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TOP PAPERS FROM YOUR NEWSFEED Aren Maeir Bar-Ilan University, Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Faculty Member Participants Booklet for March 2017 Minerva RIAB Center Conference Participants booklet with schedule, abstracts, venue maps and field trip materials for the participants of the 2nd annual conference (March 1-3, 2017) of the Minerva Center for the Relations between Israel and Aram in Biblical Times (aramisrael.org) Download Bookmark Aren Maeir Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Galil, G., Gilboa, A., Maeir, A. M., and Kahn, D., eds. 2012. The Ancient Near East in the 12th-10th Centuries BCE: Culture and History. Proceedings of the International Conference held at the University of Haifa, 2–5 May, 2010. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 392. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag. Download Bookmark Ivan Ladynin Bookmarked by Ellen Morris The Altar from the Temple of Amun at the Baharia Oasis with the Egyptian Royal Names of Alexander the Great. I: Inscriptions of the Monument. The article considers an artifact (a kind of altar-shaped stela), which was found at the temple of Amun in the Baharia Oasis by A. Fakhry (during the excavations of 1930s) and recently published by F. Bosch-Puche (2008). The first part of the article presents a translation and a commentary of the hieroglyphic inscription with the unique Pharaonic name of Alexander the Great containing all five traditional titles and of the Greek inscription on the artifact. Download Bookmark Ivan Ladynin Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Alexander the Great and Cleomenes of Naucratis in an Egyptian Hieroglyphic Source? (On the Interpretation of the Autobiographical Inscription from the tomb of Wennefer at Saqqara) The article proposes an interpretation of the autobiographical inscription from the tomb of Wennefer, son of Painmu, at Saqqara, dating back to the 4th century B.C. This source is preserved in fragments and published only partly. According to its earlier and still undisputed interpretation by Fr. von Kaenel, it describes the adventures of an Egyptian nobleman contemporary to Dynasty XXX; having come to disfavor under Tachos (ca. 361/0-359/8 B.C.), he later went to this king to his army fighting the Persians, appeared somehow at the court of the Great King (Artaxerxes II or III), and, after... Download Bookmark Nanno Marinatos Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Myth, Ritual, Symbolism and the Solar Goddess in Thera The paper analyzes the iconographical program of the building Xeste 3, from Akrotiri, Thera. The main protagonist is the goddess of Minoan Akrotiri who is defined as a solar goddess. On one painting she is shown as wounded and a crocus clearly grows from the wound. The old interpretation of initiation is abandoned. Download Bookmark Nanno Marinatos Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Evans and Solar Religion Download Bookmark James Hoffmeier Bookmarked by Ellen Morris The King as Son of God in Egypt and Israel Download Bookmark Jitse Dijkstra Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Christian Inscriptions from Egypt and Nubia 3 (2015) Download Bookmark Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spanò Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Functional Ethnicity Or, How to Describe the Societies of Ancient Palestine?, UF 47, 2016, 191-203 Social studies and anthropology, based on ethnographical research, take for granted the role of large populous groups in defining ethnicity. Self-definitions of the group, as well as definition by others, are interpreted as the central issues regarding large groups. The paper aims to argue for the key-role of elite groups in self-identification and ethnic creation. Small groups of elite, by defining their own "ethnicity" decided it for larger groups. This hypothesis will be tested and illustrated by test cases of ethnogenesis in Iron Age Palestine. Download Bookmark Gideon Bohak Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Ethnic Stereotypes in the Greco-Roman World: Egyptians, Phoenicians, and Jews Download Bookmark Academia, 251 Kearny St., Suite 520, San Francisco, CA, 94108 Unsubscribe   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service   © 2017 Academia