Early alphabetic writing in the ancient Near East: the ‘missing link’ from Tel Lachish

Wood Use in the Ancient Near East

Wood. Forests were exploited from the very beginnings of Near Eastern civilization. Enough hints exist from such Aceramic Neolithic sites as Jericho in Israel and Çayönü, Asikli Höyük, Nevali Çori, and Hallan Çemi in Turkey to indicate that extensive forest use has a history in this region of at least ten thousand years. These sites provide ample burned evidence for architectural timbers used a...

Circumcision in the Ancient near East

FOR a long time, scholars have assumed a direct relationship between the Egyptian and West Semitic worlds in one matter of personal hygiene and, probably, of religious rites.' "Circumcision," stated Eduard Meyer, "was at home in Egypt from the earliest times, and from there it was adopted by the Israelites and by the Phoenicians."2 However, the evidence that one gleans from the Egyptian sources...

Early urban development in the Near East.

It has been thought that the first cities in the Near East were spatially extensive and grew outward from a core nucleated village while maintaining a more or less constant density in terms of persons or households per unit of area. The general applicability outside of the Near East of this southern Mesopotamian.derived model has been questioned recently, and variations from it are increasingly...

Seed Eaters of the Ancient Near East: Human or Herbivore

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...