In this article I critically examine the hypothesis that the early edition of the Book of Kings was written during the time of Hezekiah. I first analyze the histories of the kings of Judah from Ahaz ...to Josiah and the way their accounts helped to shape the histories of five earlier Judahite kings (Asa, Jehoshaphat, Jehoash, Amaziah, and Uzziah). This analysis demonstrates that the same author wrote the histories of the pre-Hezekian and post-Hezekian Judahite king-an author who operated not earlier than the time of Josiah. Hence, the early edition of Kings was written in either the late monarchic or the early exilic period; thus, the hypothesis that an early edition of Kings was written during the time of Hezekiah can no longer be upheld.
Lenart Mravlja, also named Leonhard Formica, is one of the numerous personalities from Carniola who worked abroad in the sixteenth century. After being educated in Ljubljana and in several protestant ...German towns, Formica moved to Vienna at the end of the 1580s where he founded a printing office. Before his death in 1605, he produced approximately 70 books, among which are five high quality music prints.
The Supreme National Tribunal of Poland (Najwyzszy Trybunal Narodowy (Tribunal)) operated from 1946 to 1948. It implemented the 1943 Moscow Declaration in the case of suspected Nazi war criminals. ...This article unpacks two of the Tribunal's trials, that of Rudolph Hoss (Kommandant of Auschwitz (Oswiecim) and Amon Goth (commander of the Krakow-Plaszow labour camp). Following an introduction, the article proceeds in four sections. Section 2 sets out the Tribunal's provenance and background, offering a flavour of the politics and pressures that contoured (and co-opted) its activities so as to recover its place within the imagined spaces of international criminal accountability. Sections 3 and 4, respectively, examine the Goth and Hoss cases. These sections set out the two defendants and their crimes. They also excavate the Tribunal's doctrinal innovations and frustrations, in particular regarding how it understood genocide, organizational liability, membership in criminal organizations and medical war crimes. Section 5 concludes. It does so by assessing the Tribunal's legacy and by linking the Tribunal's activities to broader epistemological, didactic and penological concerns central to the operation of transitional justice.
The continual practice of some Egyptian religious beliefs in the early Iron Age Levant can be discerned, among others, through the persistence of the Amun name and imagery on local glyptic finds. ...This phenomenon can be interpreted as one of two very different manifestations of cultural interaction. On the one hand it can be seen as the continuation of the Amun traditions that were acquired under Egyptian rule during the Late Bronze Age. On the other hand it could be the impact of the contemporary intensification of the Amun cult in Egypt during the late 20th and 21st Dynasties. In the following article I shall attempt to distinguish the mode of interaction by identifying the scope of the Amun phenomenon in Ancient Israel against the backdrop of the relations between Egypt and the Levant in the early Iron Age.
The Czech Institute of Egyptology exploration of the archaeological site at Usli came to its fifth season. The site is becoming an important stone in the overall mosaic of the ancient history of the ...Sudan. The seasons 2014 and 2015 focus - ed on the New Kingdom Temple No. 1 and on the Kushite Palatial Complex including Temple No. 3 and a large circular structure discovered by the 2013 geophys ical survey. The overall length of Temple No. 1 was at the minimum of 40 metres, with its width equating to at least 17.50 metres. The temple was oriented from south-east (front part, entrance) to north-west (rear part), i.e. with the entrance away from the Nile just as in the case of the small brick temple detected further north-west of Temple No. 1. The Sandstone Temple consisted of (at least) one columned court featuring four columns along the shorter and six along the longer walls; of the excavated column bases, more than one half was uncovered in situ. Further, there was a pronaos featuring four columns. This gave way to three sanctuaries (or a triple sanctuary) located at the very rear side of the structure. The 2014 field campaign confirmed the poor state of preservation of this mon ument. In general, the above-ground part of the structure has been entirely eroded and quarried away; the small fragments bearing remains of the original decoration are unfortunately insufficient to study the original decoration motives or to ascertain which deities were actually worshipped in the temple’s sanctuaries. The fact that the structure was of high importance is indicated by the 2009 discovery of a royal statue (Bárta et al. 2013a) and by the presence of numerous fragments of gold foil discovered in 2014. Some important data were acquired from the 2015 spring campaign at Usli. First, considering the large rightangled structure located to the south of the main “palace” building. Its size, sandstone column bases and perfect layout of the sandstone pavement suggest it was a building of a higher status. The discovery of wall paintings creates an extraordinary context that is probably connected to a religious function of the building. The current hypothesis is that this structure might have been a temple servicing the main “palace”. Paintings were originally covering the whole interior surface of the walls of this structure designated as Temple No. 3. The presumption of contemporaneity between Temple No. 3 and the main “palace” building seems to be support - ed by the existence of an outside pavement that we tentatively interpret as a paved courtyard. The “courtyard” pave ment covers almost the whole area between Temple No. 3 and the main “palace” building. The area between these two buildings was later cut by a large circular structure. The circular structure is clearly cutting into the wall of Temple No. 3. The possible functional interpretation of the large circular feature (11 meters in diameter) is that it was a large well. Final chronological consideration will be possible after the comparison of relevant radiocarbon dates and evidence of scarce finds of pottery (Napatan, Meroitic ceramics) and stylistic examination of wall paintings.
