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Post by ummia-inim-gina on Dec 20, 2007 23:00:45 GMT -5
I've been working overtime at the bakery this season and have finally come up with some spare cash for my book addiction and am looking for some recommendations. Here is some of the books I have enjoyed recently.
Samuel Noah Kramer "The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character" (1963) Chicago press History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine "Firsts" in Recorded History (1956)
Marc Van De Mieroop "A History of the Ancient Near East 3, 000-323 B.C. 2nd Ed.", Blackwell, 2006 "King Hammurabi of Babylon", Blackwell, 2004
Gwendolyn Leick "Mesopotamia: Invention of the city", 2003, Penguin
Michael Roaf "The Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East" Fact on File, 1990
Jean Bottero "The oldest Cuisine in the world: Cooking in Mesopotamia" 2004, The University of Chicago Press
Karen Rhea Nemet-Najet "Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia" Hendrickson Publishers, 2002
I am currently looking for up to date books on Sumerian culture, geography and specific information on marsh Arabs and what living off the land in south Iraq is like. Here are some of the titles I have been looking at. If anyone has read any of these I'd like to hear if you think it was worth buying.
The Marsh Arabs (Penguin is re-releasing this in January, I can't wait!) by Wilfred Thesiger (Author), Jon Lee Anderson (Introduction) Penguin Classics, 2008 List Price: $15.00 Price: $10.20
Ancient Iraq: Third Edition by Georges Roux Penguin (Non-Classics); 3 Sub edition, 1993 List Price: $15.95 Price: $10.85
Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia by Stephen Bertman Oxford University Press, 2005 List Price: $21.95
Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia by Jean Bottéro The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 List Price: $21.95
Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature (Kindle Edition) by Gwendolyn Leick Taylor & Francis, 2007 Print List Price $38.95 Kindle Price: $35.06
Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia by L. J. Hall (Author), R.H.W. Hughes (Editor) $35.28
Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization (Paperback) by A. Leo Oppenheim (Author), Erica Reiner (Author) University Of Chicago Press; Revised edition, 1977 List Price: $24.00
Early Mesopotamia: Society and Economy at the Dawn of History by Nichol Postgate (Paperback - Jul 8, 1994) Routledge, 1994 Buy new: $46.95 $42.20
In the World of Sumer: An Autobiography by Samuel Noah Kramer Wayne State University Press, 1988 List Price: $21.95
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Post by us4-he2-gal2 on Dec 25, 2007 1:44:18 GMT -5
Hello Enlil:
Thanks for the Book suggestions! I have moved this thread to the "Bibliographical Queries/Study Topic Suggestions/Running Lists" discussion board, Along with my own "Wonderful books" thread. You've mentioned some great choices:
-Ive recently noticed Van De Mieroop at my library and would love to go through it
-Leicks book is wonderfully done from what IVe sampled and contains some great commentary, I particularly like her section on love magic
- I have heard good things about Roaf's atlas
-Botteros Cooking in Mesopotamia may be useful for cross referenceing Temple cooks, as I intend to touch on these at some point while pondering Temple staff
- I really enjoyed Kramers autobiography
- Postgate's book is wonderful reference material!
- Oppenheims Portrait of a dead civilization has many excellent illustrations of religion though his overall stance has been solidly defined a skeptical (with justification). I have briefly outlined his "Why a Mesopotamian Religion should not be Written" elsewhere - if anyone would like context here let me know. Below however, I have summed a rebuttal by W.W. Hallo to this "skepticism" from the latters article "The Limits of Skepticism" - (I had posted this elsewhere)
" I would like to quote a paragraph from W.W. Hallo's 1990 article (JAOS) "The Limits of Skepticism" - before proceeding further. Hallo writes the following, partly in response to Civil's sometime skepticism of cuneiform for the task of reconstructing ANE history etc:
"In the perennial tug-of-war between credulity and skepsis, between maximalism and minimalism, all of us would no doubt like to stake out a place on the middle-ground of sweet reasonableness. But there is a notable lack of even-handedness on this high ground in the presumed middle. We hear, more often then not, of "healthy skepticism" or "honest doubt," of "suspension of judgment" as in the "sacramental word of skepticism" - ----. Far more rarely do we hear of "suspension of disbelief." Belief or credulity is little more then a euphemism for gulibility; it hardly lacks for critics, while the defenders of skepticism are legion, from Charles-Augustin Saite-Beuve, who said, "A skeptic is not one who doubts, but one who examines" - which is true enough etymologically- via Betreand Russel's Skeptical Essays to Richard Popkin, who has given us a whole history of skepticism."
Hallo continues:
"Among Assyriologists of recent memory, the leading skeptic-almost, one might say, their standard bearer- was another of my Chicago teachers, the late Leo Oppenheim. He crowned a lifetime of Assyriological contributions with his influential synthesis of ancient Mesopotamia subtitled "portrait of a dead civilization." . But in the pages of this very book, and elsewhere, he was forever cautioning against the dangers of synthesizing from partial (or partisan) evidence, forever repeating the warning "we do not know."
He repeats an interesting saying of Gelb's "We will never know what was the nectar and ambrosia of the gods until we have figured out the rations of the common man." Gelb would seem to have been something of a maximalist who while disdainful of literary sources (referring to them as "edubology") had a flair for economic texts which he termed 'onionology' ("the oppurtunity to extrapolate from the simple onion archives or "laundry lists" in cuneiform to the whole-economic structure of pre-classical antiquity", as Hallo explains.)
Hallo returns again to Oppenheim, whose skepticism he seems to be in considerable contention of. In addressing Oppenheim's "why a Mesopotamian Religion Should Not be Written" directly, he writes "For Mesopotamia, the methodological limitations for reconstructing the history of religion were clearly delineated by B. Hruska, but Oppenheim's challenge was nonetheless taken up, most vigorously by Thorkild Jacobsen, who subtitled his Treasures of Darkness "a history of Mesopotamian religion." Baruch Levine and I found valuable data in genres ignored by Oppenheim such as the so-called "descriptive rituals." *note 68*. But here I again prefer to draw my illustration from the historical dimension. The millennial documentation of Mesopotamia- in case this case artifactual as well as textual- allows us to reconstruct not only the structure of the cult but its evolution over time. As Agnes Spycket has shown, the practice of worshipping the deity in the guise of a life-size, anthropomorphic statue was an innovation of the late third millennium in Mesopotamia. *note 69* After considering the implications of this insight for the comparable Israelite situation, I have more recently inquired into the possible reasons for the innocation itself and seen it as a reaction to the emergence of the cult of the deified king in high Sargonic times *note 70*. If this correlation proves correct, it will provide the religious dimension with same kind of link to the framework of political history that was previously argued for the literary one. *note 71*
note 68: B.A. Levine and W.W. Hallo "Offerings to the Temple Gates at Ur" HUCA 38 (1967); 17-58 note 69: Les Statues de culte dans les textes mesopotamiens des origines a la 1st dynastie de Babylone, Cahiers de la Revue Biblique 9 (PAris: J. Gabalda et Cie, 1968). note 70: "Texts, Statues, and Cult of the Divine King," 54-66. note 71: Cf. above, note 39.
Hallo ends with a very poignant appeal for for maximalism stating "However limited the documentation may be, the only limits it imposes on us are to set reasonable limits to our own skepticism."
note - Hallo's work "Toward a History of Sumerian Literature" "
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Post by ummia-inim-gina on Sept 28, 2008 12:39:43 GMT -5
On sale this month at Eisenbrauns:
A Manual of Sumerian Grammar and Texts by John L. Hayes Aids and Research Tools in Ancient Near Eastern Studies - ARTANES 5 Undena Publications, 2000. Paper. English. ISBN: 0890035081 List Price: $43.00 Your Price: $38.70
Sumerian Grammar by D. O. Edzard Society of Biblical Literature - SBL, 2003. Paper. English. ISBN: 1589832523 List Price: $25.95 Your Price: $22.06
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Post by ummia-inim-gina on Sept 28, 2008 12:49:18 GMT -5
Here is some stuff I've been reading excerpts/reviews of lately tht sound interesting:
Sumerian Economic Texts from the Umma Archive By Shin Theke Kang Published by University of Illinois Press, 1973 ISBN 0252004256, 9780252004254 CDN$ 242.04 (Ack! I'm hoping I can find a used copy of this one.)
