BAR Publishing, 2015. — 293 p. — (BAR International Series 2732). Proceedings of the Third BICANE Colloquium held at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge 26-27 March 2011 Shishak and Shoshenq: A chronological cornerstone or stumbling-block? Shoshenq I: A conventional(ish) view Shoshenq I and the Levant: Synchronising chronologies Dead-reckoning the Start of the 22nd Dynasty: From...
Zaphon, 2023. — 436 p. — (dubsar: Altorientalistische Publikationen/Publications on the Ancient Near East 28). The festschrift “I Passed over Difficult Mountains” is dedicated to the Assyriologist Mario Liverani. Twenty contributions explore a wide range of historical, philological and archaeological topics related to the Ancient Near East. Among others E. von Dassow focusses...
Philipp von Zabern, 1993. — 189 S. — (Kulturgeschichte der Antiken Welt 59). Kaum einem, der den Namen Urartu zum ersten Mal hört, wird sich sofort die Bedeutung dieses Begriffes erschließen. Er wird auch nicht ahnen, daß damit eines der altorientalischen Reiche gemeint ist, welches eine besonders interes sante, wenn auch nur relativ kurze Geschichte hatte, in deren Verlauf es...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024. — 352 S. — (Leipziger Altorientalistische Studien 18). Mittels einer philologischen Analyse akkadischer Quellentexte untersucht Tommaso Scarpelli in diesem Band erstmals umfassend die atmosphärischen Phänomene und deren kulturellen Einfluss auf die Menschen in Mesopotamien und eröffnet damit neue Perspektiven auf die menschliche Wahrnehmung des...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018. — 149 p. — (Leipziger Altorientalistische Studien 10). Benno Landsberger (1890–1968) was an Assyriologist whose research and teaching decisively shaped the development of his field in the latter two thirds of the 20th century. The present work constitutes the first book-length study of Landsberger’s life and career. Focusing on his formative...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013. — 346 p. — (Leipziger Altorientalistische Studien 3). Arameans, Chaldeans, and Arabs in Babylonia and Palestine in the First Mill. B.C. edited by Angelika Berlejung and Michael P. Streck comprises the papers presented at an international workshop in the Villa Tillmanns/Leipzig on 24th and 25th of June 2010. The interdisciplinary event was part of...
British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 1959. — 152 p. — (British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Occasional Publications 5). The imperial archivs of the Hittite kings include numerous records of military adventure and achievement, of relations with friend and foe, and of recurring periods of danger to the throne and empire. These fascinating records, however, remain for...
Pontificio Istituto Biblico, 1968. — 450 p. — (Analecta orientalia 43). The purpose of the present study is to investigate the political history of Babylonia from the rise of the Second Dynasty of Isin (c. 1158 B.C.) to the death of Shalmaneser V (722 B.C.). The author's discussion is limited almost entirely to political history, that is the inquiry into the internal and...
Peeters, 2023. — 405 p. — (Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta 319). This volume is dedicated to the material culture of Babylonia and its neighbouring regions as documented in cuneiform texts. It presents the results of research conducted in the framework of the Franco-Austrian collaborative project ANR-FWF Material Culture of Babylonia during the 1st millennium BC (MCB). The case...
Sidestone Press, 2020. — 422 p. This book contains a selection of nineteen articles published by K.R. Veenhof, focusing on his main field of study: law and trade in the Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian society of the early second millennium B.C. They were originally published in journals, conference proceedings and collective volumes over the past fifty years. Their reissue here...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009. — 387 p. — (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für altorientalische und biblische Rechtsgeschichte 10). This volume surveys the legal and literary references to gender, sexuality, and marital relations found in biblical sources and in Rabbinic texts until the end of the Tamudic era (c. 600 C.E.). Subject areas include Israel’s familial historiography,...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017. — 482 p. — (Classica et Orientalia 18). Since Prehistory, communities principally engaged in herding activities have occupied the intermontane valleys and plains of the Zagros (Western Iran). Relations, tensions and cultural exchange between the inhabitants of the mountains and the Mesopotamian plains already occurred during the Bronze Age. These...
Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2022. — 232 p. — (Barcino Monographica Orientalia 19). The ancient Near Eastern city of Emar (also called Imar)—modern Old Meskene (Meskene Qadima) or Tell Meskene—was discovered in the course of rescue excavations conducted during the construction of a dam near Tabqa, in northern Syria. Between 1972 and 1976, excavations were carried...
Walter de Gruyter, 2015. — 878 p. — (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 7). The cuneiform tablets from Ebla (3rd millenium BC) attest to the most ancient Semitic language and provide insight into a period in the history and religion of Syria that was previously unknown. The restoration, interpretation, and classification of these tablets has taken more than thirty years....
Walter de Gruyter, 2015. — 257 p. — (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 8). Two topics of current critical interest, agency and materiality, are here explored in the context of their intersection with the divine. Specific case studies, emphasizing the ancient Near East but including treatments also of the European Middle Ages and ancient Greece, elucidate the nature and...
Walter de Gruyter, 2016. — 521 p. — (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 10). This volume examines the state ideology of Assyria in the Early Neo-Assyrian period (934-745 BCE) focusing on how power relations between the Mesopotamian deities, the Assyrian king, and foreign lands are described and depicted. It undertakes a close reading of delimited royal inscriptions and...
Walter de Gruyter, 2016. — 506 p. — (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 11). Ever since the archaeological rediscovery of the Ancient Near East, generations of scholars have attempted to reconstruct the "real Babylon,” known to us before from the evocative biblical account of the Tower of Babel. After two centuries of excavations and scholarship, Mario Liverani provides an...
Walter de Gruyter, 2016. — 585 p. — (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 13). Economic history is well documented in Assyriology, thanks to the preservation of dozens of thousands of clay tablets recording administrative operations, contracts and acts dealing with family law. Despite these voluminous sources, the topic of work and the contribution of women have rarely been...
Walter de Gruyter, 2016. — 586 p. — (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 13). Economic history is well documented in Assyriology, thanks to the preservation of dozens of thousands of clay tablets recording administrative operations, contracts and acts dealing with family law. Despite these voluminous sources, the topic of work and the contribution of women have rarely been...
Walter de Gruyter, 2017. — 269 p. — (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 15). These essays represent a summation of Piotr Steinkeller's decades-long thinking and writing about the history of third millennium BCE Babylonia and the ways in which it is reflected in ancient historical and literary sources and art, as well as of how these written and visual materials may be used...
Walter de Gruyter, 2017. — 251 p. — (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 16). Scholars often assume that the nature of Mesopotamian kingship was such that questioning royal authority was impossible. This volume challenges that general assumption, by presenting an analysis of the motivations,methods, and motifs behind a scholarly discourse about kingship that arose in the...
Walter de Gruyter, 2017. — 427 p. — (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 17.1). Despite siginificant advances in annual chronology, the Old Assyrian trade fundamentally lacked a regime of time at the level of the merchant’s commercial and personal activities. In this book, Stratford sets out to recapture time through narrative, drawing on the relationship between the two...
Walter de Gruyter, 2017. — 428 p. — (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 17.1). Despite siginificant advances in annual chronology, the Old Assyrian trade fundamentally lacked a regime of time at the level of the merchant’s commercial and personal activities. In this book, Stratford sets out to recapture time through narrative, drawing on the relationship between the two...
Walter de Gruyter, 2017. — 348 p. — (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 18). Shulgi-simti is an important example of a woman involved in sponsoring religious activities though having a family life. An Ox of One’s Own will be of interest to Assyriologists, particularly those interested in Early Mesopotamia, and scholars working on women in religion. An Ox of One’s Own...
Walter de Gruyter, 2017. — 348 p. — (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 18). Shulgi-simti is an important example of a woman involved in sponsoring religious activities though having a family life. An Ox of One’s Own will be of interest to Assyriologists, particularly those interested in Early Mesopotamia, and scholars working on women in religion. An Ox of One’s Own...
Walter de Gruyter, 2018. — 307 p. — (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 20). The Sealand kingdom arose from the rebellion against Babylonian hegemony in the latter half of the 18th century BCE., forcing it to share power over Sumer and Akkad. Although its kings maintained themselves throughout the turmoil leading to the demise of the Amorite dynasty at Babylon, it remains...
