Author: Gurney Oliver R.Publisher: British Institute at Ankara
ISBN: 0995465673
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Sultantepe Tablets I
Author: Gurney Oliver R.Publisher: British Institute at Ankara
ISBN: 0995465673
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Sultantepe Tablets
Author: Oliver Robert GurneyAn Introduction to Akkadian Literature
Author: Alan LenziPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 1646020324
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This book initiates the reader into the study of Akkadian literature from ancient Babylonia and Assyria. With this one relatively short volume, the novice reader will develop the literary competence necessary to read and interpret Akkadian texts in translation and will gain a broad familiarity with the major genres and compositions in the language. The first part of the book presents introductory discussions of major critical issues, organized under four key rubrics: tablets, scribes, compositions, and audiences. Here, the reader will find descriptions of the tablets used as writing material; the training scribes received and the institutional contexts in which they worked; the general characteristics of Akkadian compositions, with an emphasis on poetic and literary features; and the various audiences or users of Akkadian texts. The second part surveys the corpus of Akkadian literature defined inclusively, canvasing a wide spectrum of compositions. Legal codes, historical inscriptions, divinatory compendia, and religious texts have a place in the survey alongside narrative poems, such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, Enuma elish, and Babylonian Theodicy. Extensive footnotes and a generous bibliography guide readers who wish to continue their study. Essential for students of Assyriology, An Introduction to Akkadian Literature will also prove useful to biblical scholars, classicists, Egyptologists, ancient historians, and literary comparativists.
Akkadian Royal Letters in Later Mesopotamian Tradition
Author: Mary FrazerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004685944
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
Akkadian Royal Letters in Later Mespotamian Tradition reconsiders the question of the authenticity of the letters attributed to earlier royal correspondents that were studied in Assyrian and Babylonian scribal centres ca. 700–100 BCE. By scrutinizing the letters’ contents, language, possible transmission histories ca. 1400–100 BCE and the epistemic limitations of authenticity criticism, the book grounds scepticism about the letters’ authenticity in previously undiscussed features of the texts. It also provides a new foundation for research into the related questions of when and why these beguiling texts were composed in the first place.
Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament with Supplement
Author: James B. PritchardPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400882761
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
This anthology brought together the most important historical, legal, mythological, liturgical, and secular texts of the ancient Near East, with the purpose of providing a rich contextual base for understanding the people, cultures, and literature of the Old Testament. A scholar of religious thought and biblical archaeology, James Pritchard recruited the foremost linguists, historians, and archaeologists to select and translate the texts. The goal, in his words, was "a better understanding of the likenesses and differences which existed between Israel and the surrounding cultures." Before the publication of these volumes, students of the Old Testament found themselves having to search out scattered books and journals in various languages. This anthology brought these invaluable documents together, in one place and in one language, thereby expanding the meaning and significance of the Bible for generations of students and readers. As one reviewer put it, "This great volume is one of the most notable to have appeared in the field of Old Testament scholarship this century." Princeton published a follow-up companion volume, The Ancient Near East in Pictures Relating to the Old Testament (1954), and later a one-volume abridgment of the two, The Ancient Near East: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures (1958). The continued popularity of this work in its various forms demonstrates that anthologies have a very important role to play in education--and in the mission of a university press.
The Sultantepe Tablets
Author: Oliver Robert GurneyBiblica
Author: Ancient Medicine
Author: Laura M. ZucconiPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 1467457515
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This book by Laura Zucconi is an accessible introductory text to the practice and theory of medicine in the ancient world. In contrast to other works that focus heavily on Greece and Rome, Zucconi’s Ancient Medicine covers a broader geographical and chronological range. The world of medicine in antiquity consisted of a lot more than Hippocrates and Galen. Zucconi applies historical and anthropological methods to examine the medical cultures of not only Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome but also the Levant, the Anatolian Peninsula, and the Iranian Plateau. Devoting special attention to the fundamental relationship between medicine and theology, Zucconi’s one-volume introduction brings the physicians, patients, procedures, medicines, and ideas of the past to light.
Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 120, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, II
Author: British AcademyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197263020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Volume 120 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 25 obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy.
The Origins and Diversity of Axial Age Civilizations
Author: Shmuel Noah EisenstadtPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780887060946
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
This book presents a new and original analysis of the great ancient civilizations, focusing on the breakthroughs and their institutionalization in Greece, Israel, China, and India. The conditions under which these civilizations developed are systematically explored. For comparative purposes, the civilization of Assyria, where such a breakthrough did not take place is analyzed. Attention is given to the transformation of modes of thought and symbolism. Special focus is brought to the development of the great religions and the perception of tension between the transcendental and mundane orders and between rulers and other elites.