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too must die. Having learned the truth of his own destiny, Gilgamesh returns to the land of the living to live out the full life of a mortal. It was necessary to recapitulate the story's essence here in order that we may have it in our minds as we tum to Homer's Odyssey. 8Ibid., page 93, Tablet
of the legend of Mary the Egyptian. Motivating Contexts The legend of Mary the Egyptian achieved a perfected form in the Sophronian vita, a hagiography emphasizing the power of an icon of the Blessed Virgin; the life of Mary the Egyptian could thus be read and employed as a refutation of
Germany in 1889, the range of benefits have grown from a modest pension to a total support system for medical, housing and living needs. In a preamble to the Older Americans Act of 1965, the Congressional declaration of objectives in cluded thefollowing: 1) An adequate income in retirement in accordance
TUBAJEFF, "Zwei Hymnen an Thoth," Z.A.S. 33, 1895. NUMEN, Suppl. XXVI 1 2 INTRODUCTION significance. Still there is reason to wonder whether Hathor and Thoth are not more characteristic of the living, Egyptian piety. The sun-god Re is praised in many hymns, but it is only in the famous hymn of Pharao
the household lifecycle or "life course" produced by preindustrial rates of mortality and fertility. The in- teraction of mortality and fertility rates determines the proportion of the population who would have living kin of a given sex at a given age, and thus the proportion who could be expected
snatching up an unsullied flake and making his pen express the irony of life. (Davies 1917:236) As satire tends to be topical, directed against specific and often transi- tory social or political evils, one would expect its cartoon expression to be a unique and somewhat spontaneous creation, as suggested
the living. '8 Human life, according to these phrases, is more than a mere biological existence: it is always life in society; hence the importance of being able to conduct oneself 'like a prince'. The implication of social superiority only confirms the observation that such statements come from an
pillars has often been interpreted as an open courtyard, although Stager (1985a:15f.), John Holladay (1986), and Ehud Netzer (1992: 197) have all suggested that this area was covered by an upper floor (see figure 4 above), which provided additional space in second-story living quar- ters.2 It has
continued to have an impact. The dead were included in the community of the living. This continuing communion with the earlier generations was manifested and, in a sense, realized through the cult of the ancestors. To fully appreciate the nature of the society constituted by the family, an analysis of the
goal- motivated social action must also be taken into account. 30 Interpretation Theory and Ancient Studies that underlie positivist social science. As a result, processualist criticisms of the hermeneutical view of the relationship between the human and natural sci- ences which might be valid if