Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis Online

The following books are now available online:

Khirbet Qeiyafa in the Shephelah: Papers Presented at a Colloquium of the Swiss Society for Ancient Near Eastern Studies Held at the University of Bern, September 6, 2014. Edited by: Schroer, Silvia; Münger, Stefan (2017). Fribourg, Switzerland / Göttingen, Germany: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Nocquet, Dany R (2017). La Samarie, la Diaspora et l'achèvement de la Torah: Territorialités et internationalités dans l'Hexateuque. Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Rückl, Jan (2016). A Sure House: Studies on the Dynastic Promise to David in the Books of Samuel and Kings. Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Schütte, Wolfgang (2016). Israels Exil in Juda: Untersuchungen zur Entstehung der Schriftprophetie. Fribourg, Switzerland / Göttingen, Germany: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Laws of Heaven – Laws of Nature : Legal Interpretations of Cosmic Phenomena in the Ancient World / Himmelsgesetze – Naturgesetze. Rechtsförmige Interpretationen kosmischer Phänomene in der antiken Welt. Edited by: Schmid, Konrad; Uehlinger, Christoph (2016). Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press Fribourg.
Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis. Edited by: Uehlinger, Christoph; Bickel, Susanne; Römer, Thomas C; Schwemer, Daniel (2016). Fribourg, Göttingen: Academic Press Fribourg, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Bonfiglio, Ryan P (2016). Reading images, seeing texts: towards a visual hermeneutics for biblical studies. Fribourg: Academic Press.
Colères et repentirs divins: Actes du colloque organisé par le Collège de France, Paris, les 24 et 25 avril 2013. Edited by: Durand, Jean-Marie; Marti, Lionel; Römer, Thomas (2015). Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Barthélemy, Dominique (2015). Critique textuelle de l'Ancien Testament Tome 5: Job, Proverbes, Qohélet et Cantique des Cantiques. Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Handel als Medium von Kulturkontakt: Akten des Interdisziplinären altertumswissenschaftlichen Kolloquiums (Basel, 30.–31. Oktober 2009). Edited by: Wasmuth, Melanie (2015). Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Making the Biblical Text: Textual Studies in the Hebrew and the Greek Bible. Edited by: Himbaza, Innocent (2015). Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Jaques, Margaret (2015). Mon dieu qu'ai-je fait? Les diĝir-šà-dab(5)-ba et la piété privée en Mésopotamie. Fribourg: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Heintz, Jean-Georges (2015). Prophétisme et Alliance: Des Archives royales de Mari à la Bible hébraïque. Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Tabou et transgressions: Actes du colloque organisé par le Collège de France, Paris, les 11-12 avril 2012. Edited by: Durand, Jean-Marie; Guichard, Michaël; Römer, Thomas (2015). Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
von der Osten-Sacken, Elisabeth (2015). Untersuchungen zur Geflügelwirtschaft im Alten Orient. Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
A "Religious Revolution" in Yehûd?: The Material Culture of the Persian Period as a Test Case. Edited by: Frevel, Christian; Pyschny, Katharina; Cornelius, Izak (2014). Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Morenz, Ludwig D (2014). Anfänge der ägyptischen Kunst: Eine problemgeschichtliche Einführung in ägyptologische Bild-Anthropologie. Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Comment devient-on prophète? Actes du collque organisé par le Collège de France, Paris, les 4-5 avril 2011. Edited by: Durand, Jean-Marie; Römer, Thomas; Bürki, Micaël (2014). Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Edith Porada: zum 100. Geburtstag. Edited by: Bleibtreu, Erika; Steymans, Hans Ulrich (2014). Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Göttliche Körper – Göttliche Gefühle: Was leisten anthropomorphe und anthropopathische Götterkonzepte im Alten Orient und im Alten Testament? Edited by: Wagner, Andreas (2014). Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Michel, Patrick M (2014). Le culte des pierres à Emar à l'époque hittite. Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Skarabäen des 1. Jahrtausends: Ein Workshop in Münster am 27. Oktober 2012. Edited by: Lohwasser, Angelika (2014). Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Transformation of a Goddess: Ishtar - Astarte - Aphrodite. Edited by: Sugimoto, David T (2014). Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Braun-Holzinger, Eva Andrea (2013). Frühe Götterdarstellungen in Mesopotamien. Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Zawadzki, Stefan (2013). Garments of the Gods Vol. 2: Texts. Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Asher-Greve, Julia M; Westenholz, Joan Goodnick (2013). Goddesses in Context: On Divine Powers, Roles, Relationships and Gender in Mesopotamian Textual and Visual Sources. Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Thompson, Richard Jude (2013). Terror of the Radiance: Aššur Covenant to Yhwh Covenant. Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Roberson, Joshua Aaron (2013). The Awakening of Osiris and the Transit of the Solar Barques: Royal Apotheosis in a Most Concise Book of the Underworld and Sky. Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
All the Wisdom of the East: Studies in Near Eastern Archaeology and History in Honor of Eliezer D. Oren. Edited by: Gruber, Mayer; Aḥituv, Shmuel; Lehmann, Gunnar; Talshir, Zipora (2012). Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Altorientalische Studien zu Ehren von Pascal Attinger: mu-ni u4 ul-li2-a-aš ĝa2-ĝa2-de3. Edited by: Mittermayer, Catherine; Ecklin, Sabine (2012). Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Wälchli, Stefan H (2012). Gottes Zorn in den Psalmen: Eine Studie zur Rede vom Zorn Gottes in den Psalmen im Kontext des Alten Testamentes und des Alten Orients. Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Béré, Paul (2012). Le second Serviteur de Yhwh: Un portrait exégétique de Josué dans le livre éponyme. Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Les vivants et leurs morts: Actes du colloque organisé par le Collège de France, Paris, les 14-15 avril 2010. Edited by: Durand, Jean-Marie; Römer, Thomas; Hutzli, Jürg (2012). Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Klagetraditionen: Form und Funktion der Klage in den Kulturen der Antike. Edited by: Jaques, Margaret (2011). Fribourg: Academic Press Fribourg.
Le jeune héros: Recherches sur la formation et la diffusion d'un thème littéraire au Proche-Orient ancien (Actes du colloque organisé par les chaires d’Assyriologie et des Milieux bibliques du Collège de France, Paris, les 6 et 7 avril 2009). Edited by: Durand, Jean-Marie; Römer, Thomas; Langlois, Michael (2011). Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Langlois, Michael (2011). Le texte de Josué 10: Approche philologique, épigraphique et diachronique. Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Bambi Kilunga, Godefroid (2011). Prééminence de YHWH ou autonomie du prophète: Etude comparative et critique des confessions de Jérémie dans le texte hébreu massorétique et la "Septante". Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Seitenblicke: Literarische und historische Studien zu Nebenfiguren im zweiten Samuelbuch. Edited by: Dietrich, Walter (2011). Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Petter, Donna Lee (2011). The Book of Ezekiel and Mesopotamian City Laments. Fribourg / Göttingen: Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions (CSAI)

