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Published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago, 1995
ISBN 10: 0918986982ISBN 13: 9780918986986
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Published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures 2023-10-15, Chicago, 2023
ISBN 10: 1614911010ISBN 13: 9781614911012
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paperback. Condition: New. Ouimet, Madeline (illustrator). Language: ENG.
Published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago, 1979
ISBN 10: 0918986257ISBN 13: 9780918986252
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Published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago, 2004
ISBN 10: 1885923341ISBN 13: 9781885923349
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Published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Chicago, 2012
ISBN 10: 1885923929ISBN 13: 9781885923929
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Issued in conjunction with an exhibit at the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago, this is the first comprehensive study of birds in ancient Egyptian society, economy, art, and religion. Essays address the role of birds in the religious landscape, their use in hieroglyphic and Coptic scripts, birds as protective symbols, as decorative motifs, and as food. A group of essays on "Egyptian Birds and Modern Science" presents the newest forensic research on bird mummies. Other articles address bird behavior as shown in Egyptian art and the present state of avifauna in the Nile Valley. The catalog describes forty artifacts, many of which are previously unpublished. An index of bird species makes this volume useful for naturalists as well as for Egyptologists and art historians. Issued in conjunction with an exhibit at the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago, this is the first comprehensive study of birds in ancient Egyptian society, economy, art, and religion. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago, 2007
ISBN 10: 1885923538ISBN 13: 9781885923530
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Published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures 2023-07-31, Chicago, 2023
ISBN 10: 1614910855ISBN 13: 9781614910855
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paperback. Condition: New. Language: ENG.
Published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures 2020-07-24, Chicago, 2020
ISBN 10: 1614910529ISBN 13: 9781614910527
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Published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago, 1987
ISBN 10: 0918986508ISBN 13: 9780918986504
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Published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago, 2010
ISBN 10: 1885923678ISBN 13: 9781885923677
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Published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures 1997-12-01, Chicago, 1997
ISBN 10: 0918986753ISBN 13: 9780918986757
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Published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Chicago, 2013
ISBN 10: 1885923996ISBN 13: 9781885923998
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Our Work: Modern Jobs - Ancient Origins is the catalog for a photo-based exhibit that reveals that many modern professions originated in the ancient Middle East. Artifacts from the Oriental Institute Museum were paired with a baker, farmer, manicurist, brewer, poet, boat builder, judge and other professionals to show the antiquity of these jobs. The portraits are accompanied by commentary on the contributions of the ancient Middle East to life today and new insights into how members of the public view their relationship to the past. This volume will be of interest to educators, historians, and those interested in fine-arts photography. Our Work: Modern Jobs - Ancient Origins is the catalog for a photo-based exhibit that reveals that many modern professions originated in the ancient Middle East. Artifacts from the Oriental Institute Museum were paired with a baker, farmer, manicurist, brewer, poet, boat builder, judge and other professionals to show the antiquity of these jobs. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Chicago, 2010
ISBN 10: 1885923651ISBN 13: 9781885923653
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. On January 29, 2005, the Oriental Institute celebrated the official public opening of the Haas and Schwartz Megiddo Gallery. This occasion marked the return of some of the most extraordinary artifacts ever excavated in the southern Levant to permanent public display. The Oriental Institute's prolific history of exploration in the region is testament to a long-standing scholarly passion for discovery and the pursuit of knowledge. This volume draws from the momentum generated by the opening of the Megiddo Gallery and present a selection of highlights from the Institute's greater Israel collection. On January 29, 2005, the Oriental Institute celebrated the official public opening of the Haas and Schwartz Megiddo Gallery. This occasion marked the return of some of the most extraordinary artifacts ever excavated in the southern Levant to permanent public display. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Chicago, 2015
