The modern Assyrians of the Middle East : encounters with Western Christian missions, archaeologists, and colonial powers /
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This is a revised edition of the author's The Nestorians and Their Muslim Neighbors (Princeton University Press, 1961). Early in the nineteenth century, the Aramaic-speaking \'Nestorian\' Christians received special attention when American Protestant missions decided to educate and reform them to help meet the challenge that Islam presented to the growing missionary movements. When archaeologist Layard further publicized the historic minority as \'Assyrians\', the name acquired a new connotation when other forces at work in the region - religious, nationalistic, imperialistic - entangled these modern Assyrians in vagaries and manipulations in which they were outnumbered and outclassed. The study examines Western Christendom's current position on Islam, with emphasis on the Roman Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches. The revision draws on a wide variety of sources not used in the original.
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A guide to the fourth, fifth and sixth Egyptian rooms, and the Coptic room : a series of collections of small Egyptian antiquities, which illustrate the manners and customs, the ar...
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At head of title : British Museum.
Includes index.
Preface signed : E. A. Wallis Budge. :
xvi, 376 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. :
Bibliography : pages 373-376.
From Memphis to Babylon
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Intro
Acknowledgements
Table of contents
List of illustrations
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
1.1 Aims and questions
1.2 Previous research
1.3 Material and method
1.4 Theory
1.5 Historical background
2. The evidence: the individual level and the biographic perspective
2.1 Identified Africans
2.1.1 People with certain or likely African names
2.1.2 People identified as Africans via ethnonyms
2.1.3 People identified as Africans via family relations
2.2 Possible Africans
2.2.1 People with possibly African names 2.2.2 People with hybrid or adopted African names
2.3 Anonymous Africans
2.3.1 Anonymous Africans in Neo- and Late-Babylonian royal inscriptions and chronicles
2.3.2 Anonymous Africans in Neo- and Late-Babylonian documents
3. The evidence: the collective level and the demographic perspective
3.1 Demographics and the African group: identities and properties
3.1.1 The ethnic composition of the African group
3.1.2 The sex/gender composition of the African group
3.1.3 The age composition of the African group
3.1.4 The class composition of the African group 3.2 Demographics and the African group: settings and circumstances
3.2.1 The temporal distribution of the African group
3.2.2 The spatial distribution of the African group
3.2.3 The backgrounds to the presence of the African group
4. Conclusion
4.1 Africans in Chaldean and Achaemenid Babylonia: integration and assimilation
4.2 Adaptation and co-optation: Babylonian officials of African descent
5. Bibliography
6. Illustrations
7. Appendices and indices
7.1 Appendices
7.1.1 Identified Africans
7.1.2 Possible Africans
7.1.3 Anonymous Africans
7.2 Indices 7.2.1 Deities
7.2.2 People
7.2.3 Places
7.2.4 Texts
7.2.5 Egyptian words