Libros históricos: evolución e historia a través de Jueces 1

El objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar algunos aspectos del libro de Jueces, con especial cuidado en lo referente al género, estructura y la historia de la formación del libro. También vemos algunos de los problemas en la transmisión del texto. El trabajo consta de dos partes: La primera es teórica. En ella estudiaremos la composición y transmisión del texto, la historia deuteronomística y su relación con otros libros históricos. La segunda parte es práctica. Se estudia el texto y su contexto con el fin de explicar los problemas de transmisión del mismo. Esta parte gira en torno a dos ejes, uno diacrónico y otro sincrónico, para intentar demostrar que en el libro de Jueces se incluyen componentes diferentes a otros libros del Antiguo Testamento. Para lograr nuestro cometido, me baso en una versión sinóptica y políglota de los primeros versículos del libro, utilizando el original hebreo, y la traducción griega y latina. Como conclusión habría que destacar algunos puntos. El libro de Jueces pertenece a la escuela deuteronomística, donde modificaron y elaboraron el texto siguiendo unos ideales. Sobre el autor del texto las opiniones son heterogéneas. El libro tiene tres partes diferenciadas. Desde un punto de vista textual, se ven las diferentes influencias de unos textos sobre otros, llegando, en ocasiones, a la Vorlage hebrea. Se muestra la necesidad de un estudio filológico para reflejar las diferentes variantes redaccionales del texto.

El centro en la periferia: las competencias y actividades de los gobernadores romanos en las provincias hispanas durante el Principado (27 a.C.-235 d.C.)

Esta tesis doctoral persigue una revalorización del papel jugado por los senadores que gobernaron las provincias hispanas a lo largo de un período crucial de la historia de Roma, el Principado, cuando se convirtió en un imperio que aseguró su perduración con la progresiva integración socio-política de los provinciales, en particular de las élites. Los gobernadores de rango senatorial eran los más poderosos “men on the spot” del Imperio en su periferia, pero los estudios dedicados a ellos son parciales o tienen una perspectiva demasiado amplia, y generalmente tienden a favorecer los ejemplos ofrecidos por las provincias orientales –a causa de sus más abundantes fuentes de sus ciudades. Este estudio busca analizar la influencia de los gobernadores en las relaciones centro-periferia en Occidente a través del caso específico de Hispania, un caso de estudio especialmente apropiado porque permite comparar el modus operandi y las relaciones sociales de gobernadores de dos provincias imperiales (Hispania Citerior y Lusitania) y de una proconsular (Bética) y analizar su influencia en la vida de las comunidades de algunas de las áreas más romanizadas de Occidente – el valle del Betis y la costa levantina– y en aquéllas de una región conquistada al inicio del Principado: el Noroeste. La metodología de este estudio está condicionada por la naturaleza de las fuentes: literarias (Plinio el Joven, Tácito, Dión Casio, Floro, Orosio….), epigráficas leyes municipales, epistulae imperiales, senadoconsultos, sentencias judiciales, inscripciones votivas y honoríficas), los autores clásicos jurisprudenciales del Digesto (de officio proconsulis de Ulpiano…) y, en menor medida, numismáticas (particularmente la caetra)...

Cooperación humanitaria interreligiosa: una perspectiva luterana

La experiencia de la Federación Luterana Mundial es que una cooperación más cercana entre las organizaciones confesionales de diferentes religiones es posible y beneficiosa.

Paleogene-Aquitanian Tectonic Breakup in the Eastern External Betic Zone (Alicante, SE Spain)

Six Paleogene-Aquitanian successions have been reconstructed in the Alicante area (eastern External Betic Zone). The lithofacies association evidences “catastrophic” syn-sedimentary tectonic processes consisting of slumps, mega-olisthostromes, “pillow-beds” and turbiditic deposits. This kind of sedimentation is related to unconformity surfaces delimiting sequence and para-sequence cycles in the stratigraphic record. The data compiled have enabled the reconstruction of the Paleogene-Aquitanian paleogeographic and geodynamic evolution of this sector of the External Betics. During the Eocene the sedimentary basin is interpreted as a narrow trough affected by (growth) folding related to blind thrust faulting with a source area from the north-western margin, while the southeastern margin remained inactive. During the Oligocene-Aquitanian, the sourcing margin becames the southeastern margin of the basin affected by a catastrophic tectonic. The activity of the margins is identified from specific sediment source areas for the platform-slope-trough system and from tectofacies analysis. The southeastern South Iberian Margin is thought to be closer to the Internal Betic Zone, which was tectonically pushing towards the South Iberian Margin. This pushing could generate a lateral progressive elimination of subbetic paleogeographic domains in the eastern Betics. This geodynamic frame could explain the development of such “catastrophic” tectono-sedimentary processes during the Late Oligocene-Early Miocene.

Letter from Francis Sales, 1848 March 30

Handwritten copy of a brief letter in French presumably to Francois Arago congratulating him on his appointment in the French Provisional Government following the 1848 Revolution and the formation of the French Second Republic. Both Arago and Sales were from the Pyrénées-Orientales region of France.

