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P. N. Singer

Time for the Ancients

Measurement, Theory, Experience Funded by Einstein Center Chronoi

Series: Chronoi 3 January 2022 English, XIV, 186 pp., 15 fig.

Pb. *RRP € 41.95[D] / US$ 48.99 / £ 38.00 ISBN 9783110751925

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The book offers an overview of experiences, theories and conceptions of time in the Graeco-Roman world. It presents the results of new research on neglected medical texts, relating to time management, aging and times of life, and the importance of the accurate time assessment. At the same time it draws together the most important findings of much recent classical scholarship on ancient attitudes to time, and presents them in accessible form.

time in antiquity; time awareness; time pereception; Galen

Peter N. Singer, EC-Chronoi, Berlin, and University of London, UK.

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Thomas L. Gertzen

Aber die Zeit fürchtet die Pyramiden

Die Wissenschaften vom Alten Orient und die zeitliche Dimension von Kulturgeschichte Gefördert von/Funded by Einstein Center Chronoi

Reihe/Series: Chronoi 4 Januar/January 2022 Deutsch/German, X, 265 S./pp., 17 Abb./fig.

Br./Pb. *€ 51.95[D] / UVP/RRP US$ 59.99 / UVP/RRP £ 47.00 ISBN 9783110760125

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Das Alter menschlicher Zivilisation wurde in Europa lange auf Grundlage der Bibel, ergänzt um die Darstellungen von Historikern des klassischen Altertums, bestimmt. Mit der frühneuzeitlichen Ausbildung der Naturwissenschaft wurden vermeintliche Gewissheiten in Frage gestellt. Im Zuge dieser Konfrontation kam den Altertumswissenschaften eine entscheidende Rolle zu. Diese teilweise unerwarteten Entwicklungen werden in dem Band geschildert.

Chronologie; Wissenschaftsgeschichte; Ägyptologie; Altorientalistik

In Europe, the bible was long used to determine the age of human civilization, supplemented by accounts written by the historians of classical antiquity. The early modern development of the natural sciences called supposed certainties into question. The classical disciplines were assigned a decisive role in this conflict. This volume presents these developments, some of them unexpected.

Chronology; history of scholarship; Egyptology; Assyriology

Thomas L. Gertzen, Einstein-Center CHRONOI, FU Berlin, Deutschland.

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Emmanouela Grypeou, Stefanie Rabe (Eds.)

The End of Time

Constructions of Time in Apocalyptic Imagination Funded by Einstein Center Chronoi

Series: Chronoi 5 November 2022 English, Approx. 150 pp.

Pb. *RRP € 30.95[D] / US$ 36.99 / £ 28.00 ISBN 9783110777789

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This book discusses the various constructions of time in apocalyptic texts. The contributions cover Rabbinic and Christian texts, including texts such as end-time texts in Midrashim, the apocryphal apocalypses of Thomas and John, and post-Islamic Christian visions. The volume also offers systematic contributions on political eschatology, on typologies as apocalyptic text tool and the history of research on time in the apocryphal literature.

Apocalypticism; Apocryphal Literature; Constructions of time; Eschatology

Emmanouela Grypeou, Stockholm University, Sweden; Stefanie Rabe, FU Berlin, Germany.

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Johannes Zachhuber Time and Soul

From Aristotle to St. Augustine Funded by Einstein Center Chronoi

Series: Chronoi 6 January 2022 English, X, 98 pp.

Pb. *RRP € 24.95[D] / US$ 28.99 / £ 22.50 ISBN 9783110692723

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In Book IV of his Physics, Aristotle asked whether time could exist without a soul that counts it. As a result, philosophers throughout antiquity tackled the problem of subjective time and its relation to the physical time of the cosmos. The present book gives an account of this debate. It analyses the contributions made by Aristotle and his Peripatetic followers but also discusses Neoplatonist and Early Christian authors including St. Augustine.

Aristotle; time perception; Neoplatonism; Early Christianity

Johannes Zachhuber, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Now in Paperback

Enrique Jiménez, Catherine Mittermayer (Eds.)

Disputation Literature in the Near East and Beyond

Series: Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) 25 July 2022 English, VIII, 470 pp., 15 fig.

Pb. *RRP € 24.95[D] / US$ 28.99 / £ 22.50 ISBN 9781501527258

Disputation literature is a type of text in which usually two non-human entities (such as trees and animals) vie over their respective merits in a series of elaborate, flowery speeches. Known in virtually every Middle Eastern culture from Antiquity to the present day, it represents one of the most enduring genres in world literature. The present volume collects over twenty contributions on disputation literature from various regions and times.

Disputations; Comparative literature; Dialogues; ancient Near East

Enrique Jiménez, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Catherine Mittermayer, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Babette Schnitzlein

Untersuchungen zur Schreibkultur Mesopotamiens im 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr.

[Studies on the Written Culture of Mesopotamia in the First Century CE]

Reihe/Series: Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) 29 November/November 2022 Deutsch/German, Ca./Approx. 390 S./pp., 78 Abb./fig.

Geb./HC *€ 102.95[D] / UVP/RRP US$ 118.99 / UVP/RRP £ 94.00 ISBN 9781501517471

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Ausgangspunkt der vorliegenden Studie ist die Materialität von Texten. So gibt sie Auskunft zur Gestaltung der mit Keilschrift versehenen Tontafel, berücksichtigt aber auch andere Beschreibstoffe und Schreibwerkzeuge. Anhand der Bibliothek Assurbanipals wird der Umgang mit Schriftzeugnissen beispielhaft diskutiert. Auch die in diesem Zeitraum vorhandene Mehrschriftigkeit wird behandelt.

Keilschrift; Materialität; Assurbanipal; Tontafel

The starting point of this study is the materiality of texts. It provides information about how cuneiform clay tablets were designed, but also takes into account other writing materials and tools. It looks at the Library of Ashurbanipal to discuss examples of how writing tools were used and also addresses the multilingualism of this period.

Cuneiform; clay tablet; Assurbanipal; materiality

Babette Schnitzlein, Britisches Museum, London, England.

Aren M. Maeir, George A. Pierce (Eds.)

To Explore the Land of Canaan

Studies in Biblical Archaeology in Honor of Jeffrey R. Chadwick

Series: Archaeology of the Biblical Worlds 4 November 2021 English, IX, 376 pp., 78 fig.

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This volume is a collection of paper by colleagues, friends and students, in honor of Jeffrey Chadwick. The papers cover the various topic that he has dealt with in his career, including biblical historical geography, and the archaeology and history of the Land of Israel during the Bronze and Iron Ages, and the Second Temple Period.

Archaeology; Bible; Israel; Levant.

Aren M. Maeir, Bar-Ilan University, RamatGan, Israel, and George A. Pierce, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA.

Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum

Founded by Itzhak Fikhman z''l

Noah Hacham, Tal Ilan (Eds.)

Volume 5: The EarlyRoman Period (30 BCE–117 CE)

In collab. with Deborah Jacobs, Meron M. Piotrkowski, Zsuzsanna Szántó

October 2022 English, Approx. 220 pp., 1 fig.

HC *RRP € 112.95[D] / US$ 129.99 / £ 102.50 ISBN 9783110785999

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The fifth volume of the Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum collects and presents all papyri, ostraca, amulets and inscriptions from the early Roman period connected to Jews and Judaism, published since 1957. It is a followup of the 1960 volume 2 of the Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum. It includes over 80 documents in Greek, Demotic, and Hebrew, both documentary and literary, including three Greek biblical texts.

Papyrology; Biblical Papyri; Diaspora; Jews of Edfu; Tiberius Julius Alexander

Noah Hacham, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; Tal Ilan, Free University of Berlin, Germany.

Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae

A multilingual corpus of the inscriptions from Alexander to Muhammad

Ada Yardeni (Ed.)

