Soliloquium

Butzer, Günter

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“…In the historic period, descriptions of the geography of the area are limited and archaeology is also limited by the burial of early occupation under the sediments deposited on the land surface each year during the Nile inundation. It is likely, however, that the delta as a whole was already settled in the Neolithic period and thus played a key role in the period of state formation around 3100 BC 21 and in the resultant Egyptian state, with the capital Memphis at the apex of the Delta and centre of the first northern nome. In all, twenty cult and administrative centres were established in the delta, with Xois on the Sebennytic branch as the most northern nome centre, as if there were a line across the delta creating a fringe or boundary before the marshlands of the north.…”

Section: Geology and Historical Developmentmentioning

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Human and Deltaic Environments in Northern Egypt in Late Antiquity

Wilson¹

2016

Late Antiq. Archaeol.

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This paper analyses the relationship between archaeological sites from the Roman-Late Roman period in the north-central Delta of Egypt and the palaeotopography and environmental conditions from the 1st millennium BC to 1st millennium AD. The location of the archaeological sites is mapped according to survey maps of the 19th and 20th c. and digital topographic models from satellite data. The Ptolemaic and Roman context for the apparent ‘boom’ in settlement during the late antique period (3rd–7th c. AD) is described to assess the way in which the diverse environments of floodplain, wetland and marsh, and sand-bars were managed, and to propose a possible reconstruction of the ancient landscape. The results of the correlation are discussed in terms of connectivity to waterways, lagoons and the sea, spatial organisation, hierarchy and site function. The way in which the evidence from this time period may provide a potential proxy for understanding earlier and later settlement density is explored. Throughout, the historical trajectory and the environment will provide the background for the development of the Delta in the Medieval and Modern period.

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Human and Deltaic Environments in Northern Egypt in Late Antiquity

Wilson¹

2016

Late Antiq. Archaeol.

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Conversational networks: prophets and kings in the Old Testament

Lee,

Webster

2024

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

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This article analyzes discourse in the Old Testament in terms of the frequency of direct speech between the main characters. We visualize the speakers, the hearers, and the amount of conversation between them in graphs known as conversational networks. We investigate whether these networks can help identify speech genres and significant relationships between biblical kings, prophets, and God. In an analysis on three books in the Minor Prophets, the networks are shown to reveal differences in book structure and speech genres including prophetic call, prayer, vision report, judgment speech, and historical narrative. In an analysis on the books of Samuel and King, the networks are shown to capture the web of relationships between kings and prophets, as well as divine communication with kings and prophets. Furthermore, we demonstrate that a comparison between these networks and their counterparts in Chronicles can visualize some major content differences identified in biblical research. These findings are expected to promote conversational networks as a visualization tool to support quantitative discourse analysis in the Bible.

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Manifestationen Des Geistes

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Soliloquium

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Human and Deltaic Environments in Northern Egypt in Late Antiquity

Human and Deltaic Environments in Northern Egypt in Late Antiquity

Conversational networks: prophets and kings in the Old Testament

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