Ancient history
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Peripheral Concerns
Peripheral Concerns examines the influence of one "core" region of the ancient Near Eastern world -- Egypt -- on urban development in the southern Levant in the Early and Middle Bronze Ages, with emphasis on the relative stability and sustainability of this development in each era. The study utilize...
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Finding Myth and History in the Bible
Lukasz Niesiolowski-Spano, Chiara Peri, Jim West
The essays collected in this volume focus on methodological and historical topics related to the study of the history of ancient Israel. Contributors offer readers new readings of disputed texts, new methodological tools for study of the ancient world inhabited by an entity called "Israel," and a va...
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Philosophy and the End of Sacrifice
Peter Jackson, Anna-Pya Sjodin, Stephanie Jamison, Clemens Cavallin, Gerald James Larson, Guy G. Stroumsa, Jorgen Podemann Sorensen, Christian H. Bull, Jorgen Magnusson, Hans Ruin, Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
Peter Jackson, Anna-Pya Sjodin
This volume addresses the means and ends of sacrificial speculation by inviting a selected group of specialists in the fields of philosophy, history of religions, and indology to examine philosophical modes of sacrificial speculation-especially in Ancient India and Greece-and consider the commonalit...
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The Archaeology of Nuragic Sardinia
The Archaeology of Nuragic Sardinia is a comprehensive synthesis of evidence bearing on current understandings of Sardinian prehistory from the 23rd through 8th centuries BC. Within a culture-historical framework recent findings on chronology, settlement, subsistence, industries, trade, external rel...
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High Culture and Experience in Ancient Egypt
This novel work uses case studies of both familiar and unfamiliar materials, expanding consideration of ancient Egyptian elite culture to encompass lived experience and exploitation of the natural environment. The opening chapter sets out the conceptual ground for the analyses that follow, arguing t...
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Poetry and Culture in Middle Kingdom Egypt
The Middle Kingdom (c.1940-1640 BC) was a golden age of Ancient Egyptian writing. This pioneering book is the first comprehensive study of this literary legacy. The status of literature is controversial in many ancient civilizations, and Middle Kingdom poems have often been regarded as propaganda fo...
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The Power of Technology in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean
In the past, Bronze Age painted plaster in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean has been studied from a range of different but isolated viewpoints. This volume brings both technological and iconographic approaches closer together by completing certain gaps in the literature on technology and by...
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Rural Landscapes of the Punic World
Peter van Dommelen, Carols Gomez Bellard
Phoenician and Punic archaeology have long been overlooked by Mediterranean archaeologists, who focused their attention on Greek and Roman cultures. Although the Punic cities and their rural landscapes are to be found along the southern shores and on the islands of the western Mediterranean basin, c...
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The Disappearance of Writing Systems
John Baines, John Bennet, Stephen Houston
This volume gathers papers from the first conference ever to be held on the disappearance of writing systems, in Oxford in March 2004. While the invention and decipherment of writing systems have long been focuses of research, their eclipse or replacement have been little studied. Because writing is...
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Local Power in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia
In this pathbreaking study of local power structures in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia (c.2000-1595 BCE) Seri shows that far from being a monolithic entity that unilaterally made decisions concerning people, water, land, and other resources, the Babylonian state had to deal with local institutions that...