Levites and priests in biblical history and tradition

Table of Contents: “…Christian -- The cultic status of the Levites in the Temple Scroll : between history and hermeneutics / Jeffrey Stackert -- From Levite to maśkîl in the Persian and Hellenistic eras / Mark Leuchter.…”


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Ancient civilizations of Africa

Table of Contents: “…Vercoutter -- Egypt in the hellenistic era / H. Riad with the collaboration of J. …”


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Ancient philosophy : a contemporary introduction by Shields, Christopher John

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The history and philosophy of education by Nakosteen, Mehdi, 1905-1982

Table of Contents: “…The Greek theorists : The social and metaphysical foundations of Greek educational theories ; Conservatives, radicals, and middle-of-the-roaders ; The individual-social doctrines of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle -- II. The Hellenistic era : 7. The Middle East and Rome : The Hellenistic era and education ; The academy of Jundi-Shapur ; Classical backgrounds of Muslim learning ; Roman education -- 8. …”


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Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman world : toward a new Jewish archaeology by Fine, Steven

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Understanding the Old Testament. by Anderson, Bernhard W.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction--Israel's sacred history -- pt. 1: The covenant community is formed -- The beginnings of Israel -- The nature of the tradition -- The prologue to the Exodus -- The descent into Egypt -- The oppression in Egypt -- The role of Moses -- Event and interpretation -- Revelation and response -- The contest with the Pharaoh -- The victory at the Red Sea -- The covenant at Sinai -- Covenant and law -- Summary: the Mosaic faith -- The promised land -- Forty years of wandering -- Detour via Transjordan -- The invasion of Canaan -- The land of Canaan -- The Israelite conquest -- The formation of the tribal confederacy -- The struggle between faith and culture -- The temptations of Canaanite culture -- Leaders in crisis -- The decline of the Confederacy -- The last judge of Israel -- pt. 2: Israel becomes like the nations -- The throne of David -- A time of international favor -- Israel's rustic king -- The architect of the Israelite state -- Solomon in his glory -- Israel's national epic -- From tradition to literature -- The Yahwist's epic -- The Yahwist's theology of history -- Primeval history -- The history of the patriarchs -- New horizons of faith -- Prophetic troublers of Israel -- Ecstatic prophecy -- A historian's version of the times -- The divided kingdom -- One prophet against four hundred -- Elijah, the Tishbite -- Elisha and the closing years of the Omri dynasty -- The fall of Northern Israel -- The revolution of Jehu -- The age of Jeroboam II -- The herdsman from Tekoa -- The prophecy of Hosea -- The fall of the Northern Kingdom -- Judah's covenant with death -- The book of Isaiah -- Isaiah's early ministry -- Micah, a rural prophet -- Isaiah's later career -- The rediscovery of Mosaic Torah -- Manasseh, the villain of Judah -- New outbursts of prophecy -- The Deuteronomic reformation -- The book of Deuteronomy -- The renewal of the covenant -- The inner weakness of the Deuteronomic reform -- Habakkuk's watchtower of faith -- Faith and nationalism -- The doom of the nation -- The suffering prophet -- The book of Jeremiah -- In the reign of Jehoiakim -- Jeremiah's confession -- In the reign of Zedekiah -- Beyond the day of doom -- pt. 3: The covenant community is renewed -- By the waters of Babylon -- The Jewish dispersion -- Ezekiel the priest -- Words of lamentation, mourning and woe -- The promise of a new beginning -- Life under captivity -- The preservation of the tradition -- The priestly point of view -- The dawn of a new age -- New world horizons -- The poems of Second Isaiah -- A herald of good tidings -- The creator and redeemer -- A light to the nations -- The servant of the Lord -- Victory through suffering -- The servant and the coming deliverer -- A kingdom of priests -- Cyrus' edict of liberation -- The work of the chronicler -- Zerubbabel, the branch -- Reconstruction under Nehemiah -- Ezra, the father of Judaism -- The law and the prophets -- The beginning of wisdom -- The sage's internationalism -- The sage's individualism -- Wisdom literature in the Old Testament -- The counsel of the wise -- An anthology of Proverbs -- The skepticism of Ecclesiastes -- The book of Job -- From despair to faith -- The voice from the whirlwind -- The personification of wisdom -- The unfilled drama -- Tensions within Judaism -- The Hellenistic era -- The apocalypse of Daniel -- The kingdom of God and the kingdoms of men -- Beyond the Old Testament -- Summary: the Old Testament canon -- Israel's pilgrimage.…”


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Understanding the Old Testament by Anderson, Bernhard W.

