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The Dead And The Decaying 22h ago

#Canaan before #Egypt
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The Apex of #Canaanite Civilization

#AncientLevant #Levant #AncientNearEast #AncientWestAsia
https://youtu.be/k7b2DipTCOE

The Apex of Canaanite Civilization

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The Dead And The Decaying Feb 19

It was a pleasant surprise to discover that the new #Academic Anthology "Rethinking the Qur’ān in Late Antiquity" has a few chapters on Ancient #Arabian #Polytheism

#AncientArabia #Antiquity #LateAntiquity #AncientNearEast #ArabianPaganism #ArabianPolytheism #AncientReligions
#Pagan #Paganism #Polytheist
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111342306/html

Rethinking the Qur’ān in Late Antiquity

How the Qur’ān reflects on and responds to the regional cultural, religious and political currents swirling in Western Arabia and neighboring areas during the great war, 603-630, between the Roman and Sasanian empires? The book approaches the Qur’ān through six case studies. The first two consider the era 200-800 CE, which classicist Peter Brown dubbed late antiquity. The second two contextualize quranic stories and tropes in the era of Herakleios and Khosrow II. The final pair consider issues in how the Qur’ān was constituted, both physically and stylistically, and also sets these processes in their late antique context. The book treats the constitution of the quranic text, first physically and then rhetorically. The use in the Qur’ān of the technique of narrative apostrophe is for the first time subjected to a concerted analysis. These themes are all united by a concern to understand better issues in why the Qur’ān makes certain narrative choices, how the narrative changes over time, and how it articulates with other texts and perspectives.

De Gruyter Brill

The Dead And The Decaying Jan 20

The Electronic Pennsylvania #Sumerian #Dictionary #ePSD

#Sumer #AncientNearEast #Mesopotamia #SumerianLanguage #DeadLanguages #AncientLanguages #BronzeAge #AncientWorld
https://www.penn.museum/research/project.php?pid=17

The Electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary (ePSD) | Research - Penn Museum

The Electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary (ePSD) is a research project at the Penn Museum.

Lance, Enjoying Copious Pollen Nov 22

The ancient Near East has been an area of growing interest to me. It's a natural extension of my undergraduate degree in Bible, since so much of the Bible was informed by surrounding cultures.

Our library offers "A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Languages" via Hoopla. I downloaded it this morning before their daily credits are gone.

It promises to be fascinating, but I didn't realize I was committing myself to a 951 page tome — at least the way it's formatted on my iPad. #AncientNearEast

The Dead And The Decaying Nov 16

This is a fascinating episode of The Ancients #Podcast about Fall of #Babylon

#Mesopotamia #AncientNearEast #Babylonia #AncientWorld
https://shows.acast.com/the-ancients/episodes/fall-of-babylon