From: ane-digest-owner@oi.uchicago.edu To: ane-digest@oi.uchicago.edu Subject: Ancient Near East Digest V1 #5 Reply-To: ane@oi.uchicago.edu Errors-To: ane-digest-owner@oi.uchicago.edu Precedence: bulk Ancient Near East Digest Monday, 9 August 1993 Volume 01 : Number 005 In this issue: Israel- Archaeological dis ANE/30 Chic. dissertations Geniza theft adress ANE FTP in Cambridge ARAMAIC STELE FROM DAN Tel Dan Stele Tel Dan correction Re: ANE/30 Chic. dissertations (Manuelian thesis) To: ANE@mithra-orinst.uchicago.edu HUC-JIR Dissertations Loan of a CAD Electronic LSJ See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the ANE or ANE-Digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Terry Wilfong" Date: 5 Aug 1993 09:39:03 U Subject: Israel- Archaeological dis Israel: Archaeological discovery Browsing through the August 4 edition of the _Electronic Chronicle of Higher Education_, I found the following that might be of interest to ANE members: >>Concordia College has struck pay dirt. At an excavation near >>Tel Aviv, a team of students and a professor discovered >>99 gold coins dating from the fourth century A.D.: A5 Unfortunately, the _Electronic Chronicle_ doesn't give the text of articles and we don't have the hardcopy _Chronicle_ at the Oriental Institute yet. Does anyone know anything more about this? I'd be especially interested in a more precise date for the coins and a bit more about their context. Terry Wilfong Research Archives - Oriental Institute t-wilfong@uchicago.edu ------------------------------ From: "Charles Jones" Date: 5 Aug 1993 09:57:03 U Subject: ANE/30 Chic. dissertations ANE/30 Chic. dissertations In response to a number of requests overnight, I'm posting herewith the list of University of Chicago dissertations relevant to the study of the ancient Near East accepted since the beginning of 1990. While copies cannot be had through UMI, the Photoduplication Lab [at Regenstein Library, 1100 E. 57th St., Chicago 60637] will make either microfilm copies or paper copies from microfilm. (They're pretty expensive, so it might be worth checking ahead). Would other members of the list be willing to provide similar lists of dissertations from their institutions? - -Chuck Jones- Research Archivist - Bibliographer The Oriental Institute - Chicago ce-jones@uchicago.edu Bedford, Peter Ross. Temple and Community in Early Achaemenid Judea: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Division of the Humanities in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of NearEastern Languages and Civilizations. Chicago: University of Chicago; March 1992. 1 volume (viii + 298 leaves). Available in: University of Chicago Library; The Oriental Institute Research Archives. Supervised by Gosta W. Ahlstrom. Bloch-Smith, Elizabeth Mara , 1952-. Judahite Burial Practices and Beliefs about the Dead: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Division of the Humanities in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Chicago: University of Chicago; August 1990. 2 volumes (xi + 346 leaves). Available in: The Oriental Institute Research Archives; University of Chicago Library. Note: Subsequently published as: Judahite Burial Practices and Beliefs about the Dead. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press; 1992. 314 pages (including 32 figures). (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series [ISSN 0309-0787]; v. 123). ISBN: 1-85075-335-0. Supervised by Lawrence Stager. Britt, Brian Michael. The Book of Life: The Hebrew Bible as a Sacred Text in Deuteronomy 31-34 and in the Philosophy of Walter Benjamin: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Divinity School in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Chicago: University of Chicago; December 1992. 1 volume (iv + 331 leaves). Available in: University of Chicago Library. Burt, Clarssa C. Parallelism in Jahiliyya Poetry and the Northwest Semitic Connection: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Division of the Humanities, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Chicago: University of Chicago; June 1993. 1 volume (vi + 270 leaves; bibliography: 253-270). Available in: University of Chicago Library; Oriental Institute Research Archives. Supervised by Gene Gragg. Cole, Steven William. Nippur in Late Assyrian Times, 750-612 B.C.: A Dissertation Submitted to the Division of the Humanities in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Chicago: University of Chicago; August 1990. 1 volume (vi + 146 leaves). Available in: The Oriental Institute Research Archives; The University of Chicago Library. Supervised by J. A. Brinkman. Goerwitz, Richard L. , III. Tiberian Hebrew Pausal Forms: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Division of the Humanities in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Chicago: University of Chicago; March 1993. 