Water of life
Subtitle: essays from a symposium held on the occasion of Peder Mortensen's 80th birthday
By: edited by John Kuhlmann Madsen, Nils Overgaard Andersen and Ingolf Thuesen
Contributors: Mortensen, Peder, honouree; Danish Institute in Damascus; Københavns universitet
Series: Proceedings of the Danish Institute in Damascus -- 11; Proceedings of the Danish Institute in Damascus -- 11.
Publisher: Orbis Publishing House
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Copenhagen, Denmark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9788799790821
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Water; Social aspects; Economic aspects; History
Notes: Essays from the symposium "Water of Life" held at the University of Copenhagen on the 27th to 28th November 2014.- Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Water in the Hebrew Bible : myth and theology  -- Hans J. L. Jensen; title: Water in sumerian mythology  -- Nicole Brisch; title: The age of water atom trap, Krypton-81, and global groundwater  -- Zheng-Tian Lu; title: Humans in the Moroccan desert [Sahara] during the humid periods of the lower and middle stone ages  -- Poul Erik Lindelof; title: Climate changes and the human impact on rainfall in NW Europe and the Levant  -- Niels Schroder; title: The role of water in the last gatherer-hunter and earliest farming communities of Southwest Asia  -- Tobias Richter; title: Deluge and early Urbanism  -- Ingolf Thuesen; title: The development of urban life in Mesopotamia and the implementation of canal systems  -- Hans J. Nissen; title: Living with and on the river-side the example of Roman Antiochia-on-the-Chrysorrhoas-formerly-called-Gerasa  -- Achim Lichtenberger and Rubina Raja; title: The water system in the decapolis city of Umm Qais [Gadara]  -- Susanne Kerner; title: Life on the edge of the desert : a late antique monastery and its water supply  -- Louise Blanke; title: Water power : the driving force of economic life in the medieval and early modern levant  -- Stephen McPhillips; title: Qanot Romoni : the rehabilitation of ancient underground water tunnels in Syria  -- Josepha Ivanka Wessels; title: The Syrian spring and civil war and the demise of Syrian politics  -- Jorgen Baek Simonsen; title: Paradise on earth : water and the Islamic garden -- Kjeld von Folsach-- About the authors.