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Ḥorbat Ḥur A-3072/1999, Zohar Daniel Jan 1999

Ḥorbat Ḥur A-3072/1999, Zohar Daniel

Favissa: Past Archaeological Excavation Reports

In June and July 1999, a salvage excavation was conducted at Ḥorvat Ḥor, Neighborhood 1 (Permit No. A-3072; map ref. 193287–557/578321–552; for background and references, see Mamalya 2017), following damage to antiquities caused during road construction. The excavation, undertaken on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority and financed by the Local Council of Hura, was directed by Z. Daniel, with the assistance of F. Sontag, P. Weisslag, A. Vadim (surveying and drafting), H. Lavi (administration), S. Lavi (coin cleaning), Y. Qasabi (artifact illustration), and workers from Ofakim.

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Mazor (El‘Ad) A-3107/1999, Zohar Daniel Jan 1999

Mazor (El‘Ad) A-3107/1999, Zohar Daniel

Favissa: Past Archaeological Excavation Reports

In August 1999, a trial excavation was conducted at the site of El‘ad (Permit No. A-3107/1999; map. ref. 195077–90/662121–32). The excavation, undertaken on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, was directed by Z. Daniel, with the assistance of Y. Nagar (physical anthropology), A. Hajian (surveying and drafting), E. Hadad, R. Badhi, and laborers from Baqa al-Gharbiyye and Umm al-Fahm.

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Mi‘Iliya A-3108/1999, Michel Itah Jan 1999

Mi‘Iliya A-3108/1999, Michel Itah

Favissa: Past Archaeological Excavation Reports

In September 1999, a salvage excavation was carried out at Mi‘iliya (map ref. 2248/7699), under the direction of M. Yattah, in advance of construction work. On the southeastern slopes south of the Crusader wall, a cistern was exposed at a depth of 2 m below the base of the wall.

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Tearing Apart The Zagreus Myth: A Few Disparaging Remarks On Orphism And Original Sin, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii Jan 1999

Tearing Apart The Zagreus Myth: A Few Disparaging Remarks On Orphism And Original Sin, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii

Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship

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An Ovidian Epigraph In Jude The Obscure, Emily A. Mcdermott Jan 1999

An Ovidian Epigraph In Jude The Obscure, Emily A. Mcdermott

Classics & Religious Studies Faculty Publication Series

In part first of Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, the hero undergoes a tragic, if unexceptional, peripeteia. Having set himself idealistically and single-mindedly on the path to intellectual advancement, he is filled with "a warm self-content" at his prospects of moving onward to university study, where his "present knowledge will appear ... but as childish ignorance." Progress toward Christminster, however, is halted abruptly when the innocent Jude Fawley falls prey to Arabella, that "complete and substantial female animal." Suddenly, his Greek New Testament left open but unheeded, he plummets into a sordid spiral of seduction, entrapment, and imprisonment in a …

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An Atypical Affair? Alexander The Great, Hephaistion Amyntoros And The Nature Of Their Relationship, Jeanne Reames Jan 1999

An Atypical Affair? Alexander The Great, Hephaistion Amyntoros And The Nature Of Their Relationship, Jeanne Reames

History Faculty Publications

Most recent Alexander historians - especially those writing after Stonewall - assume that the friendship of Alexander the Great and Hephaistion Amyntoros was not purely platonic.2 Despite this, the names of Alexander and Hephaistion rarely find their way into modem lists of ancient lovers, nor are they much mentioned in studies of Greek homoeroticism3 - perhaps because they fail to fit the model first detailed by K.J. Dover in 1978. This dichotomy is a curiosity of recent specialization in classics. Alexander historians assume the affair while historians of Greek sexuality ignore it. In any case, the matter of …

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The Textual Relation Of The Peshitta Of Ezekiel 1-12 To Mt And To The Ancient Versions (Tg-J And Lxx), Joaquim Azevedo Jan 1999

The Textual Relation Of The Peshitta Of Ezekiel 1-12 To Mt And To The Ancient Versions (Tg-J And Lxx), Joaquim Azevedo

