Biblical Terror: Why Law and Restoration in the Bible Depend Upon Fear

Biblical Terror: Why Law and Restoration in the Bible Depend Upon Fear

Cataldo, Jeremiah W.

For biblical authors and readers, law and restoration are central concepts in the Bible, but they were not always so. To trace out the formation of those biblical concepts as elements in defensive strategies, Cataldo uses as conversational starting points theories from Zizek, Foucault and Deleuze, all of whom emphasize relation and difference. This work argues that the more modern assumption that biblical authors wrote their texts presupposing a central importance for those concepts is backwards. On the contrary, law and restoration were made central only through and after the writing of the biblical texts - in particular, those that were concerned with protecting the community from threats to its identity as the "remnant". Modern Bible readers, Cataldo argues, must renegotiate how they understand law and restoration and come to terms with them as concepts that emerged out of more selfish concerns of a community on the margins of imperial political power.

URI

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37833

Keywords

Theology & Religion; Theology; Religion; Bible Studies; Law and Restoration; Biblical Concepts; Biblical Exegesis

DOI

10.5040/9780567670847

ISBN

9780567670816, 9780567682628

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Publisher website

http://www.bloomsbury.com/academic

Publication date and place

London, 2017

Grantor

• Knowledge Unlatched - 102538 - KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

 

 

The Passion of Max von Oppenheim : Archaeology and Intrigue in the Middle East from Wilhelm II to Hitler

The Passion of Max von Oppenheim : Archaeology and Intrigue in the Middle East from Wilhelm II to Hitler

Lionel Gossman

Born into a prominent German Jewish banking family, Baron Max von Oppenheim (1860-1946) was a keen amateur archaeologist and ethnologist. His discovery and excavation of Tell Halaf in Syria marked an important contribution to knowledge of the ancient Middle East, while his massive study of the Bedouins is still consulted by scholars today. He was also an ardent German patriot, eager to support his country's pursuit of its "place in the sun". Excluded by his part-Jewish ancestry from the regular diplomatic service, Oppenheim earned a reputation as "the Kaiser's spy" because of his intriguing against the British in Cairo, as well as his plan, at the start of the First World War, to incite Muslims under British, French and Russian rule to a jihad against the colonial powers. After 1933, despite being half-Jewish according to the Nuremberg Laws, Oppenheim was not persecuted by the Nazis. In fact, he placed his knowledge of the Middle East and his connections with Muslim leaders at the service of the regime. Ranging widely over many fields - from war studies to archaeology and banking history - The Passion of Max von Oppenheim tells the gripping and at times unsettling story of one part-Jewish man's passion for his country in the face of persistent and, in his later years, genocidal anti-Semitism.

URI

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/55759

Keywords

Nazi history; Jewish history; Germany; anti-Semitism

ISBN

9782821854024

Publisher

Open Book Publishers

Publisher website

https://www.openbookpublishers.com

Classification

Biography and non-fiction prose

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

 

 

Semites, Iranians, Greeks, and Romans: Studies in their Interactions

Semites, Iranians, Greeks, and Romans: Studies in their Interactions

Goldstein, Jonathan A.

This is a collection of several of Goldstein's previously published articles. These articles deal with two themes that have animated much of Goldstein’s scholarly interests, intercultural borrowing and religious resistance to foreign rule. Jonathan Goldstein taught at the University of Iowa for 35 years and passed away in 2004.

URI

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/89288

Keywords

Judaism

DOI

10.1353/book.75476

ISBN

9781951498214

Publisher

Brown Judaic Studies

Publisher website

https://www.brown.edu/academics/judaic-studies/monograph/home

Publication date and place

2020

Classification

Judaism

Judaism

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Orthographic Traditions and the Sub-elite in the Roman Empire

Orthographic Traditions and the Sub-elite in the Roman Empire

Zair, Nicholas

Makes use of digital corpora to give in-depth details of the history and development of the spelling of Latin. Focusses on sub-elite texts in the Roman empire, and reveals that sophisticated education in this area was not restricted to those at the top of society.

URI

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/143013

Keywords

classical languages; ancient history; historical linguistics

DOI

10.1017/9781009327633

ISBN

9781009327633, 9781009327664, 9781009327671

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Publication date and place

2023

Imprint

Humanities

Series

Cambridge Classical Studies, CCS

Classification

Ancient history

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

 

 

Tokens and Social Life in Roman Imperial Italy

Tokens and Social Life in Roman Imperial Italy

 Clare Rowan, University of Warwick 

Tokens are underutilised artefacts from the ancient world, but as everyday objects they were key in mediating human interactions. This book provides an accessible introduction to tokens from Roman Italy. It explores their role in the creation of imperial imagery, as well as what they can reveal about the numerous identities that existed in different communities within Rome and Ostia. It is clear that tokens carried imagery that was connected to the emotions and experiences of different festivals, and that they were designed to act upon their users to provoke particular reactions. Tokens bear many similarities to ancient Roman currency, but also possess important differences. The tokens of Roman Italy were objects used by a wide variety of groups for particular events or moments in time; their designs reveal experiences and individuals otherwise lost to history. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

Online publication date:

November 2023

Print publication year:

2023

Online ISBN:

9781009030434

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009030434

Creative Commons:

This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses

 

Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences: Public Scholarship and the Mediterranean World

Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences: Public Scholarship and the Mediterranean World

Edited By Chelsea A.M. Gardner, Sabrina C. Higgins

 

Edition 1st Edition

First Published 2025

eBook Published 16 March 2025

Pub. Location London

Imprint Routledge

DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032647944

Pages 352

eBook ISBN 9781032647944

This volume brings together specialists from a broad demographic and professional range – academics, museum curators, students, and content creators – to discuss case studies, challenges, and potential future avenues for public scholarship on the history, archaeology, and cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, North Africa and Western Asia.

Together, the contributions promote the creation of inclusive methods of knowledge mobilisation and communication in public spheres across three main areas: cultural heritage, pedagogy and public-facing scholarship. These areas have all been directly affected by Eurocentric structures that have claimed ownership of ancient Mediterranean cultural heritage and have dictated how it has been taught in schools and communicated to the broader public. The volume is divided into three sections – Museums, Teaching and Learning, and Global and Local Projects – each addressing pressing challenges faced within these interrelated fields and offering ways for us to overcome the exclusionary narratives that plague them.

Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences provides an invaluable resource for those interested in public history, from academics to lay audiences, in the fields of Ancient Mediterranean, North African, and Western Asian Studies. The book also appeals to professionals and researchers whose interests lie in public-facing scholarship, pedagogy, digital humanities, decolonisation studies, museum studies and popular media.

The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

Our Collective Responsibility to the Future of the Ancient Past

BySabrina C. Higgins, Chelsea A.M. Gardner

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part Section 1|94 pages

Museums

chapter 1|19 pages

I Will Believe in Art When It Is Made for the People

Teaching with Greco-Roman Copies in Santiago

ByFrances Gallart Marqués

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chapter 2|23 pages

The Unwavering Divide

Collection and Display Practices of Ancient and Medieval African Collections

ByAnnissa Malvoisin

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chapter 3|17 pages

Respect, Recognition, and Rematriation

An Indigenous Egyptian Perspective on Meaningful Public Discourse on the Middle East and North Africa

ByHeba Abd el-Gawad

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chapter 4|18 pages

Indigenising as Anti-Classical? Locating Indigenous Classicisms in and Beyond Museum Frameworks

ByKendall Lovely

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chapter 5|15 pages

Densities of Provenancing

Narrating the Colonial Provenance of the Bay View Collection at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