ISBN 10: 161491026XISBN 13: 9781614910268
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This companion volume to the exhibit examines the multicultural city of Fustat, capital of medieval Egypt and predecessor to modern Cairo. It explores the interactions of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish communities within urban city life. These three communities practiced their own beliefs and enacted communal self-government, but they also intermingled on a daily basis and practiced shared traditions of life. Essays by leading scholars examine the different religions and languages found at Fustat, as well as cultural aspects of daily life such as food, industry, and education. The lavishly illustrated catalog highlights a new analysis of the Oriental Institute's collection of artifacts and textual materials from 7th through 12th-century Egypt. Highlights include documents from the Cairo Genizah (a document repository) of the Ben Ezra Synagogue as well as never-before-published artifacts from archaeological excavations conducted at Fustat by George Scanlon on behalf of the American Research Center in Egypt. The volume encourages discussion on the challenges of understanding religion through objects of daily life. This companion volume to the exhibit examines the multicultural city of Fustat, capital of medieval Egypt and predecessor to modern Cairo. It explores the interactions of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish communities within urban city life. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Institute For The Study Of Ancient Cultures, Chicago, 1969
ISBN 10: 0226624080ISBN 13: 9780226624082
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This book is made up of twelve articles, sometimes brilliant but always interesting, contributed in honour of the seventieth birthday of John A. Wilson by his students and colleagues of the Oriental Institute. Contents: Zur Ubersetzung der Prapositionen und Konjunktionen m und dr. ( R. Anthes ); Illusionism in Egyptian Architecture. ( A. Badaway ); A Ritual Ball Game? ( C. E. DeVries ); Foreign Gods in Ancient Egypt. ( S. H. Horn ); The Cruel Father: A Demotic Papyrus in the Library of G. Michaelides. ( G. R. Hughes ); Eunuchs in Ancient Egypt? ( G. E. Kadish ); Three Philological Notes. ( M. Lichtheim ); Thutmosis III's Benefactions to Amon. ( C. F. Nims ); Once Again the Coregency of Thutmose III and Amenhotep II. ( R. A. Parker ); Hathor at the Jubilee. ( E. F. Wente ); Some Egyptianisms in the Old Testament. ( R. J. Williams ); A Greco-Egyptian Funerary Stela. ( L. V. Zabkar ); Bibliography of John A. Wilson. ( E. B. Hauser ). This book is made up of twelve articles, contributed in honour of the seventieth birthday of John A. Wilson by his students and colleagues of the Oriental Institute. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Chicago, 2011
ISBN 10: 1885923813ISBN 13: 9781885923813
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This is the first volume in a new series, Chicago Hittite Dictionary Supplements, designed to augment and supplement the work of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary project. Future volumes will continue to bring tablets written in the Hittite language to light. The volume presented here (ABoT II) is the continuation of the cuneiform edition Ankara Arkeoloji Muezesinde Bulunan Bogazkoy Tabletleri (ABoT) published by Kemal Balkan in 1948. The Hittite tablets, which were acquired by the Ankara Anadolu Medeniyetleri Muezesi by purchase and donations, or collected as surface finds, bear the siglum "AnAr". The best-preserved and attractive pieces of these tablets have been made accessible to the scholarly public through the publication of ABoT; the others, however, were not considered for publication at that time. Since the series of ABoT was later discontinued, such fragments, mostly still useful and in reasonable condition, remained untouched in the Ankara Museum for years.When Rukiye Akdodan decided to make copies of nearly four hundred AnAr fragments and publish them as ABoT II, an agreement of cooperation with Oguz Soysal for the preparation of the catalogue of this work was made in the year 2005. Although the cuneiform copies in other similar works like ABoT and IBoT I-IV were made by Turkish scholars (K. Balkan, M. C. H. Kzlyay, and M. Eren), the support of foreign scholars (H. G. Gueterbock and H. A. Hoffner) was still sought. ABoT II, on the other hand, is a fully Turkish cuneiform edition as a welcome result of a joint Ankara-Chicago effort. The small size of most of the fragments made it particularly difficult to determine the text genres and to place them in the text categories assigned in E. Laroche's Catalogue des textes hittites (CTH). Nevertheless, after two years of intensive work and with the support of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary Projects lexical files, it has been possible to find many duplicates of well-known compositions from Bogazkoy. This