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The world's oldest alphabet : Hebrew as the language of the Proto-consonantal script / by Petrovich, Douglas,author.(CARDINAL)803606; Doherty, Sarah K.; Merrill, Eugene H.(CARDINAL)756837;
Includes bibliographical references and index.For about 150 years, scholars have attempted to identify the language of the world's first alphabetic script, and to translate some of the inscriptions that use it. Until now, their attempts have accomplished little more than identifying most of the pictographic letters and translating a few of the Semitic words. With the publication of The World's Oldest Alphabet, a new day has dawned. All of the disputed letters have been resolved, while the language has been identified conclusively as Hebrew, allowing for the translation of 16 inscriptions that date from 1842 to 1446 BC. It is the author's reading that these inscriptions expressly name three biblical figures (Asenath, Ahisamach, and Moses) and greatly illuminate the earliest Israelite history in a way that no other book has achieved, apart from the Bible
Subjects: Paleography, Hebrew.; Inscriptions, Proto-Sinaitic.; Inscriptions, Semitic.; Alphabet;
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Maʻaśeh ḥoshev : ha-tiḳ le-sefer Torah ṿe-toldotaṿ / by Yaniv, Bracha.(CARDINAL)289200;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-261) and index.
Subjects: Torah cases.; Torah ornaments.; Inscriptions, Hebrew.; Jewish art and symbolism.; Judaism;
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Crowning glory : silver Torah ornaments of the Jewish Museum, New York / by Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)(CARDINAL)156362; Grafman, R.(CARDINAL)177022; Mann, Vivian B.(CARDINAL)153693;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-398) and indexes.
Subjects: Catalogs.; Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.); Torah ornaments; Jewish art and symbolism;
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Readings from the ancient Near East : primary sources for Old Testament study / by Arnold, Bill T.(CARDINAL)649988; Beyer, Bryan.(CARDINAL)766409;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-234) and index.Creation and the Flood -- Tower of Babel -- Ancestral customs -- Epic literature -- Covenants and treaties -- Law codes -- Cultic texts -- Royal records from Mesopotamia -- Chronicles and other historiographic lists -- Non-Hebres monumental inscriptions -- Letters -- Other Hebrew inscriptions -- Wisdom literature -- Love poems -- Hymns and prayers -- Prophecies, visions, and apocalyptic -- Divination and incantation texts -- Lamentations.
Subjects: Bible.;
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Unlocking the prehistory of America / by Joseph, Frank,editor.(CARDINAL)369485;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-285) and index.Introduction : unlocking America's forbidden past / by Frank Joseph -- Part I, Physical proof -- California's buried altar and monument to the Great Flood / by Frank Joseph -- Ancient Roman figurine in New Jersey waters / by Wayne May ; and Roman coins found in Kentucky? / by Lee Pennington -- Tennessee's ancient Hebrew inscription / by Scott Wolter -- A fox's tale of ancient Romans in Peru / by Frank Joseph -- A controversial symbol's original meaning / by John J. White, III -- Thousands of 6th-century tablets in Michigan? / by David Allen Deal -- Canada's Viking "Hammer of Thor" / by Frank Joseph -- Prehistoric