Kim Ryholt, Professor of Egyptology, University of Copenhagen,Gojko Barjamovic, Senior Lecturer on Assyriology, Harvard University
Kim Ryholt is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Copenhagen, specializing in ancient Egyptian history and literature. He was director of the Centre for Canon and Identity Formation under the University of Copenhagen Program of Excellence from 2008 until 2013 and has been responsible for the Papyrus Carlsberg Collection and its publication since 1999.
Gojko Barjamovic is Senior Lecturer on Assyriology at Harvard University. His main areas of research are the economic and social history of Western Asia in the second and first millennia BC, with a particular focus on the study of trade in the Bronze Age period and the development of early markets and trans-regional interaction. He also writes on early state power and civic institutions of governance, historical geography, intellectual history, and absolute chronology.
Frontmatter List of Maps and Figures List of Tables List of Contributors 1. Libraries before Alexandria, Kim Ryholt and Gojko Barjamovic 2. The Rise of Libraries in the Near East, c. 2600-2300 BCE, Kamran Vincent Zand 3. Libraries in Ancient Egypt, c. 2600-1600 BCE, R. B. Parkinson 4. Archives and Libraries in the Old Babylonian Period, c. 1900-1600 BCE, Paul Delnero 5. The Tablet Collections of the Hittite Empire, c. 1450-1100 BCE, Paola Dardano 6. Libraries in Ancient Syria and the Levant in the Late Bronze Age, c. 1450-1100 BCE, Matthew Rutz 7. Libraries in Ancient Egypt, c. 1600-800 BCE, Fredrik Hagen 8. Scholarly Tablet Collections in First-Millennium Assyria and Babylonia, c. 700-200 BCE, Eleanor Robson and Kathryn Stevens 9. Assurbanipal's Library: An Overview, Irving Finkel 10. Libraries from Late Period and Greco-Roman Egypt, c. 800 BCE-250 CE, Kim Ryholt Endmatter Index
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