A companion to the ancient Near East /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2005.
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| Series: | Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- Part I, The shape of the Ancient Near East. Historical overview / Mario Liverani
- From sedentism to states, 10,000 to 3000 BCE / Augusta McMahon
- The age of empires, 3100-900 BCE / Mark Chavalas
- World hegemony, 900-300 BCE / Paul-Alain Beaulieu
- Part II, Discourses on methods. Archaeology and the Ancient Near East : methods and limits / Marie-Henriette Gates
- The languages of the Ancient Near East / Gonzalo Rubio
- The historian's task / Daniel C. Snell
- Part III, Economy and society. The degradation of the Ancient Near Eastern environment / Carlos E. Cordova
- Nomadism through the ages / Jorge Silva Castillo
- Mesopotamian cities and countryside / Elizabeth C. Stone
- Money and trade / Christopher M. Monroe
- Working / David A. Warburton
- Law and practice / Bruce Wells
- Social tensions in the Ancient Near East / John F. Robertson
- Gender roles in ancient Egypt / Ann Macy Roth
- Royal women and the exercise of power / Sarah C. Melville
- Warfare in ancient Egypt / Anthony J. Spalinger
- Part IV, Culture. The transmission of knowledge / Benjamin R. Foster
- Literature / Tawny L. Holm
- Ancient Near Eastern architecture / Sally Dunham
- Mesopotamian art / Marian H. Feldman
- Mesopotamian medicine / Joann Scurlock
- Mesopotamian cosmology / Francesca Rochberg
- Divine and non-divine kingship / Philip Jones
- How religion was done / Gary Beckman
- Part V, Heritage of the Ancient Near East. The invention of the individual / Daniel C. Snell
- Ethnicity / Henri Limet
- Public versus private in the Ancient Near East / Steven Garfinkle
- Democracy and freedom / Matthew Martin III and Daniel C. Snell
- Monotheism and ancient Israelite religion / S. David Sperling
- The decipherment of the Ancient Near East / Peter T. Daniels
- Legacies of the Ancient Near East / Daniel C. Snell.