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The ancient Orient : an introduction to the study of