Michael C Astour
Biographic Data
| ID | 707338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael C Astour |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael C |
| FAMILY NAME | Astour |
| SIGNATURE | ASTOUR M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1Southern Illinois University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Toponyms of Ebla
I Nomi di luogo...., when used in tandem with Marco Bonechi's I Nomi geografici dei testi di Ebla, provides the student of Eblean toponymy and topography with a valuable tool for the study of third-millennium Syria. Considerable scholarly caution, however, must still be exercised in the analysis of place names from this time and region
The Hurrians . Gernot Wilhelm , Jennifer Barnes , Diana L. Stein
The Cities of Seleukid Syria
Tall al-Ḥamīdīya 2
El-Paran (Place)
[Heb ʾêl pāʾrān]. Place “on the border of the wilderness” reached by Chedorlaomer and his allies after they crossed (from the N) Mount Seir (Gen 14:6). From there they turned back and came to “EnMishpat, that is, Kadesh” (Gen 14:7). These data make it certain that El-Paran corresponds to Elath on th
Eshcol (Person)
[Heb ʾeškōl]. A brother of Aner and Mamre, who were allies of Abram (Gen 14:13, 24; see aner). Eshcol is a personification of the place name nabal ʾeškōl, “valley of grapes” (Num 13:23, 24; 32:9; Deut 1:24) near Hebron in the same way as the name of Mamre, another locality near Hebron, was used as a
Ellasar (Place)
[Heb ʾellāsār]. The domain of ARIOCH, Gen 14:1, 9. The identity and location of Ellasar was already uncertain to ancient interpreters. LXX, Targum Onkelos, and one version of the Palestinian Targum (Cod. Neofiti) simply reproduced the OT form. Targum Ps.-Jonathan rendered it by tl’sr (Telassar), no
Canaanite Toponyms in Ancient Egyptian Documents . Shmuel Ahituv
Rekonstruktion der Reiserouten zur Zeit der altassyrischen Handelsniederlassungen
A Survey in Northeastern Syria
Toponymy of Ebla and Ethnohistory of Northern Syria: A Preliminary Survey
The Ebla tablets provide us with abundant material for reconstructing the earliest known stage of North Syrian toponymy. This paper outlines the geographical, epigraphic, and linguistic problems in analysing and interpreting Eblean place names; discusses the survival of Eblean toponymy in subsequent ages; and reaches the conclusion that, despite the widespread occurrence of certain unusual formative suffixes, the toponymy of Northern Syria in the…
Tall al-Ḥamīdīya 1: Vorbericht 1984
A Dictionary of Arabic Topography and Placenames: A Transliterated Arabic-English Dictionary with an Arabic Glossary of Topographic Words and Placenames
The Name of the Ninth Kassite Ruler
Israelite and Judaean History
Caphtor/Keftiu: A New Investigation
The Rural Community in Ancient Ugarit . Michael Heltzer
The Archaeology of Palestine: A Collective Work
The Cambridge Ancient History: History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c. 1380-1000 B. C
Who Were the Amorites? Alfred Haldar
Religions of the Ancient near East . Helmer Ringgren , John Sturdy
Études sur les dieux phéniciens hérités par l'Empire romain . Robert du Mesnil du Buisson
Ḫattus̆ilis̆, Ḫalab, and Ḫanigalbat
that of Suppiluliuma'. The number, names, and sequence of several Hittite kings of that period depend on its interpretation. The recent reevaluation of the Halab treaty by H. Otten2 brought about a controversy involving such specialists in the field of Hittite studies as A. Goetze,3 H. G. Giiterbock,4 and A. Kammenhuber.5 The interpretation of the treaty is, however, of considerable interest also for the history of other countries mentioned in it…
Les religions du Proche-Orient asiatique: Textes babyloniens, ougaritiques, hittites . René Labat , André Caquot , Maurice Sznycer , Maurice Vieyra
Some Recent Works on Ancient Syria and the Sea People
New Evidence on the Last Days of Ugarit
B. C: The First Assyrian Invasion of Israel
Biblical chronology makes it certain that Jehu's coup d'6tat took place in 841 B.C., the very year he paid tribute to Shalmaneser III, according to that king's records. These events coincided with the Assyrian army's invasion of the Kingdom of Damascus and its subsequent march from Hauran to Mt. Carmel across the territory of Israel. The reference of Hosea 10:14 to the cruel destruction of Beth-Arbel (Irbid in Transjordan) by Shalman shows that t…
Two Ugaritic Serpent Charms
