Название: Camels in the Biblical World (History, Archaeology, and Culture of the Levant)
Автор: Martin Heide, Joris Peters
Издательство: Eisenbrauns
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 432
Размер: 90,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Camels are first mentioned in the Bible as the movable property of Abraham. During the early monarchy, they feature prominently as long-distance mounts for the Queen of Sheba, and almost a millennium later, the Gospels tell us about the impossibility of a camel passing through a needle’s eye. Given the limited extrabiblical evidence for camels before circa 1000 BCE, a thorough investigation of the spatio-temporal history of the camel in the ancient Near and Middle East is necessary to understand their early appearance in the Hebrew Bible.