Northern ʼAjlûn, "within the Decapolis"
Author | : Gottlieb Schumacher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Excavations (Archaeology) |
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Author | : Gottlieb Schumacher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Excavations (Archaeology) |
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Author | : Gottlieb Schumacher |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2010-08-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108017576 |
Gottlieb Schumacher (1857-1925) was an American-born German civil engineer, architect and archaeologist who was influential in the early archaeological explorations of Palestine. His parents were members of the Temple Association, a Protestant group who emigrated to Haifa in 1869. After studying engineering in Stuttgart between 1876 and 1881, Schumacher returned to Haifa and soon assumed a leading role in surveying and construction in the region. First published in 1890 for the Palestine Exploration Fund, this volume contains the results of Schumacher's survey of Northern 'Alj-n in present-day Jordan. This region contains the cities of the ancient Decapolis, a group of Hellenistic cities which were centres of Greek and Roman culture. In this volume Schumacher describes the contemporary villages and ancient ruins in this area, and includes the results of the first surveys of the ancient Decapolis cities of Gadara, Arbela and the disputed site of Capitolias.
Author | : Gottlieb Schumacher |
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Release | : 1890 |
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Author | : Jenny Cheshire |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-07-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521117159 |
Dr Cheshire's fieldwork concentrates on phonological variation in spontaneous everyday conversation. She interviews a group of non-standard English speakers living in Reading, Berkshire. Her data provides a basis for a perceptive analysis of variation in contemporary English and of the nature and function of variation in general. She specifically focuses on morphological and syntactic variation, and thus also provides a valid description between standard English and a variety used by working-class speakers, which will interest not only linguists including sociolinguists and dialectologists, but many workers in education. Linguistic and social constraints on variation are established, and the analysis also demonstrates how speakers are able to exploit the resources of the language system to convey social meaning. The data Dr Cheshire has collected are in themselves an important contribution to the study of language in its social context, whilst the analysis has significant theoretical implications for diachronic and synchronic linguistics.
Author | : Claude Reignier Conder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Excavations (Archaeology) |
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Author | : G. J. Ouseley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1923 |
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Total Pages | : 730 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Jews |
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Author | : David A. McDonald |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2013-11-06 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0822378280 |
In My Voice Is My Weapon, David A. McDonald rethinks the conventional history of the Palestinian crisis through an ethnographic analysis of music and musicians, protest songs, and popular culture. Charting a historical narrative that stretches from the late-Ottoman period through the end of the second Palestinian intifada, McDonald examines the shifting politics of music in its capacity to both reflect and shape fundamental aspects of national identity. Drawing case studies from Palestinian communities in Israel, in exile, and under occupation, McDonald grapples with the theoretical and methodological challenges of tracing "resistance" in the popular imagination, attempting to reveal the nuanced ways in which Palestinians have confronted and opposed the traumas of foreign occupation. The first of its kind, this book offers an in-depth ethnomusicological analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, contributing a performative perspective to the larger scholarly conversation about one of the world's most contested humanitarian issues.
Author | : Solomon (bp. of Basra) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 1886 |
Genre | : Bible |
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Author | : David Kennedy |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2013-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472537742 |
During the Long Classical Millennium (fourth century BC to eighth century AD), Northwest Jordan was part of two worlds, looking west to the Mediterranean as well as east towards the Arabian desert. It was not only a collection of distinctive micro-regions but a 'virtual island', isolated by geography on all sides. Here one finds historical and archaeological data of an intensity and quality probably superior to that of any region in the Near East other than Israel. This book exploits some of that evidence to explain the character of an unusual region with a dense network of cities and an unexpected surge of settlement which reached a peak and extent not encountered again until the mid-twentieth century. It explores and develops some of the principal themes one may investigate for the region of Northwest Jordan, but which often apply to the Near East as a whole.