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Article Aksum and International Trade in Antiquity The earliest documentary witness to Aksum survives in the Periplus of the Erythrean Sea (or “The Circumnavigation of the Erythrean Sea”), the composition of which can confidently be dated to the middle of the first century (Bowersock 1971, 223). The title of the text is somewhat misleading, since,…

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Article The earliest Arabic translations of Jacob of Serugh are attested in Melkite manuscripts from the Monastery of St. Catherine on Sinai. For Jacob of Serugh in these manuscripts, see: the important study of S. Khalil Samir, “Un exemple des contacts culturels entre les églises syriaques et arabes: Jacques de Saroug dans la tradition arabe,”…

Article Although much of the earlier literature took for granted a pre-Christian Jewish presence in Ethiopia, as well as a pre-Christian origin of the Bēta ʾƎsrāʾēl, these assumptions have been called into serious question since at least the 1960s by such scholars as Maxime Rodinson (Rodinson 1963; idem 1964), Steven Kaplan (Kaplan 1988; idem 1992),…

The majority of subjects fall into the category of “average adults” (30-50 years old), except for Punic men, whose age at death seems to have been noticeably later than that of Protohistoric men in Algeria (52.6% of punic men were older than 50 at their death vs 27.6% for alger.) The nose is moderately wide…

The idea that they lived there after the Hyksos period is unknown, but there is some evidence that there is a connection between the Hyksos and the Hebrews. Peter Clayton’s book Chronicle of the Pharaohs (1994) shows that two Hyksos pharaohs had names that sounded like Jakob. There was Yakubher in Dynasty 15 and Yakobaam…

The short answer is that ancient Egypt was VERY rich. ‘Egypt, Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times’ by Donald B. Redford (Princeton,1993) can serve as a re-orientation of point-of-view (if you are willing to read some dense material), from what is presented in biblical narratives. Egypt was a superpower in the ancient world from earliest…