Brian B Schmidt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3623954 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian B Schmidt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian B |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmidt |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMIDT B B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Materiality of Power
Were there countervailing cosmic realms ruled by Yahweh and Asherah in late pre-exilic Israel? Brian B. Schmidt presents five case studies corroborating the existence of a daimonic realm replete with intermediary protective spirits and a pandemonium that wreaked havoc upon both the living and dead. Having converged with Egypts protective deities Bes and Beset, YHWH and Asherah also possessed the enhanced powers to govern a counteractive apotropai…
The materiality of power
"Were there countervailing cosmic realms ruled by Yahweh and Asherah in late pre-exilic Israel? Brian B. Schmidt presents five case studies corroborating the existence of a daimonic realm replete with intermediary protecticve spirits and a pandemonium that wreaked havoc upon both the living and dead. Having converged with Egypt's protective deities Bes and Beset, YHWH and Asherah also possessed the enhanced powers to govern a counteractive apotro…
Contextualizing Israel’s Sacred Writing
Contextualizing Israel's sacred writings
"Situated historically between the invention of the alphabet, on the one hand, and the creation of ancient Israel's sacred writings, on the other, is the emergence of literary production in the ancient Levant. In this timely collection of essays by an international cadre of scholars, the dialectic between the oral and the written, the intersection of orality with literacy, and the advent of literary compositions are each explored as a prelude to …
The Iron Age Pithoi Drawings From Horvat Teman or Kuntillet 'Ajrud
Did the Israelites and Judahites of the Iron age visually represent their gods? In this article, established arguments are supplemented and some new ones advanced in support of a single, ancient composer's representation of the deities Yahweh and Asherah by means of the deliberate association of text and image on the two pithoi scenes from Iron age Kuntillet 'Ajrud. Not only were the ancient artist and scribe one and the same, but this individual…
Afterlife Beliefs
Israel's Beneficent Dead
Israel's Beneficent Dead
Preface Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Mortuary Rites: A Descriptive Glossary Chapter 2. The Extra-biblical Textual Evidence from Syria-Palestine: The Late Third to Early Second Millennia B.C.E. 2.1 The Evidence from Ebla 2.2 The Evidence from Mari Chapter 3. The Extra-biblical Textual Evidence from Syria-Palestine: The Mid to Late Second Millennium B.C.E. 3.1 The Evidence from Ugarit 3.2 The Evidence from Nuzi and Emar Chapter 4. The Text…
The Dead Sea Scrolls. Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Texts with English Translations 1
Israel's Beneficent Dead
Did the ancient Israelites perform rituals expressive of the belief in the supernatural beneficent power of the dead? Contrary to long held notions of primitive society and the euhemeristic origin of the divine, various factors indicate that the ancestor cult, that is, ancestor veneration or worship, was not observed in the Iron Age Levant. The Israelites did not adopt an ancient Canaanite ancestor cult that became the object of biblical scorn. Y…
The Iron Age Pithoi Drawings From Horvat Teman or Kuntillet 'Ajrud
Did the Israelites and Judahites of the Iron age visually represent their gods? In this article, established arguments are supplemented and some new ones advanced in support of a single, ancient composer's representation of the deities Yahweh and Asherah by means of the deliberate association of text and image on the two pithoi scenes from Iron age Kuntillet 'Ajrud. Not only were the ancient artist and scribe one and the same, but this individual…
Afterlife Beliefs
Israel's Beneficent Dead
Did the ancient Israelites perform rituals expressive of the belief in the supernatural beneficent power of the dead? Contrary to long held notions of primitive society and the euhemeristic origin of the divine, various factors indicate that the ancestor cult, that is, ancestor veneration or worship, was not observed in the Iron Age Levant. The Israelites did not adopt an ancient Canaanite ancestor cult that became the object of biblical scorn. Y…
The Dead Sea Scrolls. Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Texts with English Translations 1
Israel's Beneficent Dead
Preface Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Mortuary Rites: A Descriptive Glossary Chapter 2. The Extra-biblical Textual Evidence from Syria-Palestine: The Late Third to Early Second Millennia B.C.E. 2.1 The Evidence from Ebla 2.2 The Evidence from Mari Chapter 3. The Extra-biblical Textual Evidence from Syria-Palestine: The Mid to Late Second Millennium B.C.E. 3.1 The Evidence from Ugarit 3.2 The Evidence from Nuzi and Emar Chapter 4. The Text…
Israel's Beneficent Dead
Afterlife Beliefs
The Iron Age Pithoi Drawings From Horvat Teman or Kuntillet 'Ajrud
Did the Israelites and Judahites of the Iron age visually represent their gods? In this article, established arguments are supplemented and some new ones advanced in support of a single, ancient composer's representation of the deities Yahweh and Asherah by means of the deliberate association of text and image on the two pithoi scenes from Iron age Kuntillet 'Ajrud. Not only were the ancient artist and scribe one and the same, but this individual…
Contextualizing Israel’s Sacred Writing
Contextualizing Israel's sacred writings
"Situated historically between the invention of the alphabet, on the one hand, and the creation of ancient Israel's sacred writings, on the other, is the emergence of literary production in the ancient Levant. In this timely collection of essays by an international cadre of scholars, the dialectic between the oral and the written, the intersection of orality with literacy, and the advent of literary compositions are each explored as a prelude to …
The materiality of power
"Were there countervailing cosmic realms ruled by Yahweh and Asherah in late pre-exilic Israel? Brian B. Schmidt presents five case studies corroborating the existence of a daimonic realm replete with intermediary protecticve spirits and a pandemonium that wreaked havoc upon both the living and dead. Having converged with Egypt's protective deities Bes and Beset, YHWH and Asherah also possessed the enhanced powers to govern a counteractive apotro…
The Materiality of Power
Were there countervailing cosmic realms ruled by Yahweh and Asherah in late pre-exilic Israel? Brian B. Schmidt presents five case studies corroborating the existence of a daimonic realm replete with intermediary protective spirits and a pandemonium that wreaked havoc upon both the living and dead. Having converged with Egypts protective deities Bes and Beset, YHWH and Asherah also possessed the enhanced powers to govern a counteractive apotropai…
Biblical Studies and Interpretation (7 works) · History (6 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (3 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Antiquity (3 works) · Cult (3 works) · Development, Ethics, and Society (3 works)