Provincial Taxation and the Ur III State Provincial Taxation and the Ur III State: by Tonia M. Sharlach (Author), T. M. Sharlach (Author) Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers (January 2004) ISBN-10: 9004135812 CDN$ 237.96
State and Temple Economy in the Ancient Near East By: Lipinski E. Peeters Publishers, 1979 ISBN: 978-90-70192-03-7 Price: 90 EURO
Ledgers and Prices: Early Mesopotamian Merchant Accounts (Hardcover) by Daniel C. Snell (Author) Yale University Press (Sep 10 1982) ISBN-10: 0300025173 Price: CDN$ 74.03
Economic Texts from Sumer (Hardcover) by Carl H. Lager (Author), Daniel C. Snell (Author) Publisher: Yale University Press (Feb 8 1992) ISBN-10: 0300049455 CDN$ 101.65
Life in the Ancient Near East, 3100-332 B.C.E. (Paperback) by Daniel C. Snell (Author) Publisher: Yale University Press; 1 edition (Sep 10 1998) ISBN-10: 0300076665 CDN$ 50.76
Ur III Period (2112-2004 BC) (Hardcover) by Douglas Frayne (Author) Publisher: University of Toronto Press (Aug 2 1997) ISBN-10: 0802041981 CDN$ 213.00 Price: CDN$ 134.19
The Harps that Once...: Sumerian Poetry in Translation (Paperback) by Thorkild Jacobsen (Author) Publisher: Yale University Press; Reprint edition (Sep 23 1997) ISBN-10: 0300072783 CDN$ 24.32
Current Issues in the History of the Ancient Near East (Paperback) by Gonzalo Rubio (Author), Steven J. Garfinkle (Author), Gary Beckman (Author), Daniel C. Snell (Author), Mark W. Chavalas (Editor) Publisher: Regina Books (April 2007) ISBN-10: 1930053460 CDN$ 21.10
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Post by amarsin on Sept 28, 2008 21:29:04 GMT -5
Here is some stuff I've been reading excerpts/reviews of lately tht sound interesting: Sumerian Economic Texts from the Umma Archive By Shin Theke Kang Published by University of Illinois Press, 1973 ISBN 0252004256, 9780252004254 CDN$ 242.04 (Ack! I'm hoping I can find a used copy of this one.) This is really just a text edition. That is, copies of texts, with transliterations and translations. But the Umma texts are mostly dealing with labor issues-- digging canals and whatnot. He has a nice discussion about such things at the end, but most of the book is really hard core Sumerian philology. I actually liked this book, but at least some have viewed it quite harshly. Even though it's dated, this is an important book. But it's really only of value to people trained in the field. And I HATE how he lists his texts. Baffling. A text edition. Almost everything is on the CDLI, so don't pay the $100 (!) for it!! This is a nice book, and the paperback should be available for far less. This is also mostly something for the trained Sumerologist, though Frayne has lots of translations.[/quote] I'm not familiar with this, though I know the authors so I imagine that it will be a worthwhile contribution... [/quote]
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Post by ummia-inim-gina on Sept 29, 2008 16:49:21 GMT -5
Thanks for the insights Amar-sin ;D I think you just saved me a lot of money. Perhaps there is a core text on Sumerian Economics that I'm missing that you could suggest? A lot of the texts I would like to know more about are on the CDLI, however there is no English translations that I can find just transliterations. What I would really like is a source that goes over translations of Economic documents and gives insights on the content. In specific the Ur III Umma archive but any corpus of economic texts would be interesting. While I'm slowly starting to study Sumerian philology, as you can probably tell from my posts I'm certainly still at an entry level and my progress has been slow. For the time being I'm OK with relying on the translations of others and I'm trying to focus on Sumerian Economics and daily life which is the area of Sumerology I wish to specialize my education in.
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Post by ummia-inim-gina on Nov 13, 2008 13:08:46 GMT -5
"Civilizations of the Ancient Near East" Newyork, Scribner, 1995 [Typically referred to as CANE]
House Most High: The Temples of Ancient Mesopotamia By A. R. George Contributor A. R. George Published by EISENBRAUNS, 1993 ISBN 0931464803, 9780931464805
Riches Hidden in Secret Places: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Memory of Thorkild Jacobsen By Thorkild Jacobsen, I. Tzvi Abusch Contributor Thorkild Jacobsen, I. Tzvi Abusch Published by EISENBRAUNS, 2002 ISBN 1575060612, 9781575060613
The Cultic Calendars of the Ancient Near East (Hardcover) by Mark E. Cohen Publisher: Capital Decisions Ltd (April 1, 1993) ISBN: 1883053005
The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion By Thorkild Jacobsen Published by Yale University Press, 1978 ISBN 0300022913, 9780300022919 The Harps that Once--: Sumerian Poetry in Translation By Thorkild Jacobsen Published by Yale University Press, 1997 ISBN 0300072783, 9780300072785
Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary By Jeremy A. Black, Anthony Green, Tessa Rickards Illustrated by Tessa Rickards Contributor Tessa Rickards Published by University of Texas Press, 1992 ISBN 0292707940, 9780292707948 The Literature of Ancient Sumer By Jeremy A. Black, Graham Cunningham, Eleanor Robson Translated by Jeremy A. Black, Graham Cunningham, Eleanor Robson Contributor Jeremy A. Black Published by Oxford University Press, 2004 ISBN 0199296332, 9780199296330
Sumerian Grammar in Babylonian Theory By Jeremy A. Black Published by Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 2005 ISBN 8876534423, 9788876534423 Reading Sumerian Poetry By Jeremy A. Black Published by Cornell University Press, 1998 ISBN 0801435986, 9780801435980 Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods By Jean Bottero, Zainab Bahrani, Marc Van De Mieroop Translated by Zainab Bahrani, Marc Van De Mieroop Published by University of Chicago Press, 1995 ISBN 0226067270, 9780226067278
Proverbs of Ancient Sumer: The World's Earliest Proverb Collections By Bendt Alster Published by CDL Press, 1997 ISBN 188305320X, 9781883053208
Deliver Me from Evil: Mesopotamian Incantations, 2500-1500 BC By Graham Cunningham Published by Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1997 ISBN 8876536086, 9788876536083
Ur III Period (2112-2004 B C): (2112-2004 BC) By Douglas Frayne Published by University of Toronto Press, 1997 ISBN 0802041981, 9780802041982
Old Babylonian Period (2003-1595 BC) By Douglas Frayne Published by University of Toronto Press, 1997 ISBN 0802058736, 9780802058737
Dictionary of the Ancient Near East By Piotr Bienkowski, Alan Millard Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000 ISBN 0812235576, 9780812235579
Heartland of Cities: Surveys of Ancient Settlement and Land Use on the Central Floodplain of the Euphrates By Robert McCormick Adams Published by University of Chicago Press, 1981 ISBN 0226005445, 9780226005447
Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia By Jean Bottéro, Teresa Lavender Fagan Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan Published by University of Chicago Press, 2001 ISBN 0226067181, 9780226067186
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others By Stephanie Dalley Published by Oxford University Press, 1991 ISBN 0192817892, 9780192817891
The Early History of the Ancient Near East, 9000-2000 B.C.: 9000-2000 B.C. By Hans J. Nissen, Elizabeth Lutzeier, Kenneth J. Northcott Translated by Elizabeth Lutzeier, Kenneth J. Northcott Published by University of Chicago Press, 1990 ISBN 0226586588, 9780226586588
A Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Architecture By Gwendolyn Leick Published by Routledge, 1988 ISBN 0415002400, 9780415002400
Gudea's Temple Building: The Representation of an Early Mesopotamian Ruler in Text and Image by Claudia E. Suter Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers, 2000 ISBN-10: 9056930354
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Post by ummia-inim-gina on Nov 13, 2008 17:40:43 GMT -5
Studies in Third Millennium Sumerian and Akkadian Personal Names: The Designation and Conception of the Personal God By Robert A. Di Vito Contributor Robert A. Di Vito Published by Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1993 ISBN 8876536019, 9788876536014
"An Experienced Scirbe Who Neglects Nothing": Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Jacob Klein (Hardcover) by Yitzhak Sefati (Editor), Pinhas Artzi (Editor), Chaim Cohen (Editor), Barry L. Eichler (Editor), Victor Avigdor Hurowitz (Editor) Hardcover: 771 pages Publisher: C D L PR (October 30, 2004) ISBN-10: 1883053838
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Post by oipteaapdoce on Nov 22, 2008 14:23:30 GMT -5
I'm curious if:
Thompson, R. Campbell A dictionary of Assyrian botany London, British Academy, 1949 405 pages
has information which is relevent to plants/trees/etc. used in magic? Or is this more purely a book describing the various flora in the area? Of course just a few mentions of which cuneiform words mean which plants in English would also be useful. I happened to see the title when searching for another book and it looks interesting.
Athena
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Post by ummia-inim-gina on Nov 23, 2008 12:47:09 GMT -5
This sounds like an interesting topic to me as well but with no free excerpts anywhere and the only copy at amazon listed at $395.00 it looks like I'm going to have to wait
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Post by us4-he2-gal2 on Nov 23, 2008 15:00:05 GMT -5
Although we know him at enenuru as the early Assyriologist who did pioneering - and not dated - work on late incantation, Campbell Thompson's look here at Botany is I think examing plants believe relevant and irrelevant to magic and ritual. Or his study may come across materia magica by coincedence. In any case, I may be able to order his book from the Robart Library in Toronto - I have some accesses now I didn't before. WIll need a day or two to have chance to see if this is possible ;]
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Post by oipteaapdoce on Nov 23, 2008 15:29:10 GMT -5
Thank you for the information . Wow, it looks like I can actually get ahold of it! From the library that is, since my budget for $300 books is a bit low . I'll give a brief summery after I have looked through it, and a less brief summery after I have read it... I am still working through a stack of books though after acquiring a community borrowers card at the local Uni. They seem to have a rather large selection if you take all locations and ILL into account. Speaking of ILL it seems the Uni of TO is the only place which has a couple of goodies I'm after... Athena
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Post by amarsin on Nov 25, 2008 14:44:04 GMT -5
"Civilizations of the Ancient Near East" Newyork, Scribner, 1995 [Typically referred to as CANE] This is really useful. There should be a second edition that's put it in two volumes instead of 4 that's more affordable. I've only briefly looked at this book, but it's mostly an edition of some late-period text (or texts?) that lists temple names. It's not an actual discussion of Mesopotamian temples. This is a "Festschrift"-- a collection of articles by different authors written in honor of a particular person. There are some interesting contributions, but some of it may be highly technical to the non-specialist. This is a useful book, even if is sort of technical. It gives the months for all the major sites over time, and the festivals associated with them as attested in the available material. But again, a lot of it is philological or technical. I've never actually read this! Though, I've read parts. I'm not all that interested in the topic, so perhaps someone more versed in this could say something. My guess is that it's worthwhile, if a bit dated. Here, too, this might be sort of dated in some instances. But Jacobsen was certainly an important scholar and his work is first-rate. This is as the title implies, and is a handy little dictionary to have around, actually. Meh. This has the most up-to-date translations, but you can go to ETCSL and find more or less the same thing. This is hard core philology, so it's only useful to the trained Sumerologists [quote[Reading Sumerian Poetry By Jeremy A. Black Published by Cornell University Press, 1998 ISBN 0801435986, 9780801435980[/quote]I haven't looked at this; but my guess is that it's hard core. I haven't read this, either. But even though you can be pretty confident of the translation from French, I bet it's not the easiest thing to read. [quoteProverbs of Ancient Sumer: The World's Earliest Proverb Collections By Bendt Alster Published by CDL Press, 1997 ISBN 188305320X, 9781883053208[/quote]Proverbs are a lot of fun. There's lots of Sumerian and philology and whatnot, though. It would be nice to have an affordable book that's just an English presentation of the proverbs without all the philology. This is a comprehensive list of all royal inscriptions from Ur III kings. Given the cost, I don't know how useful it would be. See above. This can also be handy to have around. OK, so I love this book, but it's really technical (more archaeology than anything). I think you can get it for free as a PDF from the Oriental Institute, too. This is a really affordable book and gives a bunch of Akkadian myths in pretty solid English. Worth having. I haven't read this, but my guess is that it's super-technical, and may not be of value to the non-specialist.
