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Heralds of That Good Realm : Syro-Mesopotamian Gnosis and Jewish Traditions /
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This volume examines the transmission of biblical pseudepigraphic literature and motifs from their largely Jewish cultural contexts in Palestine to developing gnostic milieux of Syria and Mesopotamia, particularly that one lying behind the birth and growth of Manichaeism. It surveys biblical pseudepigraphic literary activity in the late antique Near East, devoting special attention to revelatory works attributed to the five biblical forefathers who are cited in the Cologne Mani Codex : Adam, Seth, Enosh, Shem, and Enoch. The author provides a philological, literary, and religio-historical analysis of each of the five pseudepigraphic citations contained in the Codex , and offers hypotheses regarding the original provenance of each citation and the means by which these traditions have been adapted to their present context. This study is an important contribution to the scholarly reassessment of the roles played by Second Temple Judaism, Jewish Christian sectarianism, and classical gnosis in the formulation and development of Syro-Mesopotamian religious currents.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004439702
9789004104594
East and west of Zagros : travel, war and politics in Persia and Iraq 1913-1921 /
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C.J. Edmonds published articles in orientalist journals and co-authored with Taufiq Wahby A Kurdish-English dictionary (Oxford, 1966). He published his memoirs of Iraq, Kurds, Turks, and Arabs : politics, travel and research in North-Eastern Iraq, 1919-1925 (London - New York, 1957), but his Persian memoirs remained unpublished. It tells how, after studying oriental languages in Cambridge, he became Consular Officer in Bushire, participated in British campaigns in Mesopotamia during First World War. As a Political Officer in Luristan Edmonds was in charge of the oil fields' security and was sent to Northern Persia after the war, a direct witness of the Jangal upheaval and the 1921 coup d'Etat.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-338) and index. :
9789047426905 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Manichaeism in Mesopotamia and the Roman East /
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The study of Manichaeism, the first Gnostic world religion, has made major advances in the last few decades thanks to the continuing discovery and decipherment of genuine Manichaean texts from Egypt and Central Asia. This work brings together a number of major articles by the author published between 1981 and 1992 on the history of the sect in Mesopotamia and the Roman Empire. The studies have all been up-dated in the light of newly published material.
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1 online resource (xiv, 325 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789004295810 :
0927-7633 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Women at the dawn of history /
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In the patriarchal world of ancient Mesopotamia, women were often represented in their relation to men - as mothers, daughters, or wives - giving the impression that a woman's place was in the home. But, as we explore in this volume, they were also authors and scholars, astute business-women, sources of expressions of eroticism, priestesses with access to major gods and goddesses, and regents who exercised power on behalf of kingdoms, states, and empires.
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Catalog of the exhibition held in the Babylonian Collection in the Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University beginning February 29th, 2020. :
111 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 26 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-111). :
9781734342000
Ausgrabungen in Uruk-Warka : Endberichte /
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"Herausgegeben von Rainer Michael Boehmer"--V. 5, pt. 1, t.p.
Vols. <11; 13, pt. 5; 15, pt. 1; 17-18; 20-21; 24-25> issued by the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Orient-Abteilung.
Vol. 15, pt. 1 has accompanying portfolio with 40 ill. on 40 leaves of plates. :
v. <2; 4; 5, pt. 1; 8, pt. 1; 11, pt. 2; 13, pt. 5; 15, pt. 1; 17-18; 20-21; 24-25; in 15> : ill. (some col.) ; 36 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
3805316887 (Bd. 25)
Experiencing power, generating authority : cosmos, politics, and the ideology of kingship in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia /
: "The work contained in this volume is the result of a four-day workshop entitled 'Experiencing power--Generating Authority : Cosmos, Politics, and the Ideology of Kingship in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia' held in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology November 2007."--Page [xxvii]. : xxx, 448 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9781934536643
Egitto, Iraq ed Etruria nelle fotografie di John Alfred Spranger : viaggi e ricerche archeologiche (1929-1936) /
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This volume presents the 1930s archaeological photo-albums of photos make it possible to understand, after almost a century, how many Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Etruscan sites appeared at the time of their first excavations.
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Previously issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (178 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789691276 (ebook) :
Mobile pastoralism and the formation of Near Eastern civilizations : weaving together society /
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"In this book, Anne Porter explores the idea that mobile and sedentary members of the ancient world were integral parts of the same social and political groups in greater Mesopotamia during the period 4000 to 1500 BCE. She draws on a wide range of archaeological and cuneiform sources to show how networks of social structure, political and religious ideology, and everyday as well as ritual practice, worked to maintain the integrity of those groups when the pursuit of different subsistence activities dispersed them over space. These networks were dynamic, shaping many of the key events and innovations of the time, including the Uruk expansion and the introduction of writing, so-called secondary state formation and the organization and operation of government, the literary production of the Third Dynasty of Ur and the first stories of Gilgamesh, and the emergence of the Amorrites in the second millennium BCE" --
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x, 389 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9780521764438
The neo-Aramaic dialect of Barwar /
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The Aramaic language has continued to be spoken in various dialects down to modern times. Many of these dialects, however, are now endangered due to political events in the Middle East over the last hundred years. This work, in three volumes, presents a description of one such endangered neo-Aramaic dialect, that of the Assyrian Christian community of the Barwar region in northern Iraq. It is a unique record of the dialect based on interviews with the surviving older generation of the community. Volume one contains a detailed grammatical description of the dialect, including sections on phonology, morphology and syntax. Volume two contains an extensive glossary of the lexicon of the dialect with illustrations of various aspects of the material culture. Volume three contains transcriptions of numerous recorded texts, including folktales, ethnographic texts, songs, and proverbs.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9789047443490 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
The neo-Aramaic dialect of Barwar /
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The Aramaic language has continued to be spoken in various dialects down to modern times. Many of these dialects, however, are now endangered due to political events in the Middle East over the last hundred years. This work, in three volumes, presents a description of one such endangered neo-Aramaic dialect, that of the Assyrian Christian community of the Barwar region in northern Iraq. It is a unique record of the dialect based on interviews with the surviving older generation of the community. Volume one contains a detailed grammatical description of the dialect, including sections on phonology, morphology and syntax. Volume two contains an extensive glossary of the lexicon of the dialect with illustrations of various aspects of the material culture. Volume three contains transcriptions of numerous recorded texts, including folktales, ethnographic texts, songs, and proverbs.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9789047443490 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
The Amorites : A Political History of Mesopotamia in the Early Second Millennium BCE /
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This study of the political history of Mesopotamia - today's Iraq and Syria - in the Old Babylonian period (ca. 2000-1600 BCE) is the first comprehensive historical synthesis of this kind published in English after many decades. Based on numerous written sources in Sumerian and Akkadian - royal inscriptions, letters, law collections, economic records, etc. - and on up-to-date research, it presents the region's political history in a meticulous geographic and chronological manner. This allows the interested academic and non-academic reader an in-depth view into the scene of ancient Mesopotamia ruled by competing dynasties of West Semitic (Amorite) origin, with a complex web of political and tribal connections between them.
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1 online resource (597 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004547315