mooring stones of Florida / by Archie Eschborn -- Ice mummy of the Andes / by Patrick C. Chouinard -- Ancient Egyptians sailed to America for corn / by Wayne May -- A map of pre-Columbian America / by Lee Pennington -- Light on the Aagard Lamp / by Charles F. Herberger -- Minoan pendant unearthed in Ohio / by Frank Joseph -- Part II, Sites -- An ancient Semitic goddess leaves her mark in New York / by Zena Halpern -- Great serpents from Kansas to Scotland / by Frank Joseph -- Stone fangs of the great serpent / by Ross Hamilton -- Colossal earthworks of the middle west / by Frank Joseph -- A Templar tower in Rhode Island / by Scott Wolter -- Indiana's 12th-century Welsh fortress / by Rick Osmon -- Prehistoric forts or observatories? / by Victor Kachur -- Libyans 3rd-century eclipse in Kentucky / by David Feldman -- A dragon in Rock Lake / by Archie Eschborn -- The walls of Poseidon / by William Donato -- Bolivia's Atlantean canals / by J.M. Allen -- American and Japanese dragons : related or coincidence? / by Professor Nobuhiro Yoshida -- Ecuador, point of contact / by Bruce Scofield -- The Stone Towers of Japan and Easter Island / by Professor Nobuhiro Yoshida -- Peru's lost city of the "Cloud People" / by Beverley H. Moseley, Jr -- Pennsylvania's stone sepulchers / by Wayne May -- The great walls of Texas and Iowa / by Frank Joseph -- Part III, Ancient American hi-tech -- Prehistoric aviators of the Andes / by Frank Joseph -- West Virginia's ancient highway to nowhere / by David D. Cain -- The Incas, more advanced than imagined / by Dr. Arlan Andrews -- Did pre-Columbian Americans master electricity? / by Larry Brian Radka -- The mystery in the sphere / by Frank Joseph -- Part IV, Foreigners in prehistoric America -- Genetics rewrites American history textbooks / by Patrick C. Chouinard -- Anasazi chocolate / by David Allen Deal -- Genocide in ancient Kentucky / by William Conner -- A giant's hand in Michigan / by Jay Stuart Wakefield ; and a worldwide race of prehistoric giants? / by Patrick C. Chouinard -- Native Americans from Europe and the Near East / by Wayne May -- Odysseus sailed to America / by Victor Kachur -- Earliest Americans and Mayas, older than imagined / by Fred Rydholm -- Kelts in pre-Columbian Ohio / by Fritz Zimmermann -- Werewolves in the ancient old world and pre-Columbian America / by Frank Joseph -- Who were the first Americans? / by Patrick C. Chouinard."This volume, with more than twenty-four noted contributors, offers possible evidence of ancient immigrants, lost technologies, and places of power in ancient America long before the voyages of Christopher Columbus. While digging out basements near Los Angeles, homeowners unearth a 3,000-year-old Phoenician altar. A treasure-hunter in Ohio finds more than he expected when his metal detector locates an eastern Mediterranean pendant from 1000 BCE. Two caches of coins minted in Imperial Rome surface along the Ohio River. These are just a few of the examples that illustrate theories that there were foreign influences shaping the prehistory of the Americas"--Provided by the publisher.9-128.12-17.7-12.
Subjects: Young adult literature.; Young adult literature.; Excavations (Archaeology); Historic sites; Prehistoric peoples; Visitors, Foreign;
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What the Koran really says : language, text, and commentary / by Ibn Warraq.(CARDINAL)389222;
Includes bibliographical references and index.PART 1. INTRODUCTION : 1. Introduction / by Ibn Warraq -- 2. What Is the Koran? / by Toby Lester -- PART 2. BACKGROUND : 1. Towards a Prehistory of Islam / by Yehuda D. Nevo -- PART 3. A QUESTION OF LANGUAGE : 1. Syriac Influence on the Style of the Koran / by Alphonse Mingana -- 2. Some Additions to Prof. Jeffery's Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur'an / by D.S. Margoliouth -- 3. The Arabic Readers of the Koran / by Paul E. Kahle -- 4. The Beginnings of Classical Arabic / by C. Rabin -- 5. The Role of the Bedouins as Arbiters in Linguistic Questions and the Mas'ala Az-Zunburiyya / by Joshua Blau -- 6. Some Suggestions to Qur'an Translators / by A. Ben-Shemesh -- PART 4. SOURCES OF THE KORAN: ESSENIAN, CHRISTIAN, COPTIC : 1. Introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls / by Ibn Warraq -- 2. The Qumran Scrolls and the Qur'an / by Eric R. Bishop -- 3. An Essenian Tradition in the Koran / by Marc Philonenko -- 4. A Qumranian Expression in the Koran / by Marc Philonenko -- 5. A Possible Coptic Source of a Qur'anic Text / by Wilson B. Bishai -- 6. Introduction to Raimund Kobert / by Ibn Warraq -- 7. The Shahadat az-zur: The False Witness / by Raimund Kobert -- 8. On the Meaning of the Three Final Words of Sura XXII. 30-31 / by Raimund Kobert -- 9. Early and Later Exegesis of the Koran: A Supplement to Or 35 / by Raimund Kobert --PART 5. SURAS, SURAS, SURAS : 1. Introduction to Sura IX.29 / by Ibn Warraq -- 2. Some Minor Problems in the Qur'an / by Franz Rosenthal3. Koran IX.29 / by Claude Cahen -- 4. A Propos de Qur'an IX.29: Hatta Yu'tu L-Gizyata wa-hum Sagiruna / by Meir M. Bravmann and Claude Cahen -- 5. The Ancient Arab Background of the Koranic Concept al-Gizatu 'an Yadin / by Meir M. Bravman -- 6. "'An Yadin" (Qur'an IX.29): An Attempt at Interpretation / by M.J. Kister -- 7. Koran and Tafsir: The Case of "'an Yadin" / by Uri Rubin -- 8. Koran XXV.1: Al-Furqan and the "Warner" / by C. Heger -- 9. The Buddha Comes to China / by Michael Schub -- 10. The Secret Identity of Dhu l-Kifl / by Michael Schub -- PART 6. EMENDATIONS, INTERPOLATIONS : 1. Studies Contributing to Criticism and Exegesis of the Koran / by J. Barth -- 2. A Qur'anic Interpolation / by A. Fischer -- 3. Regarding Qur'an CI.6 by / A. Fischer -- 4. Three Difficult Passages in the Koran / by C.C. Torrey -- 5. A Strange Reading in the Qur'an / by C.C. Torrey -- 6. Some Proposed Emendations to the Text of the Koran / by James A. Bellamy -- PART 7. RICHARD BELL: INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY : 1. Introduction to Richard Bell / by Ibn Warraq -- 2. From INTRODUCTION TO THE QUR'AN / by Richard Bell -- 3. From A COMMENTARY ON THE QUR'AN / by Richard Bell.PART 8. POETRY AND THE KORAN : 1. The Strophic Structure of the Koran / by Rudolf Geyer -- 2. On the Koran / by Julius Wellhausen -- 3. On Pre-Islamic Christian Strophic Poetical Texts in the Koran: A Critical Look at the Work of Gunter Luling / by Ibn Rawandi -- PART 9. MANUSCRIPTS : 1. The Problem of Dating the Early Qur'ans / by Adolf Grohmann -- 2. Observations on Early Qur'an Manuscripts in San'a / by Gerd-R. Puin Languages -- E. Semitic Languages Family Tree -- F. Origin of the Alphabet -- G. Development of Aramaic Scripts -- H.A Comparative Table of Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic Scripts -- I.A Comparative Table of Nabataean and Arabic -- J. Nabataean and Arabic Inscriptions -- K. The Arabic Alphabet -- L.A Dot or Two Can Make All the Difference -- M. Arabia and the Near East -- N. List of Contributors.
