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Author : Joachim Oelsner
Publisher : Ugarit Verlag
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Assyriologica Et Semitica written by Joachim Oelsner and published by Ugarit Verlag. This book was released on 2000 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John P. Nielsen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004189645
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Sons and Descendants written by John P. Nielsen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (ADVA) is an international, peer-reviewed journal that features multidisciplinary scholarship on intersections between visual culture studies and the study of Asian diasporas across the Americas. Perspectives on and from North, Central and South America, as well as the Pacific Islands and the Caribbean are presented in order to encourage a hemispheric transnational approach to diverse visual cultures. Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas is published by Brill (Leiden/Boston) in affiliation with the Asian/Pacific/American Institute, New York University (New York) and the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, Concordia University (Montreal).
Author : Takayoshi Oshima
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161508318
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Babylonian Prayers to Marduk written by Takayoshi Oshima and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2011 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive study of Babylonian prayers dedicated to Marduk, the god of Babylon, since J. Hehn's essay Hymnen und Gebete an Marduk (1905). Marduk was the god of the city of Babylon and was the most important god in Babylonia from the time of Hammurabi (the 18th century BCE) onwards. In this book, Takayoshi Oshima presents an up-to-date catalog of all known Babylonian prayers dedicated to Marduk from different historical periods and offers critical editions of 31 ancient texts based on newly identified manuscripts and a collation of the previously published manuscripts. The author also discusses various aspects of Akkadian prayers to different deities and the ancient belief in the mechanism of punishment and redemption by Marduk.
Author : C. Jay Crisostomo
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004363386
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book "The Scaffolding of Our Thoughts" written by C. Jay Crisostomo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francesca Rochberg has for more than thirty-five years been a leading figure in the study of ancient science. “The Scaffolding of Our Thoughts” honors this luminary with twenty essays, each reflecting on aspects of her work.
Author : Eleanor Robson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691091822
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (918 download)
Download or read book Mathematics in Ancient Iraq written by Eleanor Robson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental book traces the origins and development of mathematics in the ancient Middle East, from its earliest beginnings in the fourth millennium BCE to the end of indigenous intellectual culture in the second century BCE when cuneiform writing was gradually abandoned. Eleanor Robson offers a history like no other, examining ancient mathematics within its broader social, political, economic, and religious contexts, and showing that mathematics was not just an abstract discipline for elites but a key component in ordering society and understanding the world. The region of modern-day Iraq is uniquely rich in evidence for ancient mathematics because its prehistoric inhabitants wrote on clay tablets, many hundreds of thousands of which have been archaeologically excavated, deciphered, and translated. Drawing from these and a wealth of other textual and archaeological evidence, Robson gives an extraordinarily detailed picture of how mathematical ideas and practices were conceived, used, and taught during this period. She challenges the prevailing view that they were merely the simplistic precursors of classical Greek mathematics, and explains how the prevailing view came to be. Robson reveals the true sophistication and beauty of ancient Middle Eastern mathematics as it evolved over three thousand years, from the earliest beginnings of recorded accounting to complex mathematical astronomy. Every chapter provides detailed information on sources, and the book includes an appendix on all mathematical cuneiform tablets published before 2007.
Author : Peter Harrison
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226317838
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Wrestling with Nature written by Peter Harrison and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When and where did science begin? Historians have offered different answers to these questions, some pointing to Babylonian observational astronomy, some to the speculations of natural philosophers of ancient Greece. Others have opted for early modern Europe, which saw the triumph of Copernicanism and the birth of experimental science, while yet another view is that the appearance of science was postponed until the nineteenth century. Rather than posit a modern definition of science and search for evidence of it in the past, the contributors to Wrestling with Nature examine how students of nature themselves, in various cultures and periods of history, have understood and represented their work. The aim of each chapter is to explain the content, goals, methods, practices, and institutions associated with the investigation of nature and to articulate the strengths, limitations, and boundaries of these efforts from the perspective of the researchers themselves. With contributions from experts representing different historical periods and different disciplinary specializations, this volume offers a fresh perspective on the history of science and on what it meant, in other times and places, to wrestle with nature.
