Ex oriente lux et veritas : Yale, Salisbury and early orientalism / Karen Polinger Foster, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yale Babylonian Collection.

Foster, Karen Polinger, 1950- editor.

Series:

Yale Babyonian Collection occasional papers ; 1.

Yale Babyonian Collection occasional papers ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orientalism.

Assyriology--Study and teaching.

Assyriology.

Salisbury, Edward Elbridge, 1814-1901.

Salisbury, Edward Elbridge.

Salisbury, E. E. (Edward E.).

Yale University.

Local Subjects:

Salisbury, E. E. (Edward E.).

Physical Description:

ix, 79 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Connecticut : Yale Babyonian Collection, 2017.

Summary:

"This book presents expanded versions of the papers delivered at a symposium held during the 175th anniversary celebration of Yale's 1841 appointment of Edward Elbridge Salisbury as America's first professor of Arabic and Sanskrit. Often drawing on original archival research, the articles place Salisbury in the context of 19th-century Orientalism, with particular attention to the interconnected growth of Assyriology in northern Europe and the U.S. Hitherto unheralded, Salisbury emerges as a founding figure in the development of ancient Near Eastern, Arabic, and Sanskrit studies, as well as in the rise of the American liberal arts university." -- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Salisbury and Yale / Karen Polinger Foster

Orientalism's lonely years: the case of Edward Salisbury / Suzanne Marchand

Edward Salisbury and A.I. Silvestre de Sacy / Benjamin R. Foster

Assyriological peripheries: early Mesopotamian studies in Scandinavia / Gojko Barjamovic

Between microphilology, academic politics, and the Aryan Jesus: Paul Haupt, Hermann Hilprecht, and the birth of American Assyriology / Eckart Frahm

Appendix I. Salisbury's letter of appointment

Appendix II. Salisbury's seals, 160 years later: two neo-Assyrian cylinders from AOS to YBC / Agnete Wisti Lassen.

Notes:

"Expanded versions of papers delivered at the symposium "Edward Salisbury and the Ancient Near East," held on 4 November 2016"--Page vii.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0692824278

9780692824276

OCLC:

982520637

Publisher Number:

99979011805