Note: Text partl. in english and hebrew.

Note: Published in conjunction with the exhibition Byzantium and Islam : age of transition (7th-9th century), held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, March 14-July 8, 2012.

Note: Possessed by the Great Mother: music and trance in ancient Pompeii and in the popular tradition of southern Italy / Roberto Melini -- New light on the Babylonian tonal system / Leon Crickmore -- The ancient Mesopotamian sistrum and its references in cuneiform literature: the identification of the šem and meze / Uri Gabbay -- Musical reconstruction of the Hurrian material by statistical analysis / David Halperin -- Another look at alleged ancient bagpipes / Terence Mitchell -- Playing in concert in the ancient Near East / Dominique Collon -- A queen's orchestra at the court of Mari: a new perspective on the archaic instrumentarium in the third millennium BC / Myriam Marcetteau -- Ancient Near Eastern and early Jewish traditions / Siam Bhayro -- Bull lyres, silver lyres, silver pipes and animals in Sumer / Bo Lawergren -- A Sumerian text in quantified archaeomusicology / Ernest McClain -- Evidence and inference in texts of theory in the ancient Near East / Richard Dumbrill -- A traveler's tales: observations on musical mobility in Mesopotamia and beyond / Piotr Michalowski -- Musical ensembles in ancient Mesopotamia / Theo Krispijn -- A new hypothesis for the elaboration of heptatonic scales and consequences in understanding their origins / Amine Beyhom

Note: Jewish Magic Through the Ages. Exhibition catalogue. , English and Hebrew

Note: Map on lining paper.

Note: Text in Hebrew ; includes an English introduction.

Note: I. Introduction to scribes, sages, and seers: Sages, scribes, and seers in Israel and the ancient near east: an introduction / , II. Scribes, sages, and seers in ancient Egypt: Knowledge and knowledgeable men in ancient Egypt: queries and arguments about an unsettled issue / , III. Scribes, sages, and seers in ancient Mesopotamia: Scribes and wisdom in ancient mesopotamia / , Tales of two sages: towards an image of the " wise man" in Akkadian writings / , IV. Scribes, sages, and seers in Ugarit and Syria: Scribes, sages, and seers in Ugarit / , The Aramaic tradition: Ahikar / , V. Scribes, sages, and seers in first temple Israel: Scribes, sages, and seers in the first temple / , VI. Scribes, sages, and seers in second temple Judah: the authors of Job and their historical and social setting / , Wisdom as a hermeneutical key to the book of Psalms / , Ezra - priest and scribe / , The social world of Ecclesiastes / , The sociological significance of the scribe as the teacher of Wisdom in Ben Sira / , VII. Scribes, sages, and seers in the Greek and Roman empires: The sage behind the Wisdom of Solomon / , Seers as mantic sages in Jewish apocalyptic (Daniel and Enoch) / , Sages and scribes in the Qumran literature / , VIII. Scribes, sages, and seers and the transition to rabbinic Judaism: Sages, scribes, and seers in rabbinic Judaism /

Note: The present volume is based upon an unusal conference, London, University College, 2003.

Note: Rev. version of the dissertation, New York, 2005

Note: Originally published 2003.

Note: Laminated wall chart. , Alphabets of Proto-Canaanite, South Semitic, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Phoenician, Hebrew, Samaritan Aramaic, "Jewish", Nabatean, Classical Arabic, Syriac (Assyrian).

Note: Chiefly German, with two contributions in English.

Note: International conference proceedings, Emory University (Atlanta), 1999.

Note: English and German; some articles translated from Hebrew.

Note: "Proceedings of the conference 'The beginnings of Christianity' held at Tel Aviv University and Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem, 6-8 January 1997"--P. facing t.p.

Note: Internationales Symposium von 1. - 5. Oktober 2001 in Heidelberg , Texts in german, one in french.

Note: Rev. translation of: ha-Tenuʻah ha-Tsiyonit vi-Yehude ʻIraq, 1941-1950. , Hebrew version based on the doctoral dissertation Tel Aviv, University, 1993

Note: Text in English with Aramaic incantations and English translations

Note: A key-word-in-context concordance to the Aramaic materials from Elephantine published in Textbook of Aramaic documents from ancient Egypt ([Jerusalem] : Hebrew University, Dept. of the History of the Jewish People ; Winona Lake, IN, U.S.A. : Distributed by Eisenbrauns, c1986-c1999).

Note: Based on a colloquium initiated and organized by the Institute of Jewish Studies, University College, London, 16-17 April 1996

Note: Appendix I. The terms 'Galilee' and 'Upper Galilee'. - II. Documentary sources relating to Upper Galilee in the Bronze and Iron Ages. - III. Evidence for Jewish settlement in Upper Galilee in the Roman period.

Note: Based on a colloquium initiated and organized by the Institute of Jewish Studies, University College, London, 16-17 April 1996

Note: The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies

Note: Ten plans (folded) in pocket.

Note: Index (p. [653]-670).

Note: Includes indexes. , Includes appendices: Anhang I. Datierung der Belegstellen für Kultbegriffe im Alten Testament -- Anhang II. Historische Auswertung der Tabellen in Anhang I.

Note: "This is an extended and updated version of the Hebrew book [Mi-naṿadut li-melukhah] (published in Jerusalem in 1990) ... All the articles were revised and updated, and two papers are published in this volume for the first time"--P. 14.

Note: "General index": p. 556-574.

Note: "Festschrift zum Jubiläum des 300jährigen Bestehens der Jüdischen Gemeinde zu Halle"--Verso of t.p.

Note: Index: p. [423]-442.

Note: Includes index.

Note: Includes glossary.

Note: Includes index.

Note: Based on author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1972.

Note: Includes index.

Note: At head of title: Institute of Religious Iconography, State University Groningen.

Note: Aufsatzsammlung , Aufsatzsammlung , Essays in German, English, and French.

Note: Includes index.

Note: Reprint. Originally published: Lanham, MD : University Press of America, c1986.

Note: Reprint. Originally published: Wien : H. Glanz, 1932. , Text in German. Translated from Aramaic.

Note: Includes citations from Hebrew, Greek, and Latin texts with English translations. , Includes indexes.

Note: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Fribourg/Schweiz, 1983. , Includes indexes.

Note: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Heidelberg, 1980

Note: At head of title: Institute of Religious Iconography, State University Groningen.

Note: Includes index.

Note: Includes index.

Note: Reprint of 1938 ed. publ. by Hutchinson, London.