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Post by sohnyrin on Nov 26, 2008 10:03:39 GMT -5
The series RIME by Frayne is great, that's what I'm mostly working with at this moment, and.. they are sold pretty cheap on amazon.ca, I ordered the pre-sargonic volume and can't wait to show it jealously in my bookcase !
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Post by us4-he2-gal2 on Nov 27, 2008 9:10:26 GMT -5
Amarsin: Thanks very much for the insights on the above book - I would agree on all points. About the Treasures of Darkness it is a joy to read for those bent on religious elements, and remains I think the only solid attemt at "A History of Mesopotamian Religion." Particularly enjoyable to me was Jacobsen's explanations of the survival of Non-Anthropomorphical elements in the divine, intrasitive vs transitive divine perogative (when a god effects the world by just being as Dumuzi is the divine fertile prinipal in nature, versus when a god effects nature by virtue of his will or wrath such as Enlil). Also enjoyable are discussion on Inanna in early Uruk religion and late, the the formation of political (or hegemonic) religon in Nippur. Sohnyrin: Ah - Lucky! I want that book How much we could add to the notes on kings at enenuru.net with that I bet!
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Post by oipteaapdoce on Nov 29, 2008 2:04:16 GMT -5
My favorite so far:
Ur III Incantations
This book is loaded with mostly complete spells which give a lot of insight into the magical practices as well as a plethora of ideas. I even like it better then the Deliver me from Evil book. The best part about the Ur III one though is that it is easily understandable to the layman.
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Post by us4-he2-gal2 on Dec 5, 2008 11:34:23 GMT -5
I have just ordered Frayne`s RIME publicatoin dealing with Pre-sargonic period from Toronto. Very nice thank you Sohnyrin
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Post by adante on Jan 8, 2009 11:04:52 GMT -5
I did a search for "Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature" from an Australian supplier and they want $220 for it! That's just a little out of my league!
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Post by madness on Jan 8, 2009 11:42:30 GMT -5
Perhaps they are asking that price for the hardcover. The book also comes in paperback format. I always check Eisenbrauns first before ordering a book. www.eisenbrauns.comIf you are unable to find it reasonably priced elsewhere, then this is the place to go. They have Leick's "Sex and Eroticism" (Paperback) for USD$33.56
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Post by adante on Jan 13, 2009 0:16:27 GMT -5
Thank you.
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Post by ummia-inim-gina on Aug 28, 2009 11:25:26 GMT -5
Two books I have really been enjoying reading lately are:
Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries: The Archaeological Evidence by P. R. S. Moorey Eisenbrauns, 1999
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Mesopotamia Civilization: The Material Foundations by D. T. Potts Cornell Univ Pr, 1996
The later isn't actually by an Assyriologist but rather an archaeologist in an attempt to bridge the gap of available information between the two fields. Regardless, both of these books have had a ton of great information on resources and industry within Mesopotamia. The first one being a specific break down of all the mineral evidence and the later being a more broad but less in-depth look at the use of resources of Mesopotamia as a whole.
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Post by ummia-inim-gina on Jun 5, 2010 14:11:45 GMT -5
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Bienkowski, Piotr British Archaeologist who received his doctorate in Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean from the University of Liverpool in 1985. He works at the National Museum of Liverpool as Head of Antiquities. He was awarded the Diploma of the Museums Association, and received an MPhil in Management Science from the University of Lancaster for his dissertation on Planning and Implementation Processes for Museum Exhibitions: A Soft Systems Analysis. He has also been appointed as Deputy Director at The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester. "Dictionary of the Ancient Near East" University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000 Black, Jeremy A. A British Sumerologist and founder of the online Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature. He received his DPhil from Oxford University. He taught at Durham and Exeter Universities and a held a Research Associate post at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago to work on the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary Project. "Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia" University of Texas Press, 1992 "Reading Sumerian Poetry" Cornell University Press, 1998 "The Literature of Ancient Sumer" Oxford University Press, 2004 "Sumerian Grammar in Babylonian Theory" Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 2005 Bottero, Jean A French Sumerologist and a renowned expert on the Ancient Near East. Bottero was director of studies and chair of the Department of Assyriology at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. Bottero was also a world renowned chef and scholar of Gastronomy. "Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods" University of Chicago Press, 1995 "Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia" University of Chicago Press, 2001 "Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia" The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 "The oldest Cuisine in the world: Cooking in Mesopotamia" The University of Chicago Press, 2004 Civil, Miguel Miguel Civil is an Assyriologist at the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, and a scholar of Sumerology. Civil's training includes a Ph.D. at the University of Paris in 1965. Civil has written several books, and is also editor of the lexical series Materials for the Sumerian Lexicon (MSL).
"The farmer's instructions: a Sumerian agricultural manual" Editorial Ausa, 1994 "The Lexical Texts in the Schøyen Collection" Capital Decisions Ltd, 2010 (CUSAS 12)
Cohen, Mark E. Mark E. Cohen is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship at Yale University, where he served as Assistant Curator of the Yale Babylonian Collection. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennslyvania in 1972 and has taught at the University of Maryland for over ten years at the Meyerhoff Center and History Department.
"The Cultic Calendars of the Ancient Near East" Capital Decisions Ltd, 1993
Cooper, Jerrold S. Cooper received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute in 1969, and has been teaching at Johns Hopkins since 1968. Professor Emeretus of Semetic studies at john hopkins University. "Reconstructing history from ancient inscriptions: the Lagash-Umma border conflict" Undena Publications, 1983 "The Curse of Akkade" Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983
Cunningham, Graham Researcher at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. "Deliver Me from Evil: Mesopotamian Incantations, 2500-1500 BC" Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1997 "Religion and magic: approaches and theories" Edinburgh University Press, 1999
Crawford, Harriet Honorary Visiting Professor at UCLA. Crawford received her PhD from London in 1962 in Archaeology and History of the Early Dynastic Period in Iraq.
"Dilmun Temple At Saar" Routledge, 1997 "Dilmun and its Gulf Neighbors" Cambridge University Press, 1998 Early Dilmun Seals From Saar: Art And Commerce In Bronze Age Bahrain" Archaeology International, 2001 "Sumer and the Sumerians" Cambridge University Press, 2004
Dalley, Stephanie Formerly Senior Research Fellow in Assyriology for the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford.
"Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others" Oxford University Press, 1991 "The legacy of Mesopotamia" Oxford University Press, 1998 "Mari and Karana: two old Babylonian cities" Gorgias Press LLC, 2002 "Babylonian Tablets from the First Sealand Dynasty in the Schøyen Collection" Capital Decisions Ltd, 2009 (CUSAS 9)
Edzard, Dietz otto (1906-2004) Dietz otto Edzard was Professor emeritus of Assyriology at the Munich. He recivied his Ph.D. in Assyriology from the University of Heidelberg in 1955.
"Gudea and his Dynasty" RIM University of Toronto Press, 1997 "Sumerian Grammar" Society of Biblical Literature, 2003
Falkenstein, Adam (1909-1966) Studied at the University of München under F. Hommel, and University of Leipzig under Landsberger Ph.D., University of Leipzig, 1929 Philologist of the German excavations at Uruk, 1930/1931- Associate Professor of Assyriology, Göttingen University, 1940- Professor of Semitic Philology, Heidelberg University, 1949- Editor of Orientalische Literaturzeitung (1939-1944) Editor of Zeitschrift für Assyriologie (1950-1966)
"The Sumerian Temple City" Undena Publications, 1974
Frayne, Douglas Professor at the University of Toronto, Near and Middle Eastern Studies.
"Early Dynastic List of Geographical Names" Eisenbrauns, 1992 "Pre-Sargonic Period (2700-2350 BC)" RIM University of Toronto Press, 1997 "Sargonic and Gutian Periods (2334-2113 BC)" RIM University of Toronto Press, 1993 "Ur III Period (2112-2004 BC)" RIM University of Toronto Press, 1997 Old Babylonian Period (2003-1595 B.C.) RIM University of Toronto Press, 1990
Gelb, I (1907-1985) A Polish-American Assyriologist who pioneered the scientific study of writing systems. He earned his PhD from the University of Rome in 1929, then went to the University of Chicago where he was a professor of Assyriology until his death.
"Old Akkadian Writing and Grammar" University of Chicago Press, 1961 "Sargonic Texts in the Louvre Museum" University of Chicago Press, 1970
George, Andrew R. A Professor of Cuneiform and Ancient Mesopotamian studies. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham. He is now a Professor of Babylonian for the Department of the Languages and Cultures of Near and Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. "Babylonian topographical texts" Peeters Publishers, 1992 "House Most High: The Temples of Ancient Mesopotamia" Eisenbrauns, 1993 "Babylonian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection" Capital Decisions Ltd, 2009 (CUSAS 10)
Hallo, William W. Emeritus professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature at Yale. Hallo received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1955 and was appointed to curator of the Babylonian collection at Yale in 1962.
