Lmlk seal impressions once again : a second rejoinder to Oded Lipschits

Abstract: This article deals in the main with claims made by Lipschits et al. that the lmlk stamps were partly manufactured after Sennacherib’s campaign in 701 BCE. It forms specifically a rejoinder to Lipschits’ claims published recently. Finally, in the epilogue, are presented the data dealing with the suggestions of Lipschits, which have already been published by Stern, Grena and Van der Veen.

A theoretical perspective of the Telepinu Myth : archetypes and initiation rites in historical contexts

Abstract: Research on the Telepinu Myth (CTH 324) has shown that it is an inexhaustibly rich document and that therefore the different, and sometimes conflicting, lines of analysis need to be pursued further. In the light of the symbolic evidence presented by this mythological tradition, we propose to focus on the privileged position granted to spatial symbols and to hypothesize the function this Myth served in specific contexts of the Hittite history, characterized by the increase and reduction of lands under Hittite jurisdiction. In this regard, we propose to evaluate the symbolic function that the Telepinu Myth displayed in order to rebuild the sacred space of the territories governed by the Hittites, when they were undergoing changes brought about by increased political and military contact with neighboring societies.

Recently discovered Iron Age lion figurines from Jerusalem

Abstract: More than 500 Iron Age figurines were discovered in the 2005–2010 Western Wall Plaza excavations in Jerusalem.1 The excavations revealed a large building, probably of the four-room type. Many figurines were discovered in this building, others in fills below and above it, dating in general to the eighth-sixth centuries BCE. Here we focus on two heads most likely depicting lions, one of them exceptional—holding another animal in its mouth. We discuss the identification of these figurines as lions, the lion motif in a variety of media in the Southern Levant, and finally recent theories concerning lions in the Hebrew Bible and their relation to Yahweh. We suggest that the two Western Wall Plaza figurines represent lions as wild animals, in similarity to other figurines of wild animals made on occasion by Judean coroplasts.

La conexión árabe : una hipótesis sobre el surgimiento sociopolítico de Israel en Palestina

Abstract: Recent scholarship has shown that there is no solid archaeological or epigraphic evidence to deem the narratives about the rise to kingship of David and his son Solomon as reflecting the rise and consolidation of Israel as a Nation-State during the 10th century BCE. It is rather during the 9th century in the Palestinian highlands that we can find the emergence of a socio-political entity named Bīt Humri/ya or Israel in the contemporary archaeological and epigraphic records, but with an ambiguous character as a state. In this paper, it is suggested the possibility that the rise of such a polity and the constitution of an ethnogenesis are notably and directly related to the appearance of the Arabian network of exchanges in the early first millennium BCE in the Near East. Furthermore, from a critical point of view, one may suggest that there is no direct ethnic connection between the kingdoms of Israel and Judah and the later Jewish cults of Yahweh in Palestine.

Prudentia Iuris, 1992, n° 30 (número completo)

Contenido: Las heterodoxias del recurso extraordinario : arbitrariedad y gravedad institucional / Narciso Juan Lugones – Los contratos operativos y los contratos de asociación en la actividad petrolera / José Luis Merello Lardies – Sobre la “naturalis ratio” / Luis Aníbal Maggio – Derecho patrimonial eclesiástico en la Argentina / Néstor Daniel Villa – Los derechos reclamados por los diputados americanos en las “cortes” de Bayona (1808) / Eduardo Martiré – La protección de los inválidos a principios del siglo XIX (aparición de un nuevo régimen municipal como consecuencia de las Invasiones Inglesas) / Guillermina Martínez Casado de Fuschini Mejía – Isabel la Católica : crisol de una cruzada de dos mundos / Osvaldo Onofre Álvarez – El receptor de penas de Cámara : origen y evolución / Armando Luis Noguer – Centralismo e integración en el siglo XVIII indiano / José María Mariluz Urquijo – El papa Paulo III y los indios en América : la bula Sublimis Deus / José María Díaz Couselo – Los títulos enunciados por Vitoria y la legislación de Indias / Carlos Guillermo Frontera – El edicto Carboniano / Edmundo J. Carbone – Ius, Logos y Theos : una introducción al derecho natural / Javier Bocci – Notas bibliográficas

¿Todo tiempo pasado fue mejor? : tres estudios sobre comercio y desarrollo y su impacto en la historia económica de la Antigüedad

En los dos últimos años han salido a la luz tres libros que, pese a la variedad de sus temáticas y las tesis que sostienen—a menudo enfrentadas entre sí—, comparten el interés en dilucidar una de las cuestiones centrales de la historia moderna: qué es lo que hace que determinadas sociedades se desarrollen económica y políticamente, muy frecuentemente a costas de otras, y cuáles son las políticas más adecuadas para el crecimiento de países que vienen “rezagados” en el tren del desarrollo económico. ¿Qué tienen que ver estos tres libros con la historia el antiguo Cercano Oriente?...

Notas sobre el aumento de la importancia política de las organizaciones internacionales

Introducción: En nuestro mundo contemporáneo es común mencionar a las Organizaciones Internacionales (OIs) o bien –sin entrar en confusión– a las Organizaciones No Gubernamentales, más conocidas como las ONGs. Ejemplo de las primeras son las Naciones Unidas, la Organización de Estados Americanos, la Unión Europea o la Organización del Atlántico Norte –OTAN-NATO–; de las segundas, Amnistía Internacional –Amnesty International–1, Médicos Sin Fronteras –Médecins Sans Frontières–2, Rotary Internacional3 o Greenpeace4. Las Organizaciones Internacionales de nuestro interés son las Intergubernamentales, es decir, todas aquellas Organizaciones creadas por los Estados, los cuales adquieren la calidad de Estados Miembro. Las Organizaciones No Gubernamentales, como su nombre ya lo indica, pertenecen a la órbita de los particulares, pudiendo agrupar personas y/o entidades nacionales o internacionales. Las OIs han ido teniendo un espectacular desarrollo producido durante la segunda parte del siglo XX, aunque sus inicios son decimonónicos.

A possible alchemist apparatus from the early islamic period excavated at Ramla, Israel

Abstract: During extensive salvage excavations carried out during the years 2004-2008 in a large Early Islamic industrial area at the vicinities of Ramla, in Central Israel, an unparalleled industrial device was unearthed. The star-shaped, soil embedded installation, whose lower part was preserved, consisted of a central pottery jar surrounded by five minor jars, linked by ceramic pipes. Evidence of heat was observed mainly around the central vessel, and metal hollow cones perforated in the tip were found inside the surrounding jars. Although the manufacturing procedures and operation techniques of the installation are not completely clear, it is proposed that the installation is part of an industrial workshop or an alchemy laboratory. Both industry and alchemy were well-developed during the Early Islamic period and very often closely related, to the point that sometimes it is difficult to distinguish between them. The identification proposed is based on comparisons with tools described in literary sources, and somewhat later drawings and etchings. Circumstantial ceramic evidence was found, as well as the proximity of a bathhouse whose guests could have been the consumers of perfumes and unguents seem to reinforce this possibility. Due to the poor state of preservation of the device and the lack of available comparisons, the identification proposed here is tentative, and future research coupled with eventual new discoveries is needed in order to clarify this matter.

Sources of contention and the emerging reality concerning Qohelet's Carpe Diem advice

Abstract: When Qohelet declares “there is nothing new under the sun,” his own words are no exception. It has been known for a century now that not all of Qohelet’s material is original to his own genius, and the idea that Qohelet is directly dependent on a literary source(s) is standard fare. The hallmark example continues to be Siduri the alewife’s advice to Gilgamesh which displays remarkable correspondence with Ecclesiastes 9: 7-9. However, what may have been construed as an instance of clear literary dependency a century ago cannot be maintained in light of the data that continues to emerge from the ancient Near East. New sources have risen that contend with the Gilgamesh Epic, and there has yet to emerge a definitive victor. This paper calls into question the very idea that Qohelet was directly dependent on a literary precursor and joins with a few select voices both past and present in suggesting an alternate interpretation of the data.