An edition of The practice of ancient Near Eastern history
(2021)
The practice of ancient Near Eastern history
opera minora
by Marc Van de Mieroop
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The practice of ancient Near Eastern history: opera minora
2021, Ugarit-Verlag
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Table of Contents
Part I: Writing history. 1. On writing a history of the ancient Near East
2. Recent trends in the study of ancient Near Eastern history : some reflections
3. Ancient Near Eastern history in its Middle Eastern setting
4. Economic theories and the ancient Near East
5. Southern Mesopotamia during the Old Babylonian period
6. The Eastern Mediterranean in early antiquity
Part II: Reading. 7. The administration of crafts in the early Isin period
8. An accountant's nightmare: the drafting of a year's summary
9. A study in contrast : Sargon of Assyria and Rusa of Urartu
10. Reading Babylon
Part III: Economy history. 11. Gifts and tithes to the temples in Ur
12. Sheep and goat herding according to the Old Babylonian texts from Ur
13. Reed in the Old Babylonian texts from Ur
14. Wood in the Old Babylonian texts from southern Babylonia
15. A history of Near Eastern debt?
16. The invention of interest : Sumerian loans
17. Old Babylonian interest rates : were they annual?
18. Silver as a financial tool in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
Part IV: Social history. 19. Women in the economy of Sumer
20. In search of prestige : foreign contacts and the rise of an elite in early dynastic Babylonia
21. The city in ancient Mesopotamia
22. The government of an ancient Mesopotamian city : what we know and why we know so little
23. Democracy and the rule of law, the assembly, and the first law code
Part V: Intellectual history
24. A Babylonian cosmopolis
25. Ancient Near Eastern philosophy
26. Theses on Babylonian philosophy
27. Literature and political discourse in ancient Mesopotamia : Sargon II of Assyria and Sargon of Agade
28. The madness of King Rusa : the psychology of despair in eighth century Assyria.
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Anthology of previously published articles.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-482) and indexes.
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