Steinkeller Piotr (106 results)

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. History, Texts and Art in Early Babylonia: Three Essays. Book.

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Paperback. Condition: New. These essays represent a summation of Piotr Steinkeller's decades-long thinking and writing about the history of third millennium BCE Babylonia and the ways in which it is reflected in ancient historical and literary sources and art, as well as of how these written and visual materials may be used by the modern historian to attain, if not a reliable record of histoire événementielle, a comprehensive picture of how the ancients understood their history. The book focuses on the history of early Babylonian kingship, as it evolved over a period from Late Uruk down to Old Babylonian times, and the impact of the concepts of kingship on contemporaneous history writing and visual art. Here comparisons are drawn between Babylonia and similar developments in ancient Egypt, China and Mesoamerica. Other issues treated is the intersection between history writing and the scholarly, lexical, and literary traditions in early Babylonia; and the question of how the modern historian should approach the study of ancient sources of "historical" nature. Such a broad and comprehensive overview is novel in Mesopotamian studies to date. As such, it should contribute to an improved and more nuanced understanding of early Babylonian history.…

Paperback. Condition: New. These essays represent a summation of Piotr Steinkeller's decades-long thinking and writing about the history of third millennium BCE Babylonia and the ways in which it is reflected in ancient historical and literary sources and art, as well as of how these written and visual materials may be used by the modern historian to attain, if not a reliable record of histoire événementielle, a comprehensive picture of how the ancients understood their history. The book focuses on the history of early Babylonian kingship, as it evolved over a period from Late Uruk down to Old Babylonian times, and the impact of the concepts of kingship on contemporaneous history writing and visual art. Here comparisons are drawn between Babylonia and similar developments in ancient Egypt, China and Mesoamerica. Other issues treated is the intersection between history writing and the scholarly, lexical, and literary traditions in early Babylonia; and the question of how the modern historian should approach the study of ancient sources of "historical" nature. Such a broad and comprehensive overview is novel in Mesopotamian studies to date. As such, it should contribute to an improved and more nuanced understanding of early Babylonian history.…

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Good. Sound binding, clean text, light shelf wear. Dust spotting to head and fore-edge. 524 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First American Edition. Xviii, 524 pp. List of publications of Moran. Octavo. Green cloth with gilt to front cover and spine. Minor shelf wear to covers, interior is clean and unmarked. A nice copy. Intro in English, majority of essays are in English, a few in German. ; Harvard Semitic Studies; Vol. 37; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 524 pages. …

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Condition: New. 1998. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Cloth. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Octavo, Pp. 524. Inscription in ink on ffep (first-free endpaper) by owner. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Binding in fine condition. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 524pp.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 524pp. May need extra shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 524p. A green cloth hardcover book in fine condition without a dustjacket. Scarce anthology of essays in biblical studies, most of which are in English, but a few are in German.

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