volume will certainly enrich the Hittite text corpus.The represented text genres herein include historical, administrative and technical, lexical, mythological texts, hymns and prayers, rituals, cult administration and inventory texts, divination documents, festival descriptions, and compositions in languages other than Hittite (Hattian, Hurrian, Luwian, Sumerian and Akkadian). With the present edition of 389 pieces in cuneiform copies, there are almost no more AnAr fragments remaining in the Ankara Museum that would be worth publishing. This is the first volume in a new series, Chicago Hittite Dictionary Supplements, designed to augment and supplement the work of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary project. Future volumes will continue to bring tablets written in the Hittite language to light. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Chicago, 1980
ISBN 10: 0918986273ISBN 13: 9780918986276
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Hittite language is the earliest preserved member of the Indo-European family of languages. It was written on clay tablets in central Asia Minor over a five hundred year span (ca. 1650-1180 B.C.) which witnessed the rise, the floruit, and the decline of many political powers in the Near East. The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CHD) is a comprehensive, bilingual Hittite-English dictionary. The CHD is not just a list of words and their meanings, but rather a dictionary that reflects and illustrates the ideas and material world of Hittite society through its lexicon. Published letter by letter, the CHD is a long-term project and the result of a painstaking process of cultural, historical, and lexical investigation for all those interested in Hittite culture and history. The CHD is the only such project in the English speaking world. The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CHD) is a comprehensive, bilingual Hittite-English dictionary. The CHD reflects and illustrates the ideas and material world of Hittite society through its lexicon, and is the only such project in the English-speaking world. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Chicago, 2017
ISBN 10: 1614910057ISBN 13: 9781614910053
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This guide to over 100 highlights of the collections of the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago presents objects from ancient Mesopotamia, Syria-Anatolia, the Levant, Egypt, Persia, Nubia, and objects from the Islamic collection. It features all new photography, provenance information, and a brief description of each object, as well as a history of the collections and a concordance. This guide to highlights of the collections of the Oriental Institute Museum presents objects from ancient Mesopotamia, Syria-Anatolia, the Levant, Egypt, Persia, Nubia, and objects from the Islamic collection. New photography, provenance information, and a brief description of each object, as well as a history of the collections and a concordance. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Institute For The Study Of Ancient Cultures, Chicago, 1976
ISBN 10: 0226622827ISBN 13: 9780226622828
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A collection of synthetic articles covering the field of Sumerology, including: Nissen on the geography of Sumer, Tom B Jones on the administrative archives, Edzard on the Sumerian oath, Diakonoff on writing, Civil on lexicography, and Sjoberg, Hallo, and Wilcke on different aspects of the Sumerian literary corpus. A collection of synthetic articles covering the field of Sumerology, including: Nissen on the geography of Sumer, Tom B Jones on the administrative archives, Edzard on the Sumerian oath, Diakonoff on writing, Civil on lexicography, and Sjoeberg, Hallo, and Wilcke on different aspects of the Sumerian literary corpus. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Chicago, 2010
ISBN 10: 1885923708ISBN 13: 9781885923707
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919-1920, the catalogue of the Oriental Institute special exhibit of the same name, highlights the interconnected stories of an important figure in intellectual history - James Henry Breasted - and the beginnings of American scientific archaeology in the Near East at a crucial turning point in world history. At the end of World War I, Breasted and a small team of scholars set sail for the Near East on what would be an eleven-month odyssey across the region. The fascinating mix of politics, scholarship, and history (both ancient and modern) as seen through a focus on the larger-than-life persona of James Henry Breasted lies at the heart of Pioneers to the Past. Breasted's letters and photographs from his trip provide a window into the engagement of modern scholarship with the ancient world, in a highly charged setting of power politics in the early twentieth century. The essays in this catalogue explain the historical, legal, and political context in a way that greatly enriches our understanding of Breasted's journey and its aftermath. Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919-1920, the catalogue of the Oriental Institute special exhibit of the same name, highlights the interconnected stories of an important figure in intellectual history - James Henry Breasted - and the beginnings of American scientific archaeology in the Near East at a crucial . Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Chicago, 2003
ISBN 10: 1885923252ISBN 13: 9781885923257
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This fully-illustrated catalogue offers highlights of the Egyptian collection at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. A brief history of the collection is followed by a catalogue of seventy-seven objects, which date from the early third millennium BC to the eighth century AD. Many of these objects have not been previously published. The artefacts include statues, stelae, tools, games, clothing, coffins, figured ostraca, and papyri; each item is described, and its function and symbolism are discussed. Brief texts are translated. Appendices give museum registration numbers, provenance, and bibliographies. This fully-illustrated catalogue of highlights of the Egyptian collection at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago is the first publication to make this material accessible to scholars and to the general public. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Chicago, 1976
ISBN 10: 091898601XISBN 13: 9780918986016
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This volume is a collection of essays presented to George R. Hughes, Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at the Oriental Institute, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. The articles deal with the art, history, language, literature, and religion of ancient Egypt, concentrating especially on the later periods of Egyptian civilization, which were Professor Hughes' special interest. Contents: The Funerary Texts of King Wahkare Akhtoy on a Middle Kingdom Coffin ( J. P. Allen ); Two Monuments of the First Intermediate Period from the Theban Nome ( E. Brovarski ); Shesmu the Letopolite ( M. Ciccarello ); The Oriental Institute Decorated Censer from Nubia ( C. E. DeVries ); Shipwrecked Sailor, Lines 184-85 ( M. Gilula ); The Royal Scribe Amenmose, Son of Penzerti and Mutemonet: His Monuments in Egypt and Abroad ( L. Habachi ); The Dialect of the Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden ( J. H. Johnson ); The Shortest Book of Amduat? ( L. H. Lesko ); The Naucratis Stela Once Again ( M. Lichtheim ); Papyrus Harkness ( T. J. Logan ); On the Accession Date of Akhenaten ( W. J. Murnane ); Ramesseum Sources of Medinet Habu Reliefs ( C. F. Nims ); The Sothic Dating of the Twelfth and Eighteenth Dynasties ( R. A. Parker ); Of Myth and Santorin ( R. L. Scranton ); Pashed, the Servant of Amon: A Stelophorous Figure in the Oriental Institute Museum ( D. P. Silverman ); Cairo Ostracon J. 72460 ( E. Thomas ); A Chronology of the New Kingdom ( E. F. Wente and C. C. Van Siclen III ); Some Fragmentary Demotic Wisdom Texts ( R. J. Williams ); Mrs. Andrews and the 'Tomb of Queen Tiyi' ( J. A. Wilson ); Bibliography of George R. Hughes ( J. Eckenfels ). Essays presented to George R. Hughes, Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at the Oriental Institute, on his 70th birthday. The articles deal with the art, history, language, literature, and religion of ancient Egypt, concentrating especially on the later periods of Egyptian civilization, which were Professor Hughes' special interest. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Chicago, 1990
ISBN 10: 0918986591ISBN 13: 9780918986597
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Human and animal figurines and other clay objects from the Oriental Institute's continuing work on Neolithic sites in Turkey and Iran. Human and animal figurines and other clay objects from the Oriental Institute's continuing work on Neolithic sites in Turkey and Iran. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Chicago, 1994
ISBN 10: 0918986966ISBN 13: 9780918986962
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. When Georgianna Maynard went to Turkey in 1939 with her husband, Dick Maynard, she expected romance but found reality. The expected five year stay was extended to seven with the outbreak of World War II. The day-to-day struggle to cope with life as a young, married couple trapped in a foreign country is reflected by Mrs. Maynard's correspondence home. These letters, from the Maynards' first seven years in Turkey, describe visits to several of the great cities of the Middle East, from Alexandria to Istanbul, while portraying the rigors of organizing and operating a high school and running a household - all against the backdrop of world war. Her experiences in Turkey kindled in Georgie an interest in the history of the Near East, which led her to serving as a docent of the Oriental Institute for almost twenty years. When Georgianna Maynard went to Turkey in 1939 with her husband, Dick Maynard, she expected romance but found reality. The expected five year stay was extended to seven with the outbreak of World War II. The day-to-day struggle to cope with life as a young, married couple trapped in a foreign country is reflected by her correspondence home. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Chicago, 1983
ISBN 10: 0918986389ISBN 13: 9780918986382
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Hittite language is the earliest preserved member of the Indo-European family of languages. It was written on clay tablets in central Asia Minor over a five hundred year span (ca. 1650-1180 B.C.) which witnessed the rise, the floruit, and the decline of many political powers in the Near East. The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CHD) is a comprehensive, bilingual Hittite-English dictionary. The CHD is not just a list of words and their meanings, but rather a dictionary that reflects and illustrates the ideas and material world of Hittite society through its lexicon. Published letter by letter, the CHD is a long-term project and the result of a painstaking process of cultural, historical, and lexical investigation for all those interested in Hittite culture and history. The CHD is the only such project in the English speaking world. The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CHD) is a comprehensive, bilingual Hittite-English dictionary. The CHD reflects and illustrates the ideas and material world of Hittite society through its lexicon, and is the only such project in the English-speaking world. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Chicago, 2009
ISBN 10: 1885923600ISBN 13: 9781885923608
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This companion volume and catalog to the exhibit that opens on February 9, 2009, traces the life of Meresamun, whose mummy, dating to about 800 B.C., is one of the highlights of The Oriental Institute museum in Chicago, IL. The text introduces the historical and cultural setting of Egypt during her time. Essays and artifacts examine the role of music and of musicians in Egyptian temple cults, their training, and the types of musical instruments that Meresamun would have used. The life of Meresamun outside the temple is explored, with emphasis upon her social and legal status, what other professions were available to her, and what home life was like. The study of the life of this individual is augmented by forensic evidence obtained with the newest generation of CT scanners that sheds life on Meresamun's life and death. This companion volume and catalog to the exhibit that opens on February 9, 2009, traces the life of Meresamun, whose mummy, dating to about 800 B.C., is one of the highlights of The Oriental Institute museum in Chicago, IL. The text introduces the historical and cultural setting of Egypt during her time. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Chicago, 2011
ISBN 10: 188592383XISBN 13: 9781885923837
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The seventh in the Oriental Institute Seminar Series, this volume contains papers that emerged from the seminar "Slaves and Households in the Near East" held at the Oriental Institute March 5-6, 2010. Despite widespread mention of enslaved people in historical records from the ancient, medieval and early modern Near East, scholars struggle to understand what defines this phenomenon in both particular contexts and in general. The purpose of the seminar was to seek new understandings of slavery through scholarly exchange and exploration of new approaches. In particular, contributors examined slavery in the context of households, an approach that allows scholars to expose different dimensions of the phenomenon beyond basic economic questions. Households, whether domestic units, temples or the building blocks of political organisations, can be used as the prism through which to view the dynamics among enslaved people and their immediate contacts. The volume contains micro-historical examinations of slavery in contexts spanning almost four millennia. The seventh in the Oriental Institute Seminar Series, this volume contains papers that emerged from the seminar "Slaves and Households in the Near East" held at the Oriental Institute March 5-6, 2010. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Institute For The Study Of Ancient Cultures, Chicago, 1975
ISBN 10: 0226623394ISBN 13: 9780226623399
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In this volume the Nippur Expedition publishes the first results of its new program of research at Nippur, the holy city of Mesopotamia. This program, bringing together an interdisciplinary team to work on a historical site in Mesopotamia, focuses on the entire city, not just the sacred aspects. Concentrating on the West Mound, the first season yielded a sequence of temples in Area WA and a Kassite administrative palace above an Old Babylonian house in Area WB. The first results of a program of research at Nippur, the holy city of Mesopotamia. This program, bringing together an interdisciplinary team to work on a historical site in Mesopotamia, focuses on the entire city, not just the sacred aspects. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Chicago, 2009
ISBN 10: 1885923619ISBN 13: 9781885923615