1 volume (4 + 114 leaces). Available in: University of Chicago Library; The Oriental Institute Research Archives. Supervised by Gene Gragg. Gorny, Ronald Lee. Alisar Hoyok in the Second Millennium B.C.: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Division of the Humanities in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Chicago: University of Chicago; August 1990. 3 volumes (xx + 687 leaves). Available in: The Oriental Institute Research Archives; University of Chicago Library. Supervised by Helene J. Kantor. . Greig, Gary Stanley. The Influence of the Semantic Categories of Egyptian Verbs of Perception and Cognition on Grammatical Structure in Late Egyptian: A Dissertation Submitted to the Division of the Humanities in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Chicago: University of Chicago; June 1990. 1 volume (xv + 233 leaves). Available in: The Oriental Institute Research Archives; The University of Chicago Library. Supervised by Edward F. Wente. Gudorf, Michael Edward. Research on the Early Syriac Text of the Epistle to the Hebrews: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the division of the Humanities in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World. Chicago: University of Chicago; March 1992. 2 volumes (iii + 262 leaves). Available in: University of Chicago Library. Harrill, James. Manumission and the Common Chest: Paul and His Interpreters on Slaves in the Early Church: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Division of the Humanities in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Departmet of New Testament and Early Christian Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago; June 1993. Heidorn, Lis Ann. The fortress of Dorginarti and Lower Nubia during the Seventh to Fifth Centuries B.C.: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Division of the Humanities in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Chicago: University of Chicago; December 1992. 1 volume (xi + 240 leaves). Available in: University of Chicago Library. Supervised by Mark Lehner. Holloway, Steven W. The Case for Assyrian Religious Influence in Israel and Judah: Inference and Evidence: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Divinity School in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy [Typescript]. Chicago: University of Chicago; June 1992. 3 volumes (xxiv + 710 pages). Available in: University of Chicago Library; The Oriental Institute Research Archives. Supervised by Gosta Ahlstrom. Johnson, W. Raymond. An Asiatic Battle Scene of Tutankhamun from Thebes: A Late Amarna Antecendent of the Ramesside Battle-Narrative Tradition: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Division of the Humanities in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Chicago: University of Chicago; August 1992. 1 volume (viii + 194 leaves). Supervised by Edward F. Wente. Kaminsky, Joel. Punishment Displacement in the Hebrew Bible: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Divinity School in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Chicago: University of Chicago; June 1993. Katter, Calvin. Luke 22:14-38: A Farewell Address: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Division of the Humanities in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Departmet of New Testament and Early Christian Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago; June 1993. Manning, Joseph Gilbert Dominic. The Conveyance of Real Property in Upper Egypt During the Ptolemaic Period: A Study of the Hauswaldt Papyri and Other Related Demotic Instruments of Transfer: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Division of the Humanities in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Chicago: University of Chicago; June 1992. 2 volumes (xiii + 388 leaves). Available in: University of Chicago Library; The Oriental Institute Research Archives. Supervised by Janet H. Johnson. Manuelian, Peter Der. Studies in the Archaism of the Egyptian Twenty- Sixth Dynasty: A Dissertation Submitted to the Division of the Humanities in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Chicago: University of Chicago; June 1990. 3 volume (xxxi + 659 leaves). Available in: The Oriental Institute Research Archives; The University of Chicago Library. Supervised by Klaus Baer, Janet Johnson. Marchand, Suzanne L. Archaeology and Cultural Politics in Germany, 1800-1965 : The Decline of Philhellenism: A Dissertation Submitted to the Division of the Social Sciences in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of History. Chicago: University of Chicago; June 1992. 1 volumes (6087 leaves). Available in: The University of Chicago Library. Martin, Troy Wayne , 1953-. Metaphor and Composition in 1 Peter: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Divinity School in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Chicago: University of Chicago; September 1990. 