http://dasi.humnet.unipi.it/index.php?id=42&prjId=1&corId=0&colId=0

The ASA (Ancient South Arabian) corpus is one of the most interesting collections of epigraphic documents of the Semitic world, first and foremost for its vastness. With its over 15,000 inscriptions, it is the first-hand, written documentation of the culture that flourished in South Arabia from the late second millennium BC to the sixth century AD. At present, CSAI contains a collection of some 7,500 texts digitized by the team of the University of Pisa directed by A. Avanzini.

Thursday, May 18, 2017

A New Concordance of the Pyramid Texts

James P. Allen has announced the publication of a concordance of the Egyptian Pyramid Texts. Files are available from a public Dropbox:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0xo88uy04urnz0v/o16_ojF8f_

Here's more info from AWOL:
THIS CONCORDANCE was prepared as the basis for a new study of the lexicon, orthography, and grammar of the Pyramid Texts. It contains all currently available instances of Pyramid Texts from the pyramids of Unis to those of Pepi II’s queens. Where possible, the texts have been scanned from photographs (Unis) or published facsimiles, each sized to a width of 8.9 mm (0.35 in); I am grateful to Élise Bène for permission to use the facsimiles of Teti’s texts that she prepared for her doctoral dissertation. Where no facsimile was available, I have used the hand copies published by Sethe, sometimes rearranged to avoid excessively large signs or gaps between signs; I have also reversed Sethe’s consistent left-facing lines when the original faces right. The Merenre fragments published in Orientalia are rendered in normalized hieroglyphs. 
In place of the sequential column numbers used by Sethe and Jéquier for each pyramid, I have used the convention inaugurated by Leclant, where each column is numbered according to its location in the pyramid; for conventions, see the “Occurrences of Pyramid Texts,” below. Parentheses are used to indicate text beginning within a column rather than at the top. 
The texts are arranged by Sethe’s spell numbers (Sprüche); parentheses indicate a spell that continues over more than one page. I have appended letters in cases where Sethe assigned a single number to what was subsequently revealed to be more than one spell: for example, PT 71A–D. I have also assigned new spell numbers, marked by an asterisk (PT *704–*806), to texts not numbered by Sethe, where these are either substantially preserved or have a known location in the pyramid. In place of Sethe’s paragraph numbers (Pyr.), I have numbered the lines of each spell larger than a single line sequentially, usually corresponding to Sethe’s paragraph numbers; the latter are given in small type below the corresponding sequential number: thus, for example, PT 50.1, corresponding to Sethe’s Pyr. 37b. An asterisk following a sequential number (or Sethe’s Pyr. number, where no sequential number has been assigned) signals a textual note, found on the same page. 
The texts of each spell are arranged chronologically from left (earliest) to right (latest). For passages with discernible revisions on the wall, the original text is presented in normalized hieroglyphs to the left of the final version, with the column headed by the same siglum plus a prime (Sethe’s älterer Text) or, for instances of two revisions, a double prime (Sethe’s ältester Text): for instance, PT 509.3 (Pyr. 1120c), with Pʺ to the left of Pʹ, to the left of P. In a few cases where Sethe’s publication shows signs not preserved in the facsimile, I have added these in normalized hieroglyphs in a column to the right, headed “Sethe.” 
I hope that this concordance, and its conventions, will prove useful to scholars of the Pyramid Texts. At a minimum, it combines the two volumes of Sethe, the four of Jéquier, and the one of Leclant’s MAFS, into a single source. In particular, however, I hope it will ease the current confusion in numbering, replacing the quadruple system of Sethe, T.G. Allen, Faulkner, and new MAFS numbers by a single, coherent system. I have decided to abandon Sethe’s Pyr. numbers for three reasons. First, the latter do not immediately reveal to which spell they belong. Second, a system of revised Pyr. numbers, such as that used in my Inflection of the Verb in the Pyramid Texts, becomes unwieldy in cases where a large amount of text has been discovered since Sethe’s publication; an example is PT 698A, to which Sethe assigned Pyr. 2176 but which turns out to have thirty-three lines, necessitating Pyr. numbers from 2176a to 2176ee in Sethe’s system. Third, because my sequential numbers do not continue beyond a single spell, they can be easily revised if new text is discovered for spells currently preserved only in fragments. 
This concordance is being made freely available via the internet in the hope that it will prove useful to scholars of the Pyramid Texts. It is divided into six volumes (PDF files) to make for easier downloading. This initial volume contains a list of all currently available occurrences and a transcription of spells (numbered and unnumbered) and major fragments. 
This is by no means a final edition. The texts from the pyramids of Teti, Pepi I’s queens, and Merenre still await full publication, and a true facsimile edition of those from the pyramids of Pepi II and his queens is also needed. As new sources become available, I will add them to the CorelDraw files that are the basis of this concordance. More than a century and a quarter after they were first discovered by Maspero, the Pyramid Texts remain a work in progress.
Providence, 2013

Friday, May 12, 2017

Yale University's Babylonian Collection



http://babylonian-collection.yale.edu/



From the home page:

In 1910, he inaugural Laffan Professor of Assyriology, Albert T. Clay, founded the Yale Babylonian Collection, which today comprises over 45,000 items, including cuneiform tablets, cylinder seals, and other artifacts, as well as a complete reference library, seminar room, work space for visiting scholars, casts of major monuments, and digitization facilities. It is the largest collection of textual material from ancient Mesopotamia in North America and ranks among the leading collections in the world.