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Reading Sumerian Poetry
Author | : Jeremy Black |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780485930030 |
An analysis of the oldest form of poetry. Sumer, in the southern part of Iraq, created the first literary culture in history, as early as 2500BC. The account is structured around a complete English translation of the fragmentary Lugalbanda poems, narrating the adventures of the eponymous hero. The study reveals a work of a rich and sophisticated poetic imagination and technique, which, far from being in any sense 'primitive', are so complex as to resist much modern literary analysis.>
Origins
Author | : William W Hallo |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2023-08-21 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9004668853 |
Modern western culture owes much to ancient Near Eastern precedent. Origins documents that debt in specific terms, covering a variety of topics from the alphabet and its order to the system of dating by eras, and including many of the institutions most essential to contemporary life -- and most often taken for granted.
Papers Presented at the Fourteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies Held in Oxford 2003
Author | : Frances Margaret Young |
Publisher | : Peeters Publishers |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Cappadocian Fathers |
ISBN | : 9789042918856 |
The Syriac World
Author | : Daniel King |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1064 |
Release | : 2018-12-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317482115 |
This volume surveys the 'Syriac world', the culture that grew up among the Syriac-speaking communities from the second century CE and which continues to exist and flourish today, both in its original homeland of Syria and Mesopotamia, and in the worldwide diaspora of Syriac-speaking communities. The five sections examine the religion; the material, visual, and literary cultures; the history and social structures of this diverse community; and Syriac interactions with their neighbours ancient and modern. There are also detailed appendices detailing the patriarchs of the different Syriac denominations, and another appendix listing useful online resources for students. The Syriac World offers the first complete survey of Syriac culture and fills a significant gap in modern scholarship. This volume will be an invaluable resource to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Syriac and Middle Eastern culture from antiquity to the modern era. Chapter 26 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
The Loss of Male Sexual Desire in Ancient Mesopotamia
Author | : Gioele Zisa |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 2021-11-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3110757265 |
After more than fifty years since the last publication, the cuneiform texts relating to the treatment of the loss of male sexual desire and vigor in Mesopotamia are collected in this volume. The aim of the book is to present Mesopotamian medical tradition regarding the so-called nīš libbi therapies. šà-zi-ga in Sumerian, nīš libbi in Akkadian, lit. "raising of the 'heart'", is the expression used to indicate a group of texts intended to recover the male sexual desire. This medical tradition is preserved from the Middle Babylonian period to the Achaemenid one. This broad range testifies to the importance of the transmission of this material throughout Mesopotamian history. The book provides the edition of this textual corpus and analyzes it in the light of new knowledge on ancient Near Eastern medicine. Moreover, this volume aims to show how theories and methodologies of Cultural Anthropology, Ethnopsychiatry and Gender Studies are useful for understanding the Mesopotamian medical system. This edition is an important tool for understanding Mesopotamian medical knowledge for Assyriologist, however since the texts have been translated and discussed using the anthropological and gender perspectives they are accessible also to scholars of other research fields, such as History of Medicine, Sexuality and Gender.
Studia Patristica
Author | : Maurice Wiles |
Publisher | : Peeters Publishers |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Asceticism |
ISBN | : 9789042909649 |
Papers Presented at the Fourteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies Held in Oxford 2003: Liturgia et cultus; Theologica et philosophica; Critica et philologica; Nachleben; First two centuries
Author | : Frances Margaret Young |
Publisher | : Peeters Publishers |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789042918832 |
Papers presented at the Fourteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2003 (see also Studia Patristica 39, 41, 42 and 43). The successive sets of Studia Patristica contain papers delivered at the International Conferences on Patristic Studies, which meet for a week once every four years in Oxford; they are held under the aegis of the Theology Faculty of the University. Members of these conferences come from all over the world and most offer papers. These range over the whole field, both East and West, from the second century to a section on the Nachleben of the Fathers. The majority are short papers dealing with some small and manageable point; they raise and sometimes resolve questions about the authenticity of documents, dates of events, and such like, and some unveil new texts. The smaller number of longer papers put such matters into context and indicate wider trends. The whole reflects the state of Patristic scholarship and demonstrates the vigour and popularity of the subject.
"I Undertook Great Works"
Author | : Douglas J. Green |
Publisher | : Mohr Siebeck |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9783161501685 |
Traditionally, scholars study ancient Near Eastern royal inscriptions to reconstruct the events they narrate. In recent decades, however, a new approach has analyzed these inscriptions as products of royal ideology and has delineated the way that ideology has shaped their narration of historical events. This ideologically-sensitive approach has focused on kings' accounts of their military campaigns. This study applies this approach to the narration of royal domestic achievements, first in the Neo-Assyrian inscriptional tradition, but especially in nine West Semitic inscriptions from the 10th to 7th centuries B.C.E. and describes how these accounts also function as the products of royal ideology.
Papers Presented at the Twelfth International Conference on Patristic Studies Held in Oxford, 1995: Historica, theologica et philosophica, critica et philologica
Author | : Elizabeth A. Livingstone |
Publisher | : Peeters Publishers |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Cappadocian Fathers |
ISBN | : 9789068318364 |