The Seventh-Century Prophets in Twenty-first Century Research

This chapter gives an overview of the history of recording and publishing epigraphic sources in Demotic language and script from the Late Period to Greco-Roman Egypt (seventh century bce to third century ce), for example, on stelae, offering tables, coffins, or votive gifts. The history of editing such texts and objects spans over two hundred years. Here, the important steps and pioneering publications on Demotic epigraphy are examined. They start from the beginning of the nineteenth century, when Napoleon’s expedition to Egypt found the Rosetta stone, until the twenty-first century.

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Introduction

Shari'ah on Trial ◽

10.1525/california/9780520293779.003.0007 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Sarah Eltantawi

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Seventh Century ◽

First Century ◽

Washington Dc ◽

Phone Calls ◽

Sokoto Caliphate ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

Sense Of Power

Eltantawi became interested in the case of Amina Lawal in 2002 when she was working in Washington DC in media and communications after the 9-11 attacks and was inundated with media phone calls about Lawal’s trial. This chapter introduces the book’s themes and lays out its guiding framework, the “sunnaic paradigm”: the concerns of Nigeria’s present, read back into the nineteenth century Sokoto Caliphate, which is then read back into the classical, Prophetic period of Islam. The sunnaic paradigm gave a sense of power to Nigerians as they embarked on the 1999 shar’ia experiment to overcome their societies’ significant challenges. The book wrestles throughout with how the seventh century past (birth of Islam) affects the twenty-first century present (demanding shar’ia).

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Hard Money and Soft Money: Currencies and Economies around the World-from the Seventh Century BC to the Twenty-First Century AD

Gold ◽

10.1002/9781119197232.ch2 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 19-45

Keyword(s):

Seventh Century ◽

First Century ◽

Soft Money ◽

The World ◽

Twenty First Century

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Jeremiah Interpretation in Subaltern Context

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190693060.013.42 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 565-578

Author(s):

Bungishabaku Katho

Keyword(s):

Seventh Century ◽

First Century ◽

Book Of Jeremiah ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

The Church

This generation has witnessed a great interest in the study of the book of Jeremiah. Unfortunately, much of this scholarship is unreadable for the church and for ordinary readers because it mainly concentrates on diachronic questions, neglecting pastoral-theological and sociohistorical ones. Yet, the voices one hears in the book of Jeremiah are deeply in touch with the historical realities of the seventh-century bce as well as twenty-first-century situations of poverty, war, injustice, and corruption. The best way to accomplish such interpretation is by acknowledging the valuable tools conceived by the experts of the book of Jeremiah and using these tools in a language understandable to ordinary readers today in their varying contexts.

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