Download or read book Back to School in Babylonia written by Susanne Paulus and published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume—the companion book to the special exhibition Back to School in Babylonia of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago—explores education in the Old Babylonian period through the lens of House F in Nippur, excavated jointly by the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania in the early 1950s and widely believed to have been a scribal school. The book's twenty essays offer a state-of-the-art synthesis of research on the history of House F and the educational curriculum documented on the many tablets discovered there, while the catalog's five chapters present the 126 objects included in the exhibition, the vast majority of them cuneiform tablets.
Download or read book Babylonian Life and History written by E. A. Wallis Budge and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following pages have been written with the view of offering to the Bible student, in a small compass, a little of the history of Babylon, her thought, religion, and manners, and consequently the means whereby he may understand better some of the allusions of the prophets and Bible historians.-from the Introduction Almost 6,000 years after the beginning of their great society, and 2,600 years after its collapse, the heritage handed us by the ancient Babylonians still runs like a shining thread through our global civilization today, a profound cultural gift recognized in the 19th-century as their cuneiform language was first translated.Here, one of the most prominent antiquarians of the Victorian era introduces us to both the secular reality and the spiritual worldview of these sophisticated early people, from their daily life - including aspects of their food, clothing, and furniture - to their religious traditions, their devotion to astrology, and their practice of magic.Drawing on primary and secondary sources uncovered by the archaeology of the era, this is an important volume for students of mythology, religion, history, and historical research. SIR E.A. BUDGE (1857-1934) was curator of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities at the British Museum form 1894 to 1924. Among his many works of translation and studies of ancient Egyptian religion and ritual is his best-known project, The Egyptian Book of the Dead.
Download or read book Oxford Bibliographies written by Ilan Stavans and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An emerging field of study that explores the Hispanic minority in the United States, Latino Studies is enriched by an interdisciplinary perspective. Historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, demographers, linguists, as well as religion, ethnicity, and culture scholars, among others, bring a varied, multifaceted approach to the understanding of a people whose roots are all over the Americas and whose permanent home is north of the Rio Grande. Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies offers an authoritative, trustworthy, and up-to-date intellectual map to this ever-changing discipline."--Editorial page.
Download or read book Ancient Babylon written by Karen Gibson and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Babylon was the prize that rulers of the ancient world all wanted to capture. It was where the Tower of Babel and the Hanging Gardens could be found. Babylon also gave the world mathematics, writing, and astrology. Legends of Babylon’s many wonders have been passed down through generations. Although first written about in the Bible and the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, people are still trying to learn about this ancient civilization. Who were the people who lived inside the giant walled city? Learn about the mysteries of ancient Babylon.
Download or read book The Mythology of Babylonia and Assyria written by Donald A. Mackenzie and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myths of Babylonia and Assyria is a comprehensive study on the mythology and history of the ancient Mesopotamia. The book starts with a historical summary of the rise and decline of Babylon and Assyria, before it moves to scholar analyses of myths and legends of Babylon and Assyria, with comparisons and parallels drawn to Greek, Egyptian, Norse, Indian, and other mythologies as well as Egyptian and Hebrew history.
Download or read book Rabbinic Instruction in Sasanian Babylonia written by Goodblatt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Jews in Babylonia Part 1 The Parthian period written by Jacob Neusner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Jews in Babylonia Part 1 written by Jacob Neusner and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard. He has published more than 900 books and unnumbered articles, both scholarly and academic and popular and journalistic, and is the most published humanities scholar in the world. He has been awarded nine honorary degrees, including seven US and European honorary doctorates. He received his AB from Harvard College in 1953, his PhD from Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary in 1961, and rabbinical ordination and the degree of Master of Hebrew Letters from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1960. Neusner is editor of the 'Encyclopedia of Judaism' (Brill, 1999. I-III) and its Supplements; Chair of the Editorial Board of 'The Review of Rabbinic Judaism, ' and Editor in Chief of 'The Brill Reference Library of Judaism', both published by E. J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands. He is editor of 'Studies in Judaism', University Press of America. Neusner resides with his wife in Rhinebeck, New York. They have a daughter, three sons and three daughters-in-law, six granddaughters and two grandsons.
