A Companion to the Ancient Near East

A Companion to the Ancient Near East offers students and general readers a comprehensive overview of Near Eastern civilization from the Bronze Age to the conquests of Alexander the Great. Covers the civilizations of the Sumerians, Hittites, Babylonians, Assyrians, Israelites and Persians Places particular emphasis on social and cultural history Covers the legacy of the Ancient Near East in the medieval and modern worlds Provides a useful bibliographical guide to this field of study

Daniel C. Snell is L. J. Semrod Presidential Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. His books include Life in the Ancient Near East (1997), A Workbook of Cuneiform Signs (1979), The E.A. Hoffman Collection and Other American Collections (1979), Ledgers and Prices (1982), Twice Told Proverbs (1993) and Flight and Freedom in the Ancient Near East (2001).

List of Figures	p. viii
List of Maps	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. x
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. xviii
The Shape of the Ancient Near East	p. 1
Historical Overview	p. 3
From Sedentism to States, 10,000-3000 BCE	p. 20
The Age of Empires, 3100-900 BCE	p. 34
World Hegemony, 900-300 BCE	p. 48
Discourses on Methods	p. 63
Archaeology and the Ancient Near East: Methods and Limits	p. 65
The Languages of the Ancient Near East	p. 79
The Historian's Task	p. 110
Economy and Society	p. 123
The Degradation of the Ancient Near Eastern Environment	p. 125
Nomadism Through the Ages	p. 142
Mesopotamian Cities and Countryside	p. 157
Money and Trade	p. 171
Working	p. 185
Law and Practice	p. 199
Social Tensions in the Ancient Near East	p. 212
Gender Roles in Ancient Egypt	p. 227
Royal Women and the Exercise of Power in the Ancient Near East	p. 235
Warfare in Ancient Egypt	p. 245
Culture	p. 259
Transmission of Knowledge	p. 261
Ancient Near Eastern Literature: Genres and Forms	p. 269
Ancient Near Eastern Architecture	p. 289
Mesopotamian Art	p. 304
Ancient Mesopotamian Medicine	p. 325
Mesopotamian Cosmology	p. 339
Divine and Non-Divine Kingship	p. 353
How Religion Was Done	p. 366
Heritage of the Ancient Near East	p. 377
The Invention of the Individual	p. 379
Ethnicity	p. 392
Public versus Private in the Ancient Near East	p. 406
Democracy and Freedom	p. 419
Monotheism and Ancient Israelite Religion	p. 430
The Decipherment of the Ancient Near East	p. 443
Legacies of the Ancient Near East	p. 454
References	p. 458
Index	p. 527
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