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Over the past seven decades, the scores of publications on Ugarit in Northern Syria (15th to 11th centuries BCE) are so scattered that a good overall view of the subject is virtually impossible. Wilfred Watson and Nicolas Wyatt, the editors of the present Handbook in the series Handbook of Oriental Studies, have brought together and made accessible this accumulated knowledge on the archives from Ugarit, called 'the foremost literary discovery of the twentieth century' by Cyrus Gordon. In 16 chapters a careful selection of specialists in the field deal with all important aspects of Ugarit, such as the discovery and decipherment of a previously unknown script (alphabetic cuneiform) used to write both the local language (Ugaritic) and Hurrian and its grammar, vocabulary and style; documents in other languages (including Akkadian and Hittite), as well as the literature and letters, culture, economy, social life, religion, history and iconography of the ancient kingdom of Ugarit. A chapter on computer analysis of these documents concludes the work. This first such wide-ranging survey, which includes recent scholarship, an extensive up-to-date bibliography, illustrations and maps, will be of particular use to those studying the history, religion, cultures and languages of the ancient Near East, and also of the Bible and to all those interested in the background to Greek and Phoenician cultures.

Cuneiform inscriptions, Ugaritic --- Ugaritic philology --- Inscriptions cunéiformes ougaritiques --- Philologie ougaritique --- Ugarit (Extinct city) --- Ougarit (Ville ancienne) --- Cuneiform inscriptions, Ugaritic. --- Ugaritic philology. --- 809.25 --- 939.43 --- Ugaritic cuneiform inscriptions --- Ugaritisch --- History Ancient world Syria to 640 --- Ougarit (Extinct city) --- Raʼs Shamrah (Syria) --- Ras Shamra (Syria) --- Ugarit (Ancient city) --- Syria --- Antiquities --- 809.25 Ugaritisch --- Inscriptions cunéiformes ougaritiques

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For the Greek, Dionysos was a very important god: for individuals as well as for the community as a whole. As there are only a few written sources dating from before the 5th Century BC the many images of Dionysos on Greek vases may well offer a genuine approach to the meaning given by the ancient viewer. This book explores the earliest images followed by those on small vases for private use, on mixing bowls of the symposion, on amphoras, on later drinking cups and on archaic sculptures. It gives an overview of Dionysian iconography of the 5th Century BC as well as an overall interpretation. The reader will learn why this god of vine and wine, of theatre and ecstasy, was so important for humans and why he played a key role in the life of the polis. Dionysos war für die Griechen ein Gott von zentraler Bedeutung, sowohl im Leben des Einzelnen wie der Gemeinschaft. Weil vor dem 5. Jahrhundert v.Chr. sehr wenige Schriftzeugnisse existieren, können uns die vielen Darstellungen des Dionysos auf griechischen Vasen am ehesten einen Zugang zu dem vermitteln, was der antike Mensch über ihn dachte. Analysiert werden zuerst die frühesten Bilder, dann jene auf kleinen individuell gebrauchten Vasen, auf grossen, beim Symposion verwendeten Mischgefässen, auf Amphoren, auf den späteren Trinkschalen und schliesslich in der archaischen Skulptur. Das Buch schliesst mit einem Ausblick auf die Bildgeschichte des Dionysos im 5. Jahrhundert volumeChr. und einer umfassenden Deutung. Diese Interpretation hilft zu verstehen, warum Dionysos, der Gott der Rebe und des Weins, des Theaters, der Ekstase, für den antiken Menschen so wichtig war und auch im öffentlichen Leben der klassischen Polis eine so grosse Rolle gespielt hat.

Vase-painting, Greek --- Vases, Black-figured --- Peinture de vases grecque --- Vases à figures noires --- Dionysos (Divinité grecque) --- Themes, motives. --- Thèmes, motifs --- Art --- Dionysus --- Art. --- Dionysus (Greek deity) --- 292 --- 704.947 --- Black-figure vases --- Black-figured vases --- Vases, Black-figure --- Vases, Ancient --- Themes, motives --- Religion Classical Greek and Roman --- Arts Mythology --- Vases à figures noires --- Thèmes, motifs. --- Dionysos, --- Dans l'art --- Greece. --- Bacchus --- Bakchos --- Dionís --- Dionisas --- Dioniso --- Dionīss --- Dionisu --- Dioniz --- Dionizi --- Dionizo --- Dionizos --- Dionüszosz --- Dionysos --- Dionýzos --- Diyonizosse --- Διόνυσος --- Дионис --- ديونيسوس --- 디오니소스 --- דיוניסוס --- ディオニューソス --- 狄俄倪索斯 --- Βάκχος --- Діоніс --- al-Yūnān --- Ancient Greece --- Ellada --- Ellas --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grčija --- Grèce --- Grecia --- Gret͡sii͡ --- Griechenland --- Hellada --- Hellas --- Hellenic Republic --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Kingdom of Greece --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Xila --- Yaṿan --- Yūnān --- Vase-painting, Greek - Themes, motives. --- Vases, Black-figured - Greece - Themes, motives. --- Dionysus (Greek deity) - Art. --- Classics --- Religion in Antiquity --- Classical Studies --- Amphora --- John Beazley --- Krater --- Kylix --- Satyr --- Thèmes, motifs.

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This book, written jointly by two distinguished Qumran scholars, attempts to provide answers to some important questions that have been discussed recently in media reports on the Dead Sea Scrolls, such as: have certain manuscripts been suppressed?; do the manuscripts question substantial aspects of the Jewish and Christian traditions?; do the roots of Early Christianity derive from the Essene movement?; and more. This volume offers solid and up-to-date information on the literary heritage, the social organization and the religious beliefs of the Qumran community and its links with Early Christianity. It gives the reader an opportunity to look behind the scenes of the research of the Dead Sea texts and the ongoing scholarly debate on the origins of the Essene movement and the Qumran sect.

Bible --- Jewish religion --- Essenen --- Essenes --- Esséniens --- Qumran (Communauté) --- Qumran community --- Qumrangemeenschap --- 229*3 --- Christianity --- -Essenes --- Kumran community --- Jewish sects --- Religions --- Church history --- Dode Zeerollen en intertestamentaire literatuur --- Origin --- 229*3 Dode Zeerollen en intertestamentaire literatuur --- Church --- Foundation --- Dead Sea scrolls. --- Jerusalem scrolls --- ʻAin Fashka scrolls --- Jericho scrolls --- Scrolls, Dead Sea --- Qumrân scrolls --- Rękopisy z Qumran --- Shikai bunsho --- Megilot Midbar Yehudah --- Dodezee-rollen --- Kumránské rukopisy --- Documentos de Qumrán --- Textos de Qumrán --- Rollos del Mar Muerto --- Manuscritos del Mar Muerto --- Manuscrits de la mer Morte --- Dödahavsrullarna --- Kumranin kirjoitukset --- Kuolleenmeren kirjoitukset --- Qumranhandskrifterna --- Qumranin kirjoitukset --- Qumran Caves scrolls --- Dead Sea Scrolls --- Criticism, interpretation, etc

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Assyriology. --- Semitic languages. --- Assyriologie --- Langues sémitiques --- Watson, Wilfred G. E. --- Ugarit (Extinct city) --- Ougarit (Ville ancienne) --- Festschrift - Libri Amicorum --- Langues sémitiques --- Assyriology --- Semitic languages --- Afroasiatic languages --- Assyro-Babylonian studies --- Ougarit (Extinct city) --- Raʼs Shamrah (Syria) --- Ras Shamra (Syria) --- Ugarit (Ancient city) --- Syria --- Antiquities