Commerce and Monetary Systems in the Ancient World: Means of Transmission and Cultural Interaction : Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Symposium of the Assyrian and Babylonian Intellectual Heritage Project, Held in Innsbruck, Austria, October 3rd-8th 2002Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004 - 561 pagine This volume forms the proceedings of the Fifth Annual Symposium of the Assyrian and Babylonian Intellectual Heritage Project held in Innsbruck in 2002. Twenty-nine specialist contributions focus on the economic aspects of the `diffusion and transformation of the cultural heritage of the ancient Near East'. Eight thematic sections discuss: Near Eastern economic theory; Mesopotamia in the third millenium BC; Mesopotamia and the Levant in the first half of the first millennium BC; Levant, Egypt and the Aegean world during the same time span; Greece and Achaemenids, Parthians, Sasanians and Rome; social aspects of this exchange, including its affects on religion, borders, education and cosmology. The scope of the papers is wide, with subjects including Babylonian twin towns and ethnic minorities, archaic Greek aristocrats, the Phoenicians and the birth of a Mediterranean society, slavery, Iron Age Cyprus, Seleucid coins, the `Silk Route', and Greek images of the Assyrian and Babylonian kingdoms. Sixteen papers in English, the rest in German. |
Sommario
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A Annus Ninurta and the Son of Man | 7 |
Grottanelli The Story of Combabos and the Gilgamesh Tradition | 19 |
Gruenwald Ritual Economy and the Religion of Ancient Israel | 29 |
J HämeenAnttila Descent and Ascent in Islamic Myth | 47 |
J N Lawson Mesopotamian Precursors to the Stoic Concept of Logos | 69 |
Nissinen Akkadian Rituals and Poetry of Divine Love | 93 |
E Y Odisho The Ethnic Linguistic and Cultural Identity of Modern | 137 |
Some Remarks about | 149 |
B PongratzLeisten The Other and the Enemy in the Mesopotamian Conception | 195 |
Weinfeld The Roots of the Messianic Idea | 279 |
Addresses of the Contributors 288 | 558 |
A Panaino New Perspectives for an Intercultural Approach to the Sciences | 559 |