John Pairman Brown: Israel and Hellas. [I]

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The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world. Author’s Preface Abbreviations and Bibliography (Cumulative) Errata to Vol. I Chapter 10: Men of the Land and the God of Justice 10.1 City, fields, hills 10.2 Cultivated plants 10.3 Domesticated animals 10.4 The crisis of land-tenure 10.5 The poetry of justice 10.6 The personification of justice 10.7 Land transport: the ass and its sacks Chapter 11: The High God and the Elements 11.1 The elements in general 11.2 Thunder and lightning 11.3 Snow and hail 11.4 Rain and dew 11.5 Summary Chapter 12: Divine Kingship, Civic Institutions, Imperial Rule 12.1 Divine kingship 12.2 Structure of the city and dispersal of the king’s power 12.3 Restoration of divine monarchy under Rome 12.4 Christ and Caesar Chapter 13: Archery and its Symbolism 13.1 Technology of the bow and arrow 13.2 The word for “arrows” in ancient languages 13.3 The arrow as bearing poison and pestilence 13.4 The High God’s surrogate as sender of plague 13.5 Lightning and snow as the arrow of the High God 13.6 The bow of the High God in the cloud 13.7 The broken bow 13.8 The bow and the quiver 13.9 The bow and the lyre Chapter 14: The Mediterranean Seer and Shamanism 14.1 Shamanistic traits of the Mediterranean seer 14.2 The birth and death of the seer 14.3 The seer with his torch as rainmaker 14.4 The seer as hibernating and risen bear 14.5 The seer as insightful even in death 14.6 The “witch” of En-Dor, Circe, the Sibyl 14.7 Gergithes and Girgashites Chapter 15: Sacred Space and Time in Israel and Italy 15.1 The amphictyony of twelve peoples 15.2 Eastern connections of the Etruscans 15.3 The formulas of Greek and Phoenician colonization 15.4 The magic circle of the city 15.5 Regeneration of metals in the mine 15.6 The saecula of the city and their portents Chapter 16: The Ark of the Covenant and the Temple of Janus 16.1 Exit to battle, return in triumph 16.2 The ritual declaration of war 16.3 Euocatio 16.4 The crime of Q. Valerius Soranus 16.5 The return of the numen to its home 16.6 The “triumphal entry” of Jesus 16.7 The victor assimilated to the god 16.8 Common features of the “triumphal” procession 16.9 An axe as representing the divinity Chapter 17: Levels of Connection Between Greek and Hebrew 17.1 Summary 17.2 Translation, evident and presumed 17.3 Names of rulers and cities 17.4 The shared vocabulary 17.5 Ethnics and noun-endings 17.6 Old agreements between Semitic and Indo-European Appendix 2: Additions and Corrections Index 1: Words discussed Index 2: Texts cited Index 3: Objects described Index 4: Modern scholars Index 5: General