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TOP PAPERS FROM YOUR NEWSFEED ERNST WENDLAND Stellenbosch University, Ancient Studies, Faculty Member INTRODUCTORY HEBREW GRAMMAR by RL Harris Download Bookmark Johannes Preiser-Kapeller Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Harbours and Maritime Networks as Complex Adaptive Systems – a Thematic Introduction published in: Harbours and Maritime Networks as Complex Adaptive Systems, ed. by Johannes Preiser-Kapeller​ and Falko Daim. Verlag des Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum​ 2015, 152 p. http://www.schnell-und-steiner.de/artikel_8560.ahtml?NKLN=12_RSA This paper provides an introduction into the concepts of complexity theory and of network analysis and their usage for the analysis of phenomena of maritime history. After an outline of characteristics of complex systems, the interplay between social and environmental factors for the selection, development, maintenance or abandonment of... Download Bookmark Assaf Yasur-Landau Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Yasur-Landau, A. 2017. Non-scribal communication in the Southern Levant during the Middle and Late Bronze Ages. In: Jasink, A.M., Weingarten, J. and Ferrara, S. eds. Non-scribal Communication Media in the Bronze Age Aegean and Surrounding Areas (Periploi 9). Firenze: 207-220. Abstract: In contrast to the cultures of Egypt, Syro-Mesopotamia and even the Aegean, the 2nd millennium BCE culture(s) of the southern Levant did not use script frequently.Cuneiform or Egyptian Hieroglyphs were never used for regular administrative purposes in the Canaanite palaces. The use of alphabet, although present from the beginning of the Middle Bronze Age, was exclusively limited to short inscription of personal commemoration. In this reality the non-scribal modes of communications had several interesting roles in sending messages of personal statements (of ownership?) as well as... Download Bookmark Gregory Marouard Bookmarked by Nicolas Grimal Tell Edfu 2016 - OI Annual Report 2016-2017 - 158-167 Download Bookmark Khaled Hassan Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Kh. Hassan, New Literary Compositions of the scribe Amunnakhte son of Ipuy A study of Hieratic Ostracon in the Egyptian Museum of Cairo, SAK 46, 2017, p. 101-111, Pls. 7-8. The present paper deals with an interesting Ramesside literary hieratic ostracon, HO. Cairo 425, 2 stored in the basement of the Egyptian museum in Cairo. Unfortunately its provenance is unknown, and the catalogues of the museum have no certain information concerning its exact find spot. Nevertheless, based on the Palaeography of the text and the scribe's signatures, i. e. Amunnakhte, on bothsides; this ostracon could safely came from Western Thebes e. g. Deir el-Medina or Valley of the Kings. Particularly, most of the administrative and literary compositions that... Download Bookmark Michele R Buzon Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Strontium Isotope (87Sr/86Sr) Variability in the Nile Valley: Identifying Residential Mobility During Ancient Egyptian and Nubian Sociopolitical Changes in the New Kingdom and Napatan Periods (by Michele R. Buzon and Antonio Simonetti) Download Bookmark Eugenia Loizou Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Late Bronze Age Harbours in the Aegean. Towards another theoretical approach Download Bookmark Ashkhen Zakharyan Bookmarked by Kasia Szpakowska Bibliography on Akhenaten and Nefertiti Download Bookmark Pere Junyent Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Oracles, Ancestor Cults and Letters to the Dead: The Involvement of the Dead in the Public and Private Family Affairs in Pharaonic Egypt Download Bookmark Bas ter Haar Romeny VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Arts, Faculty Member Isaiah in Context: Studies in Honour of Arie van der Kooij on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday The present volume contains a collection of essays on the Book of Isaiah offered as a tribute to Arie van der Kooij on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, which coincides with his retirement as Professor of Old Testament at Leiden University. The twenty-four contributions, written by leading scholars in the field of Old Testament studies, focus on the Book of Isaiah within the context of Hebrew and ancient near-eastern writings, particularly those from the Neo-Assyrian period, as well as on the book's reception history , particularly in its Greek and Syriac translations. Together... Download Bookmark Academia, 251 Kearny St., Suite 520, San Francisco, CA, 94108