"Sumerian Archival Texts" Netherlands Institute for the Near East, 1973 "Early Mesopotamian Royal Titles" American Oriental Society, 1988 "The World's Oldest Literature: Studies in Sumerian Belles-Lettres" Brill Academic Publishers, 2009
Hayes, John L. Lecturer in Arabic and Comparative Semitics. Semitic linguistics, Arabic, Akkadian, Sumerian at the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. "A Manual of Sumerian Grammar and Texts" Undena Publications, 2000
Heimpel, Wolfgang Professor of Mesopotamian and Sumerian cultures at the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Heimpel received his Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg.
"Letters to the King of Mari" Eisenbrauns, 2003 "Workers and Construction Work at Garsana" Capital Decisions Ltd, 2009 (CUSAS 5)
Jacobsen, Thorkild (1904 –1993) A Danish Assyriologist, he received his PhD from the University of Chicago. He became a Field Assyriologist for the Iraq Expedition of the The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago (1929-1937) and in 1946 became Director of the Oriental Institute. In 1962, Jacobsen became a professor of Assyriology at Harvard University, where he remained until his retirement in 1974. Dr. Jacobsen also served as president of the American Oriental Society.
"Salinity and Irrigation Agriculture in Antiquity" Undena Publications, 1982 "The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion" Yale University Press, 1978 "The Harps that Once...: Sumerian Poetry in Translation" Yale University Press; Reprint edition, 1997
Katz, Dina Dina Katz is a research fellow of the NINO, Leiden Holland. She was born in Israel, and graduated from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in Study of Biblical history, Archaeology and Assyriology. She received her PhD from Tel Aviv Universitin 1994., supervised by Prof. J. Klein, on the thesis The Concept of Death and Netherworld in Mesopotamia According to the Sumerian Sources.
"Gilgamesh and Akka." Styx Publications, 1993 "The Image of the Netherworld in the Sumerian Sources" Capital Decisions Ltd, 2003
Kleinerman, Alexandra The Rosen Foundation Postdoctoral Associate in the Jonathan and Jeannette Rosen Ancient Near Eastern Studies Seminar at Cornell University. She specializes in Sumerian and Akkadian languages, history, and culture and offers courses in Egyptian as well.
"Analytical Concordance to the Garshana Archives" Capital Decisions Ltd, 2009 (CUSAS 4)
Kramer, Samuel Noah (1897-1990) One of the world's leading Sumerologists. After he was born in the Ukraine Krammer's family emigrated to Philadelphia. He studied at the Oriental Studies Department of the University of Pennsylvania where in 1928 he received his PhD. "History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine "Firsts" in Recorded History" The University of Chicago Press, 1956 "The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character" The University of Chicago Press, 1963 ""From the poetry of Sumer: creation, glorification, adoration" The University of California Press, 1979 "Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer" Harper Perennial, 1983 "Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C." Forgotten Books, 2007 Lambert, Wilfred G. A historian and archaeologist, with a specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology. Now retired from the University of Birmingham, he is working with the British Museum in their Catalog of the Western Asiatic Seals Project, in relation to the inscriptions on the seals. Lambert was an external consultant for the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary.
"Babylonian Wisdom Literature" Eisenbrauns, 1996 "Atra-Hasis: The Babylonian Story of the Flood " Eisenbrauns, 1999 "Babylonian Oracle Questions" Eisenbrauns, 2007
Landsberger, Benno (1890–1968) An important German Assyriologist. Ph.D., University of Leipzig, 1920 (H. Zimmern) Professor, University of Marburg, 1928 Professor, University of Leipzig, 1929-1935 Professor, University of Ankara, 1935-1948 Professor, University of Chicago, 1948-1955.
"Three Essays on the Sumerians" Undena Publications, 1974
Leick, Gwendolyn A Anthropologist and an Assyriologist. She lectures in Anthropology at Richmond, the international University in London and in Design Theory and History at Chelsea College of Art and Design. "A Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Architecture" Routledge, 1988 "Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature (Kindle Edition)" Routledge, 1994 "Mesopotamia: Invention of the city" Penguin, 2003
Lerberghe, Karel van and Voet, Gabriella Near Eastern Studies research unit at the University of Leuven in Belgium.
"A Late Old Babylonian Temple Archive from Dur-Abieshuh" Capital Decisions Ltd, 2009 (CUSAS 8)
Maiocchi, Massimo Massimo is a visiting scholar at the Venice International University. He holds the title of Doctor of Philosophy in the Ancient Near East at the Graduate Institute of Naples "L'Orientale. He has studied and researched at several universities abroad, including Helsinki University (Finland), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Germany), and Cornell University (USA).
"Classical Sargonic Tablets Chiefly from Adab in the Cornell University Collections" Capital Decisions Ltd, 2009 (CUSAS 13)
Michalowski, Piotr Piotr Michalowski is George G. Cameron Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the longtime editor of the Journal of Cuneiform Studies.
"The Lamentation over the Destruction of Sumer and Ur" Eisenbrauns, 1989
"The Correspondence of the Kings of Ur An Epistolary History of an Ancient Mesopotamian Kingdom" Eisenbrauns, 2011
Mieroop, Marc Van De A professor of Ancient Near Eastern history at Columbia University. He recieved his Ph.D. from Yale in 1983. He has Also tought at New york and Oxford.
"Crafts in the Early Isin Period: A Study of the Isin Craft Archive from the Reigns of Isbi-Erra and Su-Illisu." Peeters Publishers, 1987 "Society and Enterprise in Old Babylonian Ur" (1992) "The Ancient Mesopotamian City" Oxford University Press 1999 "Cuneiform texts and the writing of history" Routledge, 1999 "Debt and Economic Renewal in the Ancient Near East" Capital Decisions Ltd, 2002 "King Hammurabi of Babylon" Blackwell, 2004 "A History of the Ancient Near East 3, 000-323 B.C. 2nd Ed." Blackwell, 2006 "Ur III Tablets from the Columbia University Libraries" Capital Decisions Ltd, 2010 (CUSAS 16)
Millard, Alan Ralph Rankin Professor Emeritus of Hebrew and Ancient Semitic Languages, and Honorary Senior Fellow (Ancient Near East), at the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology (SACE) in the University of Liverpool.
"Atra-Hasis: The Babylonian Story of the Flood " Eisenbrauns, 1999 "Dictionary of the Ancient Near East" University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000
Monaco, Salvatore Biography Pending
"The Cornell University Archaic Tablets" Capital Decisions Ltd, 2007 (CUSAS 1)
Moorey, P. R. S. (1937-2004) Assistant Keeper, Department of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum, 1961-1973; Senior Assistant Keeper, 1973-1982; Keeper, 1983-2002 Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford, 1976-2004; Senior Research Fellow and Viceregent, 2002-2004 Fellow of the British Academy, 1977 President, British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, 1990-1998
"Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries: The Archaeological Evidence" Eisenbrauns, 1999
Karen Rhea Nemet-Najet A professor at Yale University and was the first woman to receive her Ph.D. in Ancient Near Eastern / East Languages, History and Cultures at Columbia University.
"Cuneiform Mathematical Texts as a Reflection of Everyday Life in Mesopotamia" Amer Oriental Society, 1993 "Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia" Hendrickson Publishers, 2002
Nissen, Hans J. Professor of ancient Near Eastern archaeology at the Free University of Berlin.
"The Early History of the Ancient Near East, 9000-2000 B.C" University of Chicago Press, 1990 "From Mesopotamia to Iraq" University Of Chicago Press, 2009
Oppenheim, A. Leo (1904-1974) Born in Vienna, where he received his Ph.D at the University of Vienna Oppenheim was editor-in-charge of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute 1955-1974 and John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Chicago. "Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization" University Of Chicago Press; Revised edition, 1977 "Glass and glassmaking in ancient Mesopotamia" London Associated University Presses, 1988
Owen, David I. Professor of Ancient Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1969.
"Neo-Sumerian Texts from American Collections" Unione Accademica Nazionale, 1991 "The Garshana Archives" Capital Decisions Ltd, 2007 (CUSAS 3)
Postgate, Nichol Professor of Assyriology at the University of Cambridge. He works on the social and economic history of Mesopotamia.
"Early Mesopotamia: Society and Economy at the Dawn of History" Routledge, 1994
Poebel, Arno (1881-1958) Fellow in Assyriology, University of Pennsylvania, 1905 PH.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1905/6 (H.V. Hilprecht) Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1911-1913 Associate professor, University of Rostock, 1919; full professor, 1925 Professor of Assyriology and Sumerology, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, 1930-1946 Editor, Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, 1933-1946.
"Babylonian Legal and Business Documents (1909)" "Historical and Grammatical Texts (1914)" Kessinger Publishing, 2009
Potts, D. T. In January, 2013, D.T. Potts took up a new position as Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and History at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), New York University. From 1991 to 2012 he was the Edwin Cuthbert Hall Professor of Middle Eastern Archaeology at the University of Sydney. Educated at Harvard, he previously taught at the Free University of Berlin (1981-1986) and the Univ. of Copenhagen (1980-1981, 1986-1991). He is a specialist in the archaeology and early history of Iran, Mesopotamia and the Arabian peninsula. He is the founding editor of the journal Arabian Archaeology & Epigraphy; a Corresponding Member of ISMEO; and a Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute. He has excavated at sites in Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and is currently co-director, with Lloyd Weeks (Nottingham) and Cameron Petrie (Cambridge) of a joint Iranian-Australian archaeological project in the Mamasani district of western Fars Province, investigating the prehistory and early history of the area at Tol-e Nurabad, Tol-e Spid and Qaleh Kali. "The Arabian Gulf in Antiquity: Volume I: From Prehistory to the Fall of the Achaemenid Empire" Oxford University Press, 1991 "Mesopotamia Civilization: The Material Foundations" Cornell University Press, 1996 "Ancient Magan: The secrets of Tell Abraq" Trident Press, 1998 "The Archaeology of Elam: Formation and Transformation of an Ancient Iranian State" Cambridge World Archaeology, 1999 "Feast of Dates" Trident Press, 2003 "A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East" Blackwell, 2012
Roaf, Michael A British archeologist who specialized in ancient Iranian studies and Assyriology. He studied archaeology of Western Asia at the University College of London at and received his PhD Oxford. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and currently is Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Munich. "The Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East" Fact on File, 1990
Roux, Georges (1914-1999) A French physician who graduated from the university of Paris studying Assyriology at the at the École des Hautes Études side by side with his medical Carear. In 1950 he joined the Iraq Petroleum Company as a medical officer and served for to years in Qutar and seven in Iraq.
