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Israel and Hellas

This text compares Hebrew, Greek and Latin texts that describe sacred institutions.
Print Book, English, ©1995-
Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, ©1995-
Comparative studies
volumes <1> ; 24 cm.
9783110142334, 9783110164343, 9783110168822, 3110142333, 3110164345, 3110168820
32925567
V. 1: (no special title)
Hebrew and Greek texts
Literary contexts of the common Hebrew-Greek vocabulary
Cosmological myth and the Tuna of Gibraltar
The Mediterranean vocabulary of the vine
Peace symbolism in ancient military vocabulary
The sacrificial cult and its critique
The shifting roles of women
Treaty and loyalty-oath
Proverb-book and gold-economy
V. 2: Sacred institutions with Roman counterparts
Men of the land and the God of justice
The high God and the elements
Divine kingship, civic institutions, imperial rule
Archery and its symbolism
The Mediterranean seer and shamanism
Sacred space and time in Israel and Italy
The Ark of the Covenant and the Temple of Janus
Levels of connection between Greek and Hebrew
V. 3: The legacy of Iranian imperialism and the individual: with cumulative indexes to vols I - III
The double laws of human nature
Blessedness in better lands
Mesene and the caravan trade
Iranian imperialism and the rebel victim
The temple police at Jerusalem
Paradise and the Forest of Lebanon
Complementarity of Israel and Hellas
The foreign vocabulary of Jesus' Aramaic
Vernacular words in Paul
From particularity to universalism
Additions and corrections to Vols. I-III
Mishna texts from the Kaufmann codex
Cumulative indexes
English, with Greek and Hebrew selections