Monarchies and socio-religious traditions in the ancient Near East
Subtitle: papers read at the 31st International Congress of Human Sciences in Asia and North Africa
By: edited by H.I.H. Prince Takahito Mikasa.
Contributors: Mikasa no Miya Takahito, Prince, son of Taishō, Emperor of Japan, 1915-
Series: Bulletin of the Middle Eastern Culture Center in Japan,; vol. 1
Publisher: Harrassowitz; Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Wiesbaden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 83
Subjects: Monarchy -- Congresses.; Middle East -- Civilization -- To 622 -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The conception of ancient Syro-Palestinian kingship in the light of contemporary royal archives with special reference to the recent discoveries at Tell Mardikh (Ebla) in Syria / L.M. Muntingh; title: The problem of childlessness in the royal epic of Ugarit / David Toshio Tsumura; title: The prophetic pattern of anointing kings in ancient Israel / Z. Weisman; title: Hittites and Aramaens in the land of BitAdini / Yutaka Ikeda; title: Palace and temple gardens in the ancient Near East / Donald J. Wiseman; title: Iconographic, literary, and political aspects of an ancient Egyptian god's identification with the monarch / Karol Myśliwiec; title: Recent researches in the pyramids with tests at Saqqarah / Jean Lecant; title: History, administration, and culture of Achaemenid Mesopotamia / Luigi Cagni; title: Names and kinship in Vedic India / R. Morton Smith; title: Church state relations in the Sasanian period / Ph. Gignoux.