Author : Yoram Cohen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004370048
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Scribes and Scholars of the City of Emar in the Late Bronze Age written by Yoram Cohen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to place Emar's scribal school institution within its social and historical context.
Author : Martin Campbell-Kelly
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019154521X
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The History of Mathematical Tables written by Martin Campbell-Kelly and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-10-02 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The oldest known mathematical table was found in the ancient Sumerian city of Shuruppag in southern Iraq. Since then, tables have been an important feature of mathematical activity; table making and printed tabular matter are important precursors to modern computing and information processing. This book contains a series of articles summarising the technical, institutional and intellectual history of mathematical tables from earliest times until the late twentieth century. It covers mathematical tables (the most important computing aid for several hundred years until the 1960s), data tables (eg. Census tables), professional tables (eg. insurance tables), and spreadsheets - the most recent tabular innovation. The book is presented in a scholarly yet accessible way, making appropriate use of text boxes and illustrations. Each chapter has a frontispiece featuring a table along with a small illustration of the source where the table was first displayed. Most chapters have sidebars telling a short "story" or history relating to the chapter. The aim of this edited volume is to capture the history of tables through eleven chapters written by subject specialists. The contributors describe the various information processing techniques and artefacts whose unifying concept is "the mathematical table".
Author : Stephanie Lynn Budin
Publisher : Edicions Universitat Barcelona
ISBN 13 : 849168073X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Gender and methodology in the ancient Near East: Approaches from Assyriology and beyond written by Stephanie Lynn Budin and published by Edicions Universitat Barcelona. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 23 essays, presented in three sections, aims to discuss women’s studies as well as methodological and theoretical approaches to gender within the broad framework of ancient Near Eastern studies. The first section, comprising most of the contributions, is devoted to Assyriology and ancient Near Eastern archaeology. The second and third sections are devoted to Egyptology and to ancient Israel and biblical studies respectively, neighbouring fields of research included in the volume to enrich the debate and facilitate academic exchange. Altogether these essays offer a variety of sources and perspectives, from the textual to the archaeological, from bodies and sexuality to onomastics, to name just a few, making this a useful resource for all those interested in the study of women and gender in the past.
Author : Aaron Butts
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004300155
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Semitic Languages in Contact written by Aaron Butts and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains twenty case studies analysing various aspects of language contact involving ancient and modern Semitic languages.
Author : S. David Sperling
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004340874
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Ve-Eileh Divrei David written by S. David Sperling and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ve-Eileh Divrei David: Essays in Semitics, Hebrew Bible and History of Biblical Scholarship, covers the career of S. David Sperling, a well-known and respected Biblical scholar.
Author : Kim Ryholt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191627240
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Libraries before Alexandria written by Kim Ryholt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creation of the Library of Alexandria is widely regarded as one of the great achievements in the history of humankind - a giant endeavour to amass all known literature and scholarly texts in one central location, so as to preserve it and make it available for the public. In turn, this event has been viewed as a historical turning point that separates the ancient world from classical antiquity. Standard works on the library continue to present the idea behind the institution as novel and, at least implicitly, as a product of Greek thought. Yet, although the scale of the collection in Alexandria seems to have been unprecedented, the notion of creating central repositories of knowledge, while perhaps new to Greek tradition, was age-old in the Near East where the building was erected. Here the existence of libraries can be traced back another two millennia, from the twenty-seventh century BCE to the third century CE, and so the creation of the Library in Alexandria was not so much the beginning of an intellectual adventure as the impressive culmination of a very long tradition. This volume presents the first comprehensive study of these ancient libraries across the 'Cradle of Civilization' and traces their institutional and scholarly roots back to the early cities and states and the advent of writing itself. Leading specialists in the intellectual history of each individual period and region covered in the volume present and discuss the enormous textual and archaeological material available on the early collections, offering a uniquely readable account intended for a broad audience of the libraries in Egypt and Western Asia as centres of knowledge prior to the famous Library of Alexandria.
