Mesopotamia

ISBN: 9789004123977
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
This work explores the interaction between magic and medicine in ancient Mesopotamia, as applied specifically to ghosts. Included is a discussion of sin and natural causes in Mesopotamian medicine. Additionally, it transliterates and translates... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415353519
Published by : Routledge Ltd
Oxbow says: The third millennium BC in Syria witnessed the development of a much more complex urban settlement and cultural system than has perhaps been recognised, attention having been focused on societies further south and to the northeast. ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004146358
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
At the beginning of Mesopotamia's Early Dynastic period, the political landscape was dominated by temple administrators, but by the end of the period, rulers whose titles we translate as 'king' assumed control. This book argues that the ritual ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781845531935
Published by : Equinox
The first fully historical analysis of the origins of the city and state in southern Mesopotamia. Contrasting his approach with the neo-evolutionist ideas of American anthropological theory, Liverani argues that the innnovations that took place... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781575061047
Published by : Eisenbrauns
In July 2003, a conference was held at the University of Heidelberg, focusing on the people and land of Judah during the 5th and early 4th centuries BCE - the period when the Persian Empire held sway over the entire ancient Near East. This volu... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780812239348
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
The School of Nisibis was the main intellectual centre of the Church of the East in the sixth and early seventh centuries CE and an institution of learning unprecedented in antiquity. Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom provides a history ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503520230
Published by : Brepols
These studies in honour of Jean Margueron from leading scholars of the archaeology and philology of the ancient Near East focus on the relationship between man and his environment. Essays examine conceptions of space and landscape, settlement a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781931745321
Published by : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Series: Cotsen: Ideas, Debates and Perspectives
Volume: 3
This volume of essays dedicated to Robert McCormack Adams reflects both the breadth of his research and the select themes upon which he focused his attention. These essays, written by his students and disciples, focus on issues in Near Eastern ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781885923387
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
The excavation of area WF in the eighteenth and nineteenth seasons at Nippur (1988/89, 1990) was aimed specifically at delineating the transition between the Early Dynastic and Akkadian periods, and this goal has been realised. Augusta McMahon ... .... Learn More