1 volume (iv + 482 leaves). Note: Subsequently published as: Metaphor and Composition in 1 Peter. Atlanta: Scholars Press; 1992. xi + 383 pages. (Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series; v. 131). ISBN: 1-55540-664-5. Supevised by Hans Dieter Betz. McMahon, Augusta Madeline. The Early Dynastic to Akkadian Period Transition in Southern Mesopotamia: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Division of the Humanities in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilisations. Chicago: The University of Chicago; June 1993. 2 volumes (vii + 414 pages). Supervised by McGuire Gibson. Miller, Cynthia Lynn. Reported Speech in Biblical and Epigraphic Hebrew: A Linguistic Analysis: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Division of the Humanities in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Chicago: University of Chicago; August 1992. 1 volume (ix +376 leaves). Supervised by Amy Dahlstrom and Gene B Gragg. Nash, Peter Theodore. The Hebrew Qal Active Participle: A Non- Aspectual Narrative Backgrounding Element: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Division of the Humanities in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of NearEastern Languages and Civilizations. Chicago: University of Chicago; March 1992. 1 volume (viii + 173 leaves). Available in: University of Chicago Library; The Oriental Institute Research Archives. Supervised by Dennis Pardee. Park, Eung-Chun. The Mission Discourse in the Gospel of Matthew: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Division of the Humanities in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of New Testament and Early Christian Literature Chicago: University of Chicago; August 1991. 2 volumes (v + 356 leaves). Available in: University of Chicago Library. Piccione, Peter A. The Historical Development of the Game of Senet and its Significance for Egyptian Religion: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Division of the Humanities in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Chicago: University of Chicago; December 1990. 2 volumes (xiii + 516 leaves). Available in: The Oriental Institute Research Archives; University of Chicago Library. Supervised by Edward F. Wente. Schramm, Brooks. The Opponents of Third Isaiah: A Contribution to the Social History of the Restoration: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Divinity School in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Chicago: University of Chicago; June 1993. Teeter, Emily. The Presentation of Maat: The Iconography and Theology of an Ancient Egyptian Offering Ritual: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Division of the Humanities in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Chicago: University of Chicago; December 1990. 1 volume (xx + 362 leaves). Available in: The Oriental Institute Research Archives; University of Chicago Library. Supervised by Edward F. Wente. Thompson, Norma J. Before Objectivity: The History of Herodotus: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Division of the social Sciences in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, The Committee on Social Thought. Chicago: University of Chicago; March 1991. 1 volume (iii + 208 leaves). Available in: University of Chicago Library. Walker, Edward James. Aspects of the Primaeval Nature of Egyptian Kingship: Pharoh as Atum: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Division of the Humanities in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Chicago: University of Chicago; June 1991. 1 volume (iv + 313 leaves). Available in: University of Chicago Library. Supervised by Edward F. Wente. Wilson, Walter T. Love Without Pretense : Romans 12.9-21 and Hellenistic-Jewish Wisdom Literature: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Division of the Humanities in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Dept. of New Testament and Early Christian Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago; June 1990. 1 volume (iv + 269 leaves). Available in: University of Chicago Library. Note: Subsequently published as: Love without pretense : Romans 12.9-21 and Hellenistic-Jewish Wisdom Literature. Tubingen : Mohr, c1991. 262 p. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe, 0340-9570 ; 46. ISBN: 3-16-145756-0. Yang, Seung Ai. The Original Intention of the Longer Version of the Temptation Story of Jesus (Matt 4:11; Luke 4:1-13) : as a Jewish Story of God's Testing of the Righteous Man Jesus: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Divinity School in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Chicago: University of Chicago; June 1992. 