During the last 10
years several marine geological/geophysical surveys conducted on the Nile deep-sea fan have provided much new information about the large fluid seepage phenomenon, which ...characterizes this passive margin segment. Among the data, more than 60 sediment cores have been recovered in this area. Rock clasts were collected from eight of them as well as during deep-sea dives, notably in the area of Isis, Osiris and Amon mud volcanoes. In few areas, especially in the Western and the North-eastern provinces of the Nile fan, some clasts consist of crust fragments resulting from cementation of muddy sediment by precipitation of high-Mg calcite. These clasts correspond to a simple cementation of the mud by precipitation of high-Mg calcite: as a consequence no obvious textural or faunal difference with the ambient matrix mud can be observed. These clasts are made of autochthonous crusts derived from microbial anaerobic oxidation of methane and release of bicarbonate and sulphide in the surrounding pore water. These clasts also lack aragonite. In most of the other cases (Menes caldera, Isis, Osiris, and Amon mud volcanoes), allochthonous clasts characterized by low-Mg calcite cement, siderite or dolomite mixed with expelled mud outcrop on the seafloor. Nannofossils have allowed us to date some of these clasts. Most of the ages range from Pliocene to Pleistocene; one clast is Lower Cretaceous in age. The lithological facies often indicate coastal or deltaic environments. Some clasts are closely linked to an evaporite-rich environment (halite, gypsum, and analcime); they all provide useful information on the nature of buried sedimentary series covering the margin. Their presence on the seafloor is due to the expulsion of a pressurized mixture of sediment, water, and gas. This process is believed to have used pre-existing tectonic conduits.
Deux scarabées d'Orgamè/Argamum DAN, Anca
Dialogues d'histoire ancienne,
2011, 2011-00-00, Letnik:
37, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
Two scarabs from Orgame/ Argamum.
The two faience scarabs discovered at Orgame in a house dated, on the basis of a stamped amphora fragment and other fine wares, to the end of the IVth century BC are ...of the "Naucratite type" (Gorton 1996, type XXVIII). For the ICEM 46773, a mould representing the Scarabaeus Sacer in a naturalistic way has been used ; the Tilapia Nilotica, with a Nymphaea Caerulea in its mouth, cast on the underside, is very common on scarabs : the fish which guides and protects Rê against Apophis and which spits its own alevins, like Atoum the Creator, associated with a lotus bloom, the flower of the beginnings and of the "Gott auf der Blume" , is a strong symbol of renewal and resurrection. The ICEM 46774, cast with a simplified mould into an inferior faience, has on its backside the name of Amon, joining up, in cryptographic form, the forces of Maât, Horus and Rê, just like some other scarabs from Olbia, Carthage or Egypt, found in VIth-Vth centuries layers. These amulets, preserved during generations or made and exported at a later date than usually accepted, could fill a gap in our knowledge of the (in) direct relations between the southern and northern parts of the eastern Mediterranean in the classical period.
This book examines contemporary American religious culture through the themes of a “consuming convert’s republic,” “the haunted present,” and “the therapeutic.” The work argues that US religious ...culture in the twenty-first century can be characterized as immersed in and constitutive of an era of possessions–of both consumer goods and spirit entities such as ghosts and demons–and that these “possessions” are thoroughly saturated with the reverberations of therapeutic discourse. Third Wave evangelicalism and its practice of spiritual warfare provide a case study through which these three tropes converge. The book provides a description and analysis of religion in the contemporary United States. Second, it offers an extended examination of Third Wave evangelicalism, a small but influential movement in both the United States and in Christian mission fields around the world. Third, it maps some of the multiple and often conflicting connections among contemporary American religious forms, consumer capitalism, neoliberalism, and globalization.
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