CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring Regions: Case Studies on Archaeological Data, Objects, Texts, and Digital Archiving. Digital Biblical Studies 2. Edited by Vanessa Juloux, Amy Gansell, and Alessandro di Ludovico. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Pp. xxviii + 458 + illustrations + maps. Open Access (digital).

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 345-348
Author(s):  
Tiffany Earley-Spadoni
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Near East ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Ancient Near East ◽  
Digital Archiving ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Data Objects

scholarly journals Vanessa Bigot Juloux, Amy Rebecca Gansell, Alessandro Di Ludovico (eds.), Cyberresearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring Regions. Case Studies on Archaeological Data, Objects, Texts and Digital Archiving, Leiden–Boston, Brill 2018 (Digital Biblical Studies, 2), XVIII + 458 PP., ISBN 9789004346741 (PBK) – 9789004375086 (EBK)

2019 ◽  
pp. 297-303
Author(s):  
María Luisa RODRÍGUEZ
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Near East ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Ancient Near East ◽  
Digital Archiving ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Data Objects

Review of:Vanessa Bigot Juloux, Amy Rebecca Gansell, Alessandro Di Ludovico (eds.), Cyberresearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring Regions. Case Studies on Archaeological Data, Objects, Texts and Digital Archiving, Leiden–Boston, Brill 2018 (Digital Biblical Studies, 2), XVIII + 458 PP., ISBN 9789004346741 (PBK) – 9789004375086 (EBK)

Intersections between Iconographic and Gendered Approaches to Biblical Interpretation

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 320-341
Author(s):  
Brian Charles DiPalma
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Near East ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Ancient Near East ◽  
Visual Images

This paper explores the intersections between two approaches to biblical interpretation: iconographic and gendered approaches. Focusing on the ways that visual images from the ancient Near East have been incorporated in studying gender in the Hebrew Bible, I identify four intersections. These examples demonstrate that participating in an iconographic turn is an important way that gender studies in the Hebrew Bible can develop. I also seek to show that the interactions can be mutually fruitful. In other words, including gender as an area of inquiry is a way that the iconographic turn itself can develop in biblical studies.


Regime Change in the Ancient Near East and Egypt

2007 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Regime Change ◽  
Near East ◽  
Ancient Near East ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
History Of ◽  
Early Islamic

The manner in which government practices and personnel survive the violent disruption of regime change is an issue of current relevance, yet it is a subject that has largely been ignored by modern scholarship. These chapters, covering more than 4,000 years of history, discuss the continuity of administration and royal iconography in successful changes of regime in Egypt, Mesopotamia and Iran. Recurring patterns are identified in ten case studies, ranging from late third millennium Mesopotamia to early Islamic Egypt. A summary of the recent history of Iraq suggests that these regularities have lessons for modern geopolitics.

scholarly journals Contact Languages of the Ancient Near East – Three more Case Studies (Ugaritic-Hurrian, Hurro-Akkadian and Canaano-Akkadian)

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Andrason ◽  
Juan-Pablo Vita
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
Near East ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Ancient Near East ◽  
Theoretical Studies ◽  
Source Codes ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Dynamic Phenomena ◽  
Mixed Languages

This article describes and analyzes three situations of linguistic contact in the Ancient Near East, taking as its staring point three theoretical studies on contact languages which have been developed recently: the framework of mixed languages (Bakker and Matras, 2013; Meakins, 2013), the theory of written language contact (Johanson, 2013) and the approach to contact among genetically related languages (Epps, Huehnergard and Pat-El, 2013a). The authors argue that the contact systems selected for this article (Ugaritic-Hurrian, Hurro-Akkadian and Canaano-Akkadian), although distinct from the grammatical and sociolinguistic perspective, can all be viewed as expressions of the same dynamic phenomena, where each variety of mixing corresponds to a different stage of a universal continuum of languages in the situation of merger. Consequently, they can be located along the universal cline of mixing: Ugaritic-Hurrian matches the initial stage of intermingling, Hurro-Akkadian reflects gradually more intense blending, and Canaano-Akkadian corresponds to the phase of a profound fusion of the two source codes. By examining and comparing the three cases of mixing, the authors introduce new insights to the general discussion on mixed languages, written language contact and relevance of genetic relation in language intermingling, thus corroborating and/or refining certain hypotheses and propositions that have previously been formulated within the latest theoretical studies.

Conclusion: A New Path Forward

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua A. Berman
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Near East ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Ancient Near East ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Hebrew Scriptures ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
Over Time

The conclusion argues that to renew the field of Pentateuchal criticism—indeed, the historical-critical paradigm in biblical studies more broadly—historical-critical scholars will need to adopt three new priorities in their work. The first is an epistemological shift toward modesty in our goals and toward accepting contingency in our results. The second is a far greater understanding of the rhetorical and compositional practices of the ancient Near East as we adduce notions of what constitutes a fissure in a text and how the biblical texts grew over time. Finally, scholars will need to ground their compositional theories in a new level of linguistic and stylistic analysis, which is now available through the recently launched Tiberias Project: A Web Application for the Stylistic Analysis and Categorization of Hebrew Scriptures, directed by the author of the book, Joshua Berman, and the computational linguist, Moshe Koppel.

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