This volume offers the first holistic examination of the Astronomical Diaries, a remarkable set of 1000 clay tablets from ancient Babylon in which for over 500 years (6th-1st century BCE) scholars combined astronomical observations with records of events on earth.

This volume offers the first holistic examination of the Astronomical Diaries, a remarkable set of 1000 clay tablets from ancient Babylon in which for over 500 years (6th–1st century BCE) scholars combined astronomical observations with records of events on earth.

Dear readers! Lord Christ manifested Himself in the form of wisdom in Solomon and inspired and enabled him to produce this marvelous psalm. For this very reason, we need to comprehend the inner spiritual meaning of the song and not attempt understanding it from physical perceptions of lust and desire. So let us attempt at unravelling some of the mysteries of this often misread great book. God made this world and created living spirit. All our souls came from this living spirit. This includes Christians and Gentiles today. Christians are described by the Lord Christ as the daughters of Jerusalem. He described the Gentiles as a fierce woman of war, that is the Babylon. Apart from these two, another type of woman was described. That woman is the dark woman, and her name is said to be Shulamite. After coming into this world as a living spirit, all the souls were described as divided into three distinct women based on their works. In reality, they were all supposed to be united as one woman (church) as a bride of Lord Christ. This song of songs is a conversation between these women and Lord Christ as their beloved. Let us read about the great love that God has for us through this book…

Editing and examining source-critically for the first time the Late Babylonian ritual texts dealing with the New Year Festival, this book proposes an incisive re-interpretation of the most frequently discussed of all Mesopotamian rituals.

This collaborative volume examines revolts and resistance to the successor states, formed after Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian empire, as a transregional phenomenon. The editors have assembled an array of specialists in the study of the various regions and cultures of the Hellenistic world - Judea, Egypt, Babylonia, Central Asia, and Asia Minor - in an effort to trace comparisons and connections between episodes and modes of resistance. The volume seeks to unite the currently dominant social-scientific orientation to ancient resistance and revolt with perspectives, often coming from religious studies, that are more attentive to local cultural, religious, and moral frameworks. In re-assessing these frameworks, contributors move beyond Greek/non-Greek binaries to examine resistance as complex and entangled: acts and articulations of resistance are not purely nativistic or 'nationalist', but conditioned by local traditions of government, historical memories of prior periods, as well as emergent transregional Hellenistic political and cultural idioms. Cultures of Resistance in the Hellenistic East is organized into three parts. The first part investigates the Great Theban Revolt and the Maccabean Revolt, the central cases for large, organized, and prolonged military uprisings against the Hellenistic kingdoms. The second part examines the full gamut of indigenous self-assertion and resistant action, including theologies of monarchic inadequacy, patterns of historical periodization and textual interpretation, and claims to sites of authority. The volume's final part turns to the more ambiguous assertions of local autonomy and identity that emerge in the frontier regions that slipped in and out of the grasp of the great Hellenistic powers.

An introduction to the linguistic diversity of personal names in cuneiform texts from Babylonia (c. 750-100 BCE).

The history of theatre has often been written as a history of great writers, actors, or directors. This book takes a different approach: The contributors examine the history of performance from the perspective of theatre spaces and stage technologies. Art, literature, religion, law, urbanism, architecture, technology - this interdisciplinary book discusses how these fields relate to theatre and performance. Geographically, it covers a significant portion of the globe; chronologically, it ranges from ancient times to the present. This book provides a timely attempt to combine cultural and global history.