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Auch angekündigt unter dem Titel: Person, place, and society in the Ancient Near East
In English
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Beschreibung:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface - A Tribute to Ran Zadok -- Abbreviations -- Publications of Ran Zadok -- Section I: The Persian Period -- Numbered Tablets in the Persepolis Fortification Archive -- The Day Before Cyrus Entered Babylon -- Contribution to the Persian Nobility in Babylonia -- Section II: Late Babylonian Administration -- Alphabetic Scribes in Hellenistic Uruk -- Gift, Bribe and the Remuneration of Officials in Late Babylonian Sources -- Section III: Gods and Temples -- Remarks on Theophoric Names in the Late Babylonian Archives from Ur -- In and around the Court of Bēl and the Cultic Topography of the Esagil according to Late Babylonian Ritual Texts -- The Name BaU Revisited -- Section IV: Foreigners in Babylonia -- An Edomite in Isin -- A Curious Case of a ‘Greek,’ a Garment and a Grave -- Section V: People and Places in Egypt and the Levant -- “The Land of the Philistines” and “The Sea of the Philistines”: Northern Philistia in the Hebrew Bible -- Laban the Aramean and the Moon-God of Harran -- A Name is a Prayer: Sixty-nine Qos Names in the Idumean Ostraca -- Indices
This volume honors Ran Zadok's work by focusing on his sustained interest in Mesopotamian social history. It brings together a rich array of scholarship on ancient names, deities, individuals, and institutions, from Persepolis to the Levant. Building on Zadok's intellectual concerns, this book includes contributions that expand our understanding of the diverse tapestry of the peoples who inhabited the Ancient Near East