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Prophecy in the Ancient Near East

Jonathan Stökl, University College London

Prophecy in the Ancient Near East is the first book-length study that compares all evidence of ancient Near Eastern prophecy, focusing on the Mari texts. It re-evaluates recent scholarship and concludes that prophecy was a widespread phenomenon integrated into divination in general.

€100.00$130.00

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9789004202306

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Writing Science before the Greeks

Rita Watson and Wayne Horowitz

The Babylonian astronomical series MUL.APIN represents the crowning achievement of traditional Mesopotamian astronomy. This volume presents a new analysis of MUL.APIN from the perspective of modern cognitive science and explores the role of writing in the evolution of scientific thought.

€147.00$190.00

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9789004183353

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Tradition and Transformation. Egypt under Roman Rule

edited by Katja Lembke, Martina Minas-Nerpel, and Stefan Pfeiffer

In Roman Egypt, major changes and a slow process of transformation can be observed alongside unbroken traditions. The multi-ethnical population was situated between new patterns of rule and traditional lifeways. This tension between change and permanence was investigated during the conference.

€110.00$142.00

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SEG

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Encyclopedic Work

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9789050630733

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Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Volume XXXVIII (1988)

Edited by H.W. Pleket and R.S. Stroud

€90.00$117.00

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CUMO

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9789004178762

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Advances in Mesopotamian Medicine from Hammurabi to Hippocrates

edited by Annie Attia and Gilles Buisson, with the collaboration of Markham J. Geller

This volume, which originated with a conference at the Collège de France, comprises articles on Babylonian and Assyrian medicine.

€110.00$142.00

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9789004168497

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Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Volume XXXVII (1987)

Edited by H.W. Pleket and R.S. Stroud

€106.00$137.00

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CUMO

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9789004124011

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Disease in Babylonia

Edited by Irving L. Finkel and Markham J. Geller

The present collection of articles on disease in Babylonia is the first such volume to appear providing detailed information derived from published and unpublished medical texts in cuneiform script from the second and first millennia BC.

€90.00$117.00

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9789004174108

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The City Besieged

Israel Ephʿal

Exploring the military, legal, social and literary aspects of ancient warfare, this study examines the multifaceted nature of the siege phenomenon in the Ancient Near East.

€101.00$131.00

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9789004152823

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Bene Israel

Edited by Alexander Fantalkin and Assaf Yasur-Landau

This collection of new studies in the archaeology of Israel and the Levant during the Bronze and Iron Ages is dedicated to Professor Israel Finkelstein and is written by twelve of his former students.

€194.00$251.00

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CUMO

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9789004146327

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If a Man Builds a Joyful House

Edited by Ann K. Guinan, Maria deJ. Ellis, A.J. Ferrara, Sally M. Freedman, Matthew T. Rutz, Leonhard Sassmannshausen, Steve Tinney, and M.W. Waters

The articles represent the latest thinking of leading scholars in the field of Assyriology/Sumerology. Thirty-eight contributions cover the following subjects: history, divination, magic, religion, literature, prosopography, lexicography, and art. Some fifty texts are published and discussed for ...