From: owner-ane@ (ANE Digest) To: ane-digest Subject: ANE Digest V1997 #24 Reply-To: Sender: owner-ane@ Errors-To: owner-ane@ Precedence: bulk ANE Digest Friday, January 31 1997 Volume 1997 : Number 024 ane Heiroglyphics in ascii ane Quotation Re: ane the Seth-animal ane the Seth-animal ane Are you still a youngster Re: ane the Seth-animal Re: ane the Seth-animal ane addresses ane Tomb of Kai ane the Seth Animal ane Ancient strange explanations for hieroglyphic spellings ane midwives and mourners Re: ane Apiru, Shosu + other wandering groups [none] Re: ane source of quotation ane midwives & mourners ane Okeanos: new interdisciplinary web site ane Midwest SBL\AOS\ASOR Meeting Schedule ane in the news/pei ane Address request ane Hagdud Truncations ane great site about newly opened Egyptian tomb. (fwd) ane new mammals ane adress-query Re: ane midwives and mourners ane Hieroglyphics on the computer Re: ane Apiru, Shosu + other wandering groups ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 09:12:53 GMT From: "A.Appleyard" Subject: ane Heiroglyphics in ascii Stephen Fryer wrote:- > For hieroglyphics, the standard I like myself ... Basically, the hieroglyphs > are all represented by their "Gardiner number" (the alphanumeric catalogue > number from the sign list in Gardiner's Grammar) separated by either a space > or a hyphen.... This system is OK for a computer but tends to be unclear for humans reading the text. Why not invent a standard short name for each heiroglyph? e.g. `egvult' for the aleph; `vulture' for the "Gyps fulvus" vulture used (I think) to represent "Maat"; `birth' for the {m-s} sign, and so on? With the code numbers, it is all too easy to change one heiroglyph into another by mistyping one letter or number - as sometimes happens in the number coding systems used sometimes for sending Chinese by telegraph. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 04:31:26 EST From: "Dr. Ronald H. Sack, History" Subject: ane Quotation The Mari letter in question is translated in Jorgen Lassoe"s People of Ancient Assyria, p. 48. (London, Routledge Kegan Paul) At least I got the book right. Ron Sack History NCSU Ronald_Sack@ncsu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 11:01:21 +0000 (GMT) From: "N.C. Strudwick" Subject: Re: ane the Seth-animal On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Matt Underwood wrote: > An interesting story came from Sohag last month that some animals > resembling the Seth creature had been attacking livestock. One had been > killed and was on display in a shop there. > > I only report what was told me by a friend from Sohag, and only as best I > can remember the tale. This is something I nearly put in my Luxor notes, as there are stories circulating there, particularly in the Armant area. The animal is called a Salawa. There is a Salawa Information Centre in Armant, which was visited by John and Debbie Darnell from Chicago House, and they acquired some photos, which I saw. Apparently several have been killed, but at least one was caught, although how long it would survive is debatable. It is like a dog with a heavier than usual muzzle and longer ears. It isn't a hyaena, but comparisons have been made with the Seth animal. Rumours are circulating that it has eaten people etc, although these are almost certainly exaggerated. Articles about it appeared in the local press. One idea was that it is an animal which usually is found further out in the desert, but haman actions in the desert, like making probes for the suggested Aswan-Oases canal, may have caused it to come closer to the Valley. Nigel Strudwick ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 05:11:44 -0600 From: Katherine Griffis Subject: ane the Seth-animal On Wed, 29 Jan 1997 16:37:57 GMT. "A.Appleyard" stated on Subject: ane the Seth-animal: >Without seeming strange, could I put in my $0.02 worth re what the Set-animal >might have been? All the other Egyptian gods that I know of that are animals >or animal-headed, are from real animals. I suspect that the Set-animal was the >aardvark. Its tail and head and general conformation are about right. Actually, this has been suggested before, mainly from its face and snout alone. The main problem with the aardvark is the usual representations of the Seth animal show an almost *saluki-like* body, elongated neck, squared ears, a rounded "snout", and (the most odd feature) a skinny, seemingly hairless tail, with a forked effect on the end giving it an "inverted arrow" look. The aardvark certainly looks *nothing* like this. I have also seen references to the *okapi* (a gazelle like creature that eats the flora of the wild), which can account for the neck and possibly, body style on the whole, but does not have the ears, tail or *snout* of the Seth animal. <> > a representation of a Chaos >Bringer. It lacks such impressive features as the majesty of the lion or >crocodile or hippopotamus, or the quick lethalness of the cobra, to encourage >prople to worship it as a god, but would mostly be treated as a 100% nuisance >to be killed whenever found, and by early dynastic times was extinct in Egypt. Well, it's not clear that, in fact, all such *Seth creatures* were extinct by that period, and still