Author: Jerrold S. CooperPublisher:
ISBN: 9780940490253
Category : Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Presargonic Inscriptions
Author: Jerrold S. CooperPublisher:
ISBN: 9780940490253
Category : Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Jerrold s. Cooper, sumerian and akkadian royal inscriptions
Author: Josef BauerSumerian and Akkadian Royal Inscriptions
Author: Sumerian and Akkadian Royal Inscriptions
Author: The Royal Inscriptions of Sumer and Akkad
Author: George Aaron BartonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Who Were the Babylonians?
Author: Bill T. ArnoldPublisher: SBL Press
ISBN: 158983870X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
This engaging and informative introduction to the the Babylonians were important not only because of their many historical contacts with ancient Israel but because they and their predecessors, the Sumerians, established the philosophical and social infrastructure for most of Western Asia for nearly two millennia. Beginning and advanced students as well as biblical scholars and interested nonspecialists will read this introduction to the history and culture of the Babylonians with interest and profit.
Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia
Author: Charles HaltonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110705205X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This anthology translates and discusses texts authored by women of ancient Mesopotamia.
The Creation of Inequality
Author: Kent FlanneryPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674064976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Flannery and Marcus demonstrate that the rise of inequality was not simply the result of population increase, food surplus, or the accumulation of valuables but resulted from conscious manipulation of the unique social logic that lies at the core of every human group. Reversing the social logic can reverse inequality, they argue, without violence.
History of the Akkadian Language (2 vols)
Author: Juan-Pablo VitaPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004445218
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1677
Book Description
History of the Akkadian Language offers a detailed chronological survey of the oldest known Semitic language and one of history’s longest written records. The outcome is presented in 26 chapters written by 25 leading authors.
Economic Structures of Antiquity
Author: Morris SilverPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313031339
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The economy of the ancient Middle East and Greece is reinterpreted by Morris Silver in this provocative new synthesis. Silver finds that the ancient economy emerges as a class of economies with its own laws of motion shaped by transaction costs (the resources used up in exchanging ownership rights). The analysis of transaction costs provides insights into many characteristics of the ancient economy, such as the important role of the sacred and symbolic gestures in making contracts, magical technology, the entrepreneurial role of high-born women, the elevation of familial ties and other departures from impersonal economics, reliance on slavery and adoption, and the insatiable drive to accumulate trust-capital. The peculiar behavior patterns and mindsets of ancient economic man are shown to be facilitators of economic growth. In recent years, our view of the economy of the ancient world has been shaped by the theories of Karl Polanyi. Silver confronts Polanyi's empirical propositions with the available evidence and demonstrates that antiquity knew active and sophisticated markets. In the course of providing an alternative analytical framework for studying the ancient economy, Silver gives critical attention to the economic views of the Assyriologists I.M. Diakonoff, W.F. Leemans, Mario Liverani, and J.N. Postgate; of the Egyptologists Jacob J. Janssen and Wolfgang Helck; and of the numerous followers of Moses Finley. Silver convincingly demonstrates that the ancient world was not static: periods of pervasive economic regulation by the state are interspersed with lengthy periods of relatively unfettered market activity, and the economies of Sumer, Babylonia, and archaic Greece were capable of transforming themselves in order to take advantage of new opportunities. This new synthesis is essential reading for economic historians and researchers of the ancient Near East and Greece.