Author : N. J. C. Kouwenberg
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575066246
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The Akkadian Verb and Its Semitic Background written by N. J. C. Kouwenberg and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-06-23 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this magnum opus, N. J. C. Kouwenberg presents a thoroughgoing, modern analysis of the Akkadian verbal system, taking into account all of the currently available evidence for the language during the course of the long period of its attestation. The book achieves this goal through two strategies: (1) to describe the Akkadian verbal system, as comprehensively as the data permit; and (2) to reconstruct its prehistory on the basis of internal evidence and reconstruction, comparison with cognate languages, and typological evidence. Akkadian has one of the longest documented histories of any language: data from nearly two-and-one-half millennia are available, even if the stream of data is sometimes interrupted and not always as copious as we would like. During the course of this history, numerous developments took place, illustrating how languages change over time and offering parallels for reconstruction of changes that occurred in poorly documented periods. As a result, this book will be of great interest, in the first place, for all students of Akkadian, both the language and the literature that is documented in that language; and in the second place, for all students of language and linguistics who are interested in the study of how languages are shaped, develop, and change during the course of a long history.
Author : Lionel Marti
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575068885
Total Pages : 809 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)
Download or read book La famille dans le Proche-Orient ancien: réalités, symbolismes et images written by Lionel Marti and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 809 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July, 2009, the International Association for Assyriology met in Paris, France, for 5 days to deliver and listen to papers on the theme “La famille dans le Proche-Orient.” This volume, the proceedings of the conference, contains 53 of the papers read at the 55th annual Rencontre, including primarily papers directly connected with the theme and some on areas of related interest. The papers covered every period of Mesopotamian history, from the third millennium through the end of the first millennium B.C.E. The photo on the back cover shows only a representative portion of the attendees, who were warmly hosted by faculty and students from the Collège de France.
Author : Robin Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009098942
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Mesopotamian Civilization and the Origins of the New Testament written by Robin Baker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redefines conceptions of the New Testament's origins by illuminating the East's contribution to the formation of early Christology. This book provides a missing link between scholarship on the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East and scholarship on the New Testament and early Christianity.
Author : Samuel Greengus
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1608999467
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Laws in the Bible and in Early Rabbinic Collections written by Samuel Greengus and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable discovery of ancient Near Eastern law collections or "codes," beginning with the Laws of Hammurabi and followed by many other collections in decades following, opened a new window upon biblical law. This volume seeks to examine within a single study all of the biblical laws that are similar in content with ancient Near Eastern laws from Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, and Hatti. The book also examines a small but important group of early rabbinic laws from postbiblical times that exhibit significant similarities with laws found in the ancient Near Eastern collections or "codes." This later group of laws, although absent from the Bible, are nevertheless of comparable antiquity. The presentation focuses on the actual law statements preserved in these ancient law "codes." The discussion then adds narratives, records, and reports of legal actions from ancient sources outside the laws-all of which relate to the formal law statements. The discourse is non-polemical in tone and does not seek to revisit all theories and interpretations. The format allows readers, including those who are new to the subject of biblical law, to engage the primary sources on their own.
Author : Benjamin R. Foster
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317415515
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book The Age of Agade written by Benjamin R. Foster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Agade is the first book-length study of the Akkadian period of Mesopotamian history, which saw the rise and fall of the world’s first empire during more than a century of extraordinary political, social, and cultural innovation. It draws together more than 40 years of research by one of the world’s leading experts in Assyriology to offer an exhaustive survey of the Akkadian empire. Addressing all aspects of the empire, including its statecraft and military, territory and cities, arts, religion, economy, and production, The Age of Agade considers what can be said of Akkadian political and social history, material culture, and daily life. A final chapter also explores how the empire has been presented in modern historiography, from the decipherment of cuneiform to the present, including the extensive research of Soviet historians, summarized here in English for the first time. Drawing on contemporaneous written and artifactual sources, as well as relevant materials from succeeding generations, Foster introduces the reader to the wealth of evidence available. Accessibly written by a specialist in the field, this book is an engaging examination of a critical era in the history of early Mesopotamia.
