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Zuckerman, Sharon. 2007. "'... Slaying Oxen and Killing Sheep, Eating Flesh and Drinking Wine ...': Feasting in Late Bronze Age Hazor." Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 139(3): 186-204
Abstract: Communal feasts, events of ritual activity that involve shared food and drink consumption and display in religious and secular elite contexts, received considerable attention in anthr
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Katherine Reece Wrote:
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> How many u tiles come in a British version
> Scrabble game? Is there a different version for
> y'all?
Hi Kat,
For us'all 'ere in the UK, standard Scrabble includes 4 'u' tiles. As a matter of interest, how many does the US version include?
Damian
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clairyfairy Wrote:
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> I don't buy it, that would imply that Gilgamesh
> was still popular during the Babylonian period for
> them to have been influenced by it to that extent [...].
The Standard Version of the Gilgamesh Epic dates from the Middle Babylonian period (ca. 1200 BCE).
The earlier Sumerian poems of Bilgames
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Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> [...] Cricton [...] has the Knights being
> very nimble.
I was reminded of something I came across recently while reading Frances Stonor Saunders' Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman (about the life and times of Sir John Hawkwood, knight and mercenary who made a name for himself in fourteenth-century Italy)
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Damian Walter
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Doug Weller Wrote:
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> The First Century Historians of Roman Britain E.W.
> Black
> Oxford Journal of Archaeology 2002
> Volume 20 Issue 4, Pages 415 - 428
> Thanks
I'll send you a pdf of the article shortly (although note it's from 2001, not 2002).
Damian
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Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> [...] Does anybody know which
> Amarna letter they're referring too?
See the blog entries posted in my earlier post on the previous thread:
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Damian Walter
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There's a previous thread on this topic (started by Hermione on 7 April):
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Dave Lightbody Wrote:
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> Anyone any opinions on this one?
From a recent interview with Tom Hanks (in the 9-15 May 2009 issue of the UK's Radio Times):
"We play fast and loose with an awful lot of fact, but a trickle of authenticity makes it plausible. It's not important, but it's fun."
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Jammer Wrote:
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> And how big of a fragment do you need for that
> kind of detail?
See here:
Damian
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg Wrote:
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> [...] I felt it was worth noting the that
> "Egyptian side" of the Joseph story was
> studied over 35 years ago, and still stands
> today as a very good example of earnest
>detailed scholarship (something with which
> you seem unfamiliar).
>
> The controlling
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Greg Reeder Wrote:
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> A paper was mentioned in the critique of my
> paper...
> Does anyone have access to:
Sorry Greg, I don't have access to the journal itself, but I did come across the abstract to Vasiljevc's article on the Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur webpage:
The paper examines the names of Nia
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Damian Walter
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Ancient Egypt
Two additional posts that might add a little more substance to this thread:
"The Lady of the Lionesses and a Pharaonic Wimp" by Judith Weingarten
Say to the king, my lord, my god, my Sun: Message of the Lady of the Lionesses , your handmaid. May the king, my lord, know that war has been waged in the land, and gone is the land of the king, my lord, by desertion to the Apiru.
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Damian Walter
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From a recent article about the Norman Golb controversy (), but which is relevant to this thread:
"[...] Most scholars in the field believe that the scrolls were written by the Essenes or the Qumran Sect - a small Jewish group that lived an ascetic life in the desert.
"Golb, however, contends the scrolls found in caves at the Dead Sea near Qumran were written in Jerusalem and sm
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Damian Walter
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Hi Hermione,
Thanks for drawing my attention to this (and apologies for taking a while to put in an appearance!).
I remember my post from April 2007, but had completely forgotten any mention of 'Charles Gadda', so interesting to see the unexpected turn it's taken just recently.