Dissertations

Problem . The dilemma of the Syriac version is its mysterious provenance and the direct relationship it may have to the other versions (particularly G [Septuagint] and CJ [Targum Jonathan]). Thus some scholars have automatically discarded or ignored the Peshitta version as a useful tool (as a textual witness) for the study of the Hebrew text. The knowledge of textual problems, in this case the relationship of S [Peshitta Version] to the ancient versions, is of extreme importance in the analysis and study of the Hebrew Bible. The awareness of G [Septuagint], CJ [Targum Jonathan], and M [Masoretic …

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Review Of: Esther: A Commentary, By Jon D. Levenson, Sidnie White Crawford Jan 1999

Review Of: Esther: A Commentary, By Jon D. Levenson, Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

Jon Levenson's new commentary on the book of Esther is an excellent addition to the Old Testament Library series. Highly erudite yet accessible, this commentary belongs on the shelves of students, clergy, and professional scholars as well as the serious layperson. Levenson's commentary should become one of the "must-haves" in the field of Esther scholarship, and I highly recommend it.

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The "Rewritten" Bible At Qumran: A Look At Three Texts, Sidnie White Crawford Jan 1999

The "Rewritten" Bible At Qumran: A Look At Three Texts, Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

Since the discovery of the Qumran scrolls in the late 1940s and 1950s, certain manuscripts of the collection have been described by the term “Rewritten Bible." This grouping has been rather loosely defined, but the criteria for membership in this category include a close attachment, either through narrative or themes, to some book contained in the present Jewish canon of Scripture, and some type of reworking, whether through rearrangement, conflation, or supplementation, of the present canonical biblical text. Thus, works such as Pseudo-Ezekiel or Pseudo-Daniel would be excluded from the category, since, although thematically related to a biblical text (Ezekiel, …

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Review Of Moses: A Life By Jonathan Kirsch, Sidnie White Crawford Jan 1999

Review Of Moses: A Life By Jonathan Kirsch, Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

Meek and arrogant, mild and unrelentingly harsh, merciful and cruel—Moses is one of the most difficult characters in the Bible. But Jonathan Kirsch, in this readable and well-researched account of Moses the lawgiver, does not shy away from those contradictions; instead, he emphasizes them. In so doing, Kirsch, a book columnist for the Los Angeles Times and also a lawyer, has made accessible one of the great figures of the Bible.

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Review Of The Jewish People In Classical Antiquity: From Alexander To Bar Kochba By John Hayes & Sara Mandell, Sidnie White Crawford Jan 1999

Review Of The Jewish People In Classical Antiquity: From Alexander To Bar Kochba By John Hayes & Sara Mandell, Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

In the last 50 years, our knowledge of the “classical” period in Judea has been growing by leaps and bounds. The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls and other archaeological treasures has provided fresh insight into this era of Greek and Roman domination. As a companion volume to A History of Ancient Israel by John Hayes and J. Maxwell Miller (Philadelphia/London: Westminster/SCM, 1986), this book begins where the former volume left off, with Alexander the Great’s conquest of the ancient Near East in 333/332 B.C.E. It concludes two hundred years later with the Jewish defeat in the Second Revolt against …

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The Fluid Bible: The Blurry Line Between Biblical And Nonbiblical Texts, Sidnie White Crawford Jan 1999

The Fluid Bible: The Blurry Line Between Biblical And Nonbiblical Texts, Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

When the Dead Sea Scrolls were written, no canonical Bible existed. That is, in the two or three centuries before the Roman destruction of the Temple in 70 A.D., there was no one list of sacred books that was considered authoritative. At the same time, there was no clear border between biblical books and nonbiblical books. Rather, different groups of Jews considered different books authoritative, even though all Jews accepted the Torah, or Pentateuch—that is, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. The Torah was, after all, the source of the Law, which provided the underpinning of Jewish ritual and daily …

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Roberto Busa, S.J., And The Invention Of The Machine-Generated Concordance, Thomas Nelson Winter Jan 1999

Roberto Busa, S.J., And The Invention Of The Machine-Generated Concordance, Thomas Nelson Winter

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

This is a story from early in the technological revolution, when the application was out searching for the hardware, from a time before the Internet, a time before the PC, before the chip, before the mainframe. From a time even before programming itself.

