ARCANE Project: Synchronizing Cultures and Civilizations of the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean in the Third Millennium BC ...
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Peter Van Der Veen
shedsunefertem
Jul 19, 2011 4:45 pm
Many thanks but I received in the meantime the email address of Gibson. best wishes Peter van der Veen ... -- Dr. Pieter Gert van der Veen Arbeitsgruppe für...
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Charles E. Jones
chuckjones2000
Jul 20, 2011 7:50 pm
Sent on behalf of the organizers: We are pleased to announce that Current Research in Egyptology XIII (CRE XIII) will be held at the University of Birmingham,...
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Charles E. Jones
chuckjones2000
Jul 25, 2011 7:36 pm
Now online: Reading Akkadian prayers and hymns : an introduction / edited by Alan Lenzi. p. cm. — (Society of Biblical Literature ancient Near East...
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Clark Whelton
allieclark
Jul 28, 2011 12:36 am
For those who might have missed the story, a two-horned altar has been excavated at Tell es-Safi (Gath). See ...
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MarcC
marc.cooper
Jul 28, 2011 12:48 am
A preliminary set of placemarks (ANE.kmz) for Google Earth of a selection of the most important archaeological sites in the Ancient Near East can be downloaded...
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James Spinti
tweetynwiley
Jul 29, 2011 3:19 pm
Eisenbrauns is pleased to announce the latest additions to our Mesopotamian Civilizations series: Royal Statuary of Early Dynastic Mesopotamia by Gianni...
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Charles E. Jones
chuckjones2000
Jul 31, 2011 4:11 pm
Recent entries in AWOL include: --Ernst Herzfeld Paper Squeeze Digitization Project --Newly Online from the Oriental Institute's Backlist: Alishar Hüyük ...
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Charles E. Jones
chuckjones2000
Aug 2, 2011 12:05 am
ASOR Search for NEA editor http://asorblog.org/?p=1054 Near Eastern Archaeology (NEA), a publication of the American Schools for Oriental Research (ASOR), is...
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Sam WOLFF
baalh
Aug 2, 2011 6:15 am
Let's give credit where credit is due. Ann Killebrew has been doing a wonderful job as Editor of NEA. The articles, which deal with important and timely...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Aug 2, 2011 12:04 pm
Does the editor serve a three-year term because they have trouble finding someone to do it? After Bernard Bloch's and Bill Bright's essentially life tenures as...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Aug 2, 2011 7:01 pm
Doing some historical investigation, I came across this sentence in an essay on "The Ancient Hebrews": "Since the days of the Earthdwellers (חוריס) and...
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Petr Tomasek
butus.butrus
Aug 2, 2011 7:26 pm
... As far as I know, גוברין is the Aramaic counterpart for Hebrew אנשים used a couple of times in the Targum Onkelos (see Hebrew גבר). Petr...
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Petr Tomasek
butus.butrus
Aug 2, 2011 10:17 pm
... And of course, בית גוברין is a archeological site in today's Israel and the connection to the "caves" is obvious there, see: ...
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Giuseppe Regalzi
regalzi1
Aug 3, 2011 6:30 am
... From the Encyclopaedia biblica, by T.K. Cheyne and J. Sutherland Black (London: Black, 1901), vol. 2, s.v. Eleutheropolis: "The site of Eleutheropolis, in...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Aug 3, 2011 1:16 pm
So we may have "Horites" and "humans" as Earthdwellers and Cave-dwellers respectively. But who, in 1928, was connecting these two notions? Why would they ...
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Douglas Petrovich
ane.fan
Aug 3, 2011 1:16 pm
Petr, I would like to address something you wrote in the following statement: “A quick look in Hebrew Wikipedia reveals that this is reportedly connected in...
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Giuseppe Regalzi
regalzi1
Aug 3, 2011 5:54 pm
... The "Earthdwellers" come probably from Gen 36:20: 'elleh bne-Seir ha-h.ori yoshve ha-'arets, "These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the earth ...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Aug 3, 2011 7:38 pm
vide infra ... Because Petr Tomasek wrote "As far as I know, גוברין is the Aramaic counterpart for Hebrew אנשים used a couple of times in the Targum...
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Charles E. Jones
chuckjones2000
Aug 3, 2011 8:08 pm
"Rachel Maxwell-Hyslop, who has died aged 97, worked with the celebrated archaeologists Mortimer Wheeler and Max Mallowan and became an authority on jewellery...
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Giuseppe Regalzi
regalzi1
Aug 4, 2011 5:37 am
... In a later message, Petr Tomasek wrote "of course, בית גוברין is a archeological site in today's Israel". As far as I can say, in the essay בית...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Aug 4, 2011 12:43 pm
... Which is completely irrelevant to the situation in 1928! ... But our author does not connect "Horite" with "Cave-dweller," but rather "Bet Gubrin" with...
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Giuseppe Regalzi
regalzi1
Aug 4, 2011 5:45 pm
... It was an archeological site already in 1928. Anyway, what is important is that בית גוברין is a toponym in the essay. ... We know that...
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Charles E. Jones
chuckjones2000
Aug 4, 2011 7:10 pm
NGSBA Excavation Reports (The Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology) are online ...
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David Hall
dqhall59
Aug 4, 2011 7:56 pm
Giuseppe, Am not sure about the Horites of Genesis being connected with Beit Guvrin/Maresha as these caves were dug by hand during the Hellenistic and Roman ...
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Giuseppe Regalzi
regalzi1
Aug 5, 2011 6:13 am
The question is: what were the sources of an essay written in 1928? We are not concerned with the historicity of those same sources, here. Of course the...
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Raz Kletter
raz.kletter
Aug 5, 2011 7:28 am
The question is also: What is the point of discussing sources for an essay from 1928, unless this essay has something 'important', 'new' to say? ... Raz...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Aug 5, 2011 11:45 am
The interest (or "importance") is not, in fact, in what it says, but in who wrote it. And it appears fromreferences in Speiser's Hurrian Grammar (1941) that...
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Antonio Lombatti
antonio_lomb...
Aug 5, 2011 4:20 pm
"Intensive excavations in the Near East, which have been carried out for over 100 years, show that this region merits to be called a cradle of civilization,"...
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David Hall
dqhall59
Aug 5, 2011 4:20 pm
As a sidetrack from this discussion; there are photos of the Beit Guvrin caves on the Flickr travel photo site. This one is of the olive press cave: ...