1 volumes (ix + 208 leaves). Available in: University of Chicago Library. ------------------------------ From: charles jones Date: Thu, 5 Aug 93 11:47:28 CDT Subject: Geniza theft This was just posted on IOUDAIOS and may be of interest to members of ANE From: PFLESHER Subject: Cairo Geniza theft To: Multiple recipients of list IOUDAIOS I just read in today's paper about an extensive theft of Cairo Geniza documents from the Russian National Library. Many of them seem to be from the Firkovitch collection (all of them?). Does anyone have any further information about what exactly is missing? Paul Paul Flesher UWYO.edu ------------------------------ From: wanes@ics.ch (wanes) Date: Fri, 6 Aug 93 09:54:26 +0100 Subject: adress New suscriber address: Dr.Julia M. Asher-Greve Pilgerstrasse 45 CH-4055 Basel/Switzerland E-mail: WANES@ics.ch Areas of research: Mesopotamia archaeology, history, gender & women ------------------------------ From: ncs3@cus.cam.ac.uk (Nigel Strudwick) Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1993 10:16:22 +0100 (BST) Subject: ANE FTP in Cambridge FTP SITE IN CAMBRIDGE, UK Courtesy of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, we would like to announce the availability of a small ftp site for those interested in the Ancient Near East. ftp (file transfer protocol) is a means of rapidly transferring files across networks. It uses ftp 'sites' where sets or archives of suitable files are stored, and these files can be retrieved be anyone interested with suitable access. The files stored on the archives can be bibliographies, programs, images, and so on. Encoding and compression can enable storage of large files and those in formats other than ASCII text. It is hoped that this archive will complement that presently being set up in the Oriental Institute, Chicago. It is expected that many of the same files will be found in both locations, although, because of limits on disc space, the Cambridge archive cannot be expected to become a mirror of that in Chicago. More than one ftp site gives possibilities of different access, particularly in the event of communication problems. LIKELY CONTENTS As we are Egyptologists, we have started out with a directory called 'egypt', but we are not restricting it to that country. Others will be added according to material submitted to the archive. Each directory will contain a README file. This should be read first by users, and will give some explanation of the contents. We will start the archive off with a number of local files, such as versions of papers still in press, some images, and Hypercard stacks. However, let us repeat again that the development of the archive is dependant on material submitted by you, the users. If you have any files which you think would be of interest to colleagues in ANE disciplines, then please submit them. OBTAINING FILES Potential users should consult their local documentation as to how to use ftp. The internet address of the archive in Cambridge is: newton.newton.cam.ac.uk ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The ANE archive is in the directory pub/ancient. Normal access is as follows: Start by issuing the command 'ftp newton.newton.cam.ac.uk' When asked for a username, type 'ftp'. When asked for a password, please type your full email address. Then continue with ftp commands; typing ? will produce a summary of these. SUBMITTING FILES TO THE ARCHIVE Files for inclusion in the archive should be sent by email to either of the persons named at the end of this note. We regret that the archive is 'read only', but in this way we can keep the archive in an orderly fashion. We also do not wish to abuse the goodwill of the Newton Institute! It is of the highest importance that those submitting material should stay within copyright law. This will almost always exclude commercial software etc. The following notes come from a discussion with Chuck Jones of the Oriental Institute: 1) There should be an authorship/copyright statement on all documents available for ftp. Also include, if possible, a statement granting any person retrieving the document permission to download it, as long as it is not for profit, and providing that the authorship/copyright statment is included with each copy of the document. Permission to duplicate a document should be obtained from the author 2) It should be appreciated by anyone wishing to deposit a document that this is A FORM OF PUBLICATION, open to the world, and free of charge. Documents made available in this form should be approached with the same care and attention as one's conventional publications (but see #3 below). If there are system-specific requirements for the document, then they should be made clear, along with other explanatory material. In the ANE this is particularly important for transliteration. All permissions to cite or quote copyrighted material are the responsibility of the author. An author wishing to deposit a copy of her/his own perviously published, or forthcoming work, should check with the publisher of the work to make sure there is no violation of copyright. 