Subjects: Qurʼan; Qurʼan; Islam;
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In the footsteps of King David : revelations from an ancient biblical city / by Garfinkel, Yosef,author.(CARDINAL)683300; Ganor, Saar,author.(CARDINAL)565508; Hasel, Michael G.,author.(CARDINAL)649442; Miron, Eyal,editor.(CARDINAL)799545; Paris, Alan,translator.(CARDINAL)785806;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-228) and index.The curtain rises on the Sorek and Elah valleys -- In King David's footsteps: Bible, history, and archaeology -- Khirbet Qeiyafa in the period of King David: construction and urban planning -- A city frozen in time: the finds -- Greetings from the past: the Khirbet Qeiyafa inscriptions -- Cult in Judah prior to the construction of Solomon's temple -- David's kingdom -- Solomon's palace and the First Temple -- Linking Bible, archaeology, and history -- Appendix. The late Persian-early Hellenistic period at Khirbet Qeiyafa.King David is a pivotal figure in the Bible, which tells his life story in detail and gives stirring accounts of his deeds, including the slaying of the Philistine giant Goliath and the founding of his capital in Jerusalem. But no certain archaeological finds from the period of his reign or of the kingdom he ruled over have ever been uncovered until now. In this account, the excavators of Khirbet Qeiyafa in the Valley of Elah, where the Bible says David fought Goliath, reveal how seven years of exhaustive investigation have uncovered a city dating to the time of David - the late eleventh and early tenth century BCE - surrounded by massive fortifications with impressive gates and a clear urban plan, as well as an abundance of finds that tell us much about the inhabitants. Discussing the link between the Bible, archaeology, and history, In the Footsteps of King David explains the significance of these discoveries and how they shed new light on David's kingdom.
Subjects: David, King of Israel.; Bible.; Excavations (Archaeology); Jews;
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Who really wrote the Bible : the story of the scribes / by Schniedewind, William M.,author.(CARDINAL)684883;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-320) and indexes.Introduction : A new approach to the Bible -- Scribes and their apprentices : communities at work -- Part one. Hebrew scribal communities. The beginning under Egyptian dominion -- In the service of the state -- Refugees from the Samarian scribal office -- Part two. The beginnings of the Bible. New scribal communities -- The prophetic scribal community -- Scribes among the people of the land -- Women in the professions -- Priestly scribal communities : Jerusalem and the periphery -- Part three. A scribal community survives. Exiled scribal communities : the stories of Jeremiah and Ezekiel -- Working with the Samaritans -- Ezra and Nehemiah : Persian scribal communities.Schniedewind draws on ancient inscriptions, archaeology, and anthropology, as well as a close reading of the biblical text itself, to trace the communal origin of biblical literature. Scribes were educated through apprenticeship rather than in schools. The prophet Isaiah, for example, has his "disciples"; Elisha has his "apprentice." This mode of learning emphasized the need to pass along the traditions of a community of practice rather than to individuate and invent. Schniedewind shows that it is anachronistic to impose our ideas about individual authorship and authors on the writing of the Bible. Ancient Israelites didn't live in books, he writes, but along dusty highways and byways. Who Really Wrote the Bible describes how scribes and their apprentices actually worked in ancient Jerusalem and Judah.
Subjects: Informational works.; Bible; Bible; Bible;
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Contemporary synagogue art; developments in the United States, 1945-1965. by Kampf, Avram.(CARDINAL)172405;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-263) and index.The Synagogue: A house of prayer, study and assembly -- Synagogue and ancient temple -- A house of the people instead of a house of God -- Worship by prayer and not sacrifice -- Instruction and debate replace magical elements -- New relation of individual to service -- The origin of the synagogue -- Löw's Theory -- From city gate to people's house to synagogue -- The view of S. W. Baron -- conditions for growth of self government in ancient Israel -- The synagogue as institution adapted to survival of religious-ethnic group in many lands -- The synagogue as house of instruction -- Prayer as instruction -- Psychological consequences of daily prayer -- The synagogue as house of assembly -- Community functions of the synagogue --Philo on the synagogue -- The Interpretation of the Second Commandment: Strict and liberal interpretations of the second commandment -- General retarding effect on development of plastic arts -- Sculptures in the biblical temple -- David Kaufmann revises historical view of Jewish attitude toward arts -- The work of Leopold Löw -- Abraham Geiger's Responsum -- View of contemporary scholarship -- The archeological evidence of an ancient Jewish art -- Liberal and conservative talmudic views -- Jewish craftsmen as makers of idols -- The view of Maimonides -- Art among the Jews of Italy and Poland -- Philosophic considerations -- Judaism's preference for the spoken word -- Views of Grätz and Herman Cohen -- The Jewish concept of God -- Attitude toward images reflecting religious situations in the ancient world -- Pervasiveness of a moral view of life -- The American Synagogue Today: The return to the synagogue -- The rise of the synagogue center -- Jewish survival under conditions of freedom -- The quest for Jewish identity -- The expansion of synagogue activities -- The quest for decorum -- Demand for art coming from tradtional sources and new conditions -- The view of Dr. M. 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Kaplan -- The idea of the Holy -- The adoption of modern architecture -- What should a synagogue look like? -- The view of Lewis Mumford -- The need for reconciliation of function and expression in synagogue architecture --The failure of functional planning to satisfy psychological needs -- The need for the work of art -- relationship of art and modern architecture -- the solutions to the problem of art in architecture by Sullivan, Wright, the International Style and the Bauhaus -- Leaders in architecture build synagogues -- The function of art in today's architecture -- Percival Goodman's contribution to the problem -- Collaboration among the arts -- Aft for Today's Synagogue: The expression of the Jewish ethos -- The communal art of a seventeenth-century synagogue -- The breakdown of the traditional Jewish world view -- Jewish theology today -- The function of art in the reestablishment of Jewish communal and religious values -- The artist vis-à-vis the community -- The position of the architect -- The role of the rabbi -- The need for his education in the arts -- art as an avenue of religious experience -- Modern art for the synagogue -- The expansion of the repertoire of Hebrew art -- A monumental scale for Jewish Analytic, expressive, and decorative tendencies of contemporary art in the synagogue -- The problem of communication in modern synagogue art -- The Hebrew letter -- Didactic art -- Synthesis of the abstract and the concrete in synagogue art -- synagogue art and the freedom of the artist -- Existence of Jewish motives in contemporary art of which the synagogue is unaware -- A genuine religious art for which the synagogue is a natural home -- Younger American artist and their Jewish subjects -- The place of the isolated work of art in the synagogue -- Relation of Jewish community to Jewish artists -- The case of Ben-Zion -- Congregation B'nai Israel in Millburn, New Jersey: Contemporary artists in the service of the synagogue -- Artwork integrated into exterior -- Sculpture aiding architecture in expressing the building's purpose -- The burning bush -- Use of new materials and new techniques -- A mural on the theme of the temple wall -- Inscriptions on the walls of the prayer hall -- A congregation remembers -- Stones from destroyed synagogues -- Torah curtains designed by artist and executed by women of congregation -- The signs of the curtain -- The reaction of the congregation -- The aims and achievements of the artist -- Artwork on Synagogue Exteriors -- The pillar of fire in hammered bronze -- The creation of the world and the liberation from bondage in sgraffito, terrazzo and metal -- Eight relief sculptures on persistent ideas of Judaism -- "Not by might but by my spirit..." -- The use of Hebrew mythology for representation of spirit and might -- "On three things the world is founded" -- A bronze sculpture of Moses and the burning bush -- A menorah designed in brick -- The pillar of fire and pillar of smoke in concrete, and a menorah resembling a chariot -- Five tile murals on Jewish ideas from the Bible -- A sculptural metaphor on theme of the menorah -- Sculpture in wrought iron -- The ladder, the Torah and the crowns -- A sculpture in metal and glass -- Artwork in the Vestibule: House of prayer, house of study , house of assembly, a mosaic mural on the contemporary