From the Eisenbrauns website. They are running a contest for Valentine's Day but the catch is to write your valentine greetings in ancient near eastern languages (hebrew, aramaic, akkadian, sumerian etc but they allowed greek). hey, those who know at least hebrew get your thinking caps on! No mention of what prizes will be but hopefully or probably a book on ancient sumerian love songs or a hebrew version of Song of Songs.
Love is in the air! We're looking for a few good scholars to display
both eros and erudition in our first (and possibly last!) Ancient Near
Eastern Valentine's contest.
We want no more than three of your original[*] compositions, in any
ancient Near Eastern language (we'll bend the rules a bit and allow
Greek), accompanied by an English translation. Artwork is similarly
welcome. All entries should be sent via e-mail to akerr at eisenbrauns
dot com before noon on Wednesday, February 13.
The decisions of the judges will be final and, most likely, extremely
arbitrary. Prizes will be given. Winners will be announced on February
14, 2008, and winning entries will be showcased on the Eisenbrauns
website. Submitting an entry constitutes permission to reproduce your
work.
[*] We have memorized the entire corpus of Near Eastern poetry, and will
be watching for cheating. OK, we haven't -- but someone out there will
catch you at it if your words are not your own, and that wouldn't be
good. So don't.
Have fun with it!
James
________________________________
James Spinti
Marketing Director, Book Sales Division
Eisenbrauns, Good books for more than 30 years
Specializing in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Studies
jspinti at eisenbrauns dot com
Web: http://www.eisenbrauns.com
Phone: 574-269-2011 ext 226
Fax: 574-269-6788
Love is in the air! We're looking for a few good scholars to display
both eros and erudition in our first (and possibly last!) Ancient Near
Eastern Valentine's contest.
We want no more than three of your original[*] compositions, in any
ancient Near Eastern language (we'll bend the rules a bit and allow
Greek), accompanied by an English translation. Artwork is similarly
welcome. All entries should be sent via e-mail to akerr at eisenbrauns
dot com before noon on Wednesday, February 13.
The decisions of the judges will be final and, most likely, extremely
arbitrary. Prizes will be given. Winners will be announced on February
14, 2008, and winning entries will be showcased on the Eisenbrauns
website. Submitting an entry constitutes permission to reproduce your
work.
[*] We have memorized the entire corpus of Near Eastern poetry, and will
be watching for cheating. OK, we haven't -- but someone out there will
catch you at it if your words are not your own, and that wouldn't be
good. So don't.
Have fun with it!
James
________________________________
James Spinti
Marketing Director, Book Sales Division
Eisenbrauns, Good books for more than 30 years
Specializing in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Studies
jspinti at eisenbrauns dot com
Web: http://www.eisenbrauns.com
Phone: 574-269-2011 ext 226
Fax: 574-269-6788
Comments
I can write in english only..sigh...
Jack
you can enter the contest in greek as they allow greek. try using an online translator to translat from english into greek (or get dr lky to translate for you).