Table of Contents: “…The unfinished story -- Tensions within Judaism -- The Hellenistic era -- The evolution of widsom -- The resistance movement -- The apocalpse of Daniel -- The kingdom that is God's -- Beyond the Hebrew Bible -- Israel's pilgrimage.…”


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Know thyself : Western identity from classical Greece to the Renaissance by Rossellini, Ingrid

Table of Contents: “…The birth of the polis ; Sparta and Athens ; Reason, the irrational, and the danger of hubris ; Hesiod and the cosmic origin of the world ; The heroic ideal ; Greek art : reason versus passion ; From mythology to philosophy ; Pythagoras : the divine reason and the immortal soul ; The myth of the rational West versus the irrational East ; Splendor and contradiction of the classical age ; The achievements of theatre, rhetoric, and philosophy ; From Plato to Aristotle : the empowering wisdom of philosophy ; The Hellenistic era -- PART TWO: ANCIENT ROME. The Roman Republic : history and myth ; Augustus and the Empire : the theatre of politics and power ; Augustus's successors ; The decline of the Empire and the rise of Christianity ; Augustine's tale of two cities -- PART THREE: THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES. …”


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The Harper atlas of the Bible

Table of Contents: “…." -- [Section 2] Emergence of Israel: patriarchal traditions -- Abraham's migration -- Wanderings of Abraham and Isaac in Canaan -- Jacob's journey to Haran -- The sale of Joseph and his entry into Egypt -- Daily life in ancient Egypt -- [Section 3] Between Genesis and Exodus: 400 years of Egyptian supremacy -- Egyptian expansion under Tuthmosis III -- Military campaigns of Pharaoh Amenophis II in the Levant -- Ugarit: a centre of trade and influence -- The Amarna tablets and Sethos I's campaigns -- Ramesses II of Egypt in contest with the Hittite empire -- The Levant as seen by an Egyptian scribe -- The campaign of Pharaoh Merneptah -- Canaan's trade with Mycenae and Cyprus -- Changes in the world of Canaan and Israel -- [Section 4] From Egyptian bondage to settlement in Canaan -- Exodus and the wanderings -- The land -- The flora and fauna of the Levant -- Conquests of Joshua in Canaan -- Occupation of the land -- The Philistines -- The heroic age of the judges -- [Section 5] The institution of the monarchy -- The emergence of Iron Age kingdoms of Syro-Palestine -- Mapping biblical narratives -- The kingdom of Saul -- Tombs and burial practices -- David's rise to power -- David's consolidation and expansion of the kingdom -- [Section 6] The imperial age of Solomon -- The economy of Solomon's kingdom -- Technology of food production -- Solomon's building projects -- Temples in Palestine -- Israel's relationships with Phoenicia -- A map of the world from Genesis 10 -- Writing and its uses -- [Section 7] The divided kingdom: Israel -- Division of the kingdom and the campaign of Pharaoh Shishaki -- The dynasty of Omir -- Israel and Moab -- Pagan cults and the practice of religion -- Israel's relations with Aram -- Links between the Bible and world history -- Israel's payments of tribute to Assyria -- Crafts and industries -- Peace and prosperity under Jeroboam II -- Assyrian sovereignty over Israel -- Warfare in the 1st millennium BC -- [Section 8] The divided kingdom: Judah -- The resurgence of Judah's power c. 750 BC -- City planning: the hierarchical order -- Assyrian attacks on Philistia and Judah -- Judah under Hezekiah and Manasseh -- [Section 9] Judah under Babylon -- The end of the Assyrian empire and the rise of Babylon -- The reign of Josiah -- Nebuchadnezzar and the destruction of Jerusalem -- The development of the Bible -- [Part 2] INTER-TESTAMENTAL PERIOD -- [Section 1] The Persian period -- Persia invades the Mediterranean, the Jews begin to look west -- In the days of the Persian empire -- [Section 2] Judah in the Hellenistic era -- The Greeks turn east, Judah in the Hellenistic world -- Institutions of the Hellenistic city -- Egyptian rule in Judah: the reign of the Ptolemies -- The Seleucid empire -- Seleucid rule and Jewish reaction: the Maccabaean fight for religion and country -- Jewish independence: the Hasmonaean monarchy -- [Part 3] NEW TESTAMENT -- [Section 1] Palestine under the Romans -- Rome in the east -- The development of the synagogue -- Roman Palestine -- Herod's kingdom -- Herod the Great's building projects -- The Nabataeans and trade -- The Dead Sea Scrolls and their writers -- [Section 2] The Christian era -- Galilee in the 1st century AD -- The ministry of Jesus -- Jesus's last days -- Roman rule after Jesus -- The Jewish diaspora in the 1st century AD -- Paul's journeys -- Cities of Paul -- The first Jewish revolt -- Non-pauline Christianity in the 1st century AD -- The second Jewish revolt -- The church in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD -- Byzantine Palestine -- Roman Asia Minor -- Historical geography and archaeology.…”


