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Nicky Agate started the topic Job: Contemporary Publishing Fellow at University of Pennsylvania Libraries in the discussion
Academic Job Market Support Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoHello!
The Research Data and Digital Scholarship team at University of Pennsylvania Libraries is looking for a Contemporary Publishing Fellow, reporting to the Assistant University Librarian, Research Data and Digital Scholarship. The incumbent contributes to the team’s efforts to transform the digital publishing landscape by piloting a…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited Which Seth? Untangling some close homonyms from ancient Egypt and the Near East in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThis paper aims to disambiguate the proper name “Seth” and its cognates or homonyms – perfect or imperfect – in texts from ancient Egypt, the Near East and the Mediterranean. It considers: (1) the Suteans, West Semitic Amorite/Aramean nomads who feature negatively in Mesopotamian records; (2) S(h)eth in the Hebrew bible, in which a dispara…[Read more]
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Henry Colburn deposited A Parthian Shot of Potential Arsacid Date in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThis paper publishes a ceramic bowl in the Metropolitan Museum of Art depicting a Parthian shot. Although it lacks archaeological provenance, the bowl can be dated to the 4th to 2nd centuries BCE, and probably comes from northwestern Iran. It is, therefore, one of the few possible instances of a Parthian shot from the Arsacid Empire.
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Gina Konstantopoulos deposited “Migrating Demons, Liminal Deities, and Assyria’s Western Campaigns.” in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoDemons and monsters are inherently moveable creatures: from the late second millennium BCE onwards a number of demons and monsters migrate from their native Mesopotamian contexts, moving westward. Of course, these figures do not remain static throughout their journey, instead acquiring the characteristics of the different cultural contexts wherein…[Read more]
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Henry Colburn deposited Von Silber und Getreide – Zahlungsmittel und Wirtschaft im Achämenidenreich in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoA short essay on the different forms of money used in the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Translated into German by Julia Linke.
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Jonathan Valk deposited A State of Extraction: Navigating Taxation in Ancient Polities in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoAn overview of taxation in ancient states.
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Lloyd Graham deposited The iconography on the Paphos IAEW-amulet may draw upon the apotropaic ‘All-Suffering Eye’ motif in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoThe paper proposes that the Egyptian-style design on a 5-6th century CE magical amulet discovered at Nea Paphos in Cyprus (Inv. no. PAP/FR 44/2011) draws upon an apotropaic design against the Evil Eye known as the “All-Suffering Eye,” which dates back to the time of the early Roman Empire and is common on Byzantine “Holy Rider” medallions. [No…[Read more]
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Christopher Jones deposited New Light on the Assassination of Sennacherib in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis article publishes a new join in SAA 18 100, a letter providing crucial historical detail about the assassination of Sennacherib in 681 BC. Published in Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires no. 2 (June 2019): 88-90.
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Nissa Ren Cannon created the doc Teaching Philosophy for Rhet Comp in the group
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Nissa Ren Cannon created the doc Cover Letter for Rhet Comp in the group
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Christine Mitchell deposited David and Darics: Reconsidering an Anachronism in 1 Chronicles 29 in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis note examines the use of the term “daric” in 1 Chr 29:7 for its ideological purposes, concluding that the anachronism was deployed purposely to signal resistance to imperial rule.
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Ian Wilson deposited Review of ‘Even God Cannot Change the Past’: Reflections on Seventeen Years of the European Seminar in Historical Methodology, ed. Lester L. Grabbe in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoReview of said book.
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Ian Wilson deposited Remembering Kingship: Samuel’s Contributions to Postmonarchic Culture in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoKingship has been a political mainstay in human history, even when peoples have lacked monarchic rulers. This essay examines the book of Samuel as a source for the cultural history of ancient Judah, focusing on the question of how Samuel’s representations of monarchy would function for its readers in the early Second Temple era. In this era, w…[Read more]
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Ian Wilson deposited Ezekiel as a Written Text: Archiving Visions, Remembering Futures in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThis chapter focuses on Ezekiel as a text, i.e., a collection of writings meant to be read again and again. As a text, it presents a range of ideas in dialogue with one another—and sometimes in tension—thus providing ample space for continual discussion and reinterpretation of its ideas among its original communities of readers in antiquity. Eze…[Read more]
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