When Gods Speak to Men

• Hardcover | Engels | Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis | nr. 289
• The nature of divine speech in Antiquity in the Mediterranean Basin has often been the object of scholarly analysis, especially regarding its divinato... Lees meer

Le peuple aux trois noms

F. Porzia

• Hardcover | Frans | Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis | nr. 298
• Jewish identity has always been a highly disputed topic. Such a dispute increased with the first archaeological discovery of the so-called Iron Age "p... Lees meer

The Text of Leviticus

• Hardcover | Engels | Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis | nr. 292
• The book of Leviticus is by far the most quoted in rabbinic literature such as the Mishna or the Talmud, while it has been marginalized in the Christi... Lees meer

Architecture, Iconography, and Text

Howard J C

• Hardcover | Engels | Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis | nr. 301
• The papers published in this volume attempt to move scholarship forward in the interpretation of the Northwest Palace reliefs of Ashurnasirpal II, wit... Lees meer

Divine Names on the Spot

T./C.

• Hardcover | Engels | Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis | nr. 293
• Ancient Greek and Semitic languages resorted to a large range of words to name the divine. Gods and goddesses were called by a variety of names and co... Lees meer

Beyond All Boundaries

Annick Payne

• Hardcover | Engels | Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis | nr. 295
• This book contains the proceedings of an international conference with a focus on Anatolia in the first millennium BC which took place on Monte Verita... Lees meer

Suffering in Babylon

A Lenzi

• Hardcover | Engels | Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis | nr. 300
• Suffering in Babylon comprises a series of studies on Ludlul bel nemeqi. Part One examines the modern scholarship surrounding the poem's textual recon... Lees meer

Divine Names on the Spot II

Porzia F

• Hardcover | Engels | Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis | nr. 299
• English summary: Names, images, and narratives are intimately related and frequently polysemous. As pieces of information on the gods, they convey fra... Lees meer

Vielfältig geprägt

P. Wyssmann

• Hardcover | Duits | Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis | nr. 288
• The coins from the province of Samaria in the Persian Period and the imagery depicted on them are at the centre of this volume. The corpus, normally r... Lees meer

"Trinkt von dem Wein, den ich mischte!" "Drink of the wine which I have mingled!"

Munger/Rahn/Wyssmann

• Hardcover | Duits | Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis | nr. 303
• The contributions gathered in this volume honor the work of Silvia Schroer in biblical exegesis, iconography, feminist criticism, and the broad explor... Lees meer

The Power of Images

J Walker

• Hardcover | Engels | Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis | nr. 397
• The publication of Keel's Symbolism of the Biblical World (German 1972, English 1978) demonstrated the val-ue of ancient Near Eastern iconography for ... Lees meer

Wisdom of Ben Sira

T Muraoka

• Hardcover | Engels | Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis | nr. 303
• A philological commentary on the book of Ben Sira accompanied by a full translation of the Greek text in the Septuagint. Similar in content to the boo... Lees meer

The Books of Hosea and Micah in Hebrew and Greek

T Muraoka

• Hardcover | Engels | Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis | nr. 294
• This is a verse-by-verse, text-critical study of two important books out of the Minor Prophets. An English translation by the author is provided along... Lees meer

Luther Lesen

Martin H Jung

• Hardcover | Duits | Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis
• Luthers Schriften liegen in nur fur Fachleute geeigneten modernen Editionen vor. Ferner gibt es fur jeden lesbare modernisierte Luthertexte in verschi... Lees meer

Oral et écrit dans l'Antiquité orientale: les processus de rédaction et d'édition

Thomas Romer

• Hardcover | Frans | Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis | nr. 291
• The question of the place of orality in the production and transmission of the great literary traditions of the ancient Near East has been widely disc... Lees meer

The Flood

N Wasserman

• Hardcover | Engels | Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis | nr. 290
• The story of the primeval cataclysmic flood which wiped out all life on earth, save for one family, is found in different ancient Mesopotamian texts w... Lees meer

Menschsein in Weisheit und Freiheit

Veronika Bachmann

• Hardcover | Duits | Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis | nr. 296
• Menschsein in Weisheit und Freiheit - der Titel der Festschrift fur Thomas Kruger benennt ein zentrales Reflexionsfeld im theologischen und exegetisch... Lees meer

A 'Religious Revolution' in Yehud?

• Hardcover | Engels | Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis | nr. 267
• In reference to Ephraim Sterns hypothesis that Judah witnessed a religious revolution during the transition between the (Neo)Babylonian and the Persia... Lees meer

The Wisdom of Solomon in the Septuagint

T. Muraoka

• Hardcover | Engels | Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis | nr. 304
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Représenter dieux et hommes dans le Proche-Orient ancien et dans la Bible

• Hardcover | Frans | Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis | nr. 287
• Quelle est la fonction des representations du divin et aussi des hommes dans le Proche-Orient ancien? Quelles sont les differentes manieres de rendre ... Lees meer