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Companion to Ancient Near East

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Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

01.10.2007

Herausgeber

Snell Daniel C. + weitere

Verlag

Wiley

Seitenzahl

560

Maße (L/B/H)

24,4/17/3 cm

Gewicht

1043 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4051-6001-8

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

01.10.2007

Herausgeber

Verlag

Wiley

Seitenzahl

560

Maße (L/B/H)

24,4/17/3 cm

Gewicht

1043 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4051-6001-8

Herstelleradresse

Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Companion to Ancient Near East

  • List of Figures viii

    List of Maps ix

    Notes on Contributors x

    Acknowledgments xv

    Introduction xviii

    Part I The Shape of the Ancient Near East 1

    1 Historical Overview 3
    Mario Liverani

    2 From Sedentism to States, 10,000-3000 BCE 20
    Augusta McMahon

    3 The Age of Empires, 3100-900 BCE 34
    Mark Chavalas

    4 World Hegemony, 900-300 BCE 48
    Paul-Alain Beaulieu

    Part II Discourses on Methods 63

    5 Archaeology and the Ancient Near East: Methods and Limits 65
    Marie-Henriette Gates

    6 The Languages of the Ancient Near East 79
    Gonzalo Rubio

    7 The Historian's Task 110
    Daniel C. Snell

    Part III Economy and Society 123

    8 The Degradation of the Ancient Near Eastern Environment 125
    Carlos E. Cordova

    9 Nomadism Through the Ages 142
    Jorge Silva Castillo

    10 Mesopotamian Cities and Countryside 157
    Elizabeth C. Stone

    11 Money and Trade 171
    Christopher M. Monroe

    12 Working 185
    David A. Warburton

    13 Law and Practice 199
    Bruce Wells

    14 Social Tensions in the Ancient Near East 212
    John F. Robertson

    15 Gender Roles in Ancient Egypt 227
    Ann Macy Roth

    16 Royal Women and the Exercise of Power in the Ancient Near East 235
    Sarah C. Melville

    17 Warfare in Ancient Egypt 245
    Anthony J. Spalinger

    Part IV Culture 259

    18 Transmission of Knowledge 261
    Benjamin R. Foster

    19 Ancient Near Eastern Literature: Genres and Forms 269
    Tawny L. Holm

    20 Ancient Near Eastern Architecture 289
    Sally Dunham

    21 Mesopotamian Art 304
    Marian H. Feldman

    22 Ancient Mesopotamian Medicine 325
    JoAnn Scurlock

    23 Mesopotamian Cosmology 339
    Francesca Rochberg

    24 Divine and Non-Divine Kingship 353
    Philip Jones

    25 How Religion Was Done 366
    Gary Beckman

    Part V Heritage of the Ancient Near East 377

    26 The Invention of the Individual 379
    Daniel C. Snell

    27 Ethnicity 392
    Henri Limet

    28 Public versus Private in the Ancient Near East 406
    Steven J. Garfinkle

    29 Democracy and Freedom 419
    Matthew Martin III and Daniel C. Snell

    30 Monotheism and Ancient Israelite Religion 430
    S. David Sperling

    31 The Decipherment of the Ancient Near East 443
    Peter T. Daniels

    32 Legacies of the Ancient Near East 454
    Daniel C. Snell

    References 458

    Index 527