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  • Law and (Dis)Order in the Ancient Near East

    Proceedings of the 59th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale Held at Ghent, Belgium, 15–19 July 2013

    Edited by Katrien De Graef, Anne Goddeeris ...
    Series series Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale
    Mesopotamia is often considered to be the birthplace of law codes. In recognition of this fact and motivated by the perennial interest in the topic among Assyriologists, the 59th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale was organized in Ghent in 2013 around the theme “Law and (Dis)Order in the Ancient Near East.” Based on papers delivered at that meeting, this volume contains twenty-six essays that ... Read more

    $149.59 CAD

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  • The Babylonian World

    Edited by Gwendolyn Leick ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    The Babylonian World presents an extensive, up-to-date and lavishly illustrated history of the ancient state Babylonia and its 'holy city', Babylon.Historicized by the New Testament as a centre of decadence and corruption, Babylon and its surrounding region was in fact a rich and complex civilization, responsible for the invention of the dictionary and laying the foundations of modern science. ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • The Age of Agade

    Inventing Empire in Ancient Mesopotamia

    by Benjamin R. Foster ...
    The Age of Agade is the first book-length study of the Akkadian period of Mesopotamian history, which saw the rise and fall of the world’s first empire during more than a century of extraordinary political, social, and cultural innovation. It draws together more than 40 years of research by one of the world’s leading experts in Assyriology to offer an exhaustive survey of the Akkadian empire ... Read more

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  • The Archaeology of Elam

    Formation and Transformation of an Ancient Iranian State

    by D. T. Potts ...
    Series series Cambridge World Archaeology
    Elam was an important state in southwestern Iran from the third millennium BC to the appearance of the Persian Empire and beyond. Less well-known than its neighbors in Mesopotamia, Anatolia, the Levant or Egypt, it was nonetheless a region of extraordinary cultural vitality. This book examines the formation and transformation of Elam's many identities through both archaeological and written ... Read more

    $54.39 CAD

  • Oedipus and the Sphinx

    The Threshold Myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau

    by Almut-Barbara Renger ...
    When Oedipus met the Sphinx on the road to Thebes, he did more than answer a riddle—he spawned a myth that, told and retold, would become one of Western culture's central narratives about self-understanding. Identifying the story as a threshold myth—in which the hero crosses over into an unknown and dangerous realm where rules and limits are not known— Oedipus and the Sphinx offers a fresh account ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Assyria

    Edited by Eckart Frahm ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to the Ancient World
    A Companion to Assyria is a collection of original essays on ancient Assyria written by key international scholars. These new scholarly contributions have substantially reshaped contemporary understanding of society and life in this ancient civilization.The only detailed up-to-date introduction providing a scholarly overview of ancient Assyria in English within the last fifty yearsOriginal essays ... Read more

    $204.99 CAD

  • The Horns of Moses. Setting the Bible in its Historical Context

    by Thomas Römer ...
    Series series Leçons inaugurales
    Developments in literary methodologies and archaeology have led scholars to question the traditional conception of biblical chronology and historiography. The starting point for Maximalist studies is the idea that the biblical story should simply be taken as true. However this position is indefensible from a scientific standpoint. Minimalists consider that everything began either during the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Philosophy before the Greeks

    The Pursuit of Truth in Ancient Babylonia

    by Marc Van De Mieroop ...
    There is a growing recognition that philosophy isn't unique to the West, that it didn't begin only with the classical Greeks, and that Greek philosophy was influenced by Near Eastern traditions. Yet even today there is a widespread assumption that what came before the Greeks was "before philosophy." In Philosophy before the Greeks, Marc Van De Mieroop, an acclaimed historian of the ancient Near ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

  • From an Antique Land

    An Introduction to Ancient Near Eastern Literature

    by Gary Beckman, Ingo Kottsieper, Gonzalo Rubio, Benjamin R. Foster, Susan Tower Hollis, Wayne T. Pitard ...
    Many of the world's first written records have been found in the area of the Ancient Near East, in what is today known as the Middle East. While many people are familiar with the ancient Israelite literature recorded in the Hebrew Bible, most Near Eastern literature remains a mystery. From an Antique Land lifts the veil from these fascinating writings, explaining the ancient stories in the context ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD

  • Egypt and the Limits of Hellenism

    by Ian S. Moyer ...
    In a series of studies, Ian Moyer explores the ancient history and modern historiography of relations between Egypt and Greece from the fifth century BCE to the early Roman empire. Beginning with Herodotus, he analyzes key encounters between Greeks and Egyptian priests, the bearers of Egypt's ancient traditions. Four moments unfold as rich micro-histories of cross-cultural interaction: Herodotus' ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

  • Bibliography Of The Amarna Perio

    by Martin ...
    Published in 1990, Bibliography Of The Amarna Perio is a valuable contribution to the field of Asian Studies. ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Qur’an in its Historical Context

    Edited by Gabriel Reynolds ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Qur'an
    Providing commentary on the controversial revisionist school of Qur’anic studies, this book explores the origins, scholarship and development of the Qur'an. The collection of articles, each written by a distinguished author, treat very familiar passages of the Qur’an in an original manner, combining thorough philology, historical anthropology, and cultural history.This book addresses in a critical ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD