Bulletin of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan
Online ISSN : 1884-1406
Print ISSN : 0030-5219
ISSN-L : 0030-5219
Volume 9, Issue 4
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  • Shinji MAEJIMA
    1966 Volume 9 Issue 4 Pages 1-14,140
    Published: 1966
    Released on J-STAGE: March 12, 2010
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    The activities of Nuri ash-Shaalaan, the grand chief of Ruala Bedouin tribe in Syrian Desert, during the 1st world war was vividly described by T. E. Lawrence in his Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Therefore the life of this old warrior became very popular among the people who are interested in the modern history of the Arab countries. However, the account of the same hero by the late Colonel Keiji Sahara, who explored the Arab lands twice during the time between the 1st and 2nd world wars, has been hitherto quite neglected, or rather forgotten even by his compatriots. I have already made public an article “Arabia and Nejd horses” in the “Saudi Arabia”, the magazine of the Saudi Arabian Society in Japan, No. 21, April 1967, and through it I tried to introduce Mr. Sahara's reports about the thoroughbred horses of Arabia.
    This time, I intend to introduce from the standpoint of historical evaluation the idformation of his interview with ash-Shaalaan and his eldest son. I think that, though it is not so colorful as that of T. E. Lawrence, it is still worthy of note because it is probably one of very few pictures in his later days of this friend of Lawrence of Arabia.
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  • Von Isaku MATSUDA
    1966 Volume 9 Issue 4 Pages 15-30,141
    Published: 1966
    Released on J-STAGE: March 12, 2010
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    Der Verfasser überträgt den in LXX, in fünf syrischen Psalmen und in 11QPss überlieferten “Ps. 151” mit kurzer Einleitung und sprachlichen Anmerkungen ins Japanische. Über die umstrittenen Zeilen 5-8 des 11QPs28 schlägt er unter anderem nach Prinzip des “parallelismus membrorum” und in Hinsicht auf die anderen Texte eine neue Auffassung vor, die der auf S. 22f umgeschriebene Text und die folgende deutsche Übersetzung zeigen würden:
    5So gab ich Jahwe die Ehre.
    Ich sagte in meiner Seele:
    Die Berge zeugen nicht 6für mich
    Und die Hügel berichten nicht über mich;
    Weder die Bäume meine Worte,
    Noch die Schafe meine Werke.
    7Wer kann überhaupt berichten,
    Wer kann sprechen
    Und wer kann erzählen meine Werke?
    Der Herr des Alles hat gesehen:
    Gott 8des Alles, Er hat gehört
    Und Er hat zugehört.
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  • Nobuaki KUNIYA
    1966 Volume 9 Issue 4 Pages 31-59,142
    Published: 1966
    Released on J-STAGE: March 12, 2010
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    This is anintroduction to the studies of ancient synagogues. The achievements in this particular field by the Palestine Exploration Fund, Deutsche Orient-Geselschaft, the Department of Antiquities of Palestine government, Jewish Palestine Exploration Society, Hebrew University/Jerusalem, Ecole Biblique et Archéologique Française, Yale University, the Department of Antiquities of Israel Government, and Louis Rabinowitz Fund are chronologically described. Thus synagogues at Na'aran, Beth Alpha, Jerash, el Hammeh, Dura-Europos, Tell-es-Sultan, Eshtemo'a, Caesarea, Aegina, Salbit, Ma'on etc. are introduced. General development of the style of synagogue architecture is also briefly discussed.
    The writer expresses his gratitude to Prof. M. Avi-Yonah of Hebrew University, Jerusalem, for providing valuable materials and information.
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  • Sakae SHIBAYAMA
    1966 Volume 9 Issue 4 Pages 61-114,143
    Published: 1966
    Released on J-STAGE: March 12, 2010
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    The excavations at Ugarit have produced a host of prose and list texts in Ugaritic and Akkadian ranging from royal letters to economical or administrative lists. Most of the Akkadian texts deal with the royal circle and international affairs. In fact, the Akkadian texts published by Jean Nougayrol in PRU III and IV inform us that Ugarit is one of the best known city-states of antiquity with respect to both of the internal and external political life.
    This study, however, is to observe the political and economical situations of Ugarit in the ancient Near East World, principally by the use of Ugaritic texts—administrative, political and economical—newly published. The admimistrative documents give us a good picture of the society and its relation to, and regulation by, the government. Aside from the peasants and herdsmen, the people tended to be grouped according to hereditary guilds. Among them there are many groups of, foreign people possibly of craftsmen and merchants. In PRU V, 59 the King of Tyre reports to the King of Ugarit that the Ugaritic ships bound for Egypt sank in a storm off Tyre. PRU V 60 is a letter from the Hittite Emperor to King Ammurapi of Ugarit, alluding to food shortages in Ugarit and to the presence of an enemy. These show us that the political situation of Ugarit was greatly influenced by the political conditions between Hittite and Egypt, and that, nevertheless, Ugarit used to be highly esteemed as an important transit port or city-state all over the ancient world through 1400-1200 B. C. and that she, therefore, enjoyed a free trade with the areas covering Egypt, Hittite, Mesopotamia and even the Aegean.
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  • Ichiro KATO
    1966 Volume 9 Issue 4 Pages 115-120,144
    Published: 1966
    Released on J-STAGE: March 12, 2010
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    The very fact m_??_'t is justice, order and truth at the same time shows the conceptions of ancient Egyptians as to the universe, the world and the society as well as the state. The pharaoh had m_??_'t as center of divine authorities whereas there was no code of law such as developed in Mesopotamia.
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    1966 Volume 9 Issue 4 Pages 120
    Published: 1966
    Released on J-STAGE: March 12, 2010
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  • Masataka Okazaki
    1966 Volume 9 Issue 4 Pages 121-130
    Published: 1966
    Released on J-STAGE: March 12, 2010
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