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Studies in Philology in Honour of Ronald James Williams
This collection of writings focus on Hebrew, ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian linguistics. Contributions: A 14th Century Polyglot Psalter (Sebastian Brock); Reflections on some obscure Hebrew words in the Biblical Job (EC Clarke); Some notes on the Ugaritic counterpart of the Arabic ghain (J A Emerton); The blunders of an inept scribe (Demotic papyrus Louvre 2414) (George R Hughes); God, Fate and Free Will in Egyptian Wisdom Literature (Frank T Miosi); Cephalon, A New Coptic Martyr (Albert Pietersma and Susan T Comstock); An offering inscription from the 2nd Pylon at Karnak (Donald Redford); A New Kingdom relief of a Harper and his Song (William Kelly Simpson); The textual affinities of the Corrector(s) of B in numbers (John Wm Weevers).
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The Daimon in Hellenistic Astrology
In The Daimon in Hellenistic Astrology: Origins and Influence, Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum investigates for the first time the concept of the daimon (daemon, demon), normally confined to religion and philosophy, within the theory and practice of ancient western astrology (2nd century BCE – 7th century CE). This multi-disciplinary study covers the daimon within astrology proper as well as the daimon and astrology in wider cultural practices including divination, Gnosticism, Mithraism and Neo-Platonism. It explores relationships between the daimon and fate and Daimon and Tyche (fortune or chance), and the doctrine of lots as exemplified in Plato’s Myth of Er. In finding the impact of Egyptian and Mesopotamian ideas of fate on Hellenistic astrology, it critically examines astrology’s perception as propounding an unalterable destiny.
The Ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth
The composition, which the editors entitle the "Book of Thoth", is preserved on over forty Graeco-Roman Period papyri from collections in Berlin, Copenhagen, Florence, New Haven, Paris, and Vienna. The central witness is a papyrus of fifteen columns in the Berlin Museum. Written almost entirely in the Demotic script, the Book of Thoth is probably the product of scribes of the "House of Life", the temple scriptorium. It comprises largely a dialogue between a deity, usually called "He-who-praises-knowledge" (presumably Thoth himself) and a mortal, "He-who-loves-knowledge". The work covers such topics as the scribal craft, sacred geography, the underworld, wisdom, prophecy, animal knowledge, an...
Arabic Versions of the Pentateuch
This work offers a seminal research into Arabic translations of the Pentateuch. It is no exaggeration to speak of this field as a terra incognita. Biblical versions in Arabic were produced over many centuries, on the basis of a wide range of source languages (Hebrew, Syriac, Greek, or Coptic), and in varying contexts. The textual evidence for this study is exclusively based on a corpus of about 150 manuscripts, containing the Pentateuch in Arabic or parts thereof.
