The practice of ancient Near Eastern history : opera minora / by Marc Van De Mieroop.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van de Mieroop, Marc, author.

Series:

Alter Orient und Altes Testament ; Bd. 400.

Alter Orient und Altes Testament, 0931-4296 ; Band 400

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle East--History--To 622.

Middle East.

Middle East--History--To 622--Historiography.

Historiography.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 531 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Münster : Ugarit-Verlag, 2021.

Contents:

Part I: Writing history. On writing a history of the ancient Near East

Recent trends in the study of ancient Near Eastern history : some reflections

Ancient Near Eastern history in its Middle Eastern setting

Economic theories and the ancient Near East

Southern Mesopotamia during the Old Babylonian period

The Eastern Mediterranean in early antiquity

Part II: Reading. The administration of crafts in the early Isin period

An accountant's nightmare: the drafting of a year's summary

A study in contrast : Sargon of Assyria and Rusa of Urartu

Reading Babylon

Part III: Economy history. Gifts and tithes to the temples in Ur

Sheep and goat herding according to the Old Babylonian texts from Ur

Reed in the Old Babylonian texts from Ur

Wood in the Old Babylonian texts from southern Babylonia

A history of Near Eastern debt?

The invention of interest : Sumerian loans

Old Babylonian interest rates : were they annual?

Silver as a financial tool in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia

Part IV: Social history. Women in the economy of Sumer

In search of prestige : foreign contacts and the rise of an elite in early dynastic Babylonia

The city in ancient Mesopotamia

The government of an ancient Mesopotamian city : what we know and why we know so little

Democracy and the rule of law, the assembly, and the first law code

Part V: Intellectual history

A Babylonian cosmopolis

Ancient Near Eastern philosophy

Theses on Babylonian philosophy

Literature and political discourse in ancient Mesopotamia : Sargon II of Assyria and Sargon of Agade

The madness of King Rusa : the psychology of despair in eighth century Assyria.

Notes:

Anthology of previously published articles.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-482) and indexes.

ISBN:

9783868353334

386835333X

OCLC:

1336481249

Publisher Number:

9783868353334