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Canaan and Israel in antiquity : an introduction by Noll, K. L.

Table of Contents: “…Babylonian period (586-539 BCE) ; Cyrus the great, Messiah of Yahweh ; The Persian empire (539-331 BCE) ; The history of Yehud (Persian-era Judah) ; The varieties of Judaisms during the Persian era ; The Hellenistic era (332-63 BCE) ; The Roman period (from 63 BCE) ; The emergence of the Bible.…”


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Money as God? : the monetization of the market and its impact on religion, politics, law, and ethics

Table of Contents: “…Microfoundations of the uses of money / Jürgen von Hagen -- Money and its role in a decentralized market economy / Peter Bernholz -- Mensura et mensuratum : money as measure and measure for money / Wolfgang Ernst -- Standardization and monetization : legal perspectives / Burkhard Hess -- Kohelet and the co-evolution of a monetary economy and religion / Michael Welker -- Money and image : the presence of the state on the routes of economy / Tonio Hölscher -- The social world of Ecclesiastes / Choon-Leong Seow -- The development of monetary systems in Palestine during the Achaemenid and Hellenistic eras / Ulrich Hübner -- Fate's gift economy : the Chinese case of coping with the asymmetry between man and fate / Rudolf G. …”


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A history of education in antiquity by Marrou, Henri Irénée

Table of Contents: “…Isocrates : Isocrates' career; Secondary education ; The teaching of rhetoric ; Its educational value ; The humanism of Isocrates ; Isocrates versus Plato ; The "spirit of finesse" and the geometric spirit ; The two columns of the temple -- Classical education in the Hellenistic age : The civilization of the "paideia" : The present state of the question ; Education the heart of Hellenistic civilization ; Religion of culture -- The educational institutions of the Hellenistic age : Public instruction ; Education of municipal concern ; The Attic Ephebia ; The decline of the Ephebia in the Hellenistic era ; The Ephebia outside Athens ; The ephebic magistrates absence of state schools ; school foundations ; Private schools ; Liturgies and maintenance foundations ; The games and the festivals ; Official sanction -- Physical education : Physical education and sport ; Running ; Long jump ; Throwing the discus ; Throwing the javelin ; Wrestling ; Boxing ; All-in wrestling ("pancratium"); The teaching of gymnastics ; Loosening-up exercises ; The care of the body ; Gymnastics and palestras ; The decline of the gymnastics -- Artistic education : Drawing ; Instrumental music: the lyre ; Choral and accompanied singing ; Dancing ; Decline of music in culture and education -- The primary school : Absence of infant schools ; The governor or pedagogue ; The spread of primary schools ; School buildings ; Status of the master ; The school and education ; Time-table of classes ; School calendar -- Primary education : The reading lesson ; The alphabet ; The syllables ; Words ; Texts and anthologies ; Recitation ; Books, exercise-books and writing-tablets ; Writing ; Counting ; Brutality of discipline -- Literary studies at secondary school standard : The classics ; Homer ; The other classics ; Learned philology and education ; Plan and method of study of the authors ; Reading and recitation ; Explanation of the text ; Moral aspect of the study of the poets ; The science of grammar ; Practical exercises in composition -- Science : The teaching of mathematics ; The ideal of etkykaioeiiaideia ; Geometry ; Arithmetic ; Music ; Astronomy ; Decline of scientific studies ; Aratus and the literary study of astronomy -- Higher education : Lesser forms : The Ephebe's general culture ; The museum and higher scientific education ; Lack of any real technical education ; The teaching of medicine. …”


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The Greek world : a study of the history and culture

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The Greek world a study of the history and culture.

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The Greek world : a study of the history and culture.

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Music in ancient Greece : melody, rhythm and life by Klavan, Spencer A. (Spencer Andrew), 1990-

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