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Babylonian Inscriptions in the Collection of James B. Nies, Yale University
Author: Babylonian Inscriptions in the Collection of James B. Nies, Yale University
Author: Clarence Elwood KeiserPublisher:
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Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Letters and Contracts from Erech Written in the Neo-Babylonian Period
Author: Clarence Elwood KeiserPublisher:
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Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Babylonian Inscriptions in the Collection of James B. Nies
Author: James Buchanan NiesPublisher:
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Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Sargonic and Pre-Sargonic Cuneiform Texts in the Yale Babylonian Collection
Author: Benjamin R. FosterPublisher: Lockwood Press
ISBN: 1948488272
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
This volume publishes hand copies of 292 cuneiform texts in the Yale Babylonian Collection dating to the Sargonic and Pre-Sargonic periods. It continues publication of the Pre-Ur III texts begun by George Hackman and Ferris Stephens in the series Babylonian lnscriptions in the Collection of J. B. Nies, volume 8. The tablet copies presented here include accounts and records from Isin, Nippur, Shuruppak, Umma, Zabala, Girsu, Umma, Lagash, Eshnunna, and Kish, as well as the Mesag archive.
Establishing Value
Author: Vitali BartashPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501510320
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This book explores the reasons for which weights and scales were used to measure goods in Early Mesopotamia (ca. 3,200-2,000 BCE). The vast corpus of cuneiform records from this period sheds light on the various mechanisms behind the development of this cultural innovation. Weighing became the means of articulating the value of both imported and locally-produced goods within a socioeconomic system that had reached an unprecedented level of complexity. This study provides a comprehensive analysis of this cultural and economic phenomenon, which simultaneously reflected and shaped the relationships between individuals and groups in Mesopotamia throughout the third millennium BCE.
Babylonian Chronology
Author: Richard A. ParkerPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1556354533
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 59
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Legal Writing, Legal Practice
Author: Yael LandmanPublisher: SBL Press
ISBN: 1951498879
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Prescriptive law writings rarely mirror the ways a society practices law, a fact that raises special problems for the social and legal historian. Through close analysis of the laws of bailment (i.e., temporary safekeeping) in Exodus 22, Yael Landman probes the relationship of law in the biblical law collections and law-in-practice in ancient Israel and exposes a vision of divine justice at the heart of pentateuchal law. Landman further demonstrates that ancient Near Eastern bailment laws continue to influence postbiblical Jewish law. This book advances an approach to the study of biblical law that connects pentateuchal and ancient Near Eastern law collections, biblical narrative and prophecy, and Mesopotamian legal documents and joins philological and comparative analysis with humanistic legal approaches, in order to access how people thought about and practiced law in ancient Israel.
Eat Not this Flesh
Author: Frederick J. SimoonsPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299142544
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Examines the use and avoidance of flesh foods, including beef, pork, chicken, and eggs, camel, dog, horse, and fish, from antiquity to the present day. Simoons finds that the recurrent theme of maintaining ritual purity, good health, and well-being underlies diet habits. He emphasizes that only a full range of factors can explain eating patterns, and stresses the interplay of religious, moral, hygienic, ecological, and economic factors in the context of human culture. From publisher description.
The World of the Aramaeans
Author: P.M. Michèle DaviauPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0567637379
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The World of the Aramaeans is a three-volume collection of definitive essays about the Aramaeans and the biblical world of which they were a part. Areas of interest include the language, epigraphy and history of the Aramaeans of Syria as well of their neighbours, the Israelites, Phoenicians, Ammonites, Moabites and Edomites. The third volume, on language and literature, includes essays by Michael Weigl, William Marrow, Grant Frame, James M. Lindenberger, Pierre Bordreuil, Amir Harrak, Theodore Lutz, Josef Tropper, Dennis Pardee and Clemens Leonhard.