ByAshton Rodgers

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part Section 2|122 pages

Teaching/Learning

chapter 6|20 pages

The Peopling the Past Project

Multivocality and Multimodality in Ancient Mediterranean Studies Teaching

ByChristine L. Johnston, Sabrina C. Higgins, Megan Daniels, Victoria Austen

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chapter 7|19 pages

Back to Basics

Illuminating the Hidden Curriculum and BIPOC Scholars to Promote a More Diverse and Equitable Field

ByNadhira Hill

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chapter 8|18 pages

The Lux Project

Using Small-Scale Public Scholarship to Reach Local Audiences

ByMelissa Funke, Colton Van Gerwen, Kira Lang, Bourke Karras

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chapter 9|35 pages

Teaching the Ancient World with Reproductions

Using 3D Printed Objects in Authentic Active History Learning

ByChristine L. Johnston, Alan Wheeler, Alexis Nunn, Erin Escobar

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chapter 10|28 pages

Research-Driven Pedagogy and Public-Facing Outcomes

The Antioch Recovery Project 1

ByElla Gonzalez, Danielle Ortiz, Jennifer Stager

Size: 15.03 MB

part Section 3|90 pages

Public Projects, Local and Global

chapter 11|20 pages

Wiki Education, the Ancient Mediterranean Classroom, and the Production of Global Knowledge 1

ByChelsea A.M. Gardner, Victoria Austen

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chapter 12|24 pages

Lasting Impressions

Archaeology and Community Engagement in the Xeros River Valley (Cyprus)

ByFrancesco Ripanti, Giorgos Papantoniou, Athanasios Vionis, Andreas Lanitis

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chapter 13|15 pages

The Database of Religious History and Responsible Global Scholarship

ByGino Canlas, Julian Weidemann, Andrew Danielson, Ian Randall, M. Willis Monroe

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chapter 14|17 pages

Reimagining the Digital Mary Project as a Counter-Practice within/against the Neoliberal University

BySabrina C. Higgins, Aurora E. Camaño, Michael R. Laurence

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chapter 15|12 pages

Public Humanities and the Ancient Mediterranean

A Conversation with Liv Albert of the Let's Talk about Myths, Baby! Podcast, Flora Kirk of Flaroh Illustration, and Megan Lewis of Digital Hammurabi

ByMelissa Funke, Liv Albert, Flora Kirk, Megan Lewis

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New from ISAC: CHDS 5. Unpublished Bo-Fragments in Transliteration IV (Bo 2689–Bo 5660)

CHDS 5. Unpublished Bo-Fragments in Transliteration IV (Bo 2689–Bo 5660) 

by Oğuz Soysal and İsmet Aykut

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This volume continues the systematic edition of the unpublished Bo-texts deposited in the Museum of Ancient Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara. As in previous volumes, the text fragments are presented in both photographs and transliterations, with succinct philological notes explaining particular forms and relevant text variants. Direct joins with fragments in other museums are shown through digital image processing.

Most of the fragments dealt with here are of a religious nature—predominantly ritual, festival, cult inventory, and oracular texts. Two fragments provide additions to the genre of Old Hittite historical texts; a well-preserved tablet exhibiting striking Old Hittite philological features concerns the cult of Zippalanda; and other fragments with the Gurparanzaḫ myth, Hattian songs, and prayers represent further text varieties.

Each text edition is accompanied, wherever possible, by information about its assignment to a Hittite text or text genre, the date of the composition, the fragment's measurements, and previous bibliography.

Table of Contents

Foreword
List of Abbreviations
Texts Bo 2689–Bo 5660
Index of Proper Names
Select Lexical Entries from Bo 2689–Bo 5660
Lexical Citations
Citations from Other Boğazköy Texts
Concordance of the CTH Numbers of Bo 2689–Bo 5660 according to CHDS 5 and the Konkordanz
Concordance of Bo-Texts and CHDS 5 Numbers

• Chicago Hittite Dictionary Supplements 5
• Chicago: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, 2025
• ISBN: 978-1-61491-124-1
• Pp. xiv + 427; 357 illustrations (most color)
• Softcover, 9 x 11.75 in.
• $99.95