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Josephus, Antiquities 10.180–82, Jeremiah, and Nebuchadnezzar
Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 2013 Scholars have long pointed to Josephus, Ant. 10.180–182 as evidence that Nebuchadnezzar campaigned in the Levant in his twenty-third year (582 B.C.E.), but have not determined the viability of this passage as a historical source. Extant Greek sources do
Craig W. Tyson
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Geoarchaeology, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 375-395, July/August 2024.Abstract A spring tunnel is an ancient water installation used to artificially increase the water yield of a spring through a subterranean tunnel. We have developed a database of 216 spring tunnels documented in the central region of the Southern Levant (present‐day Israel), constructed between Iron Age II and the modern era.
Azriel Yechezkel +4 more
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A Letter that Killeth: Gregory of Nyssa on How (Not) to Read Scripture, Platonically
Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 147-171, January 2024.Abstract In this essay, I explore the emergence of multicolumn Bibles in late antiquity, with a particular emphasis on Origen's Hexapla and its use by Gregory of Nyssa. I contextualise Gregory's use of multicolumn Bibles within the Origenian tradition and show that, in this intellectual context, multicolumn Bibles functioned as hermeneutical rather ...
ISIDOROS C. KATSOS
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Complexity, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.Image encryption schemes are predominantly software‐based. Only a select few have been implemented in real‐life communication systems. This paper introduces a novel chaotic image encryption scheme based on a modified Z‐order curve, a modified Josephus problem, and an improved Vigenère cipher–based ribonucleic acid (RNA) operation. It is implemented and
S. B. Nono Fotso +5 more
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Permuting operations on strings: Their permutations and their primes [PDF]
, 2009 We study some length-preserving operations on strings that permute the symbol positions in strings. These operations include some well-known examples (reversal, circular or cyclic shift, shuffle, twist, operations induced by the Josephus problem) and ...
Asveld, Peter R.J.
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Broadening the New Perspective on Paul: Paul and the Ethnographical Debate of His Time—The Criticism of Jewish and Pagan Ancestral Customs (1 Thess 2:13-16) [PDF]
, 2010 George H. van Kooten, “Broadening the New Perspective on Paul: Paul and the Ethnographical Debate of His Time—The Criticism of Jewish and Pagan Ancestral Customs (1 Thess 2:13-16),” in Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites: Jewish, Christian, and ...
Kooten, George H. van,
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Shamgar, son of Anath, in the Josephus Flavius’ “Antiquitates Judaicae”
Ruch Biblijny i Liturgiczny, 2014 Although Shamgar is described as deliverer of Israel in Judg 3:31, all the regular elements in the description of the work of Israel’s judges seems to be lacking there (for example, the official titles שפט or מושיע).
Łukasz Toboła
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Slaying the dragon: mythmaking in the biblical tradition [PDF]
, 1993 Reviewed Book: Batto, Bernard F. Slaying the dragon: mythmaking in the biblical tradition.
DeBoer, Catherine
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What happened to Kemosh? [PDF]
, 2016 What happened to Kemosh in the era after Moab’s loss of political independence? The present article first argues that this question is of interest to scholarship on the Hebrew Bible because Kemosh and Yhwh were initially twinlike: both were patron ...
Collin Cornell
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Layers of powers: societies and institutions in Europe [PDF]
, 2010 Historians and social scientists have offered many and varied definitions of the term “community”. This chapter focuses on specific examples of face-to-face or local communities in order to test the possibilities and limits of the two major analytical ...
Amelang, J. +4 more
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