Yesterday

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811231585
Total Pages : 118 pages
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Book Synopsis Yesterday by : Juan Emar

Download or read book Yesterday written by Juan Emar and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in English, a mind-bending, surreal masterpiece by “the forerunner of them all” (Pablo Neruda) In the city of San Agustín de Tango, the banal is hard to tell from the bizarre. In a single day, a man is guillotined for preaching the intellectual pleasures of sex; an ostrich in a zoo, reversing roles, devours a lion; and a man, while urinating, goes bungee jumping through time itself—and manages to escape. Or does he? Witness the weird machinery of Yesterday, where the Chilean master Juan Emar deploys irony, digression, and giddy repetitions to ratchet up narrative tension again and again and again, in this thrilling whirlwind of the ecstatically unexpected—all wed to the happiest marriage of any novel, ever. Born in Chile at the tail end of the nineteenth century, Juan Emar was largely overlooked during his lifetime, and lived in self-imposed exile from the literary circles of his day. A cult of Emarians, however, always persisted, and after several rediscoveries in the Spanish-speaking world, he is finally getting his international due with the English-language debut of Yesterday, deftly translated by Megan McDowell. Emar’s work offers unique and delirious pleasures, and will be an epiphany to anglophone readers.

Debt and Indebtedness at Emar

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501515314
Total Pages : 561 pages
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Download or read book Debt and Indebtedness at Emar written by Maurizio Viano and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive study of debts and credit system at Emar. It focuses on the socio-economic aspects of credit access and indebtedness as well as on the motivations behind debts and debt settlement in the city of Emar. The credit system is analyzed through several factors: the purpose of debts, i.e., productive or consumptive; the procedures for granting loans; the strategies put in place to meet an obligation and to cope with economic difficulties; the consequences of non-fulfillment, which may lead to servitude or slavery; the different types of slavery; slave prices; the mechanisms of enslavement; and termination of slavery. Moneylending practices and the formation of servile conditions at Emar are studied in the context of the Syrian economy aiming to understand whether the Emar evidence conforms with a socio political and economic crisis that is generally acknowledged to have struck Syria, Anatolia and Northern Mesopotamia at the end of the Late Bronze Age. This work is of sure relevance for scholars interested in socio-economic history, not only of the pertinent historical-geographical area.

Time at Emar

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Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 : 1575060442
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Book Synopsis Time at Emar by : Daniel E. Fleming

Download or read book Time at Emar written by Daniel E. Fleming and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 2000 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent large-scale watershed projects in northern Syria, where the ancient city of Emar was located, have brought this area to light, thanks to salvage operation excavations before the area was submerged. Excavations at Meskeneh-Qadimeh on the great bend of the Euphrates River revealed this large town, which had been built in the late 14th century and then destroyed violently at the beginning of the 12th, at the end of the Bronze Age. In the town of Emar, ritual tablets were discovered in a temple that are demonstrated to have been recorded by the supervisor of the local cult, who was called the "diviner." This religious leader also operated a significant writing center, which focused on both administering local ritual and fostering competence in Mesopotamian lore. An archaic local calendar can be distinguished from other calendars in use at Emar, both foreign and local. A second, overlapping calendar emanated from the palace and represented a rising political force in some tension with rooted local institutions. The archaic local calendar can be partially reconstructed from one ritual text that outlines the rites performed during a period of six months. The main public rite of Emar's religious calendar was the zukru festival. This event was celebrated in a simplified annual ritual and in a more elaborate version of the ritual for seven days during every seventh year, probably serving as a pledge of loyalty to the chief god, Dagan. The Emar ritual calendar was native, in spite of various levels of outside influence, and thus offers important evidence for ancient Syrian culture. These texts are thus important for ancient Near Eastern cultic and ritual studies. Fleming's comprehensive study lays the basic groundwork for all future study of the ritual and makes a major contribution to the study of ancient Syria.

The Scribes and Scholars of the City of Emar in the Late Bronze Age

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004370048
Total Pages : 313 pages
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Book Synopsis The Scribes and Scholars of the City of Emar in the Late Bronze Age by : Yoram Cohen

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.

