Language In The Ancient Near East Sumerian Compound Verbs

Author : Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119193890

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A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Languages by Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee Pdf

Covers the major languages, language families, and writing systems attested in the Ancient Near East Filled with enlightening chapters by noted experts in the field, this book introduces Ancient Near Eastern (ANE) languages and language families used during the time period of roughly 3200 BCE to the second century CE in the areas of Egypt, the Levant, eastern Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Iran. In addition to providing grammatical sketches of the respective languages, the book focuses on socio-linguistic questions such as language contact, diglossia, the development of literary standard languages, and the development of diplomatic languages or “linguae francae.” It also addresses the interaction of Ancient Near Eastern languages with each other and their roles within the political and cultural systems of ANE societies. Presented in five parts, The Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Languages provides readers with in-depth chapter coverage of the writing systems of ANE, starting with their decipherment. It looks at the emergence of cuneiform writing; the development of Egyptian writing in the fourth and early third millennium BCI; and the emergence of alphabetic scripts. The book also covers many of the individual languages themselves, including Sumerian, Egyptian, Akkadian, Hittite, Pre- and Post-Exilic Hebrew, Phoenician, Ancient South Arabian, and more. Provides an overview of all major language families and writing systems used in the Ancient Near East during the time period from the beginning of writing (approximately 3200 BCE) to the second century CE (end of cuneiform writing) Addresses how the individual languages interacted with each other and how they functioned in the societies that used them Written by leading experts on the languages and topics The Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Languages is an ideal book for undergraduate students and scholars interested in Ancient Near Eastern cultures and languages or certain aspects of these languages.

Author : Leonid E. Kogan,Natalia Koslova,Sergey Loesov,Serguei Tishchenko
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 1252 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575066394

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Proceedings of the 53th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale by Leonid E. Kogan,Natalia Koslova,Sergey Loesov,Serguei Tishchenko Pdf

The second half of the proceedings, City Administration in the Ancient Near East, is available here. A workshop volume is available here. In July 2007, the 53rd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (the annual meeting of the International Association of Assyriologists) was held in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia. In Moscow, several hundred Assyriologists enjoyed the hospitality of the Russian State University for the Humanities. Dozens of papers on the topic “Language in the Ancient Near East,” were delivered at the University. More than 50 of those papers are published in this 2-volume set.

Author : Piotr Michalowski
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575066509

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The Correspondence of the Kings of Ur by Piotr Michalowski Pdf

The Correspondence of the Kings of Ur is a collection of literary letters between the Ur III monarchs and their high officials at the end of the third millennium B.C. The letters cover topics of royal authority and proper governance, defense of frontier regions, and the ultimate disintegration of the empire and represent the largest corpus of Sumerian prose literature we possess. This long-awaited edition, based on extensive collation of almost all extant manuscripts, numbering more than a hundred, includes detailed historical and literary analyses, and copious philological commentary. It entirely supersedes the Michalowski’s oft-cited unpublished Yale dissertation of 1976. The edition is accompanied by an extensive analysis of the place of the letters in early second-millennium schooling, treating the letters as literature, followed by chapters that contextualize the epistolary material within historical and historiographic contexts, utilizing many Sumerian archival, literary, and historical sources. The main objective here is to try to navigate the complex issues of authenticity, authority, and fiction that arise from the study of these literary artifacts. In addition, Michalowski offers new hypotheses about many aspects of late third-millennium history, including essays on military history and strategy, on frontiers, on the nature and putative character of nomadism at the time, as well as a long chapter on the role of a people designated as Amorites. The included DVD includes various photographs at high resolution of most of the tablets included in the study.

Author : Lluís Feliu,Fumi Karahashi,Gonzalo Rubio
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501503696

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The First Ninety Years by Lluís Feliu,Fumi Karahashi,Gonzalo Rubio Pdf

This volume is dedicated to Miguel Civil in celebration of his 90th birthday. Civil has been one of the most influential scholars in the field of Sumerian studies over the course of his long career. This anniversary presents a welcome occasion to reflect on some aspects of the field in which he has been such a driving force.

Author : Natalia Koslova,E. Vizirova,Gabor Zólyomi
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575063553

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Babel und Bibel 8 by Natalia Koslova,E. Vizirova,Gabor Zólyomi Pdf

This is the eighth volume of Babel und Bibel, an annual of ancient Near Eastern, Old Testament, and Semitic studies. The principal goal of the annual is to reveal the inherent relationship between Assyriology, Semitics, and biblical studies—a relationship that our predecessors comprehended and fruitfully explored but that is often neglected today. The title Babel und Bibel is intended to point to the possibility of fruitful collaboration among the three disciplines, in an effort to explore the various civilizations of the ancient Near East. This volume is a festschrift for Joachim Krecher, Professor of Assyriology in the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Krecher is best known, perhaps, for his seminal Sumerische Kultlyrik, published already in 1966. This compendium includes 17 essays by friends and colleagues, all focusing on Sumerian language and literature.

Author : Steven J. Garfinkle,Manuel Molina
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575068718

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From the 21st Century B.C. to the 21st Century A.D. by Steven J. Garfinkle,Manuel Molina Pdf

This volume collects the proceedings of a three-day conference held in Madrid in July 2010, and it highlights the vitality of the study of late-third-millennium B.C. Mesopotamia. Workshops devoted to the Ur III period have been a feature of the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale roughly every other year, beginning in London in 2003. In 2009, Steve Garfinkle and Manuel Molina asked the community of Neo-Sumerian scholars to convene the following year in Madrid before the Rencontre in Barcelona. The meeting had more than 50 participants and included 8 topical sessions and 27 papers. The 21 contributions included in this volume cover a broad range of topics: new texts, new interpretations, and new understandings of the language, culture, and history of the Ur III period (2112–2004 B.C.). The present and future of Neo-Sumerian studies are important not only for the field of Assyriology but also for wider inquiries into the ancient world. The extant archives offer insight into some of the earliest cities and one of the earliest kingdoms in the historical record. The era of the Third Dynasty of Ur is also probably the best-attested century in antiquity. This imposes a responsibility on the small community of scholars who work on the Neo-Sumerian materials to make this it accessible to a broad, interdisciplinary audience in the humanities and related fields. This volume is a solid step in this direction.

Author : Mark Chavalas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135008246

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Women in the Ancient Near East by Mark Chavalas Pdf

Women in the Ancient Near East provides a collection of primary sources that further our understanding of women from Mesopotamian and Near Eastern civilizations, from the earliest historical and literary texts in the third millennium BC to the end of Mesopotamian political autonomy in the sixth century BC. This book is a valuable resource for historians of the Near East and for those studying women in the ancient world. It moves beyond simply identifying women in the Near East to attempting to place them in historical and literary context, following the latest research. A number of literary genres are represented, including myths and epics, proverbs, medical texts, law collections, letters, treaties, as well as building, dedicatory, and funerary inscriptions.

Author : Dietz Otto Edzard
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789047403401

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Sumerian Grammar by Dietz Otto Edzard Pdf

It seems safe to say that this Sumerian Grammar by Professor D.O. Edzard will become the new classic reference in the field. It is an up-to-date, reliable guide to the language of the Sumerians, the inventors of cuneiform writing in the late 4th millennium B.C., and thus essential contributors to the high cultural standard of the whole of Mesopotamia and beyond. Following traditional lines, the Grammar describes general characteristics, origins, linguistic environment, phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, and phraseology. Due attention is given to the symbiosis with Semitic Akkadian, with which Sumerian was to form a veritable linguistic area. With lucid explanations of all technical linguistic theory. Each transliteration carries its English translation.

Author : Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119193296

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A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Languages by Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee Pdf

