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The All Souls Deuteronomy And The Decalogue, Sidnie White Crawford
The All Souls Deuteronomy And The Decalogue, Sidnie White Crawford
Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications
4QDtn, the All Souls Deuteronomy, is the best-preserved of all the Deuteronomy manuscripts from Cave 4, Qumran. A photograph and partial translation of the manuscript were published by Frank Moore Cross in 1969 in the catalogue "Scrolls from the Wilderness of the Dead Sea." The manuscript consists of four complete columns and two partially damaged columns. Columns 2-6 are one continuous sheet of leather, with a sewn edge on col. 2. Column 1 has two sewn edges and was originally attached to the beginning of col. 2 (the columns were separated in the process of restoration). The manuscript was well …
The Place Of Archery In Greek Warfare, Thomas Nelson Winter
The Place Of Archery In Greek Warfare, Thomas Nelson Winter
Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications
Despite the ancient Greek equivalent of an Agincourt, the Greek military mind firmly retained the heavy infantry, rather than the archers, as the main force. Recognized uses of the archer in Greek warfare were to fend off heights of city walls, to perform commando raids, and to provide covering fire for commando-style operations. This essay, written after a fresh reading of the principle Greek historians, puts together all passages where one can see the ancient Greek archer at work and in his military setting.