Walter de Gruyter, 2018. — 523 p. — (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 21). There are few studies that deal with an overall treatment of the Hittite administrative system, and various other works on its offices and officials have tended to be limited in scope, focusing only on certain groups or certain time periods. This book provides a comprehensive investigation of the...
Walter de Gruyter, 2019. — 288 p. — (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 23). This book explores the reasons for which weights and scales were used to measure goods in Early Mesopotamia (ca. 3,200-2,000 BCE). The vast corpus of cuneiform records from this period sheds light on the various mechanisms behind the development of this cultural innovation. Weighing became the...
Walter de Gruyter, 2019. — 288 p. — (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 23). This book explores the reasons for which weights and scales were used to measure goods in Early Mesopotamia (ca. 3,200-2,000 BCE). The vast corpus of cuneiform records from this period sheds light on the various mechanisms behind the development of this cultural innovation. Weighing became the...
Walter de Gruyter, 1993. — 564 S. — (Untersuchungen zur Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie 7). Das gestellte Thema erinnert unmittelbar an B. Landsberger Arbeit „Der Kultische Kalender der Babylonier und Assyrer" aus dem Jahre 1915, die aus seiner Dissertation hervorgegangen ist. Doch während Landsberger noch eine Zusammenschau der damals bekannten...
Facts on File, 1990. — 238 p. Beginning with a description of the physical changes that occurred in the region following the last Ice Age, and their influence on patterns of settlement, the atlas tells the story of the cultural, technological, political and economic achievements of the different peoples, races and tribes who occupied the area in the course of nearly 12,000...
Folio, 2006. — 263 p. — (Grandes civilizações do passado 12). Desde o final da última Era Glacial e até surgirem as civilizações da Grécia e de Roma, as sociedades mais avançadas viveram no Oriente Médio. Foi ali que se produziu a transição fundamental da caça e da colheita para a agricultura, onde se ergueram os primeiros templos e as primeiras cidades, onde pela primeira vez...
Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 275 p. — (Case Studies in Early Societies 1). This is an in-depth treatment of the antecedents and first flourescence of early state and urban societies in lowland Mesopotamia over nearly three millennia, from approximately 5000 to 2100 BC. The approach is explicitly anthropological, drawing on contemporary theoretical perspectives to enrich...
Zaphon, 2020. — 166 p. — (Melammu Workshops and Monographs 3). Proceedings of the Melammu Workshop held in Jena 19th September 2017 The contributions of this Melammu workshop address an issue fundamental for the Melammu project: the investigation and illustration of the many and profound links between the Ancient Near East and European and Western cultures. The reversing of the...
Zaphon, 2023. — 284 p. — (Melammu Workshops and Monographs 8). Proceedings of the 15th Melammu Workshop, Verona, 19–21 January 2022 This conference volume assembles 16 contributions to “Ethnicity and Geography in the Eastern Mediterranean Area (First Millennium BC). In combination with the corresponding “Shaping Boundary” project of the University of Verona it aims to analyse a...
Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2013. — 104 p. — (Supplementi alla «Rivista di studi fenici» XXXIX). I due ampi saggi di Tatiana Pedrazzi e Ida Oggiano che compongono il presente volume affrontano il tema delle relazioni tra impero persiano e mondo fenicio in un'ottica originale, che permette di superare la diffusa antinomia Oriente-Occidente per proporre una visione al tempo stesso...
Gorgias Press, 2012. — 314 p. — (Gorgias Ugaritic Studies 6). From Ugarit to Nabataea is a collection of articles on the texts and cultures of various Near and Middle Eastern societies such as Ugarit, Ancient North Arabia, Nabatea, Palmyra, Edessa, the monasteries of Mesopotamia, and modern day Syriac-speaking communities. They include discussion of the religious beliefs,...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023. — 261 S. — (Sabaica et Æthiopica 1). Der von Norbert Nebes und Iris Gerlach herausgegebene Band versammelt hauptsächlich die überarbeiteten Vorträge des im September 2019 an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität (FSU) Jena gehaltenen Symposions „Migration und Kulturtransfer in den Kulturen des Vorderen Orients in der Antike“. Hintergrund der...