Covers the major languages, language families, and writing systems attested in the Ancient Near East Filled with enlightening chapters by noted experts in the field, this book introduces Ancient Near Eastern (ANE) languages and language families used during the time period of roughly 3200 BCE to the second century CE in the areas of Egypt, the Levant, eastern Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Iran. In addition to providing grammatical sketches of the respective languages, the book focuses on socio-linguistic questions such as language contact, diglossia, the development of literary standard languages, and the development of diplomatic languages or “linguae francae.” It also addresses the interaction of Ancient Near Eastern languages with each other and their roles within the political and cultural systems of ANE societies. Presented in five parts, The Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Languages provides readers with in-depth chapter coverage of the writing systems of ANE, starting with their decipherment. It looks at the emergence of cuneiform writing; the development of Egyptian writing in the fourth and early third millennium BCI; and the emergence of alphabetic scripts. The book also covers many of the individual languages themselves, including Sumerian, Egyptian, Akkadian, Hittite, Pre- and Post-Exilic Hebrew, Phoenician, Ancient South Arabian, and more. Provides an overview of all major language families and writing systems used in the Ancient Near East during the time period from the beginning of writing (approximately 3200 BCE) to the second century CE (end of cuneiform writing) Addresses how the individual languages interacted with each other and how they functioned in the societies that used them Written by leading experts on the languages and topics The Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Languages is an ideal book for undergraduate students and scholars interested in Ancient Near Eastern cultures and languages or certain aspects of these languages.

Author : John Z Wee
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789004356771

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The Comparable Body - Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman Medicine by John Z Wee Pdf

The Comparable Body - Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman Medicine explores how analogy and metaphor illuminate and shape conceptions about the human body and disease, through 11 case studies from ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman medicine.

Author : M. J. Geller,M. Mindlin,J. Wansbrough
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135752590

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Figurative Language in the Ancient Near East by M. J. Geller,M. Mindlin,J. Wansbrough Pdf

A group of scholars from Britain, Holland, Germany, and Israel met at the WarburgInstitute and the School of Oriental and African Studies in November 1983, to discuss theuse of figurative language in Sumerian, Akkadian, Ugaritic, and biblical Hebrewliterature. The papers were presented in memory of Henri Frankfort, and consequentlyalso took into account figurative expression in ancient art and architecture. The originalimpetus for the colloquium came from Thorkild Jacobsen's extended visit to London asguest of the British Academy, and all of the participants came to honour both Frankfort'smemo.

Author : Marie-Louise Thomsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Sumerian language
ISBN : UCSC:32106013940330

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The Sumerian Language by Marie-Louise Thomsen Pdf

Author : Karen Sonik,Ulrike Steinert
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000656213

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The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East by Karen Sonik,Ulrike Steinert Pdf

This in-depth exploration of emotions in the ancient Near East illuminates the rich and complex worlds of feelings encompassed within the literary and material remains of this remarkable region, home to many of the world’s earliest cities and empires, and lays critical foundations for future study. Thirty-four chapters by leading international scholars, including philologists, art historians, and archaeologists, examine the ways in which emotions were conceived, experienced, and expressed by the peoples of the ancient Near East, with particular attention to Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and the kingdom of Ugarit, from the Late Uruk through to the Neo-Babylonian Period (ca. 3300–539 BCE). The volume is divided into two parts: the first addressing theoretical and methodological issues through thematic analyses and the second encompassing corpus-based approaches to specific emotions. Part I addresses emotions and history, defining the terms, materialization and material remains, kings and the state, and engaging the gods. Part II explores happiness and joy; fear, terror, and awe; sadness, grief, and depression; contempt, disgust, and shame; anger and hate; envy and jealousy; love, affection, and admiration; and pity, empathy, and compassion. Numerous sub-themes threading through the volume explore such topics as emotional expression and suppression in relation to social status, gender, the body, and particular social and spatial conditions or material contexts. The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East is an invaluable and accessible resource for Near Eastern studies and adjacent fields, including Classical, Biblical, and medieval studies, and a must-read for scholars, students, and others interested in the history and cross-cultural study of emotions.

Author : Aaron Butts
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004300156

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Semitic Languages in Contact by Aaron Butts Pdf

This volume contains twenty case studies analysing various aspects of language contact involving ancient and modern Semitic languages.

Author : J. Cale Johnson,Markham J. Geller
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004302105

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The Class Reunion—An Annotated Translation and Commentary on the Sumerian Dialogue Two Scribes by J. Cale Johnson,Markham J. Geller Pdf

The Class Reunion offers a critical edition, translation and commentary on the Sumerian scholastic dialogue otherwise known as Two Scribes and speaks to the central themes of scholastic thought in the Old Babylonian Tablet House (ca. 1800–1600 BCE).