With apologies for cross-posting. Eisenbrauns is pleased to announce the recent publication of the following books: Critical Issues in Early Israelite History ...
Now that the region has calmed down, it is a good time to think of what you, and/or your students will be doing this summer. What could be better than to join...
Dear list, When i was searching the web i found this book "Myth and symbol : symbolism in prehistoric religions" by "Ariel Golan" that it could be very useful...
Anyone know what the status of Ur was during the reign of Hammurabi, and if it was captured by him? Yaffa Bernstein Tekoa, Israel [Non-text portions of this...
As many of you know, there is a tool used in New Testament -- and particularly Historical Jesus -- studies that is called the criterion of embarrassment. It...
I'm posting the following for a friend on another list:: Somewhere in the distant past (which gets distanter the older I get), I remember reading or hearing in...
Members of the Societas Iranologica Europea request that colleagues read and sign the following petition, please feel free to repost this message: To the...
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2900028 This news article is principally a promo piece for Korean-Iranian relations, but it mentions a...
I have been reading Hershel Shanks on Khirbet Qeiyafa (BAR 35.1, 2009, 38-43; you know it is a magazine, not because of advertising, since JournalNES has that,...
Dear ANErs, What is known about the Mesopotamian deity Bel-sharri (the first consonant in the second word being shin; the logoraphic spelling is dEN-LUGAL)? Is...
Scholar Dan Schowalter will investigative the three temples built by Herod the Great that Jewish historian Josephus writes about in his texts at a lecture at 7...
George, I too know little about this lake except that it is in Turkey on a central plateau in a desert area south of the Taurus mountains. It is a likely ...
The first of what I think should be many obit. of Henri Cazelles has appeared in the press http://www.kerknet.be/actua/nieuws_detail.php?nieuwsID=83703 -- ...
This note is a reminder that the subject heading should reflect the topic of the post. Hint: the Valley of the Kings is not the same topic as learning ANE...
Niels Peter Lemche Talks about the absurdity of Sea People in a region of mountains. In this respect he accuses others of not being up to speed with modern...
Baghdad, January 12, 2009 Dear ANE-2 members, I would like to inform you kindly that information entitled 'Roman-era tomb unearthed in Tikrit' was published...
... would ... other ... what ... to be ... Yaffa Bernstein Tekoa, Israel -- Yaffa "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" Mahatama Gandhi [Non-text...
Robert Deutsch tells me I wonder, why are the two years old news recycled ? Roni Reich already presented the finds on several occasions, in Israel and in USA,...
In the next to last issue of BAR there was a item written by the new person who replaced S. Feldman asking why colleagues had not tested the soil from locus...
Niels Peter Lemche wrote... ... Perhaps NPL would be so good as to explain what it is that David Hall wrote or implied in his message that inspired NPL to...
Dear All, If anyone has the article by Janet H. Johnson, “The Demotic Chronicle as an Historical Source,” from Enchoria 4, 1974, and can easily scan in the...
Haaretz in Hebrew has photos of a pomegranate and a bulla from excavations. Both are dated to the Iron Age. This is in Hebrew; perhaps it will appear in...
I found it odd that if the ivory pomegranate was used in temple service, does that mean that other temple utensils were all marked "property of the House of...
From http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=147891 via the Agade list "Did you know that the Sanskrit-speaking rulers of Babylon were the forefathers of...
Prof. Victor Avigdor Hurowitz Dept. of Bible, Archaeology and ANE Ben-Gurion University Beer-Sheva, Israel ... -- ... -- Lori [Non-text portions of this...