begs the question of *why* it was seen as such a powerful creature to have been given *equal* status in the founding of Egypt, at least from the mythological side. Were it such a *nuisance* and abhorred, I think it would have ended up as artistically reprehensible as the demon *Ammut* (an amalgamated creature with the face of a crocodile, body of a hippo, which is often spotted like a leopard, and wearing a green and black-striped "wig", which ate the damned souls who did not meet the "weighing of the heart" within the Halls of Judgement), or of the Great Serpent Apep, which guarded the gates of Amduat. Both of these images were considered *powerful* enough to be "kept in check" with other representations of knives and other *obstructions* to prevent their images from gaining power in the representations. These animals were feared and abhorred **throughout** Egyptian civilization in ancient times, while the Seth creature was not always so castigated. For example, the Seth creature is shown (as a deity) drawing together the papyrus and lotus bundles (emblems of Upper and Lower Egypt, respectively, in unification) along with Horus (either as son of Isis/Osiris, or as Horus the Elder), guiding the boat of Ra, and performing other *real functions* within the pantheon of gods that accounted for necessary actions within Egyptian religion. There are indications, also, that his cult flourished throughout history, and *may be seen* at the highest levels during the early reigns of the Old Kingdom, and later, possibly within the reigns of Seti I and Ramses II in the New Kingdom, with Seti being named *for the god*, for example. Not exactly the activities and accolades one associates with "demonic and chaotic" creatures, but then, the Egyptians were known for their love of duality in all things. His popularity seemed to rise and fall more from *political and cultural* activity/acceptance than actual revulsion at the god's activities, and in the core of Egyptian religion, he never lost his position as a major and necessary god to the Osiris myths (he is one of the original 4 gods of Geb and Nut that work with mankind (in the beginning), for example, along with Isis, Osiris, and Nephthys), and in the concepts of kingship (The Contendings of Seth and Horus). In reality, while the Seth creature *may be* an amalgamation animals as Ammut, the images of this creature don't seem to suggest it. I suspect that it was *some form of desert creature* (Seth being associated with the desert, primarily) that was some form of predator or of powerful aggression, as opposed to the jackal, say, which is a scavenger animal, and is fierce only when cornered. Perhaps a form of boar, which can be somewhat bad-tempered and aggressive: this has been suggested, and has some plausibility. I only throw out that animal as a *possible* alternative: I don't necessarily *endorse it* as the Seth-creature. Regards -- Katherine Griffis (Greenberg) Member of the American Research Center in Egypt University of Alabama at Birmingham Special Studies grifcon@mindspring.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 97 13:22:00 PST From: "B.E.J.H. Becking" Subject: ane Are you still a youngster The quotation is from the Mari letters, ARM vol. 1 no. 61:10-11 "Are you still a youngster? Is there no hair on your cheeck?" The phrase is also found in other Mari letters. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 97 13:13:00 GMT From: n.doyle1@genie.com Subject: Re: ane the Seth-animal Reply: Item #0412303 from NCS3@HERMES.CAM.AC.UK@INET# on 97/01/30 at 06:01 Re the Salawa. . . Has anyone properly identified (e.g., genus and sp.) this animal? The heavier muzzle and longer ears makes it sound a little like a Cape hunting dog (_Lycaon pictus_). This, of course, just being a wild guess. - -- Noreen Doyle Graduate Student Nautical Archaeology Program, TAMU Member: INA, EES, ARCE, SFWA n.doyle1@genie.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 13:41:38 GMT From: "A.Appleyard" Subject: Re: ane the Seth-animal On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Matt Underwood wrote: > An interesting story came from Sohag last month that some animals resembling > the Seth creature had been attacking livestock. ... "N.C. Strudwick" replied:- > ... The animal is called a Salawa. There is a Salawa Information Centre in > Armant, which was visited by John and Debbie Darnell from Chicago House, and > they acquired some photos, which I saw. Apparently several have been killed, > but at least one was caught, although how long it would survive is > debatable. It is like a dog with a heavier than usual muzzle and longer ears > ... This seems important, a new species of large animal in a well-explored area. How much are biologists chasing this up? How big is the Salawa? Where is Armant? Any biological etc scientific paper references re the Salawa? If it has a long thin snout like the Seth heiroglyphic, perhaps it is to probe into small animal burrows after prey. // // // _____ ___ _______________________ / / / \ / \/ __||__ \____________________________/ / /___ | | \ x=(______) \___________|__ / /O | | | \ |=| | =|=====> | \/ | |__/| | \/==| | _________________||_____|__ \ \__/ | |\ \ /|_____|______/ \ \ \\=============\ \/ \ \ \___/===\ \ A.Appleyard, E28d, UMIST, Manchester Univ\ \ \ \ UK. a.appleyard@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk \\ ______________\ \ \\ ===--| | \\ ===--|____________________/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 15:07:06 -0100 From: vaillant@monza.u-strasbg.fr (Vaillancourt, Denyse) Subject: ane addresses I made my best on several netfinders but could not locate the following persons, either address or email. Who can help me? Herr Thomas Schattner author of the Griechisch Hausmodelle (MDAI 1990); Leftaris Platon, archaeologist at Zakro in Creta; Rudolf Echt in Saarbr=FCcke. Many thanks in advance. Please reply off list. Denyse Vaillancourt URA 1557 Palais universitaire 67084 Strasbourg cedex t=E9l. 03 88 25 97 76 fax 03 88 35 65 23 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 97 14:07:00 GMT From: n.doyle1@genie.com Subject: ane Tomb of Kai Has the Tomb of Kai, mentioned in the recent Reuter's report, been published in any form yet? I'd also be much obliged if someone could tell me who has done the excavation. Thanks in advance. - -- Noreen Doyle Graduate Student Nautical Archaeology Program, TAMU Member: INA, EES, ARCE, SFWA n.doyle1@genie.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 09:29:10 -0500 From: "Kenneth J. Stein" Subject: ane the Seth Animal I heard stories of a similar animal in the Dikirnis-Zagazig-El Mansoura area several years ago while doing research. The animal was said to have attacked people and animals--while we were in the area. At that time I suspected this was the Egyptian version of the Sasquatch. When will the pictures be made available to the public? Thank you. Ken Stein ____________________________________ Kenneth J. Stein, Ph.D. Fish and Wildlife Information Exchange Dept. of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences Virginia Tech 205B Washington St. Blacksburg, VA 24060 http://www.fw.vt.edu/fishex/ (540) 231-7348 voice (540) 231-7019 fax ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 14:24:41 GMT From: "A.Appleyard" Subject: ane Ancient strange explanations for hieroglyphic spellings Gardiner's book quotes such wrong ancient explanations for hieroglyphic spellings as "`open' is spelt with `hare' (w-n) because the hare always keeps its eyes ". Such talk has a clear purpose: as aid-memories to help scribes to remember spelling. Over centuries of having to avoid ambiguities in hieratic, it was gradually worked what words to spell with which 2-consonent or 3-consonant phonetic signs. That caused so many arbitrary spelling rules that scribe-teachers were forced to invent such folk-etymologies as the one quoted above to help new scribes to learn how to spell. ------------------------------------------------------------------ A.Appleyard : a.appleyard@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 09:00:11 -0600 From: dcbenjam@txnet.net (Don C. Benjamin) Subject: ane midwives and mourners I am doing some work on the roles of midwives and mourners in the world of the Bible. I consider the work of these women to be comparable. I would be interested in a discussion of resources, especially for the anthropology of mourners. I would also be interested in what you think of the possibility that hymns like those in the book of Psalms are originally the traditions with which midwives celebrate birth, and that the laments are the traditions with which mourners celebrate death. Don C. Benjamin, Ph.D. Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 10:10:38 -0500 (EST) From: Paul Sodtke Subject: Re: ane Apiru, Shosu + other wandering groups On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, Dieter Wolfgang Schmidt wrote: > To post another one of my trivia questions: > Does the term "Shosu" apply only to Beduins or also to other > Wandering Groups, such as the historical Hebrews prior to their > settlement. I am surprised that I have not seen any response to this on the ane list. Since I'm not an Egyptologist, I can only point you to one reference that seems reliable to me: Donald Redford, _Egypt, Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times_ discusses "Shasu" in a number of places, especially pp. 269 ff. R. interprets the term to be very close to our term "bedu" (p. 271). "Shasu are found in Egyptian texts from the 18th Dynasty to the Third Intermediate Period ... lists from Soldeb and Amarah, ultimately of fifteenth century origin, suggest an original concentration of Shasu settlements lay in southern Jordan in the plains of Moab and northern Edom." (p. 272). At the same time, "several corridors took these nomads on a seasonal basis for pasturage, service and brigandage into other parts of the eastern Mediterranean." (p. 273). Redford clearly considers it highly probable that the Israelites (or perhaps one should say their ancestors) were included in the groups that the Egyptians labelled "Shasu." Paul - ------------------------------------------ Paul Sodtke Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations University of Toronto psodtke@chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~psodtke ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 97 17:29:38 -0000 (B+2) From: Jonathan "D." Safren Subject: [none] January 31, 1997 CALL FOR PAPERS The Center for Jewish Holiday Studies at Beit Berl College is pleased to announce the Second International Congress on Jewish Holiday Studies, to be held at the Beit Berl College Campus on July 12-17 1998. The Congress will be dedicated to the Jubilee Year of the State of Israel. You are invited to present a paper at the Congress in one of the following areas of research (the Organizing Committee is open, of course, to suggestions for additional areas): 1. Holidays and Festivals in the Biblical Period 2. Holidays and Festivals During Second Temple Times 3. Holidays and Festivals During the Period of the Mishna and Talmud 4. Holidays and Festivals from the Middle Ages through the Renaissanc 5. Holidays and Festivals in Modern Times 6. Holiday Folklore and Folk Customs 7. Holidays in Literature, Drama, and Art 8.Holiday and Festival Liturgy 9. Jewish Holidays and Festivals in the Church Papers should be limited to 15-20 minutes to allow time for discussion. Three of the five days of the Congress will be dedicated to lectures; the remaining two to guided tours of sites of interest to Congress participants. Please submit paper proposals and all requests for additional information to: Dr. Yosef Roth-Rotem Director Center for Jewish Holiday Studies Beit Berl College 44905 Beit Berl Post Office Israel Tel. (972)-(9)-7478396 e-mail: intmoed@beitberl.ac.il and/or to: Dr. Jonathan D. Safren Department of Biblical Studies Beit Berl College 44905 Beit Berl Post Office Israel e-mail: yonsaf@beitberl.beitberl.ac.il Rabbi Yehoram Mazor Tel. (972)-(9)-7440177 Ezra Shaprut Tel. (972)-(9)-7440784 Jonathan D. Safren Dept. of Biblical Studies Beit Berl College 44905 Beit Berl Post Office Israel e-mail: yonsaf@beitberl.beitberl.ac.il Tel.: (972)-(9)-906396 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 11:22:40 -0800 (PST) From: Jorge Silva Subject: Re: ane source of quotation I sent yesterday a message giving the quotation. I see it didn't get its destination. The quotation is ARMT (Archives Royales de Mari - -Transcription et treaduction) Vol. I, texte 61, lines 10 - 11. On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Izak Cornelius wrote: > Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 10:31:39 -0500 > To: ane@oi.uchicago.edu > From: Dave Aiken > Subject: ane source of quotation > Reply-to: Dave Aiken > > I am trying to locate the source of the following quotation (which I think > is from an ancient letter, either Mesopotamian or Egyptian): > > "You're not a man! You haven't a beard on your chin!" > > Thank you for any help you may be able to give. > > David Aiken > Editor, Academic and Reference Books > Baker Book House > daiken@bakerbooks.com > http://www.bakerbooks.com > > > THE TEXT IS ARM I, 61;10 ff. (from the royal Mari archives), a letter > from king Shamshi-Adad to his son Iasmakh-Adad.Translation in S. > Dalley, Mari and Karana, London, 1984, p. 33. [not in Oppenheim's > Letters] > > Best wishes from the Cape of Good Hope at 33 degrees C., > > > IZAK CORNELIUS > Department of Ancient Near Eastern Studies > UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH, PRIVATE BAG X1 MATIELAND ZA-7602 > SOUTH AFRICA > TEL:(021) 8083203; 8083210 > FAX: (021) 8083480 > E-mail: ic@semt.sun.ac.za > HOMEPAGE: http://www.sun.ac.za/local/academic/onos/home.html > (also includes the homepage of the Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages) > > "Old Professors never die, they only lose their faculties" > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 15:15:52 -0800 From: "K. C. Hanson" Subject: ane midwives & mourners Don Benjamin wrote: >I would also be interested in what you think of the possibility that >hymns like those in the book of Psalms are originally the traditions >with which midwives celebrate birth, and that the laments are the >traditions with which mourners celebrate death. Don, My first question is: why limit the use of the biblical hymns to childbirth--as opposed to a wide and diversified use in home, shrine, and temple at various feasts, rituals, etc. for praise? What lexical indicators would you identify that would lead us to limit them in this way? Secondly, I would say that form critically the book of Psalms includes no laments. The true laments that we have are in other books: e.g., 2 Samuel 1:19-27 and Lamentations. What commentators have traditionally identified as "laments" in the Psalms are form critically "complaint psalms". The important distinction between them is that laments express grief over situations which are "fatal"--e.g., the destruction of Jerusalem, the death of Saul and Jonathan. Complaint songs (alternatively, "supplications" or "petitionary psalms") cry out for help, rescue, justice, healing, etc., and anticipate God's redemptive response (then celebrated in the TODAH psalms). Erhard Gerstenberger was the first one to make this distinction to my knowledge. Besides his FOTL commentary on the Psalms, you might want to look at his DER BITTENDE MENSCH (Habilitationsschrift orig. 1970, but I think a later pub. date). I would also suggest Frank Cr"usemann's STUDIEN ZUR FORMGESCHICHTE VON HYMNUS UND DANKLIED IN ISRAEL (1969) for the hymnic