Eleven Non-Royal Jeremianic Figures Strongly Identified in Authentic, Contemporaneous Inscriptions

Using established criteria, this article identifies nine persons mentioned in the book of Jeremiah and two high priests in 1 Chronicles, all of whom were contemporaries of Jeremiah. These persons are identified with virtual certainty in inscriptions of known authenticity contemporaneous with that prophet. Some these inscriptions came to light as recently as 2005 and 2008. Authentic bullae from excavations in the City of David refer to several Hebrew people named in the Bible. These are: Gemaryahu the king’s minister and his father Shaphan the scribe, Yehukal the king’s minister and his father Shelemyahu, Gedalyahu the king’s minister and his father Pashḥur, and two high priests: Azaryahu and his father Ḥilqiyahu. A well-known neo-Babylonian cuneiform tablet lists two courtiers of Nebuchadnezzar II who are also mentioned by name and title in the book of Jeremiah: Nergal-sharezer the samgar official and Nebuzaradan the rab-ṭabāḥîm (variously translated as “captain of the guard” and “chief cook”). Nebuzaradan oversaw the exile to Babylonia. Finally, a recently-translated neo-Babylonian clay tablet records a temple offering made by a third official of Nebuchadnezzar II, Nebo-sarsekim the rab-saris, to whom the book of Jeremiah also refers by name and title. “If the authors of the book of Jeremiah had not intended to produce such historically accurate work as they did, these precise identifications would be inexplicable” (p. 61*). Identifications of officials reach a level of detail that has even greater credibility than identifications of the five kings in the book of Jeremiah also named in ancient inscriptions

Shifted Quasi-Symmetric Functions and the Hopf algebra of peak functions

In his work on P-partitions, Stembridge defined the algebra of peak functions Pi, which is both a subalgebra and a retraction of the algebra of quasi-symmetric functions. We show that Pi is closed under coproduct, and therefore a Hopf algebra, and describe the kernel of the retraction. Billey and Haiman, in their work on Schubert polynomials, also defined a new class of quasi-symmetric functions --- shifted quasi-symmetric functions --- and we show that Pi is strictly contained in the linear span Xi of shifted quasi-symmetric functions. We show that Xi is a coalgebra, and compute the rank of the n-th graded component.Comment: 9 pages, 4 eps figures, uses epsf.sty. to be presented at FPSAC99 in Barcelona by second autho

53 People in the [Hebrew] Bible Confirmed Archaeologically

This is a list, with end-note documentation, of 53 people in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament who are strongly identified in published inscriptions of known authenticity, in most instances from during or quite close to their lifetimes. It includes people from ancient Egypt, Moab, Aram-Damascus, the northern kingdom of Israel, the southern kingdom of Judah, Assyria, Babylonia, and Persia. The intent is to include only well-grounded, strong identifications that can be trusted. Mykytiuk\u27s publications firmly reject the haphazard, flying by the seat of the pants approach of numerous online lists which are created without explicit criteria or by suspect use of ad hoc criteria, all of which easily produce results that are desired but often questionable at best, or in some instances based on forgeries, rather than winnowed by rigorous critique. The list is the result of applying the protocols and identification criteria established in Mykytiuk’s published dissertation, Identifying Biblical Persons in Northwest Semitic Inscriptions of 1200‒539 B.C.E. (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004), as amended by his article, “Corrections and Updates to [that title],” Maarav 16.1 (2009): 49–132. The identification protocols, criteria, and some early results are summarized and further updated in his book chapter, Sixteen Strong Identifications of Biblical Persons (Plus Nine Other Identifications) in Authentic Northwest Semitic Inscriptions from before 539 B.C.E., in Meir Lubetski and Edith Lubetski, eds., New Inscriptions and Seals Relating to the Biblical World (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2012), 35-58.

Migrant experience workshop : resource folder

The Migration Experience Workshop was conducted in response to Recommendation i4 of the Galbally Report, namely that Professionals, including those studying and those currently in practices in areas with large migrant clienteles, should receive assistance in obtaining or upgrading language skills and understanding cultural differences . The workshop focussed on the latter part of the Recommendation largely through an experiential approach based on simulated experiences, media presentations, and direct input from immigrant clientele as well as those professionally involved with them. The over whelming response from course participants made it abundantly clear that the process of migration and settlement experience is quite traumatic to say the least, and when dealing with immigrant clients, professionals often need to shed the various preconceptions which they have acquired through a lifetime of personal and professional experience. By contrast the follow-up session was almost entirely cognitive in orientation, at the conclusion - of which the Resource Folder, was presented to the participants

Geometric quantization of completely integrable Hamiltonian systems in the action-angle variables

We provide geometric quantization of a completely integrable Hamiltonian system in the action-angle variables around an invariant torus with respect to polarization spanned by almost-Hamiltonian vector fields of angle variables. The associated quantum algebra consists of functions affine in action coordinates. We obtain a set of its nonequivalent representations in the separable pre-Hilbert space of smooth complex functions on the torus where action operators and a Hamiltonian are diagonal and have countable spectra.Comment: 8 page