Sentences with phrase «ancient near»

His symbols reflect those of indigenous populations of North America and the Ancient Near East.

The exhibition, co-curated by MIA Director Dr. Julia Gonnella and Rania Abdellatif, draws on MIA's own spectacular collection, shown alongside loans from other world - renowned international museums, including the Louvre in Paris, the Museum of Ancient Near Eastern Art in Berlin, the Berlin State Library, other significant Qatar Museums (QM) collections such as the Orientalist Collection, as well as the Qatar National Library and Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Museum.

Featuring fifteen richly animated scenes that integrate English, Arabic, and Hebrew, Object of Desire draws from ancient Near Eastern themes as well as contemporary popular culture in a trilingual story space.

He is the current director of the Museum of the Ancient Near East at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.

His images appear similar to those of indigenous populations of North America and the Ancient Near East.

Soulful Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt is organized by Edward Bleiberg, Senior Curator, Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Near Eastern Art, and Yekaterina Barbash, Associate Curator of Egyptian Art, Brooklyn Museum.

Art of the Ancient World comprises thousands of artifacts from the Ancient Egypt, Greece, the Roman Empire, and the ancient Near East dating from 6,500 BC to 600 AD.

In tandem with the 2006 expansion project by architect Renzo Piano, the Morgan now provides visitors unprecedented access to its world - renowned collections of drawings, literary and historical manuscripts, musical scores, medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, printed books, and ancient Near Eastern seals and tablets.

Ancient Near Eastern Seals & Tablets Sidney Babcock, Jeannette and Jonathan Rosen Curator and Department Head

Their fine - art collection includes works by Pollock, Picasso, Cézanne, Klee, Beckmann, Dubuffet, and many more, but they are also well - known collectors of antiquities from the Ancient Near East, Ancient Greece, and Ancient Rome.

Through our academic publishing program, we seek to meet the publication needs of the religious studies academic community worldwide with works on the Hebrew Bible and Hebrew language, ancient Near Eastern studies and archaeology, New Testament and Greek language, biblical theology, Judaism, patristics, church history, historical theology, practical theology, and religion and culture.

Celebrated every Saturday and Sunday until the... Judaism is a religious tradition with origins dating back nearly four thousand years, rooted in the ancient near eastern region of Canaan (which is now

The archaeological research project at Ziyaret Tepe (Turkey) undertaken by the Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies of Mainz University, which was set up 10 years ago, adds a new field archaeological portfolio alongside the excavations in Haft Tappeh and Tchogha Zanbil (Iran).

Within the scope of an international rescue excavation project, a team of four archaeologists specialized in Middle Eastern affairs headed by Dr. Dirk Wicke of the Institute of Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies of Mainz University have unearthed parts of a Neo-Assyrian governor's palace dating back to the 9th to 7th cent.

In the 9th century BC, the Assyrian Empire of northern Iraq relentlessly started to expand into most of the ancient Near East.

Although the country has been far less studied than Mesopotamia, it played a critical role in the rise of empires and economies in the region starting around 1000 B.C.E., researchers said at a meeting here last week of the International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East.

Yet the citizens of Brak were already using imported materials to make fine goods in large workshops, including a marble - and - obsidian chalice and a stamp seal with the image of a lion being caught in a net — a classic symbol of kingship in the ancient Near East.

But the ancient Near East had seemed curiously drug - free — until recently.

«Scholars have tended to shy away from the possibility that the ancient Near Easterners partook of «recreational» drugs, apart from alcohol, so it's good that someone is brave enough to look into it,» says archaeologist Glenn Schwartz at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

«The archaeology of the ancient Near East is traditionally conservative.»

Now, new techniques for analyzing residues in excavated jars and identifying tiny amounts of plant material suggest that ancient Near Easterners indulged in a range of psychoactive substances.

At the International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East here last week, for example, one scholar even reinterpreted well - studied ancient images as representing drug - taking rituals and drug - induced distortions.

Prof. Gopher, Prof. Ran Barkai and PhD candidate Miki Ben - Dor, all of TAU's Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, co-authored the study, which was recently published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

«Admixture with Basal Eurasians may have diluted the Neanderthal ancestry in West Eurasians who have ancient Near Eastern farmer ancestry,» said Reich.

