The Scribes and Scholars of the City of Emar in the Late Bronze Age
Title | The Scribes and Scholars of the City of Emar in the Late Bronze Age PDF eBook |
Author | Yoram Cohen |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2018-08-14 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004370048 |
This book aims to place Emar's scribal school institution within its social and historical context.
Bodies of Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia
Title | Bodies of Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Rutz |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 704 |
Release | 2013-04-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004245685 |
In Bodies of Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia Matthew Rutz explores the relationship between ancient collections of texts, commonly deemed libraries and archives, and the modern interpretation of titles like ‘diviner’. By looking at cuneiform tablets as artifacts with archaeological contexts, this work probes the modern analytical categories used to study ancient diviners and investigates the transmission of Babylonian/Assyrian scholarship in Syria. During the Late Bronze Age diviners acted as high-ranking scribes and cultic functionaries in Emar, a town on the Syrian Euphrates (ca. 1375-1175 BCE). This book’s centerpiece is an extensive analytical catalogue of the excavated tablet collection of one family of diviners. Over seventy-five fragments are identified for the first time, along with many proposed joins between fragments.
Wisdom from the Late Bronze Age
Title | Wisdom from the Late Bronze Age PDF eBook |
Author | Yoram Cohen |
Publisher | Society of Biblical Lit |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2013-09-25 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1589837541 |
This volume presents the original texts and annotated translations of a collection of Mesopotamian wisdom compositions and related texts of the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500–1200 B.C.E.) found at the ancient Near Eastern sites of Hattuša, Emar, and Ugarit. These wisdom compositions constitute the missing link between the great Sumerian wisdom corpus and early Akkadian wisdom literature of the Old Babylonian period, on the one hand, and the wisdom compositions of the first millennium B.C.E., on the other. Included here are works such as the Ballad of Early Rulers, Hear the Advice, and The Date-Palm and the Tamarisk, as well as proverb collections from Ugarit and Hattuša. A detailed introduction provides an assessment of the place of wisdom literature in the ancient curriculum and library collections.
The City of Emar Among the Late Bronze Age Empires
Title | The City of Emar Among the Late Bronze Age Empires PDF eBook |
Author | Lorenzo D'Alfonso |
Publisher | Ugarit Verlag |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
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This volume presents a collection of articles, which were given as lectures at the occasion of a conference in Konstanz. They deal with the archive of Emar which kept texts from the Mid-Fourteenth century through 1175 BC.
Children in Ancient Israel
Title | Children in Ancient Israel PDF eBook |
Author | Shawn W. Flynn |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2018-08-30 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0191087017 |
Flynn contributes to the emerging field of childhood studies in the Hebrew Bible by isolating stages of a child's life, and through a comparative perspective, studies the place of children in the domestic cult and their relationship to the deity in that cult. The study gathers data relevant to different stages of a child's life from a plethora of Mesopotamian materials (prayers, myths, medical texts, rituals), and uses that data as an interpretive lens for Israelite texts about children at similar stages such as: pre-born children, the birth stage, breast feeding, adoption, slavery, children's death and burial rituals, childhood delinquency. This analysis presses the questions of value and violence, the importance of the domestic cult for expressing the child's value beyond economic value, and how children were valued in cultures with high infant mortality rates. From the earliest stages to the moments when children die, and to the children's responsibilities in the domestic cult later in life, this study demonstrates that a child is uniquely wrapped up in the domestic cult, and in particular, is connected with the deity. The domestic-cultic value of children forms the much broader understanding of children in the ancient world, through which other more problematic representations can be tested. Throughout the study, it becomes apparent that children's value in the domestic cult is an intentional catalyst for the social promotion of YHWHism.
Beyond Hatti
Title | Beyond Hatti PDF eBook |
Author | Billie Jean Collins |
Publisher | Lockwood Press |
Pages | 397 |
Release | 2014-06-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1937040283 |
This collection of essays honors the life and work of Gary Beckman, Professor of Hittite and Mesopotamian Studies at the University of Michigan. The essays were contributed by his colleagues, students, and friends, and their breadth-traversing ancient Anatolia, Syria, Mesopotamia, and beyond-are a measure of the range of his influence as a scholar. His interest in the reception and adaptation of Syro-Mesopotamian culture by the Hittites in particular inspired this offering.
Letters from the Hittite Kingdom
Title | Letters from the Hittite Kingdom PDF eBook |
Author | Harry A. Hoffner |
Publisher | Society of Biblical Lit |
Pages | 468 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN | 1589832124 |