"Ancient Iraq: Third Edition" Penguin, 1993
Saggs, Henry W.F. (1920-2005) A noted British Assyrioligist. Professor at Baghdad University (1956 - 1957) Lecturer at University of Cardiff for Semitic languages (1966 - 1983) Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries; Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society; Regular member of the governing council of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq. "Everyday life in Babylonia and Assyria" Putnam, 1967 "Ancient Near Eastern Religions" Humanities Press Intl Inc, 1993 "Babylonians" University of California Press, 2000
Sasson, Jack M. Born in Syria in 1941, Sasson immigrated to the United States in 1955.He earned his doctorate in Ancient Near Eastern Studies from Brandeis University in 1966. He is currently serving as Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible at Vanderbilt Divinity School and as a Professor of Classics at Vanderbilt University. Sasson's research focuses primarily on Assyriology and Hebrew Scriptures, and biblical studies.
"Civilizations of the Ancient Near East" Hendrickson Publishers, 2001
Sigrist, Marcel A professor at the Ecole biblique françoise Jérusalem and is a graduate of Yale University. "Isin Year Names" Andrews University Press, 1988 "Larsa Year Names/Archaeology" Andrews University Press, 1990 "Old Babylonian Account Texts in the Horn Archaeology Museum" Andrews University Press, 1990 "Messenger Texts from the British Museum" Capital Decisions Ltd., 1990 "The Comprehensive Catalogue of Published Ur III Tablets" Capital Decisions Ltd., 1991 "Documents from Tablet Collections in Rochester New York" Capital Decisions Ltd., 1991 "Drehem" Capital Decisions Ltd., 1993 "Texts from the British Museum" Capital Decisions Ltd., 1994
Sharlach, Tonia M. Tonia M. Sharlach received her Ph.D. in 1999 in Assyriology from Harvard University. She works currently as a researcher at the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary. "Provincial Taxation and the Ur III State Provincial Taxation and the Ur III State" Brill Academic Publishers 2004
Snell, Daniel C. An Assyriologist, Ancient Economic Historian, and Biblical Scholar. Snell received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1975 and is now a professor of history at the university of oklahoma. "A Workbook of Cuneiform Signs" Undena Publications, 1979 "Ledgers and Prices: Early Mesopotamian Merchant Accounts" Yale University Press, 1982 "Economic Texts from Sumer" Yale University Press 1992 "Life in the Ancient Near East, 3100-332 B.C.E. " Yale University Press, 1998 Suter, Claudia E. Claudia E. Suter was research associate in ancient Near Eastern archaeology at the universities of Chicago, Fribourg, and Zurich, and teaches in the doctoral program for the ancient Near East at the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. She received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995. "Gudea's Temple Building: The Representation of an Early Mesopotamian Ruler in Text and Image" Brill Academic Publishers, 2000
Thesiger, Sir Wilfred (1910-2003) A British explorer and travel writer born in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. Sir Wilfred Thesiger was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford University where he took a third in history. In 1935, Thesiger joined the Sudan Political Service stationed in Darfur and the Upper Nile. He served in several desert campaigns with the Sudan Defense Force and the Special Air Service with the rank of major. In World War II, Thesiger fought with Gideon Force in Ethiopia during the East African Campaign. where he was awarded the DSO[1] for capturing Agibar. Afterwards, Thesiger served in the Long Range Desert Group during the North African Campaign. "The Marsh Arabs" Penguin, 2008
Veldhuis, Niek Niek Veldhuis received Ph.D. (1997) in Assyriology, University of Groningen. He is Associate Professor of Assyriology and Ancient Mesopotamian languages and cultures at UC Berkeley. He is also director of the Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts.
"Religion,Literature,and Scholarship: The Sumerian Composition Nanse and the Birds" Brill, 2004
Visicato, Giuseppe Biography Pending
"The bureaucracy of Suruppak" Ugarit-Verlag, 1995 "The power and the writing: the early scribes of Mesopotamia" Capital Decisions Ltd., 2000 "Early Dynastic and Early Sargonic Tablets from Adab in theCornell University Collections" W/ Westenholz, Aage Capital Decisions Ltd., 2010 (CUSAS 11)
Westenholz, Aage Assistant Professor in Assyriology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
"Old Sumerian and Old Akkadian texts in Philadelphia pt. 2" Museum Tusculanum Press, 1987
Westenholz, Joan Goodnick Chief Curator of the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem and Senior Visiting Associate on the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary Project of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. in 1971 in Near Eastern Languages and Civilization from the University of Chicago.
"Legends of the kings of Akkade" Eisenbrauns, 1997
Westenholz, Aage and Joan Goodnick "Cuneiform Inscriptions in the Collection of the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem" Brill Academic Publishers, 2006
Festschrifts "Wisdom, Gods and Literature: studies in Assyriology in honour of W.G. Lambert" Eisenbrauns, 2000
"Riches Hidden in Secret Places: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Memory of Thorkild Jacobsen" Eisenbrauns, 2002
"Culture Through Objects: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honour of P.R.S. Moorey" Griffith Institute, 2003
"An Experienced Scirbe Who Neglects Nothing: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Jacob Klein" CDL Press, 2004
"Writing and ancient Near Eastern society: papers in honour of Alan R. Millard" Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006
"On the Third Dynasty of Ur: Studies in Honor of Marcel Sigrist" American Schools of Oriental Research, 2008
"Your Praise is Sweet: A Memorial Volume for Jeremy Black from Students, Colleagues and Friends" British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 2010
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Post by ummia-inim-gina on Jun 5, 2010 14:21:38 GMT -5
Above is the reformatted version of the Bibliography I'm intending in including in my book. If anyone has any help with the Biographies please let me know. In specific I haven't been able to find much information on Bendt Alster or Douglas Frayne for such noteworthy authors. All I can find is the Universities they teach at but I would like to at least include where and when they attained their Degree's.
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Post by us4-he2-gal2 on Jun 8, 2010 14:10:43 GMT -5
Wonderful contribution Ummia These are all excellent suggestions some of which ive been meaning to order from the library for quite a few months (so it is a good reminder!). I particularly like the trouble your taken to make biographies of the authors, as an awareness of the people behind the work is important in my opinion, as is an idea of their angle. Well done.
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Post by Meslamtaea on Apr 15, 2011 16:10:09 GMT -5
Just out of curiousity, can anyone here reccomend me the title of some decent overviews of Mesopotamian history or archaeology in German? I'm trying to approach reading German to utilize Assyriological resources, and I feel like it would be nice to ease into it with a subject I'm already familiar with.
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Post by sheshki on Apr 16, 2011 12:15:25 GMT -5
Maybe try "Fischers Weltgeschichte" part 2, 3 and 4...die Altorientalischen Reiche 1-3. Its not only about Mesopotamia but about all the ancient kingdoms during certain years. Part1 is from neolithic times until the middle of the second millennium, part2 is until end of second millennium and part 3 is the first half of the first millenium. They are well written, "scientific" german, but if you want to learn german to read Assyriology stuff these books should be fine. I found the first 5 parts of this serie for cheap money (around 15euro) on ebay.
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Post by Meslamtaea on May 4, 2011 11:57:59 GMT -5
Thanks a lot for the reccomendation Sheshki! The books arrived about a week ago, and they seem like they're going to be a fun way to improve my German.
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Post by sheshki on May 4, 2011 13:40:07 GMT -5
Thats very nice! I enjoyed them alot. The good thing for me was that they didnt just look at one area but all in a certain period of time... Btw i think Dr. Elena Cassini, who wrote the introduction in book 2, "Die Altorientalischen Reiche I" should get her fingers broken, because she just loves involved periods. Its really hard to follow her writing... maybe just skip it.
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Post by svladu on Mar 9, 2016 9:33:59 GMT -5
Hello, all! I will be traveling to Budapest, Bratislava and Vienna during the first week of April. Can anyone of you suggest a bookshop or used books store in these cities where I can find books or material related to the Ancient Near East and Mesopotamia? Preferably in English. Thank you!
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Post by inimgina on Oct 6, 2016 20:38:19 GMT -5
Abusch, Tzvi A Professor of Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Religion. Abusch was born in New York in the United States and received a Ph.D. in Assyriology from Harvard University. He has taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has held a number of awards and fellowships.
"Babylonian Witchcraft Literature: Case Studies" Brown Judaic Studies, 1987 "Mesopotamian Witchcraft: Toward a History and Understanding of Babylonian Witchcraft Beliefs and Literature" Brill Academic Publishers, 2002
Adams, Robert McCormick U.S. anthropologist, he received his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1957, where he was also employed as a member of the faculty. He served as the provost of the University of Chicago from 1982 and 1984. He served as the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. from 1984 to 1994. He is currently an adjunct professor at the University of California, San Diego.