Unfortunately, I don't have any specific thoughts on all of this, but while having a qui
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Damian Walter
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Hi Greg,
I thought this paragraph summed up Tabor's position quite well:
"The question is not whether the 'Essenes' wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls but whether the sectarian group reflected in the scrolls corresponds to the group called 'Essenes', in the tendentious and idealistic literary descriptions of Josephus, Pliny, and Philo. In other words, if one wants to
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Damian Walter
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Regarding Indiana Jones, what constitutes an "illegal image of archaeologists"?
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Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> No.
>
> What you posted was a long ad hominem attack on
> her. Everything centered around her publications
> & where & when she had been published.
>
> Not one answered the question of whether or not
> she is correct.
>
> So I will ask you, again--is she correct or not?
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Damian Walter
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Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> I can call myself all sorts of things.
Which is relevant how?
> However, more to the point, is she or is she not
> correct about the inscription? You're so busy
> attacking her & her "record" you never bother
> to answer.
I'm not particularly interesting in "att
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Damian Walter
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Ancient History
In light of the above, it might be interesting to recall what Andre Lemaire has stated publicly about Rochelle Altman:
From "The Ossuary and Inscription Are Authentic" by Andre Lemaire (a public lecture at the Center for the Study of Antiquity at Cornerstone University, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2004):
"[...] Dr. Rochelle Altman is now famous for having diffused on the web
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Damian Walter
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Ancient History
Well, Joe, I seem to be carrying on a bit of a conversation with myself here, but nevermind ...
In my previous post, I responded to this comment of yours:
> However, I'm inclined to go along with the opinion
> of Dr. Rochelle I. S. Altman, who does not appear
> to have much of an Axe to grind [...].
by asking:
I'd be interested to know what makes you "inc
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Posted by Hermione on 21 November:
Posted by Hermione on 30 October:
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Damian Walter
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Sorry. Couldn't resist. But I wasn't planning on discussing it further (honest).
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I thought the last paragraph of this opinion piece was particularly prescient:
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Richard Parker Wrote:
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> This is old stuff, but relevant:
>
The operative word being 'old', perhaps?
The article states that the ivory pomegranate is a fake.
Such certainly aside, discussion of the authenticity of the Israel Museum's ivory pomegranate continues apace.
See, most recently:
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Damian Walter
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Ancient History
Having made reference to the Jehoash inscription in my previous post in an attempt to differentiate between it and any discussion of the inscription of the James ossuary, and bearing in mind that many experts have dismissed it as a poor forgery, it's interesting to note that recent articles have continued to argue for its authenticity.
For instance:
Ilani,S., Rosenfeld, A., Feldman,
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Damian Walter
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Ancient History
Joe_S Wrote:
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> I did find that piece, but was unable to
> corroborate it from a less partisan source. Do you
> have a straight-up report of the proceedings I
> could look at?
Just as a reminder of the press release in question ...
From "James Ossuary Forgery Case in Shambles", October 31, 2008 (Press Releas
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Damian Walter
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Ancient History
This article is written by Nina Burleigh, a journalist and author of a recent book on the controversy surrounding the James ossuary (Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed and Forgery in the Holy Land).
I haven't read this book yet, but hope to do so in the (reasonably) near future.
While searching for books by Rochelle Altman on amazon.com, though, I was able to browse the rel
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mlpeel Wrote:
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> > Thanks again, Damian. I've found one
> categorical statement that the word translated as
> "brother" meant "brother" and not "cousin";
> unfortunately, this was just a description without
> detail of a talk someone gave at a conference in
> Toronto. I imagin
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Better late than never, but I had to track down a couple of relevant articles.
Joe_S Wrote:
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> The 200 AD date was from an analysis of the
> Aramaic dialect by Paul Flesher, Director of the
> Religious Studies Program, University of Wyoming
> (he suggests 200 AD-600 AD as the likely date
> range) [...].
The web pag
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Joe_S Wrote:
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> It's not even clear that David and Solomon
> weren't, in fact, Canaanite kings [...].
This doesn't make sense to me. Could you elaborate on what you mean?
> [...] just as proto-Israelites were themselves
> Canaanites for the most part.
This is an academic theory that attempts to make
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