Time and astronomy in past cultures
Time and astronomy in past cultures
Time and astronomy in past cultures
The volume contains 12 papers presented at the conference "Time and Astronomy in Past Cultures" (Toruń, Poland 2005). Five of them concern Near Eastern calendars and sky-watching, three are devoted to European archaeoastronomy (including a paper on Stonehenge), and two represent…
Introduction / Diana V. Edelman -- Group identities in Jeremiah : is it the Persian period conflict? / Dalit Rom-Shiloni -- Ezra 1 & 6 as idealized past / Diana V. Edelman -- Ancestor ideologies and the territoriality of the dead in Genesis / Francesca Stavrakopoulou -- God rhet…
"This volume contains revised versions of papers presented at the 2006, 2007, and 2008 meetings of the European Association of Biblical Studies as part of the activities of a Research Programme devoted to the study of "Israel and the Production and Reception of Authoritative Boo…
A volume of collected essays that explores what we can learn about the producers and readers of biblical books by looking into matters of language, rhetoric, style, and ideology. What do they teach us about these literati's world of knowledge and imagination, about the issues th…
