La stele de Zakkur decouverte en 1903 a 40 km au sud d'Alep est conservee au Louvre. Zakkur e... more La stele de Zakkur decouverte en 1903 a 40 km au sud d'Alep est conservee au Louvre. Zakkur est roi d'Hamat et de Lu'ash. Zakkur a usurpe le trone d'Hamat a la dynastie neo-hittite au 8e siecle av. J.-C. et semble etre originaire d'Ana
This chapter considers three matters of material culture, principally in the book of Joshua, and ... more This chapter considers three matters of material culture, principally in the book of Joshua, and explores implications for treatment of the biblical text. The archaeologists divide antiquity into ages according to the principal technology for tool-making: Stone, Bronze and Iron. There is evidence for some use of metals within the Stone Age, and of iron within the Bronze Age. The latter is the author's concern here. At the Twelfth Congress, in Jerusalem, the author discussed the question of King Og's iron bed and the iron chariots of the Canaanites, arguing that the biblical references could reflect unusual artefacts of the Late Bronze Age. Biblical scholarship should recognize the need to give the biblical text and its statements the space they deserve in the ancient world. Consequently, these ancient accounts are forced into a bed of that less comfortable and quite unbiblical style owned by the Greek brigand Procrustes. Keywords: biblical text; book of Joshua; Canaan; Greek brigand Procrustes; iron bed; King Og; late bronze age; material culture; stone age
Publication d'une lettre neobabylonienne provenant d'Uruk aujourd'hui conservee dans ... more Publication d'une lettre neobabylonienne provenant d'Uruk aujourd'hui conservee dans les collections du couvent Saint Etienne de Jerusalem.
... There were other forms of writing, too, known in single examples of very small numbers, such ... more ... There were other forms of writing, too, known in single examples of very small numbers, such as the Phaistos Disk and the 'Pseudo-Hieroglyphic' texts of Byblos. Although no one has yet presented a satisfactory Page 3. 392 AR Millard ...
Page 1. 98 THE BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGIST (Vol. XXXV, The Biblical Archaeologist is published quarter... more Page 1. 98 THE BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGIST (Vol. XXXV, The Biblical Archaeologist is published quarterly (February, May, September, Decem-ber) by the American Schools of Oriental Research. Its purpose is to provide readable ...
This third (and final) supplement to the Kouyunjik collection of tablets at the British Museum pr... more This third (and final) supplement to the Kouyunjik collection of tablets at the British Museum provides, in effect, an index to the contents of a further 5400 largely fragmentary tablets.
... London, owns a number of cuneiform tablets, one of which happens to contain the earliest refe... more ... London, owns a number of cuneiform tablets, one of which happens to contain the earliest reference yet found to Cypriot copper in Babylonia proper. ... been greatly aided by a transliteration of the tablet made by Professors AL Oppenheim and M. Civil on the basis of my draft copy ...
... 7. MU I7 KIN 2 KAM U4 9 D.GIS.SIR.MU.G[I.NA LUGAL TIN.TIR.]KI ERfN.ME-t/i id-ki-e-ma 8. ana G... more ... 7. MU I7 KIN 2 KAM U4 9 D.GIS.SIR.MU.G[I.NA LUGAL TIN.TIR.]KI ERfN.ME-t/i id-ki-e-ma 8. ana GU.DU8.A.KI DU-ik [u URui]s-sa-bat 9. di-ik-tamn ina SA'.ERIN XURaflur U G[U'.DU8.A.KI.ME id]uk I0. ... [and Nabu-b]el-shumate, governor of the Sea-land, Lower edge I4. ...
The story of the encounters of Gilgamesh with the ‘Ale-wife’ and with Ur-shanabi the ferry-man, i... more The story of the encounters of Gilgamesh with the ‘Ale-wife’ and with Ur-shanabi the ferry-man, in his quest for the secret of immortality, is partly preserved on tablets from the Nineveh libraries and from Babylon, and partly on a fragment of Old Babylonian date. This last was purchased, from among a group of tablets said to come from Sippar (Abu Habba), by Bruno Meissner, for the Berlin Museum in 1902. It provided the first tangible evidence of the existence of a text earlier than the ‘canonical’ Assyrian and, by overlapping part of the story already known, revealed something of the literary changes which had taken place during the intervening centuries. More recent discoveries have shown that there were several Old Babylonian text-types. The Meissner Fragment is the lower part of a tablet with four columns, two on either face, containing fifteen and fourteen lines of the obverse and fifteen and fourteen of the reverse. Translations of the text may be found in the late Alexander Heidel's book and in A.N.E.T. The first column narrates the care of Shamash for Gilgamesh, probably included in Tablet IX of the ‘canonical’ version. In columns two and three the hero explains his search to the Ale-wife, who attempts to dissuade him with her famous carpe diem speech, a speech not inappropriate to one of that profession.
... 86. "Die Frist, die Schamasch mir angesetzt: 87. Wenn der, so das Grauen am Abend be... more ... 86. "Die Frist, die Schamasch mir angesetzt: 87. Wenn der, so das Grauen am Abend bewirkt, Graupen regnen lassen wird 88. ... 81 ff.; JV Kinnier Wilson in D. Winton Thomas, ed., Documents from Old Testament Times, Lon-don (1958), pp. 21, 25. ...