"Land Behind Baghdad: A History of Settlement on the Diyala Plains" University of Chicago Press, 1965 "The evolution of urban society: early Mesopotamia and prehispanic Mexico" University of Chicago Press, 1966 "Heartland of Cities" University of Chicago Press, 1981
Adams, Robert McCormick and Nissen, Hans J. "The Uruk countryside: the natural setting of urban societies" University of Chicago Press, 1972
Algaze, Guillermo The chair of the anthropology department at University of California, San Diego, and project director of the Titris Hoyuk excavation in southern Turkey. Born in Cuba Algaze became a U.S. citizen in 1986 and received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
"The Uruk World System" University Of Chicago Press, 2005 "Ancient Mesopotamia at the dawn of civilization" University Of Chicago Press, 2008
Alster, Bendt (1946-2012) Bendt Alster studied Assyriology at the University of Copenhagen from 1965 to 1972 and received the doctoral degree in 1975. He spent one year in Rome at the Biblical Institute (1968-69), and another (1970-71) at Harvard University studying with Thorkild Jacobsen. Alster was visiting scholar at the University Museum, Philadelphia, in 1973, 1988-89, 1992 and again in 1993-94, as well as visiting scholar at the British Expedition to Iraq, Baghdad in 1990, and visiting scholar at the Babylonian Collection, Yale University, 1992. Bendt Alster was external lecturer at the University of Copenhagen from 1978 until 2005.
"Ninurta and the Turtle" Journal of Cuneiform Studies 24. (pg120-125), 1971-72 "Dumuzi's Dream." Akademisk Forlag, 1972 "The Instructions of Suruppak" Akademisk Forlag, 1974 "On the Earliest Sumerian Literary Tradition" Journal of Cuneiform Studies 28. 109-126. 1976 "[G]eštinanna as Singer and the Chorus of Uruk and Zabalam: UET 6/1 22" Journal of Cuneiform Studies 2, 37. 219-228. 1985 "The Three Ox-Drivers from Adab". In Journal of Cuneiform Studies 43-45. 27-38. 1991-1993 "Proverbs of Ancient Sumer: The World’s Earliest Proverb Collections" Capital Decisions Ltd , 1997 "Wisdom of Ancient Sumer" Capital Decisions Ltd, 2005 "Sumerian proverbs in the Schøyen collection" Capital Decisions Ltd, 2007 (CUSAS 2)
Bertman, Stephen Stephen Bertman received his Ph.D. in Classics from Columbia University, Dr. Bertman has been an instructor since 1963. He taught at Florida State University as an Assistant Professor of Classics and then went on to teach at the University of Windsor, where he is Professor Emeritus of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
"Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia" Oxford University Press, 2005
Biggs, Robert D. Robert D. Biggs was a Assyriology professor at the University of Chicago. He received his PhD at Johns Hopkins University. He is an editor of the Journal of Near Eastern Studies and a staff member of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (CAD)
"Inscriptions from Tell Abu Salabikh" University of Chicago Press, 1974 "Inscriptions from Al-Hiba-Lagash: the First and Second Seasons" Undena Publications, 1978
Bienkowski, Piotr British Archaeologist who received his doctorate in Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean from the University of Liverpool in 1985. He works at the National Museum of Liverpool as Head of Antiquities. He was awarded the Diploma of the Museums Association, and received an MPhil in Management Science from the University of Lancaster for his dissertation on Planning and Implementation Processes for Museum Exhibitions: A Soft Systems Analysis. He has also been appointed as Deputy Director at The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester.
"Dictionary of the Ancient Near East" University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000
Black, Jeremy A. A British Sumerologist and founder of the online Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature. He received his DPhil from Oxford University. He taught at Durham and Exeter Universities and a held a Research Associate post at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago to work on the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary Project.
"Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia" University of Texas Press, 1992 "Reading Sumerian Poetry" Cornell University Press, 1998 "The Literature of Ancient Sumer" Oxford University Press, 2004 "Sumerian Grammar in Babylonian Theory" Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 2005
Bottero, Jean A French Sumerologist and a renowned expert on the Ancient Near East. Bottero was director of studies and chair of the Department of Assyriology at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. Bottero was also a world renowned chef and scholar of Gastronomy.
"Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods" University of Chicago Press, 1995 "Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia" University of Chicago Press, 2001 "Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia" The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 "The oldest Cuisine in the world: Cooking in Mesopotamia" The University of Chicago Press, 2004
Christian, Viktor (1885–1963) Scholar who had studied under Delitzsch. He incorporated some newer notions of the still developing science of Linguistics into the study of the Sumerian language in his work Beiträge zur sumerischen Grammatik. (1957)
Civil, Miguel Miguel Civil is an Assyriologist at the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, and a scholar of Sumerology. Civil's training includes a Ph.D. at the University of Paris in 1965. Civil has written several books, and is also editor of the lexical series Materials for the Sumerian Lexicon (MSL).
"The farmer's instructions: a Sumerian agricultural manual" Editorial Ausa, 1994 "The Lexical Texts in the Schøyen Collection" Capital Decisions Ltd, 2010 (CUSAS 12)
Cohen, Mark E. Mark E. Cohen is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship at Yale University, where he served as Assistant Curator of the Yale Babylonian Collection. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennslyvania in 1972 and has taught at the University of Maryland for over ten years at the Meyerhoff Center and History Department.
"The Cultic Calendars of the Ancient Near East" Capital Decisions Ltd, 1993
Cooper, Jerrold S. Cooper received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute in 1969, and has been teaching at Johns Hopkins since 1968. Professor Emeretus of Semetic studies at john hopkins University.
"Reconstructing history from ancient inscriptions: the Lagash-Umma border conflict" Undena Publications, 1983 "The Curse of Akkade" Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983
Cunningham, Graham Researcher at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford.
"Deliver Me from Evil: Mesopotamian Incantations, 2500-1500 BC" Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1997 "Religion and magic: approaches and theories" Edinburgh University Press, 1999
Crawford, Harriet Honorary Visiting Professor at UCLA. Crawford received her PhD from London in 1962 in Archaeology and History of the Early Dynastic Period in Iraq.
"Dilmun Temple At Saar" Routledge, 1997 "Dilmun and its Gulf Neighbors" Cambridge University Press, 1998 Early Dilmun Seals From Saar: Art And Commerce In Bronze Age Bahrain" Archaeology International, 2001 "Sumer and the Sumerians" Cambridge University Press, 2004
Dalley, Stephanie Formerly Senior Research Fellow in Assyriology for the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford.
"Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others" Oxford University Press, 1991 "The legacy of Mesopotamia" Oxford University Press, 1998 "Mari and Karana: two old Babylonian cities" Gorgias Press LLC, 2002 "Babylonian Tablets from the First Sealand Dynasty in the Schøyen Collection" Capital Decisions Ltd, 2009 (CUSAS 9)
Edzard, Dietz otto (1906-2004) Dietz otto Edzard was Professor emeritus of Assyriology at the Munich. He recivied his Ph.D. in Assyriology from the University of Heidelberg in 1955.
"Gudea and his Dynasty" RIM University of Toronto Press, 1997 "Sumerian Grammar" Society of Biblical Literature, 2003
Diakonoff, Igor (1914–1999) Russian historian and linguist Diakonoff graduated from Leningrad State University (now Saint Petersburg State University) in 1938. In the same year he joined the staff of the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). He wad an Associate Professor at St.-Petersburg State University (1938-1941, 1945-1949); Head of the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Languages, St.-Petersburg Institute for Oriental Studies (1953-1999) "Ancient Mesopotamia" (Moscow, 1969) "Hurrisch und Urartäisch" (München, 1971) "Structure of Society and State in Early Dynastic Sumer" (Los Angeles, 1974) "The Structure of Near Eastern Society Before the Middle of the 2nd Millennium B.C." (Budapest 1982) "Early Antiquity" (Chicago 1991) "Archaic Myths of the Orient and the Occident" (Göteborg, 1995)
Falkenstein, Adam (1909-1966) Studied at the University of München under F. Hommel, and University of Leipzig under Landsberger Ph.D., University of Leipzig, 1929 Philologist of the German excavations at Uruk, 1930/1931- Associate Professor of Assyriology, Göttingen University, 1940- Professor of Semitic Philology, Heidelberg University, 1949- Editor of Orientalische Literaturzeitung (1939-1944) Editor of Zeitschrift für Assyriologie (1950-1966)
"The Sumerian Temple City" Undena Publications, 1974
Foxvog, Daniel University of California, Berkeley, Emeritus, Near Eastern Studies "Introduction to Sumerian Grammar" (2014)
Frayne, Douglas Professor at the University of Toronto, Near and Middle Eastern Studies.
"Early Dynastic List of Geographical Names" Eisenbrauns, 1992 "Pre-Sargonic Period (2700-2350 BC)" RIM University of Toronto Press, 1997 "Sargonic and Gutian Periods (2334-2113 BC)" RIM University of Toronto Press, 1993 "Ur III Period (2112-2004 BC)" RIM University of Toronto Press, 1997 Old Babylonian Period (2003-1595 B.C.) RIM University of Toronto Press, 1990
Gelb, I (1907-1985) A Polish-American Assyriologist who pioneered the scientific study of writing systems. He earned his PhD from the University of Rome in 1929, then went to the University of Chicago where he was a professor of Assyriology until his death.
"Old Akkadian Writing and Grammar" University of Chicago Press, 1961 "Sargonic Texts in the Louvre Museum" University of Chicago Press, 1970
George, Andrew R. A Professor of Cuneiform and Ancient Mesopotamian studies. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham. He is now a Professor of Babylonian for the Department of the Languages and Cultures of Near and Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
"Babylonian topographical texts" Peeters Publishers, 1992 "House Most High: The Temples of Ancient Mesopotamia" Eisenbrauns, 1993 "Babylonian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection" Capital Decisions Ltd, 2009 (CUSAS 10)
Hallo, William W. Emeritus professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature at Yale. Hallo received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1955 and was appointed to curator of the Babylonian collection at Yale in 1962.