side. Peace, K. C. Hanson ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ kchanson@creighton.edu Creighton University Omaha, NE 68178 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 15:14:41 -0500 From: snoegel@ruf.rice.edu (Scott Noegel) Subject: ane Okeanos: new interdisciplinary web site Announcing a new online interdisciplinary resource for Classical, Biblical, and Ancient Near Eastern Studies called "Okeanos." http://www.ruf.rice.edu:80/~snoegel/okeanos.html The site contains links to general information in these disciplines, as well as on-line Bibles, textual, photographic, project, and translation resources, bibliographies, scholarly contact information, museums, atlases, course aids, archaeological sites, exhibits, and reports, journals, centers, organizations, job listing links, and more. If you know of a link that you feel would suit the list and do not see it on the Okeanos, please feel free to send it to me. Thank you for listening, Scott Noegel ______________________________________________________________________________ Prof. Scott B. Noegel Department of Religious Studies MS-15 Rice University 6100 S. Main Street Houston, TX 77005-1892 Office phone: 713-527-8750 X3244 Dept. phone: 713-285-5201 Facsimile: 713-285-5486 http://www.ruf.rice.edu:80/~snoegel/ http://www.lightlink.com/offline ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 16:09:59 CST From: "Bob Haak" Subject: ane Midwest SBL\AOS\ASOR Meeting Schedule You are invited to attend the February 16-18th meetings of the Midwest SBL\AOS\ASOR to be held at Wheaton College. Anyone needing further information may contact me at rehaak@augustana.edu. The schedule of the meetings follows: 1997 PROGRAM FOR THE JOINT MEETING OF THE MIDWEST REGION OF THE SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE THE MIDDLE WEST BRANCH OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY THE AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH -- MIDWEST February 16-18, 1997 co-sponsored by Wheaton College Billy Graham Center College Aveneue at Chase Street Wheaton, Illinois SUNDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 16 2:45-5:45 PM Pre-Meeting Session, BGC 138 Chair: Robert L. Mowery, Illinois Wesleyan University Chicago Society of Biblical Research 2:45-5:45 CSBR Sessions (non-members invited to attend) Lowell K. Handy -- Loyola University, Chicago Biblical Bronze Age Memories: The Abraham Cycle as Usable Past Lucinda Buck Alwa -- Little Prairie United Methodist Church, Little Prairie, Wisconsin Disclosure of the Sacred Through Poetic Memory Christopher R. Hutson -- Saint Xavier University, Chicago Was Timothy Timid? 2 Timothy 1:7 as Philosophical Exhortation 5:45-7:00 CSBR Dinner (non-members invited to attend; pay at the door) Cafe Wheaton SUNDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16 6:00-8:00 PM Registration, BGC Foyer 7:00-9:20 PM Plenary Session, BGC Wilson Suite Late Bronze Age Symposium Chair: Gordon D. Young -- Purdue University 7:00-7:10 Gordon D. Young, Welcoming Remarks and announcements 7:10-7:40 William G. Dever, University of Arizona The Late Bronze Age in Palestine: Current Archaeological Issues 7:40-8:10 Anson F. Rainey, Tel Aviv University The Amarna Letters: A Late Bronze Age Phenomenon 8:10-8:25 Short Break 8:25-8:55 Pierre Bordreuil, C.N.R.S. After Twenty Years of Researches on the Ugarit Kingdom: Results and Reflections about the Future 8:55-9:25 Michael C. Astour, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville RDMN/Rhadamanthys and the Concept of Selective Immortality 9:25-10:30 PM Wheaton College Reception Billy Graham Center MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17 8:00-10:00 AM Registration continues, BGC Foyer 8:00 AM-5:30 PM Publisher Displays, BGC Wilson Suite B&C Session 1: Special ASOR Session, Barrows Auditorium 9:00-9:45 Richard L. W. Cleave Rohr Productions LTD Satellite Imagery: A New Visualisation Tool for use in Introductory Courses on the Bible 9:50-12:00 AM First Round of Papers Session 2-A: AOS Session #2, Barrows Auditorium Chair: Keith N. Schoville -- University of Wisconsin, Madison 9:50-10:20 Wayne T. Pitard -- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The Ugaritic Tablets Digital Edition: A Preliminary Report 10:20-10:50 Bruce Zuckerman -- University of Southern California The Impact of Computer Imaging Technology on the Study of Northwest Semitic Epigraphy 10:50-11:00 Coffee Break, BGC Foyer 11:00-11:30 Peter T. Daniels -- University of Chicago Semitic Letter Order: Some Implications of some New Evidence 11:30-12:00 Eleanor Guralnik -- Chicago Proportions of Assyrian Sculpture from Khorsabad Session 2-B: SBL Session #1, BGC Wilson Suite D Chair: Jeffrey A. D. Weima, Calvin Theological Seminary 9:50-10:20 David A. de Silva -- Ashland Theological Seminary Honor Discourse in the Socio-Rhetorical Strategy of Matthew's Gospel 10:20-10:50 Douglas L. Penney -- Wheaton College "My name is Legion for we are myriad": Mark 5:9 and Psalm 91:7 10:50-11:00 Coffee Break, BGC Foyer 11:00-11:30 Paul G. Bretscher -- Valparaiso University "The Governor's Ears" 11:30-12:00 Edward Engelbrecht -- Trinity Evangelical Luth Ch. God's Milk Session 2-C: SBL Session #2, BGC 138 Chair: Joseph Kissling, Great Lakes Christian College 9:50-10:20 David Merling -- Andrews University The Book of Joshua: Its Structure and Meaning 10:20-10:50 Heidi M. Szpek -- University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Achsah's Story: A Metaphor for Societal Transition 10:50-11:00 Coffee Break, BGC Foyer 11:00-11:30 Lowell K. Handy -- Loyola University of Chicago Gideon's Boys: A Case of Literary Plannned Obsolescence 11:30-12:00 Timothy F. Simpson -- St. Ambrose University Paradigm Shift Happens: Intertextuality and a Reading of 2 Sam 16:5-14 12:00-1:30 PM Lunch Break MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 17 1:00-3:00 PM Registration continues, BGC Foyer 1:00-3:00 PM Second Round of Papers Session 3-A: AOS Session #3, Barrows Auditorium Chair: Peter T. Daniels, University of Chicago 1:30-2:00 Douglas Frayne -- University of Toronto Campaigns in the Lands of Kima and Huwurtum 2:00-2:30 Heerak Kim -- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Mesha Inscription Reconsidered: Moabite and Diachronic Study of Biblical Hebrew 2:30-3:00 Bastiaan Van Elderen -- Calvin Theological Seminary The Excavation of an Early Christian Monastery in Wadi Natrun: The 1995 and 1996 Seasons Session 3-B: SBL Session #3, BGC Wilson Suite D Chair: David A. de Silva, Ashland Theological Seminary 1:30-2:00 Russell B. Sisson -- Murray State University Why Paul Defends his Right to Solicit Support: Remuneration and the Social Role of the Apostle 2:00-2:30 Troy Martin -- Saint Xavier University Putting Nothing in its Places (Gal 4:12) 2:30-3:00 Jeffrey A. D. Weima -- Calvin Theological Seminary An Apology for the Apologetic Function of 1 Thess 2:1-12 Session 3-C: SBL Session #4, BGC 138 Chair: David Merling, Andrews University 1:30-2:00 Joseph Kissling -- Great Lakes Christian College Narrative Readings of the Hebrew Bible 2:00-2:30 Sun Myung Lyu -- University of Wisconsin-Madison Reflection of Northern Vocable in LXX Psalter 2:30-3:00 Lawrence A. Sinclair -- Carroll College Reid A. Bryson -- Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison Preliminary Results of JointHistorical and Climatological High Resolution Modeling of E. Mediterranean -- Jerusalem and Palestine 3:00-3:15 PM Coffee Break, BGC Foyer 3:15-5:25 PM Third Round of Papers Session 4-A: AOS Session #4, Barrows Auditorium Chair: Ronald A. Veenker, Western Kentucky University 3:15-3:45 James K. Hoffmeier - Wheaton College Egyptian Foreign Policy in Canaan in the 18th Dynasty (LB I) 3:45-4:15 Michael Hasel -- Roseville, MI Egyptian Military Activity in the Southern Levant During the Late Bronze/Early Iron Age Transition: Retrospect and Prospect 4:15-4:25 Coffee Break, BGC Foyer 4:25-4:55 David Schloen -- The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago False Dichotomies in the Study of Late Bronze Age Society 4:55-5:25 Frank J. Yurco --University of Chicago Egypt's Foreign Policy in the Levant During the Ramesside Age Session 4-B: SBL Session #5, BGC Wilson Suite D Chair: Lowell K. Handy, Loyola University of Chicago 3:15-3:45 John Schmitt -- Marquette University The City as Woman in Isaiah 1-39 3:45-4:15 Walter L. Michel -- Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago Did God or Job Repent? 4:15-4:25 Coffee Break, Hallway 4:25-4:55 Michael V. Fox -- Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison The Vocabulary of Folly in the Hebrew Bible 4:55-5:25 Mayer Gruber -- Ben-Gurion University Gen 21:12 A New Reading of an Ambiguous Text Session 4-C: SBL Session #6, BGC 138 Chair: Troy Martin, Saint Xavier Univ. 3:15-3:45 Martin C. Albl -- Marquette University "Humble and Riding on a Donkey": Assessing Symbolic Actions and Historical Jesus Research 3:45-4:15 Karl A. Kuhn -- Marquette University The 'One Like a Son of Man' Becomes the 'Son of God': The Aramaic Apocalypse (4Q246) and Luke 1:31-35 in the Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition of the Heavenly Redeemer 4:15-4:25 Coffee Break, BGC Foyer 4:25-4:55 John Hobbins -- Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison Another Look at Salvation within History in Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic: The Example of 2 Baruch and other Apocalyptic Works of the 'Imperial Period' 4:55-5:25 Stephan Davis -- Marquette University Primordial Wisdom, Eschatological Word: The Eternal Torah and Paul MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17 6:00-6:45 PM Reception, Anderson Commons Dining Hall, South Party Room 6:45-7:55 PM Presidential Banquet, Anderson Commons Dining Hall, South Party Room 7:55-8:00 PM Short Break 8:00-9:00 PM Presidential Address, Fellowship Hall Chair: Richard E. Averbeck Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Ronald A. Veenker -- Western Kentucky University The Fabulous Talking Snake TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 18 8:30-9:30 AM Registration continues, BGC Foyer 8:00 AM-12:00 PM Publisher Displays, BGC Wilson Suite B&C 8:15-9:00 AM Joint SBL/AOS Annual Business Meeting, NE Dining Hall 9:00 AM-12:00 PM Fourth Round of Papers Session 5-A: AOS Session #5, Barrows Auditorium Chair: Wayne T. Pitard, Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign 9:00-9:30 Douglas Frayne -- University of Toronto The