La stele de Zakkur decouverte en 1903 a 40 km au sud d'Alep est conservee au Louvre. Zakkur e... more La stele de Zakkur decouverte en 1903 a 40 km au sud d'Alep est conservee au Louvre. Zakkur est roi d'Hamat et de Lu'ash. Zakkur a usurpe le trone d'Hamat a la dynastie neo-hittite au 8e siecle av. J.-C. et semble etre originaire d'Ana
This chapter considers three matters of material culture, principally in the book of Joshua, and ... more This chapter considers three matters of material culture, principally in the book of Joshua, and explores implications for treatment of the biblical text. The archaeologists divide antiquity into ages according to the principal technology for tool-making: Stone, Bronze and Iron. There is evidence for some use of metals within the Stone Age, and of iron within the Bronze Age. The latter is the author's concern here. At the Twelfth Congress, in Jerusalem, the author discussed the question of King Og's iron bed and the iron chariots of the Canaanites, arguing that the biblical references could reflect unusual artefacts of the Late Bronze Age. Biblical scholarship should recognize the need to give the biblical text and its statements the space they deserve in the ancient world. Consequently, these ancient accounts are forced into a bed of that less comfortable and quite unbiblical style owned by the Greek brigand Procrustes. Keywords: biblical text; book of Joshua; Canaan; Greek brigand Procrustes; iron bed; King Og; late bronze age; material culture; stone age
Publication d'une lettre neobabylonienne provenant d'Uruk aujourd'hui conservee dans ... more Publication d'une lettre neobabylonienne provenant d'Uruk aujourd'hui conservee dans les collections du couvent Saint Etienne de Jerusalem.
... There were other forms of writing, too, known in single examples of very small numbers, such ... more ... There were other forms of writing, too, known in single examples of very small numbers, such as the Phaistos Disk and the 'Pseudo-Hieroglyphic' texts of Byblos. Although no one has yet presented a satisfactory Page 3. 392 AR Millard ...
Page 1. 98 THE BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGIST (Vol. XXXV, The Biblical Archaeologist is published quarter... more Page 1. 98 THE BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGIST (Vol. XXXV, The Biblical Archaeologist is published quarterly (February, May, September, Decem-ber) by the American Schools of Oriental Research. Its purpose is to provide readable ...
This third (and final) supplement to the Kouyunjik collection of tablets at the British Museum pr... more This third (and final) supplement to the Kouyunjik collection of tablets at the British Museum provides, in effect, an index to the contents of a further 5400 largely fragmentary tablets.
... London, owns a number of cuneiform tablets, one of which happens to contain the earliest refe... more ... London, owns a number of cuneiform tablets, one of which happens to contain the earliest reference yet found to Cypriot copper in Babylonia proper. ... been greatly aided by a transliteration of the tablet made by Professors AL Oppenheim and M. Civil on the basis of my draft copy ...
... 7. MU I7 KIN 2 KAM U4 9 D.GIS.SIR.MU.G[I.NA LUGAL TIN.TIR.]KI ERfN.ME-t/i id-ki-e-ma 8. ana G... more ... 7. MU I7 KIN 2 KAM U4 9 D.GIS.SIR.MU.G[I.NA LUGAL TIN.TIR.]KI ERfN.ME-t/i id-ki-e-ma 8. ana GU.DU8.A.KI DU-ik [u URui]s-sa-bat 9. di-ik-tamn ina SA'.ERIN XURaflur U G[U'.DU8.A.KI.ME id]uk I0. ... [and Nabu-b]el-shumate, governor of the Sea-land, Lower edge I4. ...
The story of the encounters of Gilgamesh with the ‘Ale-wife’ and with Ur-shanabi the ferry-man, i... more The story of the encounters of Gilgamesh with the ‘Ale-wife’ and with Ur-shanabi the ferry-man, in his quest for the secret of immortality, is partly preserved on tablets from the Nineveh libraries and from Babylon, and partly on a fragment of Old Babylonian date. This last was purchased, from among a group of tablets said to come from Sippar (Abu Habba), by Bruno Meissner, for the Berlin Museum in 1902. It provided the first tangible evidence of the existence of a text earlier than the ‘canonical’ Assyrian and, by overlapping part of the story already known, revealed something of the literary changes which had taken place during the intervening centuries. More recent discoveries have shown that there were several Old Babylonian text-types. The Meissner Fragment is the lower part of a tablet with four columns, two on either face, containing fifteen and fourteen lines of the obverse and fifteen and fourteen of the reverse. Translations of the text may be found in the late Alexander Heidel's book and in A.N.E.T. The first column narrates the care of Shamash for Gilgamesh, probably included in Tablet IX of the ‘canonical’ version. In columns two and three the hero explains his search to the Ale-wife, who attempts to dissuade him with her famous carpe diem speech, a speech not inappropriate to one of that profession.
... 86. "Die Frist, die Schamasch mir angesetzt: 87. Wenn der, so das Grauen am Abend be... more ... 86. "Die Frist, die Schamasch mir angesetzt: 87. Wenn der, so das Grauen am Abend bewirkt, Graupen regnen lassen wird 88. ... 81 ff.; JV Kinnier Wilson in D. Winton Thomas, ed., Documents from Old Testament Times, Lon-don (1958), pp. 21, 25. ...
Finding seal marks ostensibly from Isaiah the Prophet and Hezekiah within mere feet of each other... more Finding seal marks ostensibly from Isaiah the Prophet and Hezekiah within mere feet of each other in Jerusalem is intriguing; so are other seals of other non-visionary Isaiahs found in Israel from that time
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