Tasman's 1957 prophecy was no shot in the dark. His view of the future was a projection from his recent past. Thomas J. Watson, Sr. had assigned him in 1949 to be IBM liaison and support person for a young Jesuit's daring project to produce an index to the complete writings of St. Thomas Aquinas. First, Tasman's …

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Odysseus And The Phaeacians, Corinne Ondine Pache Jan 1999

Odysseus And The Phaeacians, Corinne Ondine Pache

Classical Studies Faculty Research

Two unique events occur in Book 11 of the Odyssey as Odysseus tells the Phaeacians about his visit to Hades: first, Odysseus includes a story known as the "catalogue of women" that seems to have nothing to do with himself and his own adventures or with anybody else in the Odyssey; second, there is an interruption, known as the "intermezzo," in Odysseus' story, and a conversation takes place among Odysseus, Arete, and Alkinoos before the narrative is resumed. These two occurrences have much to say about the interaction between Odysseus and the Phaeacians, and also about the interaction between …

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Book Review. Roman Law After The Fall Of Rome, David V. Snyder Jan 1999

Book Review. Roman Law After The Fall Of Rome, David V. Snyder

Articles by Maurer Faculty

Review of: Stein, Peter, Roman Law in European History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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Are Ends Subject To Deliberation In Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics? A Reply To David Wiggins, Anthony Crifasi Dec 1998

Are Ends Subject To Deliberation In Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics? A Reply To David Wiggins, Anthony Crifasi

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

We focus upon the difficulties involved in Wiggin's interpretation of deliberation, since these form the basis for his later analyses. Wiggins grounds his thesis that ends are subject to deliberation upon the view that the various virtues are constituents of happiness. As constituents of the ultimate end itself, they would not be ordered to any higher end. Consequently, the virtues would be incommensurable with one another, since conflicts between virtues would not be resolvable in terms of any common end. It is perfectly understandable that under this view the sole arbiter of such conflicts would be “situational appreciation,” as Wiggins …

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Are Ends Subject To Deliberation In Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics? A Reply To David Wiggins, Anthony Crifasi Dec 1998

Are Ends Subject To Deliberation In Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics? A Reply To David Wiggins, Anthony Crifasi

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Conflicts between virtues would not result in the radical incommensurability described by Wiggins (having no common end at all). Such a highest end would by no means be a “universal rule” in the sense criticized by Wiggins in his reply to Allan, since particular circumstances could, as always, affect or prevent altogether the manner and means by which the end would be actualized. The “situational appreciation” of practical wisdom would therefore still play a vital role in the practical actualization of any virtue. Since the benefits of this interpretation include the elimination of radical incommensurability without appeal to universal Kantian …

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Aristotle On Existential Import And Nonreferring Subjects, Scott Carson Dec 1998

Aristotle On Existential Import And Nonreferring Subjects, Scott Carson

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Much contemporary philosophy o f language has shown considerable interest in the relation between our linguistic practice and our metaphysical commitments, and this interest has begun to influence work in the history of philosophy as well. In his Categories and De interpretatione, Aristotle presents an analysis of language that can be read as intended to illustrate an isomorphism between the ontology of the real world and how we talk about that world. Our understanding of language is at least in part dependent upon our understanding of the relationships that exist among the enduring πράγματα that we come across in our …

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Review Of The Dead Sea Scrolls And The Christian Faith, Ed. James H. Charlesworth And Walter P. Weaver, Sidnie White Crawford Dec 1998

Review Of The Dead Sea Scrolls And The Christian Faith, Ed. James H. Charlesworth And Walter P. Weaver, Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

"Do the Dead Sea Scrolls hinder or undermine Christian faith?" James Charlesworth asks in the preface of this volume. The four essays that follow all answer with a resounding "No!" The annual Faith and Scholarship Colloquy at Florida Southern College serves to bring together leading scholars to address the most challenging topics in contemporary biblical studies in a way that speaks to a Christian lay audience. This volume, the fifth in a series, admirably meets that goal.

