Mark Chavalas: Women in the Ancient Near East

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Beschreibung

Women in the Ancient Near East provides a collection of primary sources for the lives of women from a broad range of Near Eastern civilizations, from the earliest historical and literary texts (c. 2700 BC) to the latest Hellenistic historians who comment on Near Eastern history (e.g., Berossus, c.205 BC).

Über den Autor

Mark Chavalas is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, where he has taught since 1989. Among his publications are the edited, Emar: The History, Religion, and Culture of a Syrian Town in the Late Bronze Age (1996), Mesopotamia and the Bible (2002), and The Ancient Near East: Historical Sources in Translation (2006), and he has had research fellowships at Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Cal-Berkeley, and a number of other universities. He has nine seasons of excavation at various Bronze Age sites in Syria, including Tell Ashara/Terqa and Tell Mozan/Urkesh.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Mark W. Chavalas

1. An exploration of the world of women in third-millenium Mesopotamia Harriet Crawford

2. The feminine in myths and epic Alhena Gadotti

3. Sumerian wisdom literature Alhena Gadotti

4. Akkadian wisdom literature Karen Nemet-Nejat

5. Medicine and healing magic JoAnn Scurlock

6. Women and law Martha T. Roth

7. The Epic of Gilgamesh Karen Nemet-Nejat

8. The Descent of Ishtar to the Netherworld compared to Nergal and Ereshkigal Karen Nemet-Nejat

9a. Akkadian texts - Women in letters: Old Assyrian Kani Cécile Michel

9b. Akkadian texts - Women in letters: The Neo-Assyrian period Sarah C. Melville

10a. Women in Neo-Assyrian texts Sarah C. Melville

10b. Women in Neo-Assyrian inscriptions Karen Nemet-Nejat

11. Women in Hittite ritual Billie Jean Collins

12. Hurro-Hittite storie and Hittite pregnancy and birth rituals Mary Bachvarova

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Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2013
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780415448567
ISBN-10:	0415448565
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Chavalas, Mark
Redaktion:	Chavalas, Mark
Hersteller:	Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Mark Chavalas
Erscheinungsdatum:	25.09.2013
Gewicht:	0,512 kg