Death and Burial in Iron Age Israel, Aram, and Phoenicia

Rachel Nabulsi

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East | nr. 10
• Death and Burial uses archaeological and textual evidence to examine death and burial in Iron Age Israel and Aram. Despite dramatic differences in the... Lees meer

The Other Mathematics

Leo Depuydt

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East
• This book is about attribute mathematics, in which nothing ever gets bigger or smaller. More specifically, it is about some of what attribute mathemat... Lees meer

Can No Physician Be Found?

Laura M Zucconi

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East
• Can No Physician be Found analyzes how religion, as an expression of a universal order, is applied to the medical practices in the cultures of ancient... Lees meer

Homer and the Bronze Age

Peter Karavites

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East
• This scholarly and up-to-date investigation of Bronze Age and Near Eastern literature and Homer's poetry reveals fascinating similarities between Near... Lees meer

Engraved on Stone

Rony Feingold

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East
• Cylinder seals were important instruments in the Ancient Near East, and were used in Mesopotamia from the beginning of the third millennium BCE to the... Lees meer

"As for me, I will dwell at Mizpah ..."

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East
• Tell en-Nasbeh (biblical Mizpah of Benjamin) was excavated on a grand scale by William F. Badè of Pacific School of Religion between 1926 and 1935. Hi... Lees meer

A Mesopotamian Miscellany

Karen Polinger Foster, Benjamin R. Foster

• Hardcover | Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East
• Drawn from Akkadian and Sumerian tablets in the Yale Babylonian Collection, many of them previously unpublished, this collection of readings brings to... Lees meer

Alphabet Scribes in the Land of Cuneiform

Yigal Bloch

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East | nr. 515
• This book discusses the alphabetic scribes (sēpiru) mentioned in Mesopotamian documents of the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid periods - specifically, o... Lees meer

Tribe and State

Adam Miglio

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East
• The cuneiform tablets recovered from the ancient city of Mari (Tell Hariri) richly document the socio-political world of ancient Syro-Mesopotamia. The... Lees meer

The material origin of numbers

Karenleigh A Overmann

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East | nr. 14
• What are numbers, and where do they come from? These questions have perplexed us for centuries, if not millennia. A novel answer is suggested by cogni... Lees meer