Download or read book Babylonian Ceremonial Script in Its Scholarly Context written by Carole Roche-Hawley and published by Lockwood Press. This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the advent of Assyriology in the early nineteenth century it has been known that two distinct scripts were used in ancient Mesopotamian inscriptions and documents. One, usefully characterized as "cursive," was used for the ephemeral documents of "daily life" as well as on most library and archival texts. The other was a deliberately archaizing script reserved for ceremonial use. This ceremonial script, of Babylonian origin, contained both archaic and archaizing signs, and was in productive use for over two millennia, not only in Babylonia but occasionally also in Assyria and beyond. Yet to date there has been no systematic study devoted specifically to this ceremonial script, nor any published syllabary of the archaic and archaizing signs it employs. This volume attempts to rectify this deficiency by providing a substantive introduction to Babylonian ceremonial script, along with a history of its modern study, and several case studies of how the script was actually used. The introduction is supplemented by an edition of the paleographic lists of the second and first millennia BCE, which contain pedagogical inventories of the archaic and archaizing cuneiform signs, illustrating how the ceremonial script was taught, learned and transmitted in scholarly contexts.
Download or read book An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic written by Albert Tobias Clay and published by anboco. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia. Dating from the Third Dynasty of Ur (circa 2100 BC), it is often regarded as the earliest surviving great work of literature. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about 'Bilgamesh' - Sumerian for 'Gilgamesh', king of Uruk. These independent stories were later used as source material for a combined epic. The first surviving version of this combined epic, known as the "Old Babylonian" version, dates to the 18th century BC and is titled after its incipit, Shūtur eli sharrī ("Surpassing All Other Kings"). Only a few tablets of it have survived. The later "Standard" version dates from the 13th to the 10th centuries BC and bears the incipit Sha naqba īmuru ("He who Saw the Deep", in modern terms: "He who Sees the Unknown"). Approximately two thirds of this longer, twelve-tablet version have been recovered. Some of the best copies were discovered in the library ruins of the 7th-century BC Assyrian king Ashurbanipal.
Download or read book A History of the Jews in Babylonia written by Jacob Neusner and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1965 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Babylon written by Eva Christiane Cancik-Kirschbaum and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Note biographique : Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Freie Universität Berlin; Joachim Marzahn, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin;Margarete van Ess, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Orient-Abteilung, Berlin
Download or read book The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia written by Archibald Henry Sayce and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Daniel and the Queen of Babylon written by Carole M. Lunde and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Daniel in the Hebrew Bible gives no information about Daniel’s early life or information about the queen of Babylon. The book is mostly about King Nebuchadnezzar’s increasing dementia, and little about Daniel himself. The queen is mentioned only as one who summoned Daniel to interpret the writing on the wall at Belshazzar’s feast. She was not given a name. Upon extensive research into the ancient empires of Babylonia, Assyria, Persia, China, and Egypt, the story comes forth. She was Queen Nitocris, designer and architect of the rebuilding of the City of Babylon. She was named after Queen Nitocris of Ancient Egypt, who lived 2000 years before her. Daniel was brought into her city, Babylon, as a slave. He became her spiritual teacher and she was his friend. After Daniel’s death in Persia, she carries his teachings and friendship in her heart. His teachings and her quest for purpose and love take her on adventures to China, the fabled Silk Road, India, and Egypt. The author, Carole Lunde, traveled to the middle east and Egypt. Her research for this mysterious queen, who was barely mentioned in the Hebrew Testament, caused her to investigate the ancient histories of Babylonia, Persia, and China around 550 BCE to find this queen and write her story. The author has published nine books on spirituality and Bible fiction, illuminating the lives of other nameless women in the Hebrew Testament.
Download or read book History of the Jews in Babylonia written by Jacob Neusner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1997-08-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Epic of Gilgamesh Old Babylonian and Standard versions Illustrated written by R. Campbell Thompson and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 1590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: www.delphiclassics.com
Download or read book The New Babylonian Diaspora written by Zvi Yehuda and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Babylonian Diaspora: Rise and Fall of Jewish Community in Iraq, 16th–20th Centuries C.E. provides a historical survey of the Iraqi Jewish community's evolution from the apex of its golden age to its disappearance, emergence, rapid growth and annihilation. Making use of Judeo-Arabic newspapers and archives in London, Paris, Washington D.C. and other sources, Zvi Yehuda proves that from 1740 to 1914, Iraq became a lodestone for tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants from Kurdistan, Persia, the Mediterranean Basin, and Eastern and Central Europe. After these Jews had settled in Baghdad and Mesopotamia, they became “Babylonians” and ‘forgot’ their lands of origin, contrary to the social habit of Jews in other communities throughout history.
