Life and loyalty : : a study in the socio-religious culture of Syria and Mesopotamia in the Graeco-Roman period based on epigraphical evidence / / by Klaas Dijkstra.
The formula 'for the life of' is often found in votive inscriptions, cast in Aramaic and other languages, which originate from the Syrian-Mesopotamian desert and adjacent areas and which roughly date from the first three centuries A.D. They belong to objects like statues and altars that us...
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| Superior document: | Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, Volume 128 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, New York ;, Köln, [Germany] : : Brill,, 1995. ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 1995 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ;
Volume 128. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary material
- INTRODUCTION
- FOR THE LIFE OF ... KINGS: THE NABATAEAN PERCEPTION AND EMPLOYMENT OF THE FORMULA
- FOR THE LIFE OF ... ‘FAMILY’: THE PALMYRENE PERCEPTION AND EMPLOYMENT OF THE FORMULA
- FOR THE LIFE OF ... WHOEVER: THE HATRENE PERCEPTION AND EMPLOYMENT OF THE FORMULA
- FOR THE LIFE OF ...: INCIDENTAL FINDINGS AND GREEK AND LATIN EQUIVALENTS
- CONCLUSIONS
- ASSESSING DIODORUS’ AND STRABO’S ACCOUNTS ON THE NABATAEANS
- ABOUT TRANSLATING ARAMAIC ʿl ḥyy
- SOME REMARKS ON EPITHETHS OF NABATAEAN ROYAL DEITIES
- THE MEANING OF ʾʾ AND ʾʾt IN THE NABATAEAN CONTEXT
- OBODAS THE GOD
- PALMYRENE DEDICATORY INSCRIPTIONS ON INCENSE-BURNERS
- PALMYRENE HONORIFIC INSCRIPTIONS
- TWO TENTATIVE HATRENE FAMILY-TREES
- LATIN AND GREEK INSCRIPTIONS FROM THE FERTILE CRESCENT EMPLOYING AN EQUIVALENT OF THE ARAMAIC FORMULA ʿl ḥyy
- REFERENCES
- EPIGRAPHICAL INDEX
- RELIGIONS IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD.