"Photographs, copies, transliterations, translations, and commentary on 300 cuneiform tablets and objects from Mesopotamia in the third millennium BCE"--
Transliteration, copy, and commentary of the earliest and previously unpublished economic tablets from ancient Mesopotamia around the beginning of the third millennium BCE
Analysis of economic cuneiform documents from 2nd-millennium BC Nuzi. Business relationships and processes are explored. Seal impressions are drawn and analyzed. Includes photos, transliteration, tran
Economic documents dealing with the administration and distribution of barley, emmer, flour, seed, malt, bread, and wheat in Sumer in the middle of the third millennium BC
These texts add significantly to our understanding of Sargonic history, socio-economics, lexicography and language.Chapter 1 deals with the possible provenance of the tablets, their dating, and a disc
Translation into Papiamento, a Creole language spoken mainly in Curacao and the Netherlands, of Gibran's "The Prophet", along with an introduction and discussion of the Papiamento language in both Eng
Monographs and collections of essays on the history, religion, social life, and literature of northern Mesopotamia during the second millennium B.C., when the Hurrians, a people with their own languag
A selection and abridgment of Benjamin Foster's comprehensive, two-volume work on Babylonian and Assyrian literature, Before the Muses. This paperback edition is well-suited for college courses in Bib
This volume contains copies and editions of 474 cuneiform tablets inscribed with records of the First Sealand Dynasty.The texts consist of letters and administrative texts dated to the reigns of two k
Analysis of the laws in Exodus and Leviticus that involve the sale of a daughter as a slave, the forced prostitution of a daughter, and a priest's daughter who is a prostitute. Other relevant Near Eas
transliterations, translations, commentary, and photographs of Assyrian cuneiform letters from the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC from ancient Mesopotamia
Translation, transliteration, commentary, and photographs of several hundred cuneiform documents from ancient Mesopotamia from the time of the Sargonic empire ca. 2300.
Essays on slavery, religion, foods, industries, natural resources, physicians, military matters, and language of a city in late third-millennium BC Sumer.
The volume contains complete transliterations with accompanying in-text copies by Sauren, along with full transliterations and comprehensive indexes.The Columbia University tablet collection has been
Articles on the etymology of Sephardi names and naming practices in Sephardi communities throughout the world. Sephardi communities discussed include those in Bulgaria, Macedonia, Tunisia, Morocco, Gr
Discussion of the nature of Sumerian wisdom literature and complete editions of many Sumerian wisdom texts, including the Instructions of Shuruppak, Instructions of Ur-Ninurta, Counsels of Wisdom, Sum
As editor Tatlock (history, Armstrong Atlantic State U.) notes in his introduction, the combination of the contemporary political environment in the Middle East and its wealth of cultural history are
The 15 papers collected in this volume are from an April 2005 conference at the University of Maryland. They cover Caesarea Palaestinae in transition; devastation and survival during the Persian invas
Cohen presents a companion to three standard Akkadian-English dictionaries, and to a few other sources that were not included in those dictionaries for one reason or another. He does not choose betwee
Ross Brann is the Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies and the Chair of Near-Eastern Studies at Cornell University. His books include "The Compunctious Poet," recipient of the 1992 Nat
A collection of sealed tablets emanating from a fortress on the Tigris called Daur-Abieesuuh provides us with substantial Old Babylonian texts and information on the affairs of the city as well as on
This volume analyzes texts recording the administration of an ambitious construction project undertaken at Garshana by general Shu-Kabta, brother-in-law of the reigning king.Analysis of the daily prog
Kelder, an archaeological scholar, analyzes the contemporary scholarship regarding the continuity and character of Mycenaean culture and palace sites in the late Bronze Age period. Drawing on four set
Provides translations and full contexts for the terminology in the Garshana documents and is an indispensable tool for anyone working on texts from third-millennium Mesopotamia.This volume provides a
Twenty essays on the history, culture, and literature of Ancient Mesopotamia, the land of the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians, from ca. 3000–400 BC. Essays include analysis of previously unpubli
Monographs and collections of essays on the history, religion, social life, and literature of northern Mesopotamia during the second millennium B.C., when the Hurrians, a people with their own languag
Monographs and collections of essays on the history, religion, social life, and literature of northern Mesopotamia during the second millennium B.C., when the Hurrians, a people with their own languag
The history of the formation of Judaism and the description and analysis of its structure derive from the analysis of the traits of the documents of rabbinic literature. The correlation between these
