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Book Two Hundred Nuzi Texts from the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago 001

Download or read book Two Hundred Nuzi Texts from the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago 001 written by Maynard P. Maidman and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Two Hundred Nuzi Texts from the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

Download or read book Two Hundred Nuzi Texts from the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago written by Oriental Institute (Chicago, Ill.) and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Two hundred Nuzi texts from the Oriental Institute of Chicago

Download or read book Two hundred Nuzi texts from the Oriental Institute of Chicago written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Two hundred Nuzi texts from the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

Download or read book Two hundred Nuzi texts from the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago written by University of Chicago. Oriental Institute and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nuzi Texts and Their Uses as Historical Evidence

Download or read book Nuzi Texts and Their Uses as Historical Evidence written by M. P. Maidman and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2010 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Assyria and Arrapha in peace and war -- Corruption in city hall -- A legal dispute over land: two generations of legal paperwork -- The decline and fall of a Nuzi family -- The nature of the ilku at Nuzi

Book Nuzi Texts and Their Uses as Historical Evidence

Download or read book Nuzi Texts and Their Uses as Historical Evidence written by M. P. Maidman and published by Brill Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Nuzi, buried beneath modern Yorghan Tepe in northern Iraq, is a Late Bronze Age town belonging to the kingdom of Arrap a that has yielded between 6,500 and 7,000 legal, economic and administrative tablets, all belonging to a period of some five generations (ca. 1475 1350 B.C.E.) and almost all from known archaeological contexts. The tablets were excavated from the government administrative complexes, from houses in all the urban neighborhoods, from each of the suburban villas, and even a few dozen from the temple complex. These Akkadian-language documents include contracts for labor, deeds of sale, testamentary wills, slave sales, ration lists, inter-office memoranda, trial records, scholastic texts, and much more. The ninety-six texts presented here in transliteration and translation are divided into five groups dealing with topics of historical interest: Nuzi and the political force responsible for its demise; the crimes and trials of a mayor of Nuzi; a multigenerational legal struggle over title to a substantial amount of land; the progressive enrichment of one family at the expense of another through a series of real estate transactions; and the nature of the ilku, a real estate tax whose dynamic is crucial in defining the economic and social structure of Nuzi as a whole.

Book Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians

Download or read book Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians written by David I. Owen and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 1981 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dawn of Israel

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  • Author : Lester L. Grabbe
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2022-11-17
  • ISBN : 056766323X
  • Pages : 375 pages

Download or read book The Dawn of Israel written by Lester L. Grabbe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this companion volume to his bestselling Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? Lester L. Grabbe provides the background history of the main ancient Near Eastern peoples and empires: Babylonia, Assyria, Urartu, Hittites, Amorites, Egyptians. Grabbe's focus is on Palestine/Canaan and covers the early second millennium, including the Middle Bronze Age and the Second Intermediate Period and Hyksos rule of Egypt. Grabbe also addresses the question of a 'patriarchal period'. The main focus of the book is on the second half of the second millennium: Late Bronze and early Iron Age, the Egyptian New Kingdom, the Amarna letters, the Sea Peoples, the question of 'the exodus', the early settlements in the hill country of Palestine, and the first mention of Israel in the Merenptah inscription. Archaeology and the contribution of the social sciences both feature heavily, as does inscriptional and iconographic material. As such this volume provides a fascinating portrayal of ancient Israel and this definitive work by one of the world's leading biblical historians will be of interest to all students and scholars of biblical history.

Book Children in the Ancient Near Eastern Household

Download or read book Children in the Ancient Near Eastern Household written by Kristine Garroway and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children were an important part of the ancient Near Eastern household. This idea seems straightforward, but it can be understood in many ways. On a basic level, children are necessary for the perpetuation of a household. On a deeper level, the definitions of child and member of the household are far from categorical. This book begins to explore the multiple definitions of child and the way the child fits within a household. It examines what membership in the household looks like for children and what factors contribute to it. A study addressing what a child is and how a child’s gender and social status affect her place in the household is vital to a proper understanding of the ancient Near Eastern household. Despite their importance, children have long been marginalized in discussions of ancient societies. Only recently has this trend begun to change within biblical and ancient Near Eastern scholarship. A recent wave of studies, especially in relation to the Hebrew Bible, has started to address children in their own right. In light of the current state of scholarship on children, the purpose of this book is threefold. First, Garroway continues to fill out the picture of the child in the ancient Near East by compiling child-centric texts and archaeological realia. In analyzing these materials, she surveys the relationship between children and ancient Near Eastern society by examining the extent to which structuring forces in a community, such as social status and gender, contribute to the process of a child’s becoming a member of his household and society. Finally, this information provides a base for future research, for example, a cross-cultural study of children in the ancient Near East in Classical Antiquity.

