation, the Psalmist has already walked in the same paths as ourselves. His lovely songs and prayers describe them with astonishing insight and sympathy.
Mr Campbell's books have long been esteemed for their spirituality. Here he shares with the reader the hope, edification, and comfort in affliction which the Psalms have given him over the years.
The book is divided into brief entries, one...

This second volume of Mark J. Boda's two-volume set on Zechariah showcases a series of studies tracing the impact of earlier Hebrew Bible traditions on various passages and sections of the book of Zechariah: 1:7-6:15; 1:1-6/7:1-8:23; and chs. 9-14. These two volumes showcase a series of studies on Zechariah Boda wrote over the past decade.

This second volume of Mark J. Boda's two-volume set on Zechariah showcases a series of studies tracing the impact of earlier Hebrew Bible traditions on various passages and sections of the book of Zechariah: 1:7-6:15; 1:1-6/7:1-8:23; and chs. 9-14. These two volumes showcase a series of studies on Zechariah Boda wrote over the past decade.

Translated and compiled in 1926 by esteemed scholar Rutherford Hayes Platt, The Forgotten Books of Eden is a beautiful collection of apocrypha and pseudepigrapha that is sure to enrich and deepen your appreciation of the Biblical canon. Though these stories, for whatever reason, were excluded from The Bible by its original compilers, they were written alongside the texts we've come to know and love so well.

The stories in this book expand on canonical Bible chapters and fill in some gaps that inquisitive Bible readers may have wondered about since they were children....