Mesopotamian and Transtigridian Place Names in the Medinet Habu Lists of Ramses III
The topographical lists on the front pylon of Ramses III's great temple at Medinet Habu are among the most extensive Egyptian monuments of that kind.1 The southern tower of the pylon is inscribed with 125 place names in a relatively good state of preservation. They are arranged in three groups: I. 1-39; II. 40-69; III. 70-125.2 The groups I and II are both written from left to right, they continue each other and form one entity that can be design…
Aegean Place-Names in an Egyptian Inscription
The Name of the Ninth Kassite Ruler
Second Millennium B. C. Cypriot and Cretan Onomastica Reconsidered
Place-Names from the Kingdom of Alalaḫ in the North Syrian List of Thutmose III: A Study in Historical Topography
Studies in Biblical and Jewish Folklore
Place-Names from the Kingdom of Alalaḫ in the North Syrian List of Thutmose III: A Study in Historical Topography
Un texte d'Ugarit récemment découvert et ses rapports avec l'origine des cultes bachiques grecs
Astour Michael C. Un texte d'Ugarit récemment découvert et ses rapports avec l'origine des cultes bachiques grecs. In: Revue de l'histoire des religions, tome 164, n°1, 1963. pp. 1-15
Greek Names in the Semitic World and Semitic Names in the Greek World
Second Millennium B. C. Cypriot and Cretan Onomastica Reconsidered
The Origin of the Terms "Canaan," "Phoenician," and "Purple
New Evidence on the Last Days of Ugarit
Hellenosemitica, an Ethnic and Cultural Study in West Semitic Impact on Mycenaean Greece
Hellenosemitica. An Ethnic and Cultural Study in West Semitic Impact on Mycenaean Greece
Aegean Place-Names in an Egyptian Inscription
Folktales of Israel
Some New Divine Names from Ugarit
Shamra (1961) has produced, for the first time since the discovery of the temple library in 1931, a new lot of Ugaritic mythological and ritual texts. Fourteen tablets of mythological, magic or liturgical character will appear in the forthcoming Ugaritica V in autography, transliteration, and commented translation by Charles Virolleaud.' With Professor Virolleaud's kind permission I shall briefly report on some divine characters and names in the …
Ugarit and Minoan Crete: The Bearing of Their Texts on the Origins of Western Culture . Cyrus H. Gordon
Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study . Herbert Bardwell Huffmon
The Problem of Semitic in Ancient Crete
Evidence for the Minoan Language' is a systematic summary of almost a decade of Cyrus H. Gordon's research into the nature of ancient Cretan non-Greek inscriptions, viz., in Linear A and Eteocretan. book consists of an introduction and sixteen tersely written chapters totalling 180 paragraphs. Its style and method of exposition are similar to those of Gordon's Ugaritic grammar.2 Two of the sixteen chapters (I, and XIV, The Phaistos Disc) are devo…
Semitic Elements in the Kumarbi Myth: An Onomastic Inquiry
Interconnections in the Ancient near East: A Study of the Relationships between the Arts of Egypt, the Aegean, and Western Asia . William Stevenson Smith
Two Ugaritic Serpent Charms
Jewish Folk Songs in Yiddish and English
Mesopotamian and Transtigridian Place Names in the Medinet Habu Lists of Ramses III
The topographical lists on the front pylon of Ramses III's great temple at Medinet Habu are among the most extensive Egyptian monuments of that kind.1 The southern tower of the pylon is inscribed with 125 place names in a relatively good state of preservation. They are arranged in three groups: I. 1-39; II. 40-69; III. 70-125.2 The groups I and II are both written from left to right, they continue each other and form one entity that can be design…
The Amorites of the Ur III Period . Giorgio Buccellati
I Ḫurriti . Fiorella Imparati
Die Indo-Arier im alten Vorderasien. Mit einer analytischen Bibliographie . Manfred Mayrhofer
E. L. Sukenik Memorial Volume (1889-1953) . N. Avigad , M. Avi-Yonah , H. Z. Hirschberg , B. Mazar
Ma'Hadu, the Harbor of Ugarit
The Kingdom of Ugarit, after its expansion by Suppiluliuma ), controlled a shoreline from Mt. Casius in the north to Suksi (Tell Siikis) in the south 2). This stretch of coast has a limited number of anchorages 3), and since its nature must have been the same in the Late Bronze Age, it is possible to know the approximate sites of the Ugaritic coastal towns. Can we give to each of these sites its original name ? This can be done by combining the e…
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