Women in the Ancient Near East 9781614512639, 9781614513230

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Women in the Ancient Near East offers a lucid account of the daily life of women in Mesopotamia from the third millenniu

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This volume, spanning three millennia BCE, concentrates on the major ancient civilizations that left information about w

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Economic history is well documented in Assyriology, thanks to the preservation of dozens of thousands of clay tablets re

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Economic history is well documented in Assyriology, thanks to the preservation of dozens of thousands of clay tablets re

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Oppenheim’s foundational study on dreams and their interpretation in the Ancient Near East has long been a standard text

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In this comprehensive study of a common deity found in the ancient Near East as well as many other cultures, Green bring

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In this book, Tyson Putthoff explores the relationship between gods and humans, and between divine nature and human natu

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Metaphor has intrigued philosophers, rhetoricians, and poets since Antiquity. The phenomenon of metaphor has been mostly

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