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Author | : Charles Halton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110705205X |
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This anthology translates and discusses texts authored by women of ancient Mesopotamia.
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Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2017-11-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108505775 |
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Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia presents fresh and engaging translations of works that were composed or edited by female scribes and elite women of the ancient Near East. These texts provide insight into the social status, struggles, and achievements of women during the earliest periods of recorded human history (c.2300–540 BCE). In three introductory chapters and a concluding chapter, Charles Halton and Saana Svärd provide an overview of the civilization of ancient Mesopotamia and examine gender by analyzing these different kinds of texts. The translations cover a range of genres, including hymns, poems, prayers, letters, inscriptions, and oracles. Each text is accompanied by a short introduction that situates the composition within its ancient environment and explores what it reveals about the lives of women within the ancient world. This anthology will serve as an essential reference book for scholars and students of ancient history, gender studies, and world literature.
Author | : Rivkah Harris |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780806135397 |
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Rivkah Harris’s cross-cultural and multidisciplinary approach breaks new ground in assessing Mesopotamian attitudes toward youth and mature adulthood, aging and the elderly, generational conflict, gender differences in aging, relationships between men and women, women’s contributions to cultural activities, and the "ideal woman." To uncover Mesopotamian perspectives, Harris combed through primary sources - including literature and myth, letters, economic and legal texts, and visual materials. Even such pivotal cultural influences as the Gilgamesh Epic and Enuma Elish are reinterpreted in an original manner.
Author | : Marten Stol |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 706 |
Release | : 2016-08-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 150150021X |
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Women in the Ancient Near East offers a lucid account of the daily life of women in Mesopotamia from the third millennium BCE until the beginning of the Hellenistic period. The book systematically presents the lives of women emerging from the available cuneiform material and discusses modern scholarly opinion. Stol’s book is the first full-scale treatment of the history of women in the Ancient Near East.
Author | : Karen Rhea Nemet-Nejat |
Publisher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001-12-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780801047305 |
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The ancient world of Mesopotamia (from Sumer to the subsequent division into Babylonia and Assyria) vividly comes alive in this portrayal of the time period from 3100 BCE to the fall of Assyria (612 BCE) and Babylon (539 BCE). Readers will discover fascinating details about the lives of these people taken from the ancients' own descriptions. Beautifully illustrated, this easy-to-use reference contains a timeline and a historical overview to aid student research.
Author | : Jean Bottéro |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2001-09-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801868641 |
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Described by the editor as unpretentious roamings on the odd little byways of the history of ancient Mesopotamia, these 15 articles were originally published in the French journal L'Histoire and are designed to serve as an introductory sampling of the historical research on the lost civilization. Chapters explore cuisine, sexuality, women's rights, architecture, magic and medicine, myth, legend, and other aspects of Mesopotamian life. Originally published as Initiation a l'Orient ancien . Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Susan Pollock |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1999-05-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521575683 |
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Innovative study of the early state and urban societies in Mesopotamia, c. 5000 to 2100 BC.
Author | : Mark Chavalas |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2013-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135008256 |
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Women in the Ancient Near East provides a collection of primary sources that further our understanding of women from Mesopotamian and Near Eastern civilizations, from the earliest historical and literary texts in the third millennium BC to the end of Mesopotamian political autonomy in the sixth century BC. This book is a valuable resource for historians of the Near East and for those studying women in the ancient world. It moves beyond simply identifying women in the Near East to attempting to place them in historical and literary context, following the latest research. A number of literary genres are represented, including myths and epics, proverbs, medical texts, law collections, letters, treaties, as well as building, dedicatory, and funerary inscriptions.
Author | : A. Leo Oppenheim |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2013-01-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022617767X |
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"This splendid work of scholarship . . . sums up with economy and power all that the written record so far deciphered has to tell about the ancient and complementary civilizations of Babylon and Assyria."—Edward B. Garside, New York Times Book Review Ancient Mesopotamia—the area now called Iraq—has received less attention than ancient Egypt and other long-extinct and more spectacular civilizations. But numerous small clay tablets buried in the desert soil for thousands of years make it possible for us to know more about the people of ancient Mesopotamia than any other land in the early Near East. Professor Oppenheim, who studied these tablets for more than thirty years, used his intimate knowledge of long-dead languages to put together a distinctively personal picture of the Mesopotamians of some three thousand years ago. Following Oppenheim's death, Erica Reiner used the author's outline to complete the revisions he had begun. "To any serious student of Mesopotamian civilization, this is one of the most valuable books ever written."—Leonard Cottrell, Book Week "Leo Oppenheim has made a bold, brave, pioneering attempt to present a synthesis of the vast mass of philological and archaeological data that have accumulated over the past hundred years in the field of Assyriological research."—Samuel Noah Kramer, Archaeology A. Leo Oppenheim, one of the most distinguished Assyriologists of our time, was editor in charge of the Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute and John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Chicago.
Author | : R. Campbell Thompson |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-26 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9781015427921 |
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