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  • The Idols of ISIS

    From Assyria to the Internet

    In 2015, the Islamic State released a video of men smashing sculptures in Iraq's Mosul Museum as part of a mission to cleanse the world of idolatry. This book unpacks three key facets of that event: the status and power of images, the political importance of museums, and the efficacy of videos in furthering an ideological agenda through the internet.Beginning with the Islamic State's claim that ... Leer más

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  • Baal and the Politics of Poetry

    Series series The Ancient Word
    Baal and the Politics of Poetry provides a thoroughly new interpretation of the Ugaritic Baal Cycle that simultaneously inaugurates an innovative approach to studying ancient Near Eastern literature within the political context of its production. The book argues that the poem, written in the last decades of the Bronze Age, takes aim at the reigning political-theological norms of its day and uses ... Leer más

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  • Idol Anxiety

    This interdisciplinary collection of essays addresses idolatry, a contested issue that has given rise to both religious accusations and heated scholarly disputes. Idol Anxiety brings together insightful new statements from scholars in religious studies, art history, philosophy, and musicology to show that idolatry is a concept that can be helpful in articulating the ways in which human beings ... Leer más

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  • La destruction des idoles

    D'Abraham à l'État islamique

    Alors que les technologies numériques et les médias sociaux ont transformé nos imaginaires, comment naviguer entre iconoclasme et idolâtrie? En 2015, une vidéo largement diffusée sur les réseaux sociaux suscitait l'indignation de la communauté internationale: on y voyait des hommes en train de saccager le musée de Mossoul. L'État islamique affichait aux yeux du monde sa détermination à lutter ... Leer más

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  • Notes on a Century

    Reflections of a Middle East Historian

    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Went Wrong? tells the story of his extraordinary lifeAfter September 11, Americans who had never given much thought to the Middle East turned to Bernard Lewis for an explanation, catapulting What Went Wrong? and later Crisis of Islam to become number one bestsellers. He was the first to warn of a coming "clash of civilizations," a term he coined in ... Leer más

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  • Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?

    de Norman Golb ...
    Dr. Norman Golb's classic study on the origin of the Dead Sea Scrolls is now available online.Since their earliest discovery in 1947, the Scrolls have been the object of fascination and extreme controversy.Challenging traditional dogma, Golb has been the leading proponent of the view that the Scrolls cannot be the work of a small, desert-dwelling fringe sect, as various earlier scholars had ... Leer más

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  • And Then God Created the Middle East and Said 'Let There Be Breaking News'

    de Karl reMarks ...
    `You may wonder why the Middle East gets so much airtime. Well, regions of the world were competing to host the apocalypse and the Middle East won.' Online sensation Karl reMarks disagreed with the idea that reality had become too strange to satirise. Then he read that bin Laden was radicalised by Shakespeare. Since then, Karl has been bringing the best of the Middle East news and views to his ... Leer más

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  • Israelite Religions

    An Archaeological and Biblical Survey

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    Archaeological excavation in the Holy Land has exploded with the resurgence of interest in the historical roots of the biblical Israelites. Israelite Religions offers Bible students and interested lay leaders a survey of the major issues and approaches that constitute the study of ancient Israelite religion. Unique among other books on the subject, Israelite Religions takes the Bible seriously as ... Leer más

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  • The Hebrew Bible

    New Insights and Scholarship

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    In April of 2001, the headline in the Los Angeles Times read, “Doubting the Story of the Exodus.” It covered a sermon that had been delivered by the rabbi of a prominent local congregation over the holiday of Passover. In it, he said, “The truth is that virtually every modern archeologist who has investigated the story of the exodus, with very few exceptions, agrees that the way the Bible ... Leer más

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  • Syria Speaks

    Art and Culture from the Frontline

    In Syria, culture has become the critical line of defence against tyranny. Villagers have joined the cultural frontline alongside urban intellectuals, artists, writers and filmmakers and to create art and literature that challenge official narratives. With contributions by over fifty artists and writers, both established and emerging, Syria Speaks explores the explosion of creativity and free ... Leer más

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  • The Origins of Biblical Monotheism

    Israel's Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts

    de Mark S. Smith ...
    According to the Bible, ancient Israel's neighbors worshipped a wide variety of gods. In recent years, scholars have sought a better understanding of this early polytheistic milieu and its relation to Yahweh, the God of Israel. Drawing on ancient Ugaritic texts and looking closely at Ugaritic deities, Mark Smith examines the meaning of "divinity" in the ancient near East and considers how this ... Leer más

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