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Tables of Contents for Israel and Hellas
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Author's Preface
v
Abbreviations and Bibliography (Cumulative)
xv
Errata to Vol. I
xxvii
Men of the Land and the God of Justice
1
53
City, fields, hills
2
7
Cultivated plants
9
6
Domesticated animals
15
6
The crisis of land-tenure
21
11
The poetry of justice
32
10
The High God
32
4
the shepherd
36
4
sacral immunity
40
2
The personification of justice
42
5
Land transport: the ass and its sacks
47
7
The High God and the Elements
54
27
The elements in general
59
3
Thunder and lightning
62
6
Snow and hail
68
2
Rain and dew
70
9
Summary
79
2
Divine Kingship, Civic Institutions, Imperial Rule
81
54
Divine kingship
87
10
Structure of the city and dispersal of the king's power
97
14
Dyarchy
101
4
council of thirty
105
2
the assembly
107
4
Restoration of divine monarchy under Rome
111
3
Christ and Caesar
114
21
Excursus F: Hamilcar Barca and Hannibal in Punic
119
11
Excursus G: The cairn and the pillar
130
5
Archery and its Symbolism
135
19
Technology of the bow and arrow
135
5
The word for ``arrows'' in ancient languages
140
1
The arrow as bearing poison and pestilence
141
2
The High God's surrogate as sender of plague
143
2
Lightning and snow as the arrow of the High God
145
1
The bow of the High God in the cloud
146
3
The broken bow
149
2
The bow and the quiver
151
2
The bow and the lyre
153
1
The Mediterranean Seer and Shamanism
154
45
Shamanistic traits of the mediterranean seer
157
9
Third sex
157
2
handicapped
159
2
hysteric
161
2
spirit-journey
163
3
the drum
166
1
The birth and death of the seer
166
3
The seer with his torch as rainmaker
169
8
The seer as hibernating and risen bear
177
8
The seer as insightful even in death
185
5
The ``Witch'' of En-Dor, Circe, the Sibyl
190
3
Gergithes and Girgashites
193
6
Sacred Space and Time in Israel and Italy
199
36
The amphictyony of twelve peoples
203
6
Eastern connections of the Etruscans
209
5
The formulas of Greek and Phoenician colonization
214
4
The Magic circle of the city
218
6
Regeneration of metals in the mine
224
4
The saecula of the city and their portents
228
7
The Ark of the Covenant and the Temple of Janus
235
38
Exit to battle, return in triumph
235
5
The ritual declaration of war
240
2
Euocatio
242
5
The crime of Q. Valerius Soranus
247
3
The return of the numen to its home
250
4
The ``triumphal entry'' of Jesus
254
3
The victor assimilated to the god
257
2
Common features of the ``triumphal'' procession
259
8
An axe as representing the divinity
267
6
Levels of Connection Between Greek and Hebrew
273
51
Summary
273
4
Translation, evident and presumed
277
9
Juristic formulas
277
3
proverbs
280
1
epic themes
280
6
Names of rulers and cities
286
1
The shared vocabulary
287
18
Canaanite
291
1
Akkadian
292
1
exotic
293
1
Egyptian
294
2
Iranian
296
1
Anatolian-Aegean
297
3
Mediterranean
300
3
contamination
303
1
old travelling words
304
1
Ethnics and noun-endings
305
10
Masculine eponyms
307
2
masculine plurals
309
2
feminine singulars
311
4
Old agreements between Semitic and Indo-European
315
9
Appendix 2: Additions and Corrections
324
15
Index 1: Words discussed
339
17
Index 2: Texts cited
356
35
Index 3: Objects described
391
2
Index 4: Modern scholars
393
3
Index 5: General
396