Old Babylonian Kingdom of Marad-Kazalluk 9:30-10:00 Timothy P. Harrison - Oriental Institute, University of Chicago Late Bronze Age Madaba: The View from the Frontier 10:00-10:15 Coffee Break, BGC Foyer 10:15-10:45 David Merling -- Andrews University Tell Jalul 1996 Session 5-B: SBL Session #7 9:00-10:00 BGC 272 Chair: Carol Stockhausen, Marquette University Student Award Winner, NT/Christian Origins Elizabeth Ann Schechter -- Indiana University Taming the Desert with Scripture: The Domestication of Asceticism in Palladius' Historia Lausiaca 9:00-10:00 BGC Wilson Suite D Chair: Robert D. Haak, Augustana College Student Award Winner, OT/ANE Studies Angela Roscop -- Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison Enuma Elish: A Close Reading of Conflict 10:00-10:15 Coffee Break, BGC Foyer Session 6-B: SBL Session #8, BGC Wilson Suite D Chair: Robert D. Haak, Augustana College 10:15-11:15 Panel on the Chicago Translation of the Bible Project Moderator: Pauline A. Viviano, Loyola University Panelists: Robert Jewett, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary Michael Fox, University of Wisconsin-Madison David Scholer, Fuller Theological Seminary 11:15-11:45 Kevin P. Sullivan -- University of Michigan "Who is Like God?": A Study of the Angel Michael in in the Dead Sea Scrolls 11:45-12:15 Jorge Valdes -- Loyola University-Chicago Recclaiming the Lost Tradition: Jimenez and Spanish Biblical Scholarship REHAAK@AUGUSTANA.EDU ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 18:21:43 -0500 (EST) From: David Meadows Subject: ane in the news/pei Having been admonished on two lists publically and privately, allow me to don sack cloth and ashes, remove them and be tarred and feathered, remove them and be flogged with a wet noodle, and then ascend the Spanish steps on my knees with two pieces of 80 grit sandpaper attached to them (rough side to skin, of course) for my misattribution of the god is in the details quotation -- I guess I've pretty much shot my chance at divinity. dm (who is probably also mistaken about a t.v. commercial making the attribution to Pei) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 18:54:47 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gross Subject: ane Address request Greetings, Does anyone know if Stefan Beyerle of Bonn University has an e-mail address (and if so, what it is)? thank you, andrew gross Dept. of Hebrew and Judaic Studies New York University ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 15:48:19 +1100 (EST) From: Mandy.Mottram@anu.edu.au (Mandy Mottram) Subject: ane Hagdud Truncations Dear All Does anyone out there have a copy of, or access to a copy of, the 1987 article by Bar-Yosef, Gopher and Nadel entitled: 'The "Hagdud truncation" - A new tool type from the Sultanian industry at Netiv Hagdud, the Jordan Valley.' Mitekufat Haeven (Mitequfat Ha'even) 20: 151-157? I am having difficulty getting hold of this serial here and would really appreciate it if someone could send me either a hardcopy or electronic version of the article. Also, would anyone know if anything more recent has been written on this artefact type other than what has appeared in excavation reports? All replies off-list please. Many thanks Mandy Mottram Department of Archaeology and Anthropology The Faculties Australian National University ACT. 0200 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 23:52:15 -0500 (EST) From: "Holly An' Oyster" Subject: ane great site about newly opened Egyptian tomb. (fwd) I'm not sure if this has been posted yet... I believe it is for the tomb of Kai mentioned recently. Holly ===================================================================== "We work hard. Archaeology is mostly a sore back and aching fingers. The romance gets into it afterward, when the newstape boys write their stories." --Robert Silverberg, *Across a Billion Years* ===================================================================== Holly An' Oyster Department of Classics SUNY-Buffalo oyster@acsu.buffalo.edu 712 Clemens Hall H(716)885-3788 - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- This is on CNN's site, so it's probably temporary. Great pictures and movies.. It's at: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9701/29/egypt.tomb.reut/index.html jay ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 23:33:01 -0600 From: Peter Daniels Subject: ane new mammals Nature encyclopedias generally say that all the world's mammals have been described and classified, but one in a very rare while an unknown species is discovered--I believe there was a new kind of horse in Southeast Asia not too long ago. So an unknown critter is not beyond the realm of possibility. For it to be a Cape hunting dog (presumably from South Africa?), it would either have to be an escaped captive specimen, or else an explanation would have to be found for how it could have made its way through a very unadaptive rainforest to get from southern to northern Africa. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 07:56:22 -0800 From: "Knud W. Skov" Subject: ane adress-query Hello Does anyone know of the e-mail adress for Gunnar Lehmann, Berlin/Jerusalem - or have any knowledge of the Association of European Archaeologists in Jerusalem If anyone have a clue where I can get in touch with Prof. Klaus Koch in Hamburg - then your answer will be received with gratitude. Yours Knud W. Skov M.Theol/editor of TEL (membermagazin for the Danish Society of Biblical Archaeology) 71 B,3. East Farimagsgade DK - 2100 Copenhagen East DENMARK - EUROPE Tel/Fax: +45 35 43 79 11 sba-dk@post3.tele.dk / kwskov@hotmail.com - ----------------------------------------- Take a look at the following homepage: The Danish Society of Biblical Archaeology - in Danish (http://www.cybercity.dk/drivein/kw/sba.html) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 09:04:29 +0200 (IST) From: avigdor horovitz Subject: Re: ane midwives and mourners Dear Don, I doubt what you have to say, but here are some tips. The closest thing to a childbirth hymn we have is Hannah's prayer in I Samuel 2, although there will be many who will say that the hymn is inserte secondarily. Nonetheless, even if an insertion and even if it originated elsewhere it would indicate what a biblical editor or author thought should be said about a birthing woman. There may be relevant Akkadian material. There is a recent book by Farber on the Eisenbrauns' Mesopotamian Civilations series about lulabies. Tehre is also a book by Vantisphout (?) (or is it Vogelsang?) in the Styx series called the "Cow of Sin" which has birthing hymns. These extra-biblical sources may give you hints concerning what to look for in a Psalm that would characterise it as a midwife's hymn or prayer. YOu also might try looking at the birth of Marduk in Enuma-elish I and the creation of mankind in Atrahasis to see what midwives and wet-nurses might be expected to say on such occasions. I remember reading a few years ago an article by Othmar Keel (in BAR?) about the uterine shaped (Hathor) headrests found in burial caves. He claims on their basis that death was considered rebirth. If he is right, this could give you a push for your attempt to equate burial practice and birthing practices. Victor Hurowitz On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Don C. Benjamin wrote: > I am doing some work on the roles of midwives and mourners in the > world of the Bible. I consider the work of these women to be comparable. > > I would be interested in a discussion of resources, especially for > the anthropology of mourners. I would also be interested in what you think > of the possibility that hymns like those in the book of Psalms are > originally the traditions with which midwives celebrate birth, and that the > laments are the traditions with which mourners celebrate death. > > > > Don C. Benjamin, Ph.D. > Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 08:17:19 GMT From: "A.Appleyard" Subject: ane Hieroglyphics on the computer Is there a hieroglyphic typesetter program for PC's? Either as a clip-on for Word for Windows and/or Word Perfect, or as a separate program that can output the text as a graphics file which Word for Windows and Word Perfect can input as a picture? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 09:34:58 GMT +100 From: "Niels Peter Lemche" Subject: Re: ane Apiru, Shosu + other wandering groups >From Paul Sodtke: I am surprised that I have not seen any response to this on the ane list. Since I'm not an Egyptologist, I can only point you to one reference that seems reliable to me: Donald Redford, _Egypt, Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times_ discusses "Shasu" in a number of places, especially pp. 269 ff. R. interprets the term to be very close to our term "bedu" (p. 271). "Shasu are found in Egyptian texts from the 18th Dynasty to the Third Intermediate Period ... lists from Soldeb and Amarah, ultimately of fifteenth century origin, suggest an original concentration of Shasu settlements lay in southern Jordan in the plains of Moab and northern Edom." (p. 272). At the same time, "several corridors took these nomads on a seasonal basis for pasturage, service and brigandage into other parts of the eastern Mediterranean." (p. 273). Redford clearly considers it highly probable that the Israelites (or perhaps one should say their ancestors) were included in the groups that the Egyptians labelled "Shasu." Paul Alas this is one of the weaker points in Redford's book, which I like very much. But is is certainly correct that an element of so-called Shasu (and/or Sutu to name the Akkadian equivalent) would have been present in the Iron Age population of Palestine - Israelite or not (to keep away from the biblical discourse). A source to the transition period in the Negev would be Israel Finkelstein, Living on the Fringe, which was published by Sheffild University Press late in 1995 or at the beginning of 1996. His subject is exactly nomadism and the development of Iron Age culture in southern Palestine, and he is generally superbly informed. NPL Niels Peter Lemche Dep. Biblical Studies University of Copenhagen Phone: 45 49 13 81 24 Fax: 45 49 13 81 28 e-mail: npl@teol.ku.dk ------------------------------ End of ANE Digest V1997 #24 *************************** Back issues are available on the Oriental Institute World-Wide Web (WWW) site at: http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/ANE/OI_ANE.html