The Aramaeans in Ancient Syria

xviii list of abbreviations RES Academia inscriptionum et Litterarum Humaniorum (ed.), Répertoire d’Épigraphie Sémitique i–Viii, ...

list of abbreviations xix TAD C B. Porten – A. Yardeni, Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt iii. Literature, Accoun ...

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LiST OF CONTRiBUTORS Prof. dr. Angelika Berlejung, University of Leipzig, Leipzig (Germany)/ Stellenbosch University, Stellenbos ...

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PREFACE Over the past years several monographs concentrating on the Phoenician and Punic cultures, the Luwians, and Ugarit have ...

xxiv preface Schatz assisted in procuring the relevant literature and proofreading. dr. dagmar Kühn and dr. Angela Rohrmoser con ...

chapter one IntroductIon herbert niehr the Sources When working on the aramaeans of Syria and their religion, a distinction mu ...

2 herbert niehr script is visible, in, for example, the oldest known aramaic inscription on the so-called “little altar” from te ...

introduction 3 assyria, and Babylonia has survived, its importance should not be under- estimated.18 the aramaic inscriptions, w ...

4 herbert niehr not always easy to determine what is aramaean. this question is espe- cially pertinent to southern anatolia and ...

introduction 5 for example, tell halaf,29 tell Fekheriye,30 til Barsib,31 Samʾal (Zincirli),32 tell afis,33 hamath,34 and damasc ...

6 herbert niehr Mesopotamia and Syria. this term stems from the Semitic word for “boy.” It is found in the ugaritic ġlm, hebrew ...

introduction 7 the aramaeans can be located geographically in the Middle euphra- tes; in central Syria, near Jebel Bishri; in ta ...

8 herbert niehr research into the aramaean cultures of ancient Syria began in the early 20th century after the decipherment of c ...

introduction 9 Since the mid-20th century, editions and studies of aramaic inscrip- tions and texts62 along with works on philol ...

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chapter two hIStorY hélène Sader this chapter presents a survey of the history of the aramaeans of ancient Syria from their orig ...

12 hélène sader existed in the 2nd millennium B.c. disappeared and were replaced by new polities, some ruled by Luwian-speaking ...

history 13 “fragmented”, or “balkanized.”9 as a result, any history of the aramaeans of ancient Syria will have to take into acc ...