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Epicurus, Sententia Vaticana Xxiii, Eric A. Brown Dec 1998

Epicurus, Sententia Vaticana Xxiii, Eric A. Brown

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Sententia Vaticana 23, as usually emended, says that every friendship is choiceworthy for its own sake. I argue that this sentence should not be attributed to Epicurus. No other evidence supports the attribution of this view to Epicurus, and much other evidence counts strongly against it. It would be better to reject the emendation, so that the sentence says, in somewhat awkward but not entirely unprecedented Greek, that every friendship is by itself a virtue, or to attribute the emended sentence not to Epicurus but to the later, more timid Epicureans who, according to Cicero, conceded more value to friendship …

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Ways Of Exchange In The Lba Eastern Mediterranean: The Evidence Of Marked Vases, Nicolle E. Hirschfeld Dec 1998

Ways Of Exchange In The Lba Eastern Mediterranean: The Evidence Of Marked Vases, Nicolle E. Hirschfeld

Classical Studies Faculty Research

Thousands of Late Bronze Age vases were traded among the nations of the eastern Mediterranean littoral. At least 900 still preserve marks incised or painted on their handles, bases or bodies. At first sight, the variety of mark-types, the range of vases marked, and the wide dispersal of the marked vessels yields an impression of jumble. But on closer inspection, patterns of marking begin to become evident. The fact that patterns do appear lends credence to the task of trying to discover what those marks might mean.

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Sagp Newsletter 1998-99.3 November, Anthony Preus Nov 1998

Sagp Newsletter 1998-99.3 November, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Announcement of the SAGP panels with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in Washington DC December 28 and with the American Philological Association, also in DC, December 30.

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An Issue Of Methodology: Anakreon, Perikles, Xanthippos, Brunilde S. Ridgway Oct 1998

An Issue Of Methodology: Anakreon, Perikles, Xanthippos, Brunilde S. Ridgway

Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Faculty Research and Scholarship

Standard assumptions about the portrait of Anakreon known through works of the Roman period are here reviewed in light of all available evidence. Pausanias's mention of a statue of the Ionic poet on the Athenian Akropolis has led to extensive conjectures about Anakreon's relationship to Perikles' family and the message such a monument was meant to convey. The possibility is raised that the known portrait was created later than ca. 440, and, more specifically, that the full-body representation now in Copenhagen served the requirements.

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What Saint Paul Really Said: Was Paul Of Tarsus The Real Founder Of Christianity? And Paul: The Mind Of The Apostle: N.T. Wright. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997. Pp. 192. $14.00. A.N. Wilson. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997. Pp. 273. $25.00., Patrick V. Reid Oct 1998

What Saint Paul Really Said: Was Paul Of Tarsus The Real Founder Of Christianity? And Paul: The Mind Of The Apostle: N.T. Wright. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997. Pp. 192. $14.00. A.N. Wilson. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997. Pp. 273. $25.00., Patrick V. Reid

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

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Pursuing Cartesian Virtue, Vance Morgan Oct 1998

Pursuing Cartesian Virtue, Vance Morgan

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

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Frontmatter, Providence College Oct 1998

Frontmatter, Providence College

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

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Roots, Providence College Oct 1998

Roots, Providence College

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

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Taking Diversity Seriously Enough, Philip E. Devine Oct 1998

Taking Diversity Seriously Enough, Philip E. Devine

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

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Providence: Studies In Western Civilization Fall 1998, Providence College Oct 1998

Providence: Studies In Western Civilization Fall 1998, Providence College

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

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Rebel Without A Court: The Pursuit Of Sacred And Secular Power By The Frondeur, Jean-Francois Paul De Gondi (1648-1654), Raymond L. Sickinger Oct 1998

Rebel Without A Court: The Pursuit Of Sacred And Secular Power By The Frondeur, Jean-Francois Paul De Gondi (1648-1654), Raymond L. Sickinger

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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