West Semitic Vocabulary in the Akkadian Texts from Emar

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004369872
Total Pages : 296 pages
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Book Synopsis West Semitic Vocabulary in the Akkadian Texts from Emar by : Eugen J. Pentiuc

Download or read book West Semitic Vocabulary in the Akkadian Texts from Emar written by Eugen J. Pentiuc and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 1 of this study is a glossary with comparative analysis of non-normative Akkadian forms, Hittite and Hurrian words, West Semitic lexemes, and words of uncertain origin, with special attention given to the West Semitic forms. Part 2 consists of grammatical observations pertaining to the West Semitic forms, under the headings orthography, phonology, and morphology.

Debt and Indebtedness at Emar

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501515306
Total Pages : 652 pages
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Book Synopsis Debt and Indebtedness at Emar by : Maurizio Viano

Download or read book Debt and Indebtedness at Emar written by Maurizio Viano and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive study of debts and credit system at Emar. It focuses on the socio-economic aspects of credit access and indebtedness as well as on the motivations behind debts and debt settlement in the city of Emar. The credit system is analyzed through several factors: the purpose of debts, i.e., productive or consumptive; the procedures for granting loans; the strategies put in place to meet an obligation and to cope with economic difficulties; the consequences of non-fulfillment, which may lead to servitude or slavery; the different types of slavery; slave prices; the mechanisms of enslavement; and termination of slavery. Moneylending practices and the formation of servile conditions at Emar are studied in the context of the Syrian economy aiming to understand whether the Emar evidence conforms with a socio political and economic crisis that is generally acknowledged to have struck Syria, Anatolia and Northern Mesopotamia at the end of the Late Bronze Age. This work is of sure relevance for scholars interested in socio-economic history, not only of the pertinent historical-geographical area.

The Installation of Baal's High Priestess at Emar: A Window on Ancient Syrian Religion

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004369651
Total Pages : 366 pages
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Book Synopsis The Installation of Baal's High Priestess at Emar: A Window on Ancient Syrian Religion by : Daniel E. Fleming

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Time at Emar

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575065223
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Book Synopsis Time at Emar by : Daniel E. Fleming

Download or read book Time at Emar written by Daniel E. Fleming and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2000-06-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent large-scale watershed projects in northern Syria, where the ancient city of Emar was located, have brought this area to light, thanks to salvage operation excavations before the area was submerged. Excavations at Meskeneh-Qadimeh on the great bend of the Euphrates River revealed this large town, which had been built in the late 14th century and then destroyed violently at the beginning of the 12th, at the end of the Bronze Age. In the town of Emar, ritual tablets were discovered in a temple that are demonstrated to have been recorded by the supervisor of the local cult, who was called the “diviner.” This religious leader also operated a significant writing center, which focused on both administering local ritual and fostering competence in Mesopotamian lore. An archaic local calendar can be distinguished from other calendars in use at Emar, both foreign and local. A second, overlapping calendar emanated from the palace and represented a rising political force in some tension with rooted local institutions. The archaic local calendar can be partially reconstructed from one ritual text that outlines the rites performed during a period of six months. The main public rite of Emar’s religious calendar was the zukru festival. This event was celebrated in a simplified annual ritual and in a more elaborate version of the ritual for seven days during every seventh year, probably serving as a pledge of loyalty to the chief god, Dagan. The Emar ritual calendar was native, in spite of various levels of outside influence, and thus offers important evidence for ancient Syrian culture. These texts are thus important for ancient Near Eastern cultic and ritual studies. Fleming’s comprehensive study lays the basic groundwork for all future study of the ritual and makes a major contribution to the study of ancient Syria.

