A Companion to the Ancient near East
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2005
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Series
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- A COMPANION TO THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Shape of the Ancient Near East
- 1 Historical Overview
- 2 From Sedentism to States, 10, 000-3000 BCE
- 3 The Age of Empires, 3100-900 BCE
- 4 World Hegemony, 900-300 BCE
- Part II Discourses on Methods
- 5 Archaeology and the Ancient Near East: Methods and Limits
- 6 The Languages of the Ancient Near East
- 7 The Historian's Task
- Part III Economy and Society
- 8 The Degradation of the Ancient Near Eastern Environment
- 9 Nomadism Through the Ages
- 10 Mesopotamian Cities and Countryside
- 11 Money and Trade
- 12 Working
- 13 Law and Practice
- 14 Social Tensions in the Ancient Near East
- 15 Gender Roles in Ancient Egypt
- 16 Royal Women and the Exercise of Power in the Ancient Near East
- 17 Warfare in Ancient Egypt
- Part IV Culture
- 18 Transmission of Knowledge
- 19 Literature
- 20 Ancient Near Eastern Architecture
- 21 Mesopotamian Art
- 22 Ancient Mesopotamian Medicine
- 23 Mesopotamian Cosmology
- 24 Divine and Non-Divine Kingship
- 25 How Religion Was Done
- Part V Heritage of the Ancient Near East
- 26 The Invention of the Individual
- 27 Ethnicity
- 28 Public versus Private in the Ancient Near East
- 29 Democracy and Freedom
- 30 Monotheism and Ancient Israelite Religion
- 31 The Decipherment of the Ancient Near East
- 32 Legacies of the Ancient Near East
- References
- Index