Life and thought in the ancient Near East /
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Call Number: DS57 .O75 2007
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| 100 | 1 | |a Orlin, Louis L., |q (Louis Lawrence), |e author |9 37139 | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Life and thought in the ancient Near East / |c Louis L.Orlin. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Ann Arbor : |b University of Michigan Press, |c c2007. | |
| 300 | |a xviii, 239 pages, [24] pages of plates : |b illustrations, maps ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-227) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Mesopotamia -- In the Tablet Houses of Mesopotamia -- New Year's Day in Babylon -- Decoding the Hammurabi Law Code -- On the Lighter Side of Mesopotamia: A Glimpse into Sumerian Palace and Temple Household Life -- Wild Animals and Game Parks -- Archaeology: The "Cold Case File" of the Historian -- Egypt -- Theme and Variations on Herodotus's Statement That "Egypt Is the Gift of the Nile" -- On the Essential Cosmic Rhythms of Ancient Egyptian Life -- The Palestinian Corridor -- The Seagoing Phoenicians -- From Tribal Coalition to Statehood in Ancient Israel -- Ancient Persia and a Tale of Two Cities: Athens and Jerusalem in the Fifth Century -- On Nomads and Nomadism -- Anatolia -- An Old Assyrian Trading Enterprise in Asia Minor -- On Chariot Warfare -- Some Observations on Ancient Near Eastern Treaties -- When Princes Squabble: A Royal Dispute in Central Anatolia -- Some Literary Observations -- On the Greatness of Gilgamesh as an Ancient Near Eastern Epic -- Reflections on Ancient Near Eastern Myth -- Wisdom Literature -- Translating an Old Babylonian Poem: "Prayer to the Gods of Night" -- Physical Background: Landforms, Climate, and Hydrology of the Near East -- Historical Background: The Setting of Prehistoric Cultural Development in Mesopotamia and Egypt -- Civic Background: Cities and Gods in the Ancient Near East -- Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Israel -- Languages and Literature -- A Brief Note on Languages -- A General View of Ancient Near Eastern Literature -- Decipherments -- The Decipherment of Cuneiform Writing -- The Discovery of Hittite Civilization and the Decipherment of Hittite -- Conclusion: Who Will Know about Us When We're Gone? -- A Summary of Culture Growth in Mesopotamia and Egypt -- Methodological Fallacies in the Study of Ancient Near Eastern Religion. | |
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