Every Traveller Needs a Compass: Travel and Collecting in Egypt and the near East 9781785701023, 9781785700996

A varied and charming collection of 17 papers that bring something new about the people from many countries and backgrou

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English Pages 241 Year 2015

Every Traveller Needs a Compass: Travel and Collecting in Egypt and the near East
9781785701023, 9781785700996

This collection of essays looks beyond the focus of existing works on ancient travel and its documentation, to examine i

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With contributions spanning from the Neolithic Age to the Iron Age, this book offers important insights into the religio

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Outsiders have long attributed to the Middle East, and especially to ancient Egypt, meanings that go way beyond the rati

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In this book, Tyson Putthoff explores the relationship between gods and humans, and between divine nature and human natu

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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, growing numbers of tourists and scholars from Europe and America,

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A fitting tribute to the life and achievements of Donald P. Hansen, this collection includes contributions by Z. Bahrani

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Divine and Human Hate in the Ancient Near East studies lexemes for ‘hate’ in Biblical Hebrew, Ugaritic, and Akkadian. Ri

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Divine emotion is a ubiquitous feature of ancient Near Eastern documents. These texts regularly assign the same spectrum

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