The Care of the Elderly in the Ancient Near East

The Care of the Elderly in the Ancient Near East
Author: Marten Stol
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2023-06-26
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9004670424

Assyriologists and Egyptologists study the strategies used in the Ancient Near East to provide oneself a carefree old day by arranging material support. Among them are gifts in contemplation of death, the adoption of adults, manumission of slaves. An important issue not dealt with before.

The Care of the Elderly in the Ancient Near East

The Care of the Elderly in the Ancient Near East
Author: Marten Stol
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004108967

Assyriologists and Egyptologists study the strategies used in the Ancient Near East to provide oneself a carefree old day by arranging material support. Among them are gifts in contemplation of death, the adoption of adults, manumission of slaves. An important issue not dealt with before.

Society and the Individual in Ancient Mesopotamia

Society and the Individual in Ancient Mesopotamia
Author: Laura Culbertson
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2024-10-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1501517651

This book provides an overview of social life in ancient Mesopotamia, bringing together leading experts to survey key social domains of daily life as well as major non-dominant social groups. It serves as a point of entry to the current research in this field.

The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction

The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Amanda H. Podany
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195377990

This book explores the lands of the ancient Near East from around 3200 BCE to 539 BCE. The earth-shaking changes that marked this era include such fundamental inventions as the wheel and the plow and intellectual feats such as the inventions of astronomy, law, and diplomacy.

Women in the Ancient Near East

Women in the Ancient Near East
Author: Marten Stol
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 690
Release: 2016-08-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 150150021X

Women in the Ancient Near East offers a lucid account of the daily life of women in Mesopotamia from the third millennium BCE until the beginning of the Hellenistic period. The book systematically presents the lives of women emerging from the available cuneiform material and discusses modern scholarly opinion. Stol’s book is the first full-scale treatment of the history of women in the Ancient Near East.

On Stone and Scroll

On Stone and Scroll
Author: James Keltie Aitken
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 605
Release: 2011
Genre: Bible
ISBN: 311022805X

The volume will appeal to those interested in the biblical text and its place within the wider archaeological and ancient near eastern context. It will appeal to those wishing to understand the diversity of historical approaches to the Bible, and to those utilising the evidence of archaeology, inscriptions, theology and linguistics to the interpretation of the Bible.

Exodus

Exodus
Author: Bruce Wells
Publisher: Zondervan Academic
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2016-01-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310527562

Many today find the Old Testament a closed book. The cultural issues seem insurmountable and we are easily baffled by that which seems obscure. Furthermore, without knowledge of the ancient culture we can easily impose our own culture on the text, potentially distorting it. This series invites you to enter the Old Testament with a company of guides, experts that will give new insights into these cherished writings. Features include • Over 2000 photographs, drawings, maps, diagrams and charts provide a visual feast that breathes fresh life into the text. • Passage-by-passage commentary presents archaeological findings, historical explanations, geographic insights, notes on manners and customs, and more. • Analysis into the literature of the ancient Near East will open your eyes to new depths of understanding both familiar and unfamiliar passages. • Written by an international team of 30 specialists, all top scholars in background studies.

A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law (2 vols)

A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law (2 vols)
Author: Raymond Westbrook
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 1235
Release: 2003-08-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 904740209X

The first comprehensive survey of the world's oldest known legal systems, this collaborative work of twenty-two scholars covers over 3,000 years of legal history of the Ancient Near East. Each of the book's chapters represents a review of the law of a particular period and region, e.g. the Egyptian Old Kingdom, by a specialist in that area. Within each chapter, the material is organized under standardized legal categories (e.g. constitutional law, family law) that make for easy cross-referencing. The chapters are arranged chronologically by millennium and within each millennium by the three major politico-cultural spheres of the region: Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Anatolia and the Levant. An introduction by the editor discusses the general character of Ancient Near Eastern Law.

The Family in Roman Egypt

The Family in Roman Egypt
Author: Sabine R. Huebner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2013-07-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107244552

This study captures the dynamics of the everyday family life of the common people in Roman Egypt, a social strata that constituted the vast majority of any pre-modern society but rarely figures in ancient sources or in modern scholarship. The documentary papyri and, above all, the private letters and the census returns provide us with a wealth of information on these people not available for any other region of the ancient Mediterranean. The book discusses such things as family composition and household size, and the differences between urban and rural families, exploring what can be ascribed to cultural patterns, economic considerations and/or individual preferences by setting the family in Roman Egypt into context with other pre-modern societies where families adopted such strategies to deal with similar exigencies of their daily lives.

From Mesopotamia to the Mishnah

From Mesopotamia to the Mishnah
Author: Jonathan S. Milgram
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2016-06-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9783161540219

In this study, Jonathan S. Milgram demonstrates that the transformation of inheritance law from the biblical to the tannaitic period is best explained against the backdrop of the legal and social contexts in which the tannaitic laws were formulated. Employing text and source critical methods, he argues that, in the absence of the hermeneutic underpinnings for tannaitic innovations, the laws were not the result of the rabbinic imagination and its penchant for inventive interpretation of Scripture. Turning to the rich repositories in biblical, ancient near eastern, Second Temple, Greek, Elephantine, Judean desert, and Roman sources, the author searches for conceptual parallels and antecedents as well as formulae and terminology adopted and adapted by the tannaim. Since the tannaitic traditions reflect the social and economic contexts of the tannaitic period - the nuclear family on privatized landholdings in urban centers - the author also considers the degree to which tannaitic inheritance laws may have emerged out of these contexts.