The practice of ancient Near Eastern history
Subtitle: opera minora
By: by Marc Van De Mieroop
Series: Alter Orient und Altes Testament -- Band 400; Alter Orient und Altes Testament -- Band 400.
Publisher: Ugarit-Verlag
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Münster
Language: eng
Number of pages: 531
ISBN-13: 9783868353334
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: History; Historiography
Notes: Anthology of previously published articles.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-482) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Writing history. 1. On writing a history of the ancient Near East; title: 2. Recent trends in the study of ancient Near Eastern history : some reflections; title: 3. Ancient Near Eastern history in its Middle Eastern setting; title: 4. Economic theories and the ancient Near East; title: 5. Southern Mesopotamia during the Old Babylonian period; title: 6. The Eastern Mediterranean in early antiquity; title: Part II: Reading. 7. The administration of crafts in the early Isin period; title: 8. An accountant's nightmare: the drafting of a year's summary; title: 9. A study in contrast : Sargon of Assyria and Rusa of Urartu; title: 10. Reading Babylon; title: Part III: Economy history. 11. Gifts and tithes to the temples in Ur; title: 12. Sheep and goat herding according to the Old Babylonian texts from Ur; title: 13. Reed in the Old Babylonian texts from Ur; title: 14. Wood in the Old Babylonian texts from southern Babylonia; title: 15. A history of Near Eastern debt?; title: 16. The invention of interest : Sumerian loans; title: 17. Old Babylonian interest rates : were they annual?; title: 18. Silver as a financial tool in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia; title: Part IV: Social history. 19. Women in the economy of Sumer; title: 20. In search of prestige : foreign contacts and the rise of an elite in early dynastic Babylonia; title: 21. The city in ancient Mesopotamia; title: 22. The government of an ancient Mesopotamian city : what we know and why we know so little; title: 23. Democracy and the rule of law, the assembly, and the first law code; title: Part V: Intellectual history; title: 24. A Babylonian cosmopolis; title: 25. Ancient Near Eastern philosophy; title: 26. Theses on Babylonian philosophy; title: 27. Literature and political discourse in ancient Mesopotamia : Sargon II of Assyria and Sargon of Agade; title: 28. The madness of King Rusa : the psychology of despair in eighth century Assyria.