"Sumerian Archival Texts" Netherlands Institute for the Near East, 1973 "Early Mesopotamian Royal Titles" American Oriental Society, 1988 "The World's Oldest Literature: Studies in Sumerian Belles-Lettres" Brill Academic Publishers, 2009
Hayes, John L. Lecturer in Arabic and Comparative Semitics. Semitic linguistics, Arabic, Akkadian, Sumerian at the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
"A Manual of Sumerian Grammar and Texts" Undena Publications, 2000
Heimpel, Wolfgang Professor of Mesopotamian and Sumerian cultures at the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Heimpel received his Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg.
"Letters to the King of Mari" Eisenbrauns, 2003 "Workers and Construction Work at Garsana" Capital Decisions Ltd, 2009 (CUSAS 5)
Jacobsen, Thorkild (1904 –1993) A Danish Assyriologist, he received his PhD from the University of Chicago. He became a Field Assyriologist for the Iraq Expedition of the The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago (1929-1937) and in 1946 became Director of the Oriental Institute. In 1962, Jacobsen became a professor of Assyriology at Harvard University, where he remained until his retirement in 1974. Dr. Jacobsen also served as president of the American Oriental Society.
"Salinity and Irrigation Agriculture in Antiquity" Undena Publications, 1982 "The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion" Yale University Press, 1978 "The Harps that Once...: Sumerian Poetry in Translation" Yale University Press; Reprint edition, 1997
Katz, Dina Dina Katz is a research fellow of the NINO, Leiden Holland. She was born in Israel, and graduated from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in Study of Biblical history, Archaeology and Assyriology. She received her PhD from Tel Aviv Universitin 1994., supervised by Prof. J. Klein, on the thesis The Concept of Death and Netherworld in Mesopotamia According to the Sumerian Sources.
"Gilgamesh and Akka." Styx Publications, 1993 "The Image of the Netherworld in the Sumerian Sources" Capital Decisions Ltd, 2003
Kleinerman, Alexandra The Rosen Foundation Postdoctoral Associate in the Jonathan and Jeannette Rosen Ancient Near Eastern Studies Seminar at Cornell University. She specializes in Sumerian and Akkadian languages, history, and culture and offers courses in Egyptian as well.
"Analytical Concordance to the Garshana Archives" Capital Decisions Ltd, 2009 (CUSAS 4)
Kramer, Samuel Noah (1897-1990) One of the world's leading Sumerologists. After he was born in the Ukraine Krammer's family emigrated to Philadelphia. He studied at the Oriental Studies Department of the University of Pennsylvania where in 1928 he received his PhD.
"History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine "Firsts" in Recorded History" The University of Chicago Press, 1956 "The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character" The University of Chicago Press, 1963 ""From the poetry of Sumer: creation, glorification, adoration" The University of California Press, 1979 "Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer" Harper Perennial, 1983 "Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C." Forgotten Books, 2007
Lambert, Wilfred G. A historian and archaeologist, with a specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology. Now retired from the University of Birmingham, he is working with the British Museum in their Catalog of the Western Asiatic Seals Project, in relation to the inscriptions on the seals. Lambert was an external consultant for the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary.
"Babylonian Wisdom Literature" Eisenbrauns, 1996 "Atra-Hasis: The Babylonian Story of the Flood " Eisenbrauns, 1999 "Babylonian Oracle Questions" Eisenbrauns, 2007
Landsberger, Benno (1890–1968) An important German Assyriologist. Ph.D., University of Leipzig, 1920 (H. Zimmern) Professor, University of Marburg, 1928 Professor, University of Leipzig, 1929-1935 Professor, University of Ankara, 1935-1948 Professor, University of Chicago, 1948-1955.
"Three Essays on the Sumerians" Undena Publications, 1974
Leick, Gwendolyn A Anthropologist and an Assyriologist. She lectures in Anthropology at Richmond, the international University in London and in Design Theory and History at Chelsea College of Art and Design.
"A Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Architecture" Routledge, 1988 "Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature (Kindle Edition)" Routledge, 1994 "Mesopotamia: Invention of the city" Penguin, 2003
Lerberghe, Karel van and Voet, Gabriella Near Eastern Studies research unit at the University of Leuven in Belgium.
"A Late Old Babylonian Temple Archive from Dur-Abieshuh" Capital Decisions Ltd, 2009 (CUSAS 8)
Maiocchi, Massimo Massimo is a visiting scholar at the Venice International University. He holds the title of Doctor of Philosophy in the Ancient Near East at the Graduate Institute of Naples "L'Orientale. He has studied and researched at several universities abroad, including Helsinki University (Finland), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Germany), and Cornell University (USA).
"Classical Sargonic Tablets Chiefly from Adab in the Cornell University Collections" Capital Decisions Ltd, 2009 (CUSAS 13)
Michalowski, Piotr Piotr Michalowski is George G. Cameron Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the longtime editor of the Journal of Cuneiform Studies.
"The Lamentation over the Destruction of Sumer and Ur" Eisenbrauns, 1989
"The Correspondence of the Kings of Ur An Epistolary History of an Ancient Mesopotamian Kingdom" Eisenbrauns, 2011
Mieroop, Marc Van De A professor of Ancient Near Eastern history at Columbia University. He recieved his Ph.D. from Yale in 1983. He has Also tought at New york and Oxford.
"Crafts in the Early Isin Period: A Study of the Isin Craft Archive from the Reigns of Isbi-Erra and Su-Illisu." Peeters Publishers, 1987 "Society and Enterprise in Old Babylonian Ur" (1992) "The Ancient Mesopotamian City" Oxford University Press 1999 "Cuneiform texts and the writing of history" Routledge, 1999 "Debt and Economic Renewal in the Ancient Near East" Capital Decisions Ltd, 2002 "King Hammurabi of Babylon" Blackwell, 2004 "A History of the Ancient Near East 3, 000-323 B.C. 2nd Ed." Blackwell, 2006 "Ur III Tablets from the Columbia University Libraries" Capital Decisions Ltd, 2010 (CUSAS 16)
Millard, Alan Ralph Rankin Professor Emeritus of Hebrew and Ancient Semitic Languages, and Honorary Senior Fellow (Ancient Near East), at the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology (SACE) in the University of Liverpool.
"Atra-Hasis: The Babylonian Story of the Flood " Eisenbrauns, 1999 "Dictionary of the Ancient Near East" University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000
Monaco, Salvatore Biography Pending
"The Cornell University Archaic Tablets" Capital Decisions Ltd, 2007 (CUSAS 1)
Moorey, P. R. S. (1937-2004) Assistant Keeper, Department of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum, 1961-1973; Senior Assistant Keeper, 1973-1982; Keeper, 1983-2002 Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford, 1976-2004; Senior Research Fellow and Viceregent, 2002-2004 Fellow of the British Academy, 1977 President, British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, 1990-1998
"Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries: The Archaeological Evidence" Eisenbrauns, 1999
Karen Rhea Nemet-Najet A professor at Yale University and was the first woman to receive her Ph.D. in Ancient Near Eastern / East Languages, History and Cultures at Columbia University.
"Cuneiform Mathematical Texts as a Reflection of Everyday Life in Mesopotamia" Amer Oriental Society, 1993 "Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia" Hendrickson Publishers, 2002
Nissen, Hans J. Professor of ancient Near Eastern archaeology at the Free University of Berlin.
"The Early History of the Ancient Near East, 9000-2000 B.C" University of Chicago Press, 1990 "From Mesopotamia to Iraq" University Of Chicago Press, 2009
Oppenheim, A. Leo (1904-1974) Born in Vienna, where he received his Ph.D at the University of Vienna Oppenheim was editor-in-charge of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute 1955-1974 and John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Chicago.
"Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization" University Of Chicago Press; Revised edition, 1977 "Glass and glassmaking in ancient Mesopotamia" London Associated University Presses, 1988
Owen, David I. Professor of Ancient Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1969.
"Neo-Sumerian Texts from American Collections" Unione Accademica Nazionale, 1991 "The Garshana Archives" Capital Decisions Ltd, 2007 (CUSAS 3)
Poebel, Arno (1881-1958) Fellow in Assyriology, University of Pennsylvania, 1905 PH.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1905/6 (H.V. Hilprecht) Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1911-1913 Associate professor, University of Rostock, 1919; full professor, 1925 Professor of Assyriology and Sumerology, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, 1930-1946 Editor, Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, 1933-1946.
"Babylonian Legal and Business Documents (1909)" "Historical and Grammatical Texts (1914)" Kessinger Publishing, 2009
Pomponio, Francesco A faculty member of the Department of Ancient and Modern Civilizations at the University of Messina in Italy.
Middle Sargonic Tablets from Adab in the Cornell University Collections" Capital Decisions Ltd., 2015 (CUSAS 20)
Postgate, Nichol Professor of Assyriology at the University of Cambridge. He works on the social and economic history of Mesopotamia.
"Early Mesopotamia: Society and Economy at the Dawn of History" Routledge, 1994
Potts, D. T. In January, 2013, D.T. Potts took up a new position as Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and History at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), New York University. From 1991 to 2012 he was the Edwin Cuthbert Hall Professor of Middle Eastern Archaeology at the University of Sydney. Educated at Harvard, he previously taught at the Free University of Berlin (1981-1986) and the Univ. of Copenhagen (1980-1981, 1986-1991). He is a specialist in the archaeology and early history of Iran, Mesopotamia and the Arabian peninsula. He is the founding editor of the journal Arabian Archaeology & Epigraphy; a Corresponding Member of ISMEO; and a Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute. He has excavated at sites in Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and is currently co-director, with Lloyd Weeks (Nottingham) and Cameron Petrie (Cambridge) of a joint Iranian-Australian archaeological project in the Mamasani district of western Fars Province, investigating the prehistory and early history of the area at Tol-e Nurabad, Tol-e Spid and Qaleh Kali.