3) In line with the flexibility offered by this medium, draft manuscripts are welcome, but they must clearly be labelled as such. This is as much for the protection of your reputation as ours! Do not hesitate to contact us with questions. Submissions for the archive should be sent by email to: Helen Strudwick hms12@newton.cam.ac.uk Nigel Strudwick ncs3@cus.cam.ac.uk ------------------------------ From: HUCLIB@HUJIVMS.BITNET Date: Fri, 6 Aug 93 13:40 +0300 Subject: ARAMAIC STELE FROM DAN Royal Inscription Discovered at Tel Dan A broken fragment of a basalt stele inscribed with 13 truncated lines of Aramaic text has been discovered in the course of archaeological excavation and reconstruction at Tel Dan. The inscribed stele, originally approximately one meter in height, mentions a "king of Israel" and a king of the "House of David", and is probably a victory stele erected by the king of Damascus after he "smote Iyon, Dan and Abel Beth-Ma'acah" (I Kings 15:20). The landmark discovery was announced by Prof. A. Biran of the Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem and director of the Tel Dan excavations since 1966. The excavations this year are being carried out in conjunction with the Israel Antiquities Authority's Department of Restoration and Conservation on behalf of the Government Tourist Corporation. The inscription, dated to the 9th century BCE, is being deciphered and studied by Prof. Joseph Naveh of the Department of Ancient Semitic Languages at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The inscription makes important references to the Aramaean god of storms and warfare, Hadad, and to chariots and horsemen presumably captured by the King of Aram from the king of Israel. It is surmised that the discovery can be linked to the events described in I Kings 15 where Baasha, king of Israel attacked Asa, king of Judah. In his distress Asa collected the treasures of the temple and his palace and sent them to Ben-Hadad king of Aram as inducement for the latter to breaching his treaty with the king of Israel and attack Baasha. Hence the "king of Israel" of the inscription may be identified with Baasha and the king of the "House of David" with Asa. The stele fragment, 28 x 30 cm., was found near the new Israelite gate uncovered this season along the southeastern border of a 400 square meter stone paved piazza. Following the defeat of the Aramaeans by the kingdom of Israel at Aphek - some 30 years after the erection of the stele at Dan - - the victorious King Ahab apparently had the stele shattered. Subsequently, its fragments were used in the construction of the pavement and its surrounding architecture. ------------------------------ From: BDAHLBERG@SMITH.BITNET Date: 06 Aug 1993 10:35:48 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Tel Dan Stele Today's New York Times (Aug. 6) devotes several columns to the Tel Dan discovery, including a hand-rendered copy of the "House of David" phrase (NYT pp. A1 and A6). Among other comments, it is noted that no extra- biblical contemporary texts referring to David have been found heretofore. ------------------------------ From: BDAHLBERG@SMITH.BITNET Date: 06 Aug 1993 11:36:10 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Tel Dan correction Closer reading of the New York Times article mentioned in my previous posting indicates that the article does NOT include "a hand-rendered copy of the 'House of David' phrase -- the caption says, rather, that the illustration is a "scholar's rendering of the words 'House of David' in Aramaic, in inscrip- tion style of about 850 B.C." i.e. it's not a rendering of the stele in- scription itself. No photographs or transcriptions of the text have been released. - Bruce Dahlberg ------------------------------ From: Peter D Manuelian Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1993 11:32:15 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: ANE/30 Chic. dissertations (Manuelian thesis) Just a quick note on the Manuelian, Dynasty 26 archaism thesis in Chuck's list. That work should be out in November from Kegan Paul, Studies in Egyptology, so I'd be grateful if people stayed away from the older U. of Chicago dissertation version. Thanks! Peter Manuelian pdm@world.std.com ------------------------------ From: GOLDHAMER@delphi.com Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1993 17:26:06 -0400 (EDT) Subject: To: ANE@mithra-orinst.uchicago.edu ------------------------------ From: ALAN COOPER Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1993 11:09:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: HUC-JIR Dissertations The following is a list of Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion School of Graduate Studies Ph.D. Dissertations, 1985-present, including dissertations in progress.