The goal of the present paper is to provide a revaluation classification Bedouin dialects Northern Arabia and Southern Levant, based on published or publicly available data first-hand recently collected amongst some tribes in Jordan. We suggest extending previous classifications that identify three types dialects, namely A (ʿnizi), B (šammari), C (šāwi). Although intermediary mixed combining ša...

The article analyzes a poetic dedication to Heracles, found during the archaeological dig in northwestern Greece, Epirus. was made by three warriors from small city of Buchetion, who having joined Roman army participated suppression Aristonicus’ revolt kingdom Pergamon (133–129 BC). inscription supplements our knowledge revolt. In particular, new fact is that Balkan Greece took part war against...

Tree worship is very common worldwide. This field study surveys the ceremonies and customs related to sacred trees in present-day Israel; it includes the results of interviews with 98 informants in thirty-one Arab, Bedouin, and Druze villages in the Galilee. The main results are: 1. Sacred trees were treated as another kind of sacred entity with all their metaphysical as well as physical manife...

BACKGROUND Human brucellosis is common in southern Israel among the semi-nomadic Bedouin, a population that consumes unpasteurized dairy products. Though camel milk ingestion is a known mechanism for brucellosis acquisition, only a few reports of sporadic cases have been published in the medical literature. OBJECTIVES To describe a local brucellosis outbreak in 15 extended Bedouin family memb...

darius offered the political order of “king of kings” to solve the political crisis of his era. he legitimized it based on an order of gods. in his belief, the nature of politics was based on a dualistic religious worldview that is the fight between true divinity and false divinity’s will and performance in the world. in addition, the chief true divinity’s law was introduced as the principle or...