Book Judicial Decisions in the Ancient Near East

Download or read book Judicial Decisions in the Ancient Near East written by Sophie Démare-Lafont and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the first broadly inclusive collection, with accessible text and English translation, of documents related to judicial decisions in the ancient Near East, the oldest setting for such writing in the world. The texts in this volume belong to various genres, especially legal records and letters, and span almost two thousand years. With such varied material, the work depends on the expertise of specialists in each setting, from the Sumerian of early Ur to the late Akkadian of Babylonia under the Persians. The collection brings together not only 183 transliterated texts and new translations but also introductions and commentary that place these legal documents in their historical and social contexts. A glossary of legal terms, a concordance of texts included, and an index of legal terms makes this an invaluable tool for students and scholars across disciplines. The contributors are Dominique Charpin, Sophie Démare-Lafont, Daniel E. Fleming, Francis Joannès, Bertrand Lafont, Brigitte Lion, Ignacio Márquez Rowe, Cécile Michel, and Pierre Villard.

Book The Ugaritic Baal Cycle

Download or read book The Ugaritic Baal Cycle written by Mark S. Smith and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1994 with total page 905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ugaritic Baal Cycle, Volume II provides a new edition, translation and commentary on the third and fourth tablets of the Baal Cycle, the most important religious text found at Ugarit.

Book Studies of Bactrian Legal Documents

Download or read book Studies of Bactrian Legal Documents written by Hossein Sheikh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of Bactrian Legal Documents deals with the legal practice in Greater Khorasan between the 4th and 8th centuries CE.

Book Ancient Israel  What Do We Know and How Do We Know It

Download or read book Ancient Israel What Do We Know and How Do We Know It written by Lester L. Grabbe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ancient Israel Lester L. Grabbe sets out to summarize what we know through a survey of sources and how we know it by a discussion of methodology and by evaluating the evidence. The most basic question about the history of ancient Israel, how do we know what we know, leads to the fundamental questions of Grabbe's work: what are the sources for the history of Israel and how do we evaluate them? How do we make them 'speak' to us through the fog of centuries? Grabbe focuses on original sources, including inscriptions, papyri, and archaeology. He examines the problems involved in historical methodology and deals with the major issues surrounding the use of the biblical text when writing a history of this period. Ancient Israel provides an enlightening overview and critique of current scholarly debate. It can therefore serve as a 'handbook' or reference-point for those wanting a catalogue of original sources, scholarship, and secondary studies. Grabbe's clarity of style makes this book eminently accessible not only to students of biblical studies and ancient history but also to the interested lay reader. For this new edition the entire text has been reworked to take account of new archaeological discoveries and theories. There is a major expansion to include a comprehensive coverage of David and Solomon and more detailed information on specific kings of Israel throughout. Grabbe has also added material on the historicity of the Exodus, and provided a thorough update of the material on the later bronze age.

Book General Studies and Excavations at Nuzi 11 2

Download or read book General Studies and Excavations at Nuzi 11 2 written by David I. Owen and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 23 essays on the 2nd-millennium BC Near East as well as copies of new texts from Nuzi. Topics include chronology , excavation reports, Hurrian language, troop rosters, sealing practices, winged disks and sacred trees, the eating of pig, the use of marijuana, issues of ethnicity, and much more.

Book The Ugaritic Baal Cycle

Download or read book The Ugaritic Baal Cycle written by Mark Smith and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-02-28 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ugaritic Baal Cycle, Volume II provides a new edition, translation and commentary on the third and fourth tablets of the Baal Cycle, the most important religious text found at Ugarit.

Book Tradition and Innovation in the Ancient Near East

Download or read book Tradition and Innovation in the Ancient Near East written by Alfonso Archi and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-01-23 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July, 2011, the International Association for Assyriology met in Rome, Italy, for 5 days to deliver and listen to papers on the theme “Tradition and Innovation in the Ancient Near East”. This volume, the proceedings of the conference, contains more than 40 of the papers read at the 57th annual Rencontre, including 3 plenary lectures/papers, many papers directly connected with the theme, as well as a workshop on parents and children. The papers covered every period of Mesopotamian history, from the third millennium through the end of the first millennium B.C.E. The attendees were warmly hosted by faculty and students from the Università di Roma “La Sapienza”.