Diglossia and the Neo-Assyrian Empire’s Akkadian and Aramaic Text Production

As this paper aims to highlight, the Assyrian Empire’s language environment, and in particular its scribal production, was diglossic, with a sharp distinction between the highly codified literary language of Standard Babylonian for high status texts and three vernacular languages for lower status communications (Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian and Aramaic). It is argued that between these languages, the distinction between the highly codified lect on the one hand and the three vernacular languages on the other hand is far more significant than the fact that three of these languages were written in cuneiform and the other in alphabetic script

Fisiognomica a Qumran: a proposito di 4Q186

In a previous study, the Author singled out physiognomonic practice by Essenes according to Flavius Josephus’ source in Ant II, 119-161. In this article, the research is extended to the Qumranic manuscript 4Q186, a parchment carrying a text whose content is manifestly physiognomonic. In consequence of a comparison between this text and the so-called Two Spirits Treatise of 1QS, the Author argues that the expression רוח לו, utilised in 4Q186, points out the “typology” of the spirit of the individuals that are considered in this text.En un estudio previo, el autor había estudiado la práctica fisiognómica de los esenios a partir de la evidencia recogida por Flavio Josefo (Ant II, 119-161). En esta ocasión, la investigación se extiende al manuscrito 4Q186, cuyo texto tiene un contenido claramente fisiognómico. La comparación entre este texto y el denominado Tratado de los Dos Espíritus (1QS), lleva al autor a señalar que la expresión רוח לו utilizada en 4Q186 muestra la «tipología» del espíritu de los individuos de los que trata este texto

The Assyrians in the West: Assyrianization, Colonialism, Indifference, or Development Policy?

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Shared Fates: Gaza and Ekron as Examples for the Assyrian Religious Policy in the West.

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Gottgegenwart, Gebet und Schmuck. Das Alte Testament in der privaten Fr??mmigkeit Jerusalems.

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Menschenbilder und K�rperkonzepte im Alten Israel, in �gypten und im Alten Orient

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Variabilität und Konstanz eines Reinigungsrituals nach der Berührung eines Toten in Num 19 und Qumran: Überlegungen zur Dynamik der Ritualtransformation.

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