"The Arabian Gulf in Antiquity: Volume I: From Prehistory to the Fall of the Achaemenid Empire" Oxford University Press, 1991 "Mesopotamia Civilization: The Material Foundations" Cornell University Press, 1996 "Ancient Magan: The secrets of Tell Abraq" Trident Press, 1998 "The Archaeology of Elam: Formation and Transformation of an Ancient Iranian State" Cambridge World Archaeology, 1999 "Feast of Dates" Trident Press, 2003 "A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East" Blackwell, 2012
Roaf, Michael A British archeologist who specialized in ancient Iranian studies and Assyriology. He studied archaeology of Western Asia at the University College of London at and received his PhD Oxford. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and currently is Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Munich.
"The Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East" Fact on File, 1990
Roux, Georges (1914-1999) A French physician who graduated from the university of Paris studying Assyriology at the at the École des Hautes Études side by side with his medical Carear. In 1950 he joined the Iraq Petroleum Company as a medical officer and served for to years in Qutar and seven in Iraq.
"Ancient Iraq: Third Edition" Penguin, 1993
Saggs, Henry W.F. (1920-2005) A noted British Assyrioligist. Professor at Baghdad University (1956 - 1957) Lecturer at University of Cardiff for Semitic languages (1966 - 1983) Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries; Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society; Regular member of the governing council of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq.
"Everyday life in Babylonia and Assyria" Putnam, 1967 "Ancient Near Eastern Religions" Humanities Press Intl Inc, 1993 "Babylonians" University of California Press, 2000
Sasson, Jack M. Born in Syria in 1941, Sasson immigrated to the United States in 1955.He earned his doctorate in Ancient Near Eastern Studies from Brandeis University in 1966. He is currently serving as Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible at Vanderbilt Divinity School and as a Professor of Classics at Vanderbilt University. Sasson's research focuses primarily on Assyriology and Hebrew Scriptures, and biblical studies.
"Civilizations of the Ancient Near East" Hendrickson Publishers, 2001
Scurlock, JoAnn Scurlock holds a doctorate in Assyriology from the University of Chicago in 1988. She is currently an adjunct professor of history at Elmhurst College.
"Diagnosis in Assyrian and Babylonian Medicine" University of Illinois Press, 2005
"Magico-Medical Means of Treating Ghost-Induced Illnesses in Ancient Mesopotamia" Brill/Styx, 2006
"Sourcebook for Ancient Mesopotamian Medicine" Society of Biblical Lit, 2014
Sigrist, Marcel A professor at the Ecole biblique françoise Jérusalem and is a graduate of Yale University.
"Isin Year Names" Andrews University Press, 1988 "Larsa Year Names/Archaeology" Andrews University Press, 1990 "Old Babylonian Account Texts in the Horn Archaeology Museum" Andrews University Press, 1990 "Messenger Texts from the British Museum" Capital Decisions Ltd., 1990 "The Comprehensive Catalogue of Published Ur III Tablets" Capital Decisions Ltd., 1991 "Documents from Tablet Collections in Rochester New York" Capital Decisions Ltd., 1991 "Drehem" Capital Decisions Ltd., 1993 "Texts from the British Museum" Capital Decisions Ltd., 1994
Sjöberg, Ake W. (1924–2014) was a Swedish Assyriologist. He studied under Adam Falkenstein and in 1960 Sjöberg successfully defended his doctoral thesis at Uppsala University. Soon after he then joined the staff at The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. After having spent three years in Chicago, he moved on to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1966, where he mainly taught Akkadian classes. Two years later he succeeded Samuel Noah Kramer as Clark Research Professor in Assyriology, taking over the post as Curator of the Tablet Collections of the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. In 2004 Sjöberg moved back to Sweden where he lived for ten more years before passing away in 2014.
"Der Mondgott Nanna-Suen in der sumerischen Überlieferung" Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1960
"The Collection of the Sumerian Temple Hymns", Locust Valley, New York: J.J. Augustin, 1969
"The Sumerian Dictionary of The University Museum of The University of Pennsylvania", 4 Volumes (B, A/1, A/2, A/3)., Philadelphia: The Babylonian Section of the University Museum, 1984–1998
Sharlach, Tonia M. Tonia M. Sharlach received her Ph.D. in 1999 in Assyriology from Harvard University. She works currently as a researcher at the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary.
"Provincial Taxation and the Ur III State Provincial Taxation and the Ur III State" Brill Academic Publishers 2004
Snell, Daniel C. An Assyriologist, Ancient Economic Historian, and Biblical Scholar. Snell received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1975 and is now a professor of history at the university of oklahoma.
"A Workbook of Cuneiform Signs" Undena Publications, 1979 "Ledgers and Prices: Early Mesopotamian Merchant Accounts" Yale University Press, 1982 "Economic Texts from Sumer" Yale University Press 1992 "Life in the Ancient Near East, 3100-332 B.C.E. " Yale University Press, 1998 "Companion to the Ancient Near East" Wiley-Blackwell, 2007 "Religions of the Ancient Near East." Cambridge University Press. 2010 "Ancient Near East: The Basics" Routledge, 2013
Steinkeller, Piotr Before coming to teach at Harvard in 1981, Professor Steinkeller pursued research at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
"Earliest Land Tenure Systems in the Near East: Ancient Kudurrus" (with 2 others) Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1991 "Third-Millennium Legal and Administrative Texts in the Iraq Museum, Baghdad (Mesopotamian Civilizations, 4)" Eisenbrauns, 1992
Suter, Claudia E. Claudia E. Suter was research associate in ancient Near Eastern archaeology at the universities of Chicago, Fribourg, and Zurich, and teaches in the doctoral program for the ancient Near East at the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. She received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995.
"Gudea's Temple Building: The Representation of an Early Mesopotamian Ruler in Text and Image" Brill Academic Publishers, 2000
Thesiger, Sir Wilfred (1910-2003) A British explorer and travel writer born in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. Sir Wilfred Thesiger was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford University where he took a third in history. In 1935, Thesiger joined the Sudan Political Service stationed in Darfur and the Upper Nile. He served in several desert campaigns with the Sudan Defense Force and the Special Air Service with the rank of major. In World War II, Thesiger fought with Gideon Force in Ethiopia during the East African Campaign. where he was awarded the DSO[1] for capturing Agibar. Afterwards, Thesiger served in the Long Range Desert Group during the North African Campaign.
"The Marsh Arabs" Penguin, 2008
Thomsen, Marie-Louise A Danish scholar, Thomsen modernized the work of Falkenstein in the 1980s. Her work on the Sumerian language contains an outline of the history of the Sumerian language and a description of its grammar, with discussions of earlier studies and theories. Originally published in 1984, it has become the standard grammar of Sumerian. In 2001 her work was republished with a supplementary bibliography of the literature on Sumerian language and grammar published since 1984. Thomsen's work on The Sumerian Language is currently out-of-print and used copies of it sell for exceptionally expensive prices. "The Sumerian Language: An Introduction to Its History and Grammatical Structure (Mesopotamia: Copenhagen Studies in Assyriology, 10) (Multilingual Edition)" (Akademisk Forlag, 2001, 1st Ed 1984)
Veldhuis, Niek Niek Veldhuis received Ph.D. (1997) in Assyriology, University of Groningen. He is Associate Professor of Assyriology and Ancient Mesopotamian languages and cultures at UC Berkeley. He is also director of the Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts.
"Religion,Literature,and Scholarship: The Sumerian Composition Nanse and the Birds" Brill, 2004
Visicato, Giuseppe Giuseppe Visicato is studies the Ancient Near East, Sumerian & Akkadian literature, and Mesopotamian Religions.
"The bureaucracy of Suruppak" Ugarit-Verlag, 1995 "The power and the writing: the early scribes of Mesopotamia" Capital Decisions Ltd., 2000 "Early Dynastic and Early Sargonic Tablets from Adab in the Cornell University Collections" W/ Westenholz, Aage Capital Decisions Ltd., 2010 (CUSAS 11)
Westenholz, Aage Assistant Professor in Assyriology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
"Old Sumerian and Old Akkadian texts in Philadelphia pt. 2" Museum Tusculanum Press, 1987
Westenholz, Joan Goodnick Chief Curator of the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem and Senior Visiting Associate on the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary Project of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. in 1971 in Near Eastern Languages and Civilization from the University of Chicago.
"Legends of the kings of Akkade" Eisenbrauns, 1997
Westenholz, Aage and Joan Goodnick "Cuneiform Inscriptions in the Collection of the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem" Brill Academic Publishers, 2006
Festschrifts of related scholars
"Societies and Languages of the Ancient Near East: Studies in Honour of I.M. Diakonoff" Dandamayev, M.A., Mogens T. Larsen, and J. Nicholas Postgate (editors). 1982. Warminster: Aris and Philipps.
"DUMU-E2-DUB-BA-A: Studies in Honor of Åke W. Sjöberg", Occasional Publications of the Samuel Noah Kramer Fund 9 (The University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1989)
"The Tablet and the Scroll: Near Eastern Studies in Honor of William W. Hallo" Cohen, Mark E., Snell, Daniel C., and Weisberg, David B. (ed). Bethesda, MD: CDL Press.1993
"Wisdom, Gods and Literature: studies in Assyriology in honour of W.G. Lambert" Eisenbrauns, 2000
"Riches Hidden in Secret Places: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Memory of Thorkild Jacobsen" Eisenbrauns, 2002
"Culture Through Objects: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honour of P.R.S. Moorey" Griffith Institute, 2003
"An Experienced Scirbe Who Neglects Nothing: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Jacob Klein" CDL Press, 2004
"Writing and ancient Near Eastern society: papers in honour of Alan R. Millard" Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006
"On the Third Dynasty of Ur: Studies in Honor of Marcel Sigrist" American Schools of Oriental Research, 2008
"Your Praise is Sweet: A Memorial Volume for Jeremy Black from Students, Colleagues and Friends" British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 2010
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