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From the Beginning to the End: How to Generate and Transmit Funerary Texts in Ancient Egypt 从始至终:古埃及陪葬文字的生成与传播

IF 0.1 3区哲学

Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions Pub Date : 2016-03-18 DOI: 10.1163/15692124-12341274

Foy Scalf

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引用次数: 4

Echoes of the Baal Cycle in a Safaito-Hismaic Inscription 萨法托-希斯迈铭文中巴力周期的回声

IF 0.1 3区哲学

Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions Pub Date : 2015-09-17 DOI: 10.1163/15692124-12341267

A. Al‐Jallad

引用次数: 5

Myth and Ritual: An Empirical Approach 神话与仪式:一种实证方法

IF 0.1 3区哲学

Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions Pub Date : 2015-09-17 DOI: 10.1163/15692124-12341270

Noel K. Weeks

引用次数: 2

The Other Version of the Story of the Storm-god’s Combat with the Sea in the Light of Egyptian, Ugaritic, and Hurro-Hittite Texts 埃及、乌加里特和赫罗文字记载的风暴之神与海作战故事的另一个版本

IF 0.1 3区哲学

Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions Pub Date : 2015-09-17 DOI: 10.1163/15692124-12341268

Noga Ayali-Darshan

引用次数: 16

Near Eastern Precedents of the “Orphic” Gold Tablets: The Phoenician Missing Link 近东“奥尔甫斯”金碑的先例:腓尼基人缺失的一环

IF 0.1 3区哲学

Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions Pub Date : 2015-09-17 DOI: 10.1163/15692124-12341269

C. López-Ruiz

引用次数: 7

“The Mutation Peculiar to Hebrew Religion:” Monotheism, Pantheon Reduction, or Royal Adoption of Family Religion? 希伯来宗教特有的突变:一神论，万神殿的减少，还是皇室对家庭宗教的采用?

IF 0.1 3区哲学

Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions Pub Date : 2014-11-24 DOI: 10.1163/15692124-12341263

Seth L. Sanders

引用次数: 1

Aštata: A Case of Hittite Imperial Religious Policy Aštata:赫梯帝国宗教政策案例

IF 0.1 3区哲学

Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions Pub Date : 2014-11-24 DOI: 10.1163/15692124-12341260

A. Archi

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引用次数: 3

The Material Culture of Hittite ‘God-drinking’ 赫梯人“饮神”的物质文化

IF 0.1 3区哲学

Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions Pub Date : 2014-11-24 DOI: 10.1163/15692124-12341261

Y. Heffron

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引用次数: 4

Performing Domination/Theorizing Power: Israelite Prophecy as a Political Discourse beyond the Conflict Model 执行统治/理论化权力:超越冲突模式的以色列预言政治话语

IF 0.1 3区哲学

Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions Pub Date : 2014-11-24 DOI: 10.1163/15692124-12341262

E. Silver

引用次数: 0

Priests, Pollution and the Demonic: Evaluating Impurity in the Hebrew Bible in Light of Assyro-Babylonian Texts 祭司、污染和恶魔:根据亚述-巴比伦文本评价希伯来圣经中的不洁净

IF 0.1 3区哲学

Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions Pub Date : 2014-05-27 DOI: 10.1163/15692124-12341257

Isabel Cranz

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引用次数: 2