Snell A Companion to the Ancient Near East

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-3739-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 560 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

A Companion to the Ancient Near East offers students andgeneral readers a comprehensive overview of Near Easterncivilization from the Bronze Age to the conquests of Alexander theGreat.
* * Covers the civilizations of the Sumerians, Hittites,Babylonians, Assyrians, Israelites and Persians
* Places particular emphasis on social and cultural history
* Covers the legacy of the Ancient Near East in the medieval andmodern worlds
* Provides a useful bibliographical guide to this field ofstudy

Autoren/Hrsg.

Snell, Daniel C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 95
Daniel C. Snell
Part III Economy and Society 107
8 The Degradation of the Ancient Near Eastern Environment 109
Carlos E. Cordova
9 Nomadism Through the Ages 126
Jorge Silva Castillo
10 Mesopotamian Cities and Countryside 141
Elizabeth C. Stone
11 Money and Trade 155
Christopher M. Monroe
12 Working 169
David A. Warburton
13 Law and Practice 183
Bruce Wells
14 Social Tensions in the Ancient Near East 196
John F. Robertson
15 Gender Roles in Ancient Egypt 211
Ann Macy Roth
16 Royal Women and the Exercise of Power in the Ancient Near East 219
Sarah C. Melville
17 Warfare in Ancient Egypt 229
Anthony J. Spalinger
Part IV Culture 243
18 Transmission of Knowledge 245
Benjamin R. Foster
19 Literature 253
Tawny L. Holm
20 Ancient Near Eastern Architecture 266
Sally Dunham
21 Mesopotamian Art 281
Marian H. Feldman
22 Ancient Mesopotamian Medicine 302
JoAnn Scurlock
23 Mesopotamian Cosmology 316
Francesca Rochberg
24 Divine and Non-Divine Kingship 330
Philip Jones
25 How Religion Was Done 343
Gary Beckman
Part V Heritage of the Ancient Near East 355
26 The Invention of the Individual 357
Daniel C. Snell
27 Ethnicity 370
Henri Limet
28 Public versus Private in the Ancient Near East 384
Steven J. Garfinkle
29 Democracy and Freedom 397
Matthew Martin III and Daniel C. Snell
30 Monotheism and Ancient Israelite Religion 408
S. David Sperling
31 The Decipherment of the Ancient Near East 421
Peter T. Daniels
32 Legacies of the Ancient Near East 430
Daniel C. Snell
References 434
Index 493

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel C. Snell is L. J. Semrod Presidential Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. His books include Life in the Ancient Near East (1997), A Workbook of Cuneiform Signs (1979), The E.A. Hoffman Collection and Other American Collections (1979), Ledgers and Prices (1982), Twice Told Proverbs (1993) and Flight and Freedom in the Ancient Near East (2001).