Ancient Kingdoms of West Africa: African-centred and Canaanite-Israelite Perspectives ; a Collection of Published and Unpublished Studies in English and French

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J.H.Röll Verlag, 2004 - 586 pages
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Table des matières

e patriarchs of Israel as legendary ancestors of the kings
5
e early kings of KanemBornu according to their cultmythological
247
Preeminent CanaaniteIsraelite deities and Yoruba legendary figures
265
e preIslamic dimension of Hausa history
301
Links between West Africa and the Ancient Orient
321
e CanaaniteIsraelite descent pattern in Ugarit Israel Hausaland
345
e town officials and the three segments of the palace organization
368
STATES OF THE MIDDLE NIGER
377
e Almoravid expansion and the downfall of Ghana
455
Epitaph of the third ruler of GaoSaney Yāmā b Kimā b Zāghē
501
Index
569
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Page 210 - ANET = Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, ed. by JB Pritchard. Princeton 1950; 2nd ed.
Page 198 - You who love the LORD, hate evil! He protects the lives of His godly ones; He rescues them from the hand of the wicked. 1 ' Light dawnsc d for the righteous, gladness for the upright in heart.
Page 191 - If someone's offering is a fellowship offering,6 and he offers an animal from the herd, whether male or female, he is to present before the LORD an animal without defect. 2He is to lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it at the entrance to the Tent...
Page 36 - L'alun avant Phocee: un chapitre d'histoire economique islamo-chretienne au temps des croisades', Revue d'Histoire Economique et Sociale 41 ^1963), pp.
Page 297 - ABD DN Freedman (ed.), The Anchor Bible Dictionary (6 vols., New York: Doubleday, 1992...
Page 152 - Das alte Mali und Ghana: Der Beitrag der Oraltraditionen zur Kritik einer historiographischen Fiktion", Historische Zeitschrift, 255, 3, 585-623.
Page 191 - Season all your grain offerings with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offerings; add salt to all your offerings. 14...
Page 140 - Fezznä and Kawar.8 Indeed, this expedition to an area far away from the Mediterranean world can best be explained if the way had been paved by earlier trade links between the region of Lake Chad and the north.9 The kingdom of Kanem, the emergence of which was partly a consequence of trans-Saharan trade, may therefore have been founded earlier than was hitherto supposed. From the twelfth century onwards Arab writers no longer use the name Zaghäwa with respect to the Central Sudan. Instead they continually...
Page 137 - ... empire. Situated on the crossroads of influences from the Nile valley and North Africa, Kanem-Borno was the major state of the Central Sudan throughout the medieval period. Its domination extended in the south to the Sao principalities and Bagirmi, in the west to Hausaland and in the north to Fezzän. All the other states which emerged in this vast area were the result of secondary developments. To designate this major polity by the term Chadic state seems to be a convenient compression for the...

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