Recent attacks on the historicity of the Exodus raise the question of whether or not a text prepa... more Recent attacks on the historicity of the Exodus raise the question of whether or not a text prepared long after the event is likely to be historically accurate. For it is undoubtedly true that the text of Exodus was prepared centuries after the events it describes. The Exodus would have occured, in archaeological terms, in the Late Bronze Age (13th century B.C.). According to the Biblical chronology, the Exodus occured before the establishment of the Israelite monarchy in about 1000 B.C. The existing Exodus text, however, was hardly prepared before that time. In considering the accuracy of the Biblical account, we must treat the story in its context, as a product of the ancient Near East. The preservation of records over many generations is a standard feature of those societies. There are many examples of texts that claim to relate to times long past. here I will explore only one such case.
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... Semitic and ultimately Sumerian word. 2. Eden a West Semitic word Biblical Hebrew knows sever... more ... Semitic and ultimately Sumerian word. 2. Eden a West Semitic word Biblical Hebrew knows several words with Cdn as their base and the common idea of "pleasure, luxury". Traditionally, Eden is 104 Page 3. SHORT NOTES ...
Recent attacks on the historicity of the Exodus raise the question of whether or not a text prepa... more Recent attacks on the historicity of the Exodus raise the question of whether or not a text prepared long after the event is likely to be historically accurate. For it is undoubtedly true that the text of Exodus was prepared centuries after the events it describes. The Exodus would have occured, in archaeological terms, in the Late Bronze Age (13th century B.C.). According to the Biblical chronology, the Exodus occured before the establishment of the Israelite monarchy in about 1000 B.C. The existing Exodus text, however, was hardly prepared before that time. In considering the accuracy of the Biblical account, we must treat the story in its context, as a product of the ancient Near East. The preservation of records over many generations is a standard feature of those societies. There are many examples of texts that claim to relate to times long past. here I will explore only one such case.
Quelques notes concernant les textes cuneiformes mesopotamiens qui forment la collection du monas... more Quelques notes concernant les textes cuneiformes mesopotamiens qui forment la collection du monastere dominicain de Saint Etienne, a Jerusalem.
... Semitic and ultimately Sumerian word. 2. Eden a West Semitic word Biblical Hebrew knows sever... more ... Semitic and ultimately Sumerian word. 2. Eden a West Semitic word Biblical Hebrew knows several words with Cdn as their base and the common idea of "pleasure, luxury". Traditionally, Eden is 104 Page 3. SHORT NOTES ...
Nicholas Postgate (editor), Introduction Jeremy Black(†), Sumerian Andrew George, Babylonian and Assyrian: A history of Akkadian David Hawkins, Hurrian Alan Millard, Early Aramaic Geoffrey Khan, Aramaic in the medieval and modern periods Eleanor Coghill, Fieldwork in Neo-Aramaic Clive Holes, Colloquial Iraqi Arabic Christine Allison, Kurdish in Iraq Christiane Bulut, Iraqi Turkman
For all five thousand years of its history Iraq has been home to a mixture of languages, spoken and written, and the same is true today. In November 2003, to celebrate the country's rich diversity and long history as a centre of civilisation, BISl presented a series of talks by experts on each of the major languages of Iraq and their history, and this illustrated volume brings these now to a wider public.
Iraq's languages come from different linguistic families - Semitic, Indo-European, and agglutinative languages like Sumerian, Hurrian and Turkish. Some, although long dead, have a prime place in the history of the Old World: Sumerian, probably the first language to be written and the vehicle of cuneiform scholarship for more than two millennia, and Akkadian, the language of Hammurapi and the Epic of Gilgamesh, and used across the Near East for administration and diplomacy. The history of Aramaic is even longer, stretching back to overlap with Akkadian before 1000 BC. It survives, precariously, in both written and spoken forms, being one of four languages spoken in Iraq today. Of these Arabic as a major world language has often been described, but here we have an account of the vernacular Iraqi Arabic dialects, and the descriptions of Iraqi Kurdish and Turkman are unique, detailed and authoritative.
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Format: pp. viii, 187. 32 b/w maps and illustrations. Size 240 x 160mm
ISBN: 978-0- 903472-21-0
Price: £15
Link to puchase: http://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/studies-in-the-ancient-history-of-northern-iraq.html
Authors and editors:
Nicholas Postgate (editor), Introduction
Jeremy Black(†), Sumerian
Andrew George, Babylonian and Assyrian: A history of Akkadian
David Hawkins, Hurrian
Alan Millard, Early Aramaic
Geoffrey Khan, Aramaic in the medieval and modern periods
Eleanor Coghill, Fieldwork in Neo-Aramaic
Clive Holes, Colloquial Iraqi Arabic
Christine Allison, Kurdish in Iraq
Christiane Bulut, Iraqi Turkman
For all five thousand years of its history Iraq has been home to a mixture of languages, spoken and written, and the same is true today. In November 2003, to celebrate the country's rich diversity and long history as a centre of civilisation, BISl presented a series of talks by experts on each of the major languages of Iraq and their history, and this illustrated volume brings these now to a wider public.
Iraq's languages come from different linguistic families - Semitic, Indo-European, and agglutinative languages like Sumerian, Hurrian and Turkish. Some, although long dead, have a prime place in the history of the Old World: Sumerian, probably the first language to be written and the vehicle of cuneiform scholarship for more than two millennia, and Akkadian, the language of Hammurapi and the Epic of Gilgamesh, and used across the Near East for administration and diplomacy. The history of Aramaic is even longer, stretching back to overlap with Akkadian before 1000 BC. It survives, precariously, in both written and spoken forms, being one of four languages spoken in Iraq today. Of these Arabic as a major world language has often been described, but here we have an account of the vernacular Iraqi Arabic dialects, and the descriptions of Iraqi Kurdish and Turkman are unique, detailed and authoritative.
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