Life and culture in the ancient Near East / editors, Richard E. Averbeck, Mark W. Chavalas, David B. Weisberg.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Bethesda, Md. CDL Press c2003Description: xiii, 500 pages : illustrations, maps, plans; 25 cmISBN:
  • 1-883053-73-0
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 935 Av35l
Contents:
Introduction / Richard E. Averbeck, Mark W. Chavalas and David B. Weisberg -- Mesopotamia -- The Ordinarity of the Peculiar Institution / Daniel C. Snell -- Daily Life and Culture in "Enki and the World Order" and Other Sumerian Literary Compositions / Richard E. Averbeck -- Biblical and Mesopotamian Law: An Amorite Connection? / Samuel Greengus -- Everyday Life in the Neo-Babylonian Period: The Integration of Material and Non-Material Culture / David B. Weisberg -- Anatolia -- Daily Life among the Hittites / H.A. Hoffner -- Syria -- Daily Life in Ancient Ugarit (Syria) / Wilfred G.E. Watson -- Puzurum, A Homeowner from Khana-Period Terqa / Mark W. Chavalas -- An Extraordinary Everyday for Emar's Diviner / Jan Gallagher.

Re Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, Syria, Levant, Egypt, 'New Testament World', 'Special subjects'.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Richard E. Averbeck, Mark W. Chavalas and David B. Weisberg -- Mesopotamia -- The Ordinarity of the Peculiar Institution / Daniel C. Snell -- Daily Life and Culture in "Enki and the World Order" and Other Sumerian Literary Compositions / Richard E. Averbeck -- Biblical and Mesopotamian Law: An Amorite Connection? / Samuel Greengus -- Everyday Life in the Neo-Babylonian Period: The Integration of Material and Non-Material Culture / David B. Weisberg -- Anatolia -- Daily Life among the Hittites / H.A. Hoffner -- Syria -- Daily Life in Ancient Ugarit (Syria) / Wilfred G.E. Watson -- Puzurum, A Homeowner from Khana-Period Terqa / Mark W. Chavalas -- An Extraordinary Everyday for Emar's Diviner / Jan Gallagher.

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