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Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago - Oriental Institute Seminars

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	Oriental Institute Seminars 7 Slaves and Households in the Near East edited by Laura Culbertson The seventh in the Oriental Institute Seminar Series, this volume contains papers that emerged from the seminar "Slaves and Households in the Near East" held at the Oriental Institute March 5-6, 2010. Despite widespread mention of enslaved people in historical records from the ancient, medieval, and early modern Near East, scholars struggle to understand what defines this phenomenon in both particular contexts and in general. The purpose of the ... Paperback. Price US$24.95
	Oriental Institute Seminars 6 Divination and Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient World edited by Amar Annus The concept of sign, a portent observed in the physical world, which indicates future events, is found in all ancient cultures, but was first developed in ancient Mesopotamian texts. This branch of Babylonian scientific knowledge extensively influenced other parts of the world, and similar texts written in Aramaic, Sanscrit, Sogdian, and other languages. The seminar investigates how much we know about the Babylonian theory and hermeneutics of ... Paperback. Publisher's Price US$27.95, Our Price US$22.00
	Oriental Institute Seminars 5 Nomads, Tribes, and the State in the Ancient Near East: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives edited by Jeffrey Szuchman For decades, scholars have struggled to understand the complex relationship between pastoral nomadic tribes and sedentary peoples of the Near East. The Oriental Institute's fourth annual post-doc seminar (March 7-8, 2008), Nomads, Tribes, and the State in the Ancient Near East, brought together archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists to discuss new approaches to enduring questions in the study of nomadic peoples, tribes, and states of the ... Paperback. Price US$24.95
	Oriental Institute Seminars 4 Religion and Power: Divine Kingship in the Ancient World and Beyond edited by Nicole Brisch This volume represents a collection of contributions presented during the Third Annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar, Religion and Power: Divine Kingship in the Ancient World and Beyond, held at the Oriental Institute, February 23-24, 2007. The purpose of this conference was to examine more closely concepts of kingship in various regions of the world and in different time periods. The study of kingship goes back to the ... Paperback. Price US$24.95
	Oriental Institute Seminars 3 Performing Death: Social Analyses of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean by Nicola Laneri This volume represents a collection of contributions presented by the authors during the Second Annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar "Performing Death: Social Analyses of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean," held at the Oriental Institute, February 17-18, 2006. The principal aim of the two-day seminar was to interpret the social relevance resulting from the enactment of funerary rituals within the broad-reaching ... Paperback. Price US$24.95
	Oriental Institute Seminars 2 Margins of Writing, Origins of Culture: New Approaches to Writing and Reading in the Ancient Near East. Papers from a Symposium held February 25-26, 2005 edited by Seth Sanders Writing and the state both first began in the ancient Near East. The origins of history are traced to the place where they met. But what did they actually have to do with each other? Most of ancient Near Eastern philology consists of careful examination of the leavings of the state scribes; it has revealed a treasure-house of ancient culture, from haunting poetry to onion archives. But there is a crucial blind spot ... Paperback. Price US$24.95
	Oriental Institute Seminars 1 Changing Social Identity with the Spread of Islam: Archaeological Perspectives edited by Donald Whitcomb This volume addresses the topical interest in Islam, studying the process of its spread throughout the medieval world and the process of conversion to this religion and adoption of its cultural life. The evidence is presented in a series of essay reports on archaeological approaches in current Islamic Archaeology. These papers are the result of a seminar that attempted a comparative analysis of widely different regions and periods, based on ... Paperback. Price US$17.95
	Oriental Institute Seminars Iconoclasm and Text Destruction in the Ancient Near East and Beyond Edited by Natalie N. May The eighth in the Oriental Institute Seminar Series, this volume contains papers that emerged from the seminar Iconoclasm and Text Destruction in the Ancient Near East and Beyond, held at the Oriental Institute April 8-9, 2011. The purpose of the conference was to analyze the cases of and reasons for mutilation of texts and images in Near Eastern antiquity. Destruction of images and texts has a universal character; it is inherent in various ... Paperback. Price US$29.95