Life and Thought in the Ancient Near East [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458326603321
• Autore: Orlin Louis Lawrence
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-59395-1; 9786612593956; 0-472-02589-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (284 p.)
• Disciplina: 939/.4
• Soggetti: Middle East -- Civilization -- To 622; Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East; History & Archaeology; Middle East; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Maps; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Yardstick of Time; Introduction; Vignettes; 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 CorridorThe 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"Background; 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; Especially for Students; 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; Chronology; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index