1. Edition - July 2007
38.90 Euro
2007. 560 Pages, Softcover
ISBN-10: 1-4051-6001-2
ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-6001-8 - John Wiley & Sons








Detailed description
A Companion to the Ancient Near East offers students and general readers a comprehensive overview of Near Eastern civilization from the Bronze Age to the conquests of Alexander the Great.

* Covers the civilizations of the Sumerians, Hittites, Babylonians, Assyrians, Israelites and Persians

* Places particular emphasis on social and cultural history

* Covers the legacy of the Ancient Near East in the medieval and modern worlds

* Provides a useful bibliographical guide to this field of study

From the contents
List of Figures.

List of Maps.

Notes on Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Part I: The Shape of the Ancient Near East.

1. Historical Overview: Mario Liverani (University of Rome).

2. From Sedentism to States, 10,000 to 3000 BCE: Augusta McMahon (University of Cambridge).

3. The Age of Empires, 3100-900 BCE: Mark Chavalas (University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse).

4 World Hegemony, 900-300 BCE: Paul-Alain Beaulieu (Harvard University).

Part II: Discourses on Methods.

5. Archaeology and the Ancient Near East: Marie-Henriette Gates (Bilkent University, Ankara).

6. The Languages of the Ancient Near East: Gonzalo Rubio (Pennsylvania State University).

7. The Historian's Task: Daniel C. Snell (University of Oklahoma).

Part III: Economy and Society.

8. The Degradation of the Ancient Near Eastern Environment: Carlos E. Cordova (Oklahoma State University, Stillwater).

9. Nomadism Through the Ages: Jorge Silva Castillo (Centro de Estudias de Asia y África in the Colegio de México).

10. Mesopotamian Cities and Countryside: Elizabeth C. Stone (State University of New York, Stoney Brook).

11. Money and Trade: Christopher M. Monroe (Pierpont Morgan Library, New York).

12. Working: David A. Warburton (Aarhus University, Denmark).

13. Law and Practice: Bruce Wells (Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota).

14. Social Tensions in the Ancient Near East: John F. Robertson (Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant).

15. Gender Roles in Ancient Egypt: Ann Macy Roth (Howard University, Washington, DC).

16. Royal Women and the Exercise of Power in the Ancient Near East: Sarah C. Melville (Clarkson University).

17. Warfare in Ancient Egypt: Anthony J. Spalinger (University of Auckland).

Part IV: Culture.

18. The Transmission of Knowledge: Benjamin R. Foster (Yale Babylonian Collection).

19. Literature: Tawny L. Holm (Indiana University of Pennsylvania).

20. Ancient Near Eastern Architecture: Sally Dunham (Yale University).

21. Mesopotamian Art: Marian Feldman (University of California, Berkeley).

22. Ancient Mesopotamian Medicine: JoAnn Scurlock (Elmhurst College).

23. Mesopotamian Cosmology: Francesca Rochberg (University of California, Riverside).

24. Divine and Non-Divine Kingship: Philip Jones (Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary project).

25. How Religion Was Done: Gary Beckman (University of Michigan).

Part V: Heritage of the Ancient Near East.

26. The Invention of the Individual: Daniel C. Snell (University of Oklahoma).

27. Ethnicity: Henri Limet (University of Liège, Belgium).

28. Public versus Private in the Ancient Near East: Steven J. Garfinkle (Western Washington University).

29. Democracy and Freedom: Matthew Martin III and Daniel C. Snell (University of Tulsa, Oklahoma and University of Oklahoma).

30. Monotheism and Ancient Israelite Religion: S. David Sperling (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York).

31. The Decipherment of the Ancient Near East: Peter T. Daniels (independent scholar, New York).

32. Legacies of the Ancient Near East: Daniel C. Snell (University of Oklahoma).

References.

Index