Aramaean Borders

Defining Aramaean Territories in the 10th - 8th Centuries B.C.E.
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39852-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 101, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 715 g

Reihe: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East

This book is devoted to the analysis of borders of the Aramaean polities and territories during the 10th–8th centuries B.C.E. Specialists dealing with various types of documents (Neo-Assyrian, Aramaic, Phoenician, Neo-Hittite and Hebrew texts), invited by Jan Dušek and Jana Mynárová, addressed the topic of the borders of the Aramaean territories in the context of the history of three geographical areas during the first three centuries of the 1st millennium B.C.E.: northern Mesopotamia and the Assyrian space, northern Levant, and southern Levant. The book is particularly relevant to those interested in the history and historical geography of the Levant during the Iron Age.

“Studies directly relevant to ancient Israel and others demonstrating historical geography’s limitations make an instructive volume.”

-Alan Millard, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 44.5 (2020)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dusek, Jan

Dušek, Jan

Myná&

Mynárová, Jana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Umweltgeschichte & Umweltarchäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part 1: Aramaeans and Assyria

1 At the Limits of Historical Geography: Reconstructing Aramaean Territories in the West according to the Neo-Assyrian Written Sources

Ariel M. Bagg

2 A People Without Borders? Tracing the Shifting Identities and Territorialities of the Ahlameans

Alexander J. Edmonds

3 The Tell Fekheriye Inscription and the Western Assyrian Border in the Late 9th Century B.C.E.

Jana Mynárová & Jan Dušek

4 The Aramaean Presence in the Northern Zagros during the Middle and Neo-Assyrian Periods

Dlshad A. Marf

5 Gurraeans and Itu'aeans in the Service of the Assyrian Empire

Mikko Luukko

Part 2: Aramaeans and Northern and Central Levant

6 Aramaean Borders: The Hieroglyphic Luwian Evidence

Zsolt Simon

7 What Do We Know about the Borders and Exchanges between Aram and Phoenicia in the 9th–8th Centuries B.C.E. in Anatolia and Syria?

Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo

8 The Kingdom of Arpad/Bit-Agusi: Its Capital, and Its Borders

Jan Dušek

9 The Fluctuating Borders of Hamath (10th–8th Centuries B.C.E.)

Matthieu Richelle

Part 3: Aramaeans and Southern Levant

10 Biblical Sobah: A Location Attempt

Gaby Abousamra

11 The Boundary between the Aramaean Kingdom of Damascus and the Kingdom of Israel

André Lemaire

12 Borders between Aram-Damascus and Israel: A Historical Investigation

Wolfgang Zwickel

Index of geographical names, ancient and modern

Über Autor(innen)

Doc. Jan Dušek, Ph.D. (2005), École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, works as a researcher at the Charles University in Prague. He has published on the Aramaic epigraphy including Les manuscrits araméens du Wadi Daliyeh et la Samarie vers 450-332 av. J.-C. (Brill, 2007), and Aramaic and Hebrew Inscriptions from Mt. Gerizim and Samaria between Antiochus III and Antiochus IV Epiphanes (Brill, 2012).

Doc. PhDr. Jana Mynárová, Ph.D. (2004), Charles University, Prague, is Associate Professor of Egyptology at the Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague. She specializes in the relations between Egypt and the Ancient Near East in the 2nd millennium B.C.E. with special attention given to the corpus of the Amarna tablets (Language of Amarna - Language of Diplomacy. Perspectives on the Amarna Letters, Charles University, 2007).