Zaphon, 2023. — 476 p. — (Melammu Workshops and Monographs 9). 28 articles have been assembled to celebrate the 80th birthday of the Assyriologist Simo Parpola. In accordance with his focus of interest many contributions deal with history, culture, language, religious aspects and archaeology of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The horizon of the festschrift is broadened by studies on...
Zaphon, 2023. — 526 S. — (Kasion 12). Die vorliegende Festschrift für den Alttestamentler Herbert Niehr (Tübingen) versammelt 23 Beiträge, die sich exegetisch oder religionsgeschichtlich mit den Texten des Alten Testaments befassen, sowie Beiträge, die „über das Alte Testament hinaus“ gehen und den westsemitischen Kulturraum philologisch, ikonographisch und archäologisch in den...
Les éditions du Cerf, 1977. — 310 p. La vie quotidienne, l'administration, les problèmes économiques de l'ancien Israël revivent grâce à ces " ostraca ", ces tessons de poterie sur lesquels on écrivait des ordres, des listes, des messages. L'histoire immédiate tout comme les grands bouleversements du peuple de la Bible se révèlent par ce livre savant qui rassemble les ostraca...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. — 198 p. M. DAndrea - The Religious Complexes at Megiddo and Khirbet ez-Zeraqon and the Early Bronze Age Interregional Connectivity J. Pasquali - Entre deuil et necromancie: le lexique de la lamentation funebre a Ebla et dans lAntiquite classique a la lumiere de lethnologie et de la religion comparee S. Dibo - Nouvelles reflexions sur la question...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019. — 255 p. This volume is dedicated to Olof Pedersen, professor emeritus in Assyriology at Uppsala University and primarily known for his studies on the archives and libraries of the cities of Assur and Babylon. The main title of the book, The Rod and Measuring Rope, alludes to the honoree's architectural background and to his characteristic great...
Zaphon, 2022. — 427 p. — (wEdge 2). This volume rethinks the ways through which the terms ideology and propaganda have been used and can be used in ancient Near Eastern studies. The seventeen contributors to this collection include scholars whose work brings new reflections and theoretical approaches to bear on varied materials and contexts. Their essays – from different fields...
Zaphon, 2022. — 516 p. — (Ägypten und Altes Testament 114). This Festschrift assembles 32 contributions devoted to K. Lawson Younger, Jr. by his colleagues and students from North America, Israel and Europe. In accordance with significant topics of his own scholarly oeuvre the articles focus on Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern studies. Among many other topics the...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019. — 232 p. The aim of this new international journal is to contribute to developing the study of the interpretation and understanding of the ancient cultures of Syria, remaining as open as possible to the different methodologies and problems that characterize present-day research. Thanks to the generous policy of international collaboration pursued...
Zaphon, 2022. — 307 S. — (Ägypten und Altes Testament 100). Anlässlich der ersten 40 Jahre der Reihe „Aegypten und Altes Testament“ mit ihrem 100. Band fand im Dezember 2019 in München eine Konferenz zum Thema der Reihe „Ägypten und die hebräische Bibel“ statt. In diesem Band werden die Aufsätze drei Hauptbereichen zugeordnet: Sprache, Ikonographie und Geschichte. In einem...
Eisenbrauns, 2015. — 477 p. For over 40 years, Jack M. Sasson has been studying and commenting on the cuneiform archives from Mari on the Euphrates River, especially those from the age of Hammurabi of Babylon. Among Mari’s wealth of documents, some of the most interesting are letters from and to kings, their advisers and functionaries, their wives and daughters, their scribes...
CDL Press, 2001. — 482 p. This work consists of two volumes, on historiography in the Ancient Near East and on the use of seals in the Ancient Near East. The discussions and illustrations provide rare insight into facets of Mesopotamian civilization. Part I: Historiography in the Cuneiform World and Part II: Seals and Seal Impressions.
Zaphon, 2018. — 483 S. — (marru 1). Dreißig Beiträge in deutscher und englischer Sprache sind dem Archäologen Reinhard Dittmann (Universität Münster) gewidmet. Sie bieten eine breitgefächerte Auswahl an Themen der Vorderasiatischen Archäologie und der Assyriologie, von neolithischen und chalkolithischen Zeiten bis zum frühen Christentum im nördlichen Iraq, von Zypern im Westen...