= =20 All of these recent dissertations should be available from University Microfilms. Those for which the "Deg[ree]" column is unfilled are still in progress. For additional information, please contact Alan Cooper, Director, School of Graduate Studies, HUC-JIR, 3101 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH, 45220-2488, voice phone 513-221-1875; fax 513-221- 0321; e-mail acooper@ucbeh.san.uc.edu NAME TITLE/DATE APPROVED ADVISORS = DEG Abegg, M. The War Scroll from Qumran Wacholder/ = Ph.D. Caves 1 and 4: A Critical Schiffman = 1993 Edition 5/90 (NYU) Andrews, S. The =FEupe''ultu "Exchange" Greengus/= =20 Transaction at Nuzi 5/90 Kaufman Apothaker, H. An Analysis of Sifra, Sarason/ = =20 Dibbura Desinai 6/85 Goldman Arnold, B. Babylonian Letters from Weisberg/ = Ph.D. the Kuyunjik Collection: Greengus = 1985 A Geographical and Prosopo- graphical Analysis in 7th Century Mesopotamia 12/83 Berezov, J. A Study of Proverbs 10-22:16 Kaufman/ = Ph.D.=20 and 25-29 with Special Reference Brichto = 1987 to Proverbs Quoted in Other =20 Parts 11/78 Beyer, B. Aspects of Religious Life at Weisberg/ = Ph.D. Ancient Mari as Seen Through Greengus = 1985 a Study of Archives Royales de Mari 21 =20 Bowley, J. Abraham in Ancient Greek Kamesar/ = Ph.D. Historical Writings: Jewish Wacholder = 1992 and Pagan Authors through=20 Josephus 10/90 =20 Boyd, S. Synchronic Analysis of the Kaufman/ = Ph.D. Medio-Passive Reflexive in Cooper = 1993 Biblical Hebrew 5/90 Briley, T. Josephus As An Historian: The Rivkin/ = Ph.D. Structure of Jewish Society & Meyer = 1990 The War Against the Romans 11/85 Dupont. R. A History of Ugarit, Tsevat/ = Ph.D. 1270-1190 BCE 3/82 Greengus = 1987 Fortner, J. Lawsuit Practice and the Law Greengus/ = =20 "Codes" in the Old Babylonian Kaufman Period 4/89 Fuller, R. Cuneiform Texts XLVIII: A Greengus/ = Ph.D. Transliteration and Translation Weisberg = 1992 with Philological Notes,=20 Commentary, and Indices 4/90 Gartig, W. The Supercommentary Avvat Cooper/ = =20 Nefesh to Ibn Ezra on the Kogan Pentateuch of Asher ben Abraham Crescas: A Critical Edition with Introduction and Annotated English Translations 6/88 Gilner, D. The Status of Women in Ancient Brichto/ = Ph.D. Israel Against the Background Greengus = 1989 of the Ancient Near East 12/75 Hardwick, M. Josephus as a East Historical Cook/ = Ph.D. Source in Patristic Literature Sarason = 1987 Through Eusebius 1/84 Hayashi, M. Moses in the Jewish Rivkin/ = Ph.D. Antiquities 5/88 Kamesar = 1992 Hedrick, R. The Waters of Babylonia: Old Greengus/ = =20 Babylonian Canal Administration Scarboroug= h 5/91 (UC) Hooks, S. Sacred Prostitution in Ancient Brichto/ = Ph.D. Israel and the Ancient Near East Tsevat = 1985 Janicki, J. Son of Man in Mark: The Cook/ = =20 Utilization of Ezekiel in Rivkin Mark's Portrait of Jesus 5/87 Jordan, G. The Real Estate Tidennutu Greengus/ = Ph.D. Contract at Nuzi 6/83 Kaufman = 1987 Kachur, C. The Relationship of Mark's Cook/ = =20 Empty Tomb Story to the Cooper 'Messianic Secret': Determining Mark's Attitude Towards the Jews, and Toward the Disciples, Male and Female 10/91 Kingston, S. Travellers and Urbanites: Mari Weisberg/ = =20 Historiography and Theories of Rivkin Socio-Political Change in the Light of New Textual Material 7/92 =20 Kampen, J. The Hasideans and the Origin Wacholder/ = Ph.D. of Pharisaism: A Study in Cook = 1985 1 and 2 Maccabees 10/80 Langer, R. Liturgical Halakhah: Washofsky/ = =20 Norms and Exceptions 4/90 Sarason Lawson, J. Towards an Understanding of Weisberg/ = Ph.D. =FE=FEmtu: The Concept of Fate in Greeng= us 1992 Ancient Mesopotamia 5/88 Mangano, M. Rhetorical Content in the Weisberg/ = Ph.D. Amarna Correspondence from Cooper = 1990 the Levant 4/89 Millin, A. Jewish Social Welfare Work Meyer/ = =20 in Germany, 1933-1943 11/91 Kraut (UC) Moriya, A. Aramaic Epistolography: The Kaufman/ = =20 Hermopolis Papyri and Related Greengus Materials in the Persian Period 5/88 Nativ, G. Real and Formulary Numerals in Wacholder/ = Ph.D. Talmudic Literature 6/88 Washofsky = 1990 Nunnally, W. The Fatherhood of God at Wacholder/ = Ph.D. Qumran 3/91 Sarason = 1992 Obermark, P. Adoption in Ancient Greengus/ = Ph.D. Mesopotamia 5/86 Weisberg = 1992 Pechawer, L. Studies in the Orthography Kaufman/ = =20 and Phonology of Early Greengus Aramaic 11/89 Reeves, J. Jewish Traditions in Wacholder/ = Ph.D. Manichaean Cosmogony in Paper = 1989 Light of the New Evidence=20 From the "Book of Giants" 5/86 Saleska, T. Habakkuk and His Interpreters: Kamesar/ = =20 Exegesis of Habakkuk from its Cooper Beginnings to the Fifth Century 2/92 Salmon, M. The Positive Portrayals of Cook/ = Ph.D. the Jewish Leadership Groups Rivkin = 1986 in Luke-Acts =20 Savage, J. Flavius Josephus: His Trans- Rivkin/ = Ph.D. formation of the Biblical