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. For decades, scholars have struggled to understand the complex relationship between pastoral nomadic tribes and sedentary peoples of the Near East. The Oriental Institute's fourth annual post-doc seminar (March 7-8, 2008), Nomads, Tribes, and the State in the Ancient Near East, brought together archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists to discuss new approaches to enduring questions in the study of nomadic peoples, tribes, and states of the past: What social or political bonds link tribes and states? Could nomadic tribes exhibit elements of urbanism or social hierarchies? How can the tools of historical, archaeological, and ethnographic research be integrated to build a dynamic picture of the social landscape of the Near East? This volume presents a range of data and theoretical perspectives from a variety of regions and periods, including prehistoric Iran, ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, seventh-century Arabia, and nineteenth-century Jordan. For decades, scholars have struggled to understand the complex relationship between pastoral nomadic tribes and sedentary peoples of the Near East. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Chicago, 2012
ISBN 10: 1885923872ISBN 13: 9781885923875
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Contained herein are 25 articles (20 in English, 5 in Hebrew) that, like the academic oeuvre of volume's honoree, span a broad array of topics within the fields of Hebraica, Judaica, and Biblica. The specific categories represented and the contributions they contain are: biography (Joel L. Kraemer presents a portrait of the honoree; Walter E. Kaegi shares personal reminiscences of Carl Herman Kraeling); text editions and translations, with analysis (Haggai Ben-Shammai analyzes and publishes a partial editio princeps of one of the early Judeao-Arabic endeavors to achieve a rapprochement between biblical and Graeco-Arab philosophy; Paul B. Fenton analyzes and publishes the editio princeps of a newly identified esoteric epistle from the hand of David II Maimondies; Mordechai A. Friedman analyzes and offers some new insights on four Geniza letters concerning the transfer of money to the well-known litterateur Judah ha-Levi. Israel M. Sandman analyzes and presents a critical edition of four fragments from Abraham Bar Hayya's "Book of Intercalation" that represent his harmonization of science and biblical exegesis; Michael G.Wechsler presents an editio princeps of 10 newly identified fragments of Saadia Gaon's commentary on the book of "Esther" as well an analysis and translation of those fragments, accompanied by an inventory of all known fragments of Saadia's commentary on that book; grammar/lexicography (Joshua Blau surveys certain vocables in Classical Arabic that sometimes have a different meaning in Judaeo-Arabic), exegesis, philosophy, theology, and polemics (Elinoar Bareket surveys the factors underlying the tendency of medieval Jewish writers to identify the names of biblical people and places with contemporary equivalents; Rachel Elior examines the Jewish realm of memory surrounding the "Day of Atonement".Nahem Ilan analyzes Saadia Gaon's interpretation of "Proverbs" 30:10-17 with a view to his anti-Karaite polemical tendency, providing as well a structural outline of Saadia's introduction to "Proverbs"; Eve Krakowski considers the Karaite view of the history of the biblical text and the relevance of this view to their own collective self-conception, including a critical reassessment of the view that the Karaites were influenced by certain "Dead Sea Scroll" texts; Abraham Lipshitz critically assesses the notion that Abraham ibn Ezra held to a Philonic view of an infinitely durative rather than completed act of creation; Meira Polliack analyzes the relationship between Yefet b. Eli and Daniel al-Qmis in their exegetical approaches to biblical prophecy.History of modern scholarship (Maria Angeles Gallego presents an overview of the stages of modern European research - beginning in the 18th century - on medieval Judaeo-Arabic, with specific emphasis on Iberian Spanish scholarship), Jewish socio-cultural history - Moshe Gil provides a glimpse into the state of food commerce in the Geniza community from the evidence of merchants' letters; Joshua Holo considers the evidence for Gershom b. Judah's Italian extraction and its relevance for understanding the origin of Ashkenazic Jewish culture; Benjamin Z. Kedar evaluates the evidence for the timing of the relocation of the Tiberian Yeshiva first to Ramla and then to Jerusalem; Norman A. Stillman provides a comparative survey of the Islamic and Jewish perspectives on corporal modesty); textual criticism (Daniel J. Lasker surveys and assesses the history of a specific textual variation in Judah ha-Levi's Book of the Kuzari). Codicological-textual history (Paul Saenger analyzes the relationship between chapter divisions of the Pentateuch in Christian - especially Latin - Bibles and those in Jewish tradition); "Dead Sea Scrolls" (Anthony J.Tomasino critically evaluates the formation and support data for the current consensus regarding the messianic nature of 4Q246; Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.