Oostende, Belgium, ca. 1727 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Nouveau plan de la ville d'Ostende : ville forte du Comté de Flandre celebre par l'octroy de l'empereur pour la navigation aux Indes Orientales. It was published by chez R. & J. Ottens, sur le Nieuwendyk à la Carte du Monde ca. 1727. Scale [ca. 1:3,900]. Covers Oostende, Belgium. Map in French.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Belgian Lambert 1972 coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, fortifications, ground cover, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes index.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

Dating sediments in coastal areas and potential applications for constraining the palaeo-environmental context of an archaeological site at Vohemar

We present an overview on different environmental zones within coastal areas and summarise the physical basis behind the three most important methods that are available to date Holocene coastal sediments. Besides radiocarbon and uranium series dating, Optically Stimulated Luminescence (Osl) has increasingly been applied for dating in coastal settings over the past decade. This is illustrated by a number of case studies showing that Osl can be applied to sediments from almost any kind of coastal environment, covering a potential dating range from some years up to several hundred thousand years. Osl dating may hence be the method of choice for deciphering natural environmental change along coasts as well as the presence and the impact of human occupation in such areas. In addition, we briefly show how and where these dating methods could be applied to constrain the palaeo-environmental context of an archaeological site at Vohemar in north-eastern Madagascar.

The Rasikajy civilization in northeast Madagascar: a pre-European Chinese community?

Archaeological excavations in northern Madagascar during the first half of the 20th century have revealed the presence of a former prosperous civilisation known as the Rasikajy civilisation. Little is known about the origin of this civilisation and how and when they first arrived in Madagascar. The most striking evidence for the Rasikajy civilisation comes from excavations at a necropolis in Vohemar located along the northeast coast, where more than 600 tombs containing spectacular objects were unearthed in the 1940s (Vernier & Millot 1971). The findings in the tombs included, amongst others, Chinese ceramics, silver and gold jewellery, iron weapons, glassware, bronze mirrors and chlorite-schist objects (ibid.). The latter objects were produced from chlorite schist mined at quarries in northern and eastern Madagascar and there is evidence that jewellery and iron objects were also produced by the Rasikajy from locally available raw material. Chlorite-schist objects have not only been found in coastal sites in Madagascar, but also in the Comores and eastern Africa suggesting an active engagement of the Rasikajy in western Indian Ocean trade. Our re-evaluation of published literature on archaeological sites in northern Madagascar indicates that the majority of Chinese ceramics found in the tombs at Vohemar dates from the 15th and first half of the 16th century with some dating back to the 14th century or earlier. Our comparative analysis of burial objects at Vohemar shows that locally produced chlorite-schist tripod vessels exhibit remarkable resemblances to ancient Chinese bronze ritual tripod vessels. The objects encountered in the tombs and their positions with respect to the body indicate that the Rasikajy practiced burial rites similar to those practised in the past in China. Our re-evaluation of the literature suggests that communities with Chinese roots were present in northeastern Madagascar prior to the arrival of the first Europeans in 1500 and participated in the Indian Ocean trade network. The demise of the Rasikajy civilisation seems to have occurred in the second half of the 16th century when production of chlorite-schist objects ceased. It is still unclear why this occurred.

Catalogue des vases antiques de terre cuite,

Mode of access: Internet.

Les lois organiques des colonies; documents officiels précédés de notices historiques.

t.1. Colonies britanniques.--t.2. Colonies françaises.--t.3. Colonies françaises (suite) Colonies néerlandaises: Indes orientales néerlandaises; Surinam. Colonies allemandes. Colonie italienne de l'Érythrée. État indépendant du Congo.

Textes cunéiformes.

No general t.-p.; v. 1-3 have no general title.

La face de la terre : (Das antlitz der erde) /

"Épilogue," signed Pierre Termier: v.3 pt. 4, pages [1709]-1724

Histoire générale des voyages, ou, Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre, qui ont été publiées jusqu'à présent dans les différentes langues de toutes les nations connues : ce qui'il y a de plus remarquable, de plus utile et de mieux averé dans les pays ou les voyageurs ont penetré, avec les moeurs des habitans, la religion, les usages, arts, sciences, commerce, manufactures, &c, pour former un systême complet d'histoire & de géographie moderne, qui représente l'état actuel de toutes les nations : enrichi de cartes géographiques et de figures; Tome cinquième

Contiene: Lettre de M. Bellin, ingenieur de la Marine, a M. l'abbé Prevost. - Premiere partie, Livre quatriéme, Premiers voyages des anglois aux Indes Orientales, entrepris par une compagnie de marchands. - [ Se incluyen los viajes de los ingleses: Sir Henri Middleton 1610-1612, Dounton 1610-1615, Hippon 1611-12, Floris 1611-15, Castleton 1612-14, Saris 1611-1614].

Histoire générale des voyages, ou, Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre, qui ont été publiées jusqu'à présent dans les différentes langues de toutes les nations connues : ce qui'il y a de plus remarquable, de plus utile et de mieux averé dans les pays ou les voyageurs ont penetré, avec les moeurs des habitans, la religion, les usages, arts, sciences, commerce, manufactures, &c, pour former un systême complet d'histoire & de géographie moderne, qui représente l'état actuel de toutes les nations : enrichi de cartes géographiques et de figures; Tome vingt-neuviéme.

Contiene: Avertissement. - Premiere partie, Suite du Livre IV, Description de la Tartarie, le Tibet, laukkarie et a la Chine. - Seconde partie, Livre premier, Voyages des hollandois aux Indes Orientales. - [Se incluyen los relatos de Gerbillon en 1697-8, Houtman en 1595-7, Van Neck en 1598].