The combined techniques allowed the researchers to gather high quality genomic information from 44 ancient Near Easterners who lived between 14,000 and 3,400 years ago: hunter - gatherers from before the invention of farming, the first farmers themselves and their successors.

Death in the Ancient Near East was a reliable companion and an accepted part of life.

«Retrieving genomic data from the ancient Near East is a palaeogenomic dream come true,» he says.

The influence of climate on agriculture is believed to be a key factor in the rise and fall of societies in the Ancient Near East.

Riehl found that periods of drought had had noticeable and widely differing effects on agriculture and societies in the Ancient Near East, with settlements finding a variety of ways to deal with the problem.

The study is part of a German Research Foundation - backed project looking into the conditions under which Ancient Near Eastern societies rose and fell.

U of C museum: the Oriental Institute Museum, which serves primarily as a research organization devoted to the study of the ancient Near East.

Is it possible that Sarah, Rachel, Ruth, Deborah, Jael, Esther, Martha, Mary Magdalene, Mary of Nazareth, Lydia, Priscilla, and other biblical women who exhibited initiative, leadership, and valor were corrupted by the gender neutral toy aisles of ancient Near Eastern markets?

When God sees his work as good, Everett Fox suggests in the notes to his translation, The Five Books of Moses, it is «reminiscent of ancient Near Eastern descriptions of a craftsman being pleased with his work.»

For the ancient near - easterner wisdom is practical.

The historians of Israelite religion have traced all of the borrowings and appropriations from ancient Near Eastern culture and religion.

Walton, who is a scholar of both the Ancient Near East and the Bible, argues that Genesis I is a temple cosmogeny (creation of the cosmos) text that forms the 12th division of Genesis, and in many ways parallels other cosmogeny texts.

(The dove, a visible sign of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament accounts of Jesus» baptism, was a bird often linked to female deities in the ancient Near East.)

The author shows a clear ignorance of the ancient near eastern sitz - im - leben in which Scripture was written.

Further, have you modeled every single aspect of your life after the Bible, I mean im quite sure we could find some areas in which you have «convenientlly» elected to ignore certain biblical edicts (either because you think they are unimportant, impractical, or irrelevant; I mean for goodness sakes, the stories are set in the ancient near - east, there is no way you could mimic every aspect of bibllical life).

Like other Ancient Near Eastern cultures, ancient Israel bisects reality into two overarching realms — the heavens and the earth — and two kind of beings — mortals and immortals.

Again it raises the question of who these people really were, and when and how they became involved in the life of the ancient Near East.

With this introduction, we will look at the extent of the Wisdom Tradition in the Biblical books, the renewed interest of the scholars in the wisdom studies, and the Wisdom parallels in the Ancient Near Eastern Cultures.

The critical historian has shown that much of this legislation is shared with the ancient Near East in general; that is, the specific commands reflect the historicity of the Bible.

And indirectly, through them, she drew from the common custom and law dominant in the ancient Near and Middle East of that day.

136:3) LORD - NAMES OF In the Ancient Near East, a number of deities were known be several names.

Then through all of the vicissitudes of actual life in the ancient Near East, God made himself a people from those forebears — delivering them from slavery in Egypt, protecting them against their enemies, leading them through the terrors of the wilderness, entering into covenant with them, giving them his guiding presence in the covenant law, bringing them into a land flowing with milk and honey, giving them a Davidic king to be their protector of justice in peace and in war, and finally taking up his own dwelling in their temple on the Mount of Zion.

The failure to appreciate that genre calibration is responsible for much of the tension in the evolution discussion... To observe the similarities between the creation and flood stories and the literature of the ancient Near East, and to insist that all of those other writings are clearly a-historical while Genesis is somehow presenting history — this is not a strong position of faith, but rather a weak one, where Scripture must conform to one's expectations.»

Of course, different cultures had different myths, but the point is that they all had them... What makes Genesis different from its ancient Near Eastern counterparts is that it begins to make the point to Abraham and his seed that the God they are bound to, the God who called them into existence, is different from the gods around them... The biblical worldview described in Genesis is an Ancient Near Eastern one.

Most religionists have no clue about the literature and cultures of the ancient Near East.

These four women listed by Matthew were not corrupters, but the Ancient Near Eastern version of the «Fab Four.»