Greengus = 1993 Narrative 11/85 Schehr, T. Syntax of the Moods and Tenses Tsevat/ = Ph.D. of the Greek Verb in Septuagint Fenik(UC) = 1990 Genesis 1-15 6/88=20 Shao, J. A Study of Akkadian and Hebrew Weisberg/ = Ph.D. Royal Prayers 5/87 Greengus = 1989 Sprinkle, J. A Literary Approach to Biblical Brichto/ = Ph.D. "Law": Studies in the Problems Greengus = 1991 of Addressing Biblical Halachah as an Essentially Literary Phenomenon Rather Than as an Essentially Legal=20 and Historical One with Special Emphasis on the Book of the Covenant, =20 Exodus 20:22-23:33 4/87 =20 Sussman, L. The Life and Career of Isaac Marcus/ = Ph.D. Leeser (1806-1868) 6/83 Sarna = 1987 Tashiro, P. Late Old Babylonian Documents Greengus/ = Ph.D. and Letters with Transliterations Weisberg = 1989 and Translations with Notes 11/82 Taylor, B. The Nature of the Text of Tsevat/ = Ph.D. Manuscripts boc2e2 in 1st Kaufman = 1989 Reigns 5/84 =20 Tillis, D. Gods, Guides, and Guardians: Weisberg/ = =20 The Role and Function of Greengus Protective Spirits in Ancient Mesopotamia 1/90 =20 Washofsky, M. Rosh and Rambam: The Halakhah Wacholder/ = Ph.D. of Ashkenaz Meets the Mihaly = 1987 Tradition of Sefarad 7/85 Webster, B. Divine Abandonment in the Cooper/ = =20 Hebrew Bible 11/92 Greengus Williams, D. Josephus and the Authorship of Cook/ = Ph.D. IV Maccabees: A Critical Rivkin = 1988 Investigation 5/86 Wilson, J. Purity and Sanctity in Greengus/ = Ph.D. Mesopotamia 11/90 Brichto = 1993 Wright, P. The City of Larsa in the Neo- Weisberg/ Babylonian and Achaemenid Greengus Periods: A Study of Urban and=20 Intercity Relations in Antiquity 3/93 Zola, G. The Life and Career of Isaac Sarna/ = Ph.D. Harby (1788-1828) 2/89 Meyer = 1991 ------------------------------ From: "Duncan J. Melville" Date: Mon, 09 Aug 93 16:06:23 EDT Subject: Loan of a CAD Here is a shot in the dark request from one who is attempting to write a dissertation from the wilderness of northern New York. I have rather desperate need of a CAD, which I cannot afford to buy. Does anyone have any idea how I could get the temporary loan of a set? The interlibrary loan people here at St. Lawrence University have been exceptionally helpful with all my arcane requests, especially considering the fact that I am only notionally attached to the University (My husband teaches here. This is his e-mail), but they have been unable to find anyone willing to loan a CAD. As far as I can tell the nearest copy is in Canada (Montreal or Toronto), which is not particularly convenient (3 and 5 hour drives respectively). Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance, Sarah Melville By the way, I think this newsgroup is great. Duncan J. Melville Dept of Mathematics St. Lawrence University Canton, NY 13617 dmel@slumus.bitnet ------------------------------ From: charles jones Date: Mon, 9 Aug 93 17:14:03 CDT Subject: Electronic LSJ In the hope of generating some discussion on ANE on the development of digital versions of fundamental resources, dictionaries, text-bases, visual corpora, etc. (and because you may simply be interested), I'm posting this announcement whic appeared today on CLASSICS-L (and other places) An Electronic Database of Greek Lexicography: LSJ 9 and friends on-line In early June, a proposal for placing LSJ on-line was posted to a variety of sources. Many people responded with their ideas and reactions. The dominant message that we received seemed to be that LSJ by itself was not quite enough. Even the most stinging critics of LSJ and its weaknesses seemed in the end to agree that LSJ needed to be the starting point, but that we needed to push beyond the existing model. The following is a revised summary that attempts to address these suggestions. The final proposal will go in in three weeks (Aug 31), but we still time to deal with more suggestions, great and small. In any event, thanks to all who responded the first time around! Gregory Crane crane@ikaros.harvard.edu Tufts University Dept of Classics Eaton Hall Medford MA 02155 August 9, 1993 NOTE: Permission is included to anyone who wishes to repost this notice to any other source. ***** Students of classical Greek still rely upon the 9th edition of the Liddell Scott Jones Greek-English Lexicon. (LSJ 9), published in 1941. With its 150,000 dictionary entries and 750,000 citations to source texts, LSJ 9 remains a monumental achievement, representing a century of continuous lexicographic work. Nevertheless, the form has overwhelmed the content. LSJ 9 has remained untouched for more than fifty years, with new material published in supplements (one in 1968, another forthcoming). Even these supplements, however, ambitious they may be, cannot fully reflect the advances in our knowledge of Greek. We propose to create a lexicographical database that will allow students of Greek to gain better access to information about