Emar

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Publisher : Capital Decisions Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781883053185
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (531 download)

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Book Synopsis Emar by : Mark William Chavalas

Download or read book Emar written by Mark William Chavalas and published by Capital Decisions Limited. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Late Hittite Emar

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Publisher : Peeters
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Late Hittite Emar by : Murray R. Adamthwaite

Download or read book Late Hittite Emar written by Murray R. Adamthwaite and published by Peeters. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late Hittite Emar examines the economic and juridical texts from ancient Emar (modern Tell Meskene-Qadime) with a basically threefold task in view. The first is to discern the chronological span of the texts, and then using the political information of the texts to correlate the kings of Emar with the known kings of Karkemish in the thirteenth century B.C. The conclusion is that Emar fell to invaders considerably earlier than most have supposed to date. The second task looks at various aspects of Emar's social history, in particular whether the ilku-system operated there as at Ugarit, and more than thirty texts which attest both sale of family members and real estate "in a time of distress" (i.e. famine). It appears that Emar was left largely to run its own affairs under the Hittite aegis. Meanwhile, two leading families at Emar largely controlled the traffic in humanity, one being the entrenched clan of diviner-priests. The final section examines the attestation of Emar in earlier texts, from Ebla to Idri-mi, and concludes that there was no previous history of kingship at Emar. A text from the palace corpus which mentions an attempted coup d'etat against one of the Emarite kings receives close analysis, while the final chapter attempts an identification of the possible agents of Emar's destruction, with a particular focus on Aramaean activity in the region.

The Language of Fiction

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192585355
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Book Synopsis The Language of Fiction by : Emar Maier

Download or read book The Language of Fiction written by Emar Maier and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together new research on fiction from the fields of philosophy and linguistics. Fiction has long been a topic of interest in philosophy, but recent years have also seen a surge in work on fictional discourse at the intersection between linguistics and philosophy of language. In particular, there has been a growing interest in examining long-standing issues concerning fiction from a perspective that is informed both by philosophy and linguistic theory. Following a detailed introduction by the editors, The Language of Fiction contains 14 chapters by leading scholars in linguistics and philosophy, organized into three parts. Part I, 'Truth, Reference, and Imagination', offers new, interdisciplinary perspectives on some of the central themes from the philosophy of fiction: What is fictional truth? How do fictional names refer? What kind of speech act is involved in telling a fictional story? What is the relation between fiction and imagination? Part II, 'Storytelling', deals with themes originating from the study of narrative: How do we infer a coherent story from a sequence of event descriptions? And how do we interpret the words of impersonal or unreliable narrators? Part III, 'Perspective Shift', focuses on an alleged key characteristic of fictional narratives, namely how we get access to the fictional characters' inner lives, through a variety of literary techniques for representing what they say, think, or see. The volume will be of interest to scholars from graduate level upwards in the fields of discourse analysis, semantics and pragmatics, philosophy of language, psychology, cognitive science, and literary studies.

A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
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Book Synopsis A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law by : Raymond Westbrook

Download or read book A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law written by Raymond Westbrook and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation The history of law can only begin after the written record of it commences; in the Middle East, that is a few centuries after the advent of writing itself in the fourth millennium BCE. That law is the oldest recorded, and is the foundation of the two great modern Western systems, the Common Law and the Civil Law. In sections covering the next three millennia to the change of era, specialists in the cultures, languages, and literatures explore the law in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Anatolia and the Levant, and international law. The broad scope and the paucity of data seems to have found its level at about twelve hundred pages. The two volumes are paged together and indexed by subjects, ancient terms, and texts cited. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Ugarit-Forschungen

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
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The Politics of Ritual Change

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004429115
Total Pages : 361 pages
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Download or read book The Politics of Ritual Change written by John Tracy Thames, Jr. and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Politics of Ritual Change, John Thames explores the intersection of ritual and politics in the zukru festival texts from Emar and suggests a new understanding of the Hittite Empire’s relationship to northern Syria in the 13th century BCE.

The dominion of dreams, by Fiona Macleod

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
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Download or read book The dominion of dreams, by Fiona Macleod written by William Sharp and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Horizons in the Study of Ancient Syria

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
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Book Synopsis New Horizons in the Study of Ancient Syria by : Mark William Chavalas

Download or read book New Horizons in the Study of Ancient Syria written by Mark William Chavalas and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight papers, most revised from their presentation at the annual meeting of the American History Association in Chicago, December 1991, explore topics on Syria of the third millennium B.C. and before, and Syrian influence in the early Near East. They include analyses of texts, reports on archaeological findings, an overview of the period, and an extensive general bibliography. Available from Undena Publications, PO Box 97, Malibu, CA 90265. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Berytus

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
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Download or read book Berytus written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: