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Temple festival calendars of ancient Egypt
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ISBN: 0853236232 Year: 2000 Publisher: Liverpool University Press,


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Deutungen der Zeit im Streit der Konfessionen. Kontroverstheologie, Apokalyptik und Astrologie im 16.Jahrhundert
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ISBN: 3825311449 Year: 2000 Publisher: Heidelberg : Carl Winter,

Time at Emar : the cultic calendar and the rituals from the diviner's archive
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ISBN: 1575060442 Year: 2000 Publisher: Winona Lake, IN : Eisenbrauns,


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Rhythms of Religious Ritual : The Yearly Cycles of Jews, Christians, and Muslims
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ISBN: 1946230294 1946230154 Year: 2018 Publisher: Claremont, California : Claremont Press,

Time at Emar
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ISBN: 1575065223 9781575065229 1575060442 9781575060446 1575060442 9781575060446 Year: 2000 Publisher: Winona Lake, Ind. Eisenbrauns

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The recent large-scale watershed projects in northern Syria, where the ancient city of Emar was located, have brought this area to light, thanks to salvage operation excavations before the area was submerged. Excavations at Meskeneh-Qadimeh on the great bend of the Euphrates River revealed this large town, which had been built in the late 14th century and then destroyed violently at the beginning of the 12th, at the end of the Bronze Age. In the town of Emar, ritual tablets were discovered in a temple that are demonstrated to have been recorded by the supervisor of the local cult, who was called the “diviner.” This religious leader also operated a significant writing center, which focused on both administering local ritual and fostering competence in Mesopotamian lore. An archaic local calendar can be distinguished from other calendars in use at Emar, both foreign and local. A second, overlapping calendar emanated from the palace and represented a rising political force in some tension with rooted local institutions. The archaic local calendar can be partially reconstructed from one ritual text that outlines the rites performed during a period of six months.The main public rite of Emar’s religious calendar was the zukru festival. This event was celebrated in a simplified annual ritual and in a more elaborate version of the ritual for seven days during every seventh year, probably serving as a pledge of loyalty to the chief god, Dagan. The Emar ritual calendar was native, in spite of various levels of outside influence, and thus offers important evidence for ancient Syrian culture. These texts are thus important for ancient Near Eastern cultic and ritual studies. Fleming’s comprehensive study lays the basic groundwork for all future study of the ritual and makes a major contribution to the study of ancient Syria.


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Seasons in the literatures of the medieval North
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ISBN: 1782045848 1843844257 1843845253 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : D.S. Brewer,

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To the cultures of medieval northwestern Europe, the changing of the seasons was a material and economic reality that strongly informed the labour, travel and ritual calendars. However, while there has been much research into the interplay between society and its physical surroundings as reflected in medieval literature, the seasonal aspect of this dynamic has hitherto been neglected. This book analyses the narrative and psychological functions of seasonal settings in the literatures of medieval England and Iceland from the eighth to the fourteenth century, from Beowulf to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Dealing with both the material realities and the figurative functions of the seasonal cycle, it interprets seasonal spaces in myth and literature as conventionalised environments, where society deals with outside threats and powers which manifest themselves in marginal landscapes. Informing its literary investigations with relevant concerns from economic history, patristic doctine and decision theory, this book offers a comprehensive new look at the pyschology of landscape and season in medieval literature; it also brings out beliefs concerning the seasons and their connections with the supernatural. P. S. Langeslag is a lecturer of Medieval English Studies at the University of Göttingen, Germany.


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Le rituel du sḥtp Sḫmt au changement de cycle annuel : d’après les architraves du temple d’Edfou et textes parallèles, du Nouvel Empire à l’époque ptolémaïque et romaine
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ISBN: 2724704150 9782724704150 Year: 2006 Volume: 141 Publisher: Le Caire : Institut français d'archéologie orientale,

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Les architraves du pronaos du temple d'Horus à Edfou ont conservé la tradition complète d'un cérémonial monarchique d'investiture et de protection annuelle dont les premières attestations apparaissent, sous forme d'extraits, dès le Nouvel Empire. Il faut attendre les sources d'époque ptolémaïque, à Elkâb et Edfou, pour reconnaître l'intitulé général de l'ouvrage sacré, le Rituel pour apaiser Sekhmet. Douze textes, que seul Edfou donne entièrement, mais dans lesquels de multiplesemprunts ont été puisés par la plupart des scribes sacrés des temples ptolémaïques et romains, constituent le recueil complet. Sous l'appellation " Sekhmet ", la manifestation dangereuse de l'Œil-de-Rê aux changements de cycle, la personnalité divine centrale du jeu liturgique est Temet l'Universelle, Flamme et, surtout, Uræus royal. Lors de panégyries annuelles spéciales, c'est auprès d'elle, qui siégeait alors sur une estrade de cérémonie, que le souverain était introduit pour être reconnu comme le " rejeton " et la " pupille " de l'Œil-Oudjat de Rê. Ce volume donne, à partir de la version de base du pronaos d'Edfou, l'éditioncomparée de toutes les versions parallèles d'époque récente, reconnues au fil des extraits et des emprunts, assortie d'une translittération des textes hiéroglyphiques et d'une traduction annotée. Chacun des douze textes abordés est également accompagné d'un commentaire consacré à son contenu théologique.


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Religion and reconciliation in Greek cities : the sacred laws of Selinus and Cyrene
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ISBN: 0190453133 0199742006 9780199742004 9780195394009 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Two Greek cities which in their time were leading states in the Mediterranean world, Selinus in Sicily and Cyrene in Libya, set up inscriptions of the kind called sacred laws, but regulating worship on a larger scale than elsewhere - Selinus in the mid fifth century B.C., Cyrene in the late fourth. In different ways, the content and the format of both inscriptions are so unusual that they have baffled understanding. At Selinus, a large lead tablet with two columns of writing upside down to each other is thought to be a remedy for homicide pollution arising from civil strife, but most of it rem


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Tagewählerei : das Buch ḥ3t nḥḥ pḥ.wy ḏt und verwandte Texte
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ISBN: 3447035153 9783447035156 Year: 1994 Volume: 55 Publisher: Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz,

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Astronomie [Egyptische ] --- Astronomie égyptienne --- Astronomy [Egyptian ] --- Egyptian language --- Calendar, Egyptian --- Occultism --- Papyri, Hieratic --- Egypt --- Religion --- Calendar, Egyptian. --- Papyri, Hieratic. --- Hieroglyphics --- Religious calendars --- Calendar, Religious --- Calendars, Religious --- Church calendar --- Ritual calendars --- Calendar --- Ideography --- Inscriptions --- Paleography --- Writing --- Picture-writing --- Hieratic writing --- Manuscripts, Hieratic (Papyri) --- Egyptian calendar --- Texts --- Egyptian religion --- Égypte --- Ägypten --- Egitto --- Egipet --- Egiptos --- Miṣr --- Southern Region (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Region (United Arab Republic) --- Iqlīm al-Janūbī (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Territory (United Arab Republic) --- Egipat --- Arab Republic of Egypt --- A.R.E. --- ARE (Arab Republic of Egypt) --- Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah --- Mitsrayim --- Egipt --- Ijiptʻŭ --- Misri --- Ancient Egypt --- Gouvernement royal égyptien --- جمهورية مصر العربية --- مِصر‎ --- مَصر‎ --- Maṣr --- Khēmi --- エジプト --- Ejiputo --- Egypti --- Egypten --- מצרים --- United Arab Republic --- Antiquities. --- Calendars. --- Astronomy [Ancient ] --- Manuscripts --- Egyptian language - Papyri, Hieratic --- Occultism - Egypt --- Egypt - Religion --- Calendrier égyptien --- Calendriers religieux --- Égyptien ancien (langue) --- Égypte --- Histoire --- Sources --- Religion égyptienne --- Écriture hiéroglyphique --- Textes --- Civilisation

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