synagogue -- the burning bush and the Messianic hope -- The yoke of Torah, a ladder to heaven -- Jacob's dream --The Messianic theme, another version of a mosaic mural -- The Miracle -- Artwork in the Prayer Hall-Part I: The ark as receptacle for the Torah scrolls -- Ark and bimah, two centers competing for attention -- The bimah, from a small platform to an imposing structure -- The representation of the ark in ancient Hebrew art -- The enlargement of the ark's frame -- The Torah curtains and the Eternal Light -- The menorah, a cosmic tree transformed as symbol of Judaism -- The memorial light -- The Torah ornaments -- The commanding position of the ark today -- The prayer hall embodying tensions within Judaism--the point of view of a Jewish theologian -- The functions of the synagogue are indivisible -- The need to evoke the numinous -- The use of stained-glass windows -- Different artistic conceptions of the prayer hall -- The wall which shelters the ark -- The ark, free standing and recessed -- The impact of contemporary design and materials on the ark -- The menorah today, search for depth and asymmetry -- A variety of Eternal Light lamps -- The memorial tables -- The use of electricity questioned -- Artwork in the Prayer Hall-Part II: Interiors designed by Erich Mendelsohn -- The evocation of the Holy by darkness and emptiness -- The bimah of Temple B'nai Israel in Bridgeport, Conn. -- The Beth El, Springfield, Mass. -- The primitive invades a modern synagogue -- Evocation of time and mobility in the arks of the Hebrew Congregation in Indianapolis, Ind. -- Silver ark doors narrate the biblical story in Temple Beth El in Great Neck, N.Y. -- Sculptured lead doors which recall the Holocaust -- Human figures and artist's self portrait carved on ark doors -- A modern carving of an old Hebrew fold motif -- The winged ark at Brandeis University -- The meeting of man with God -- The bronze ark of Temple B'rith Kodesh in Rochester, N.Y. -- Stained-Glass Windows: Stained-glass windows -- Man and community -- The windows in Temple B'nai Aaron, St. Paul, Minn. -- Stained-glass walls at the Milton Steinberg House in New York City and at Temple Shalom in Newton, Mass. -- Jewish history in stained glass at Har Zion in Philadelphia, Pa. -- Aspects of American Jewish history at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh -- Stained-glass windows as backdrop for the ark in New York City -- Fragments of old stained-glass windows worked into a modern design -- the unity of man, god, and the universe -- Abraham Rattner bases the design of a window on the cabala -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index.
Subjects: Synagogue art, American.; Synagogue architecture;
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The letter and the scroll : what archaeology tells us about the Bible / by Currie, Robin,1948-(CARDINAL)183051; Hyslop, Stephen G.(Stephen Garrison),1950-(CARDINAL)395539;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-323) and index.Sumer and Akkad : land of Abraham -- Egypt : Pharaoh's land -- Canaan : the Promised Land -- The united monarchy : Kingdom of David and Solomon -- Israel and Judah : the divided kingdom -- Persia, Greece, and Rome : imperial overlords -- Galilee and Judea : where Jesus walked -- Jerusalem : a land besieged -- Timeline of the ancient Near East.From the Publisher: For 2,000 years and more, the Bible and its precepts have shaped world culture and civilization, whether Judeo-Christian or not. The Bible is a touchstone of religious belief, literary accomplishment, morality, and history unlike any other. Biblical interpretations have changed over the millennia, but the past 100 years have witnessed some of the most important transformations in our perspective, and no recent influence has been greater than archaeology. In the mid-20th century, the unearthing of the Dead Sea Scrolls-to cite just one of many modern finds-deepened our understanding of the Biblical world, its peoples, and their beliefs. Since then, new evidence has appeared-the Tel Dan inscription, the Merneptah Stele, and the Gabriel Revelation-with each revelation providing richer insights into the scriptural narrative and the way these stories were written and handed down, confirming the details of historical events and personages, or clarifying the meaning and chronology of biblical ideas. Meticulous, scholarly, yet always accessible, this is required reading for anyone interested in both Old and New Testaments and the creeds, cultures, and civilizations of ancient Hebrews and early Christians alike.
Subjects: Bible;
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