language and that will make it possible to publish, in a central place and in a timely fashion, new ideas about the meanings and usage of words. Placing LSJ 9 in electronic form is the obvious starting point for such an effort, and placing LSJ on-line will be our primary task, but LSJ is only one step in a larger process. After discussions with classicists, we have decided to include in this project additional lexicographic tools so as more fully to demonstrate the capabilities of the electronic medium and to provide a more complete foundation on which others can build. These will include specialized lexica (e.g., Slater on Pindar, Ebeling on Homer) and classic commentaries (Jebb on Sophocles and Adams on Plato), as well as an index of Greek terms discussed by the scholia and lexicographic authors already on- line in the TLG. All of these sources put together are far smaller than LSJ 9 (40 megabytes), but they make the final database far more diverse and a better model for future work than LSJ 9 by itself. The Electronic Oxford Electronic Dictionary, which has been available for years, allows readers not only to call up specific definitions but to ask new questions not feasible with the printed version: e.g., search for definitions (which definitions contain the word "wealth"?) and locate citations ("which definitions cite King Lear?). Nevertheless, the OED provides only a partial model of how such a database for Greek might work. More than 90% of the citations in LSJ 9, for example, are already on-line in the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG). Lexica, commentaries and source texts can interact dynamically in ways that are not feasible for any one document by itself. Roughly 700,000 the citations in LSJ 9 and all of the citations in the specialized lexica would become "active links." The LSJ article on KATADIASPLEKO/W, for example, cites Sch. Ar. Pl. 1082. The reader could point to this reference and call up the text in a separate window. Conversely, we will provide back references so that anyone looking at Sch. Ar. Pl. 1082 will see that the LSJ article on KATADIASPLEKO/W cites this passage. Over the past ten years, we have developed a morphological analyzer for Greek. The work proposed here will allow us to include the morphological information of LSJ 9, increasing our database of words from 40,000 to 150,000. We will be able to support morphologically intelligent text searches for any word in the database. Users will be able to locate disparate forms such as OI)/SW and H)/NEGKON by asking specifically for FE/RW. Likewise, we will systematically run this morphological searcher over the TLG for each dictionary entry, creating a precompiled database indicating where each word is used and how often. Simply by collating the passages discussed by ancient lexicographic sources will allow modern scholars to see more fully how the Greeks themselves viewed their language. The scholar asking for information on TAFW/N at Iliad 9.193, for example, would encounter "see TE/QHPA in LSJ, also Schol. on Od. 16.806." The Odyssey Scholion preserves an ancient folk etymology not included in LSJ but useful as an indication of how the Odyssey was read. We also seek to create a reference tool that will grow over time. Where a traditional print lexicon begins to drift out of date as soon as it has been published, the lexicographic database that we propose will be designed to become increasingly comprehensive and up to date as time progresses. Placing LSJ 9 in electronic form paves the way for a comprehensive new LSJ that integrates the forthcoming LSJ Supplement and that can, for the first time in a century, be regularly updated. Specialized lexica -- a crucial tool for scholarship -- have all but died out in classical scholarship. An electronic Ebeling would, however, be a step towards a new, badly needed lexicon of Homeric Greek. Jebb's commentaries on Sophocles, by contrast, remain classics in themselves. By publishing Jebb, we would also provide a ready framework that new commentaries could follow. We thus hope to encourage commentaries that appear both in electronic and in printed form. Virtually all of the material that we propose to enter is in the public domain and we will thus be able to make the resulting database available inexpensively, as a TEI conformant text file for which others may write software, as a GOPHER server on the internet, as part of an electronic LSJ incorporating LSJ 9 and the new supplement, and as part of a preexisting system (e.g., a future version of the Perseus database). ------------------------------ End of Ancient Near East Digest V1 #5 ************************************* To subscribe to ANE-Digest, send the command: subscribe ANE-digest in the body of a message to "Majordomo@oi.uchicago.edu". 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