Volume 4/Part 3: Ostraca from Iudaea/Idumaea

July 2023 English, Approx. 800 pp.

HC *RRP € 154.95[D] / US$ 178.99 / £ 141.00 ISBN 9783110713534

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CIIP IV, 3 presents the Aramaic ostraca. The exact locations of the archives from which they originate are unknown. The collection consists of some 1,900 texts ordered by products and professions. They document the activities of several clans, the ethnic composition of the population, agricultural crops, and warehouse accounting from 4 century BCE to 1 century CE.

Inscriptions; Ostraca; Judaea; Idumaea; Palestine

W. Ameling, Universität zu Köln; H.M. Cotton, Hebrew University Jerusalem; W. Eck, Universität zu Köln et al.

Walter Ameling, Hannah M. Cotton, Werner Eck, Avner Ecker, Benjamin Isaac, Alla Kushnir-Stein, Jonathan Price, Peter Weiß, Ada Yardeni (Eds.)

Volume 5/Part 1: Galilee

December 2022 English, Approx. 800 pp.

HC *RRP € 154.95[D] / US$ 178.99 / £ 141.00 ISBN 9783110713565

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Volume V of the CIIP contains inscriptions from Galilee during the time of Alexander the Great until the end of the Byzantian rule in the 7 century in all the languages used during that period, including Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Aramaic, Samaritan, Palmyrene Aramaic, and Christian Aramaic. The volume encompasses more than 2,000 texts grouped by their findsites, from the Northwest to the Southeast.

Inscriptions; Israel; Galilee

W. Ameling, Universität zu Köln; H.M. Cotton, Hebrew University Jerusalem; W. Eck, Universität zu Köln et al.

Maria Liatsi

Irdische Unsterblichkeit

Die Suche nach dem ewigen Leben in der Antike

[Earthly Immortality: The Search for Eternal Life in Antiquity]

August/August 2021 Deutsch/German, VIII, 252 S./pp.

Geb./HC *€ 102.95[D] / UVP/RRP US$ 118.99 / UVP/RRP £ 94.00 ISBN 9783110753561

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Unter Unsterblichkeit wird konventionell und vorrangig die Unsterblichkeit der Seele verstanden. Infolge der religiösen Dominanz des Seelenbegriffes im Laufe der Geschichte hat sich an der tradierten Einstellung zugunsten des Begriffes der Unsterblichkeit der Seele auf Kosten des Begriffes der irdischen Unsterblichkeit in der Forschung wenig und im allgemeinen Bewußtsein so gut wie nichts geändert. Dieses Desiderat soll durch diese Arbeit erfüllt werden.

Antike; Unsterblichkeit; Ruhm; Auferstehung

Immortality has been understood conventionally and predominantly as the immortality of the soul. Due to the religious dominance of the concept of the soul throughout the course of history, little about the traditional view has changed in research and almost nothing in general consciousness, which has benefited the idea of the immortality of the soul to the detriment of the concept of earthly immortality. This volume aims to close this gap.

Antiquity; immortality; glory; resurrection

Maria Liatsi, Aristoteles Universität Thessaloniki, Griechenland.

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Lara Weiss

The Walking Dead at Saqqara

Strategies of Social and Religious Interaction in Practice

Funded by The Dutch Research Council (NWO)

Series: Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten 78 June 2022 English, IX, 273 pp., 41 fig.

HC *RRP € 102.95[D] / US$ 118.99 / £ 94.00 ISBN 9783110667929

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Funerary rituals and mortuary cults are classics of religious studies research in ancient Egypt. Still, we know little about how the living interacted with ancestors and gods in daily life. The case study of the city of Memphis and its Saqqara necropolis in the late 2nd mil. BCE focusses on lived ancient religion, and demonstrates the spectrum of religious practices and options to configure religion and sociality through commemorative practices.

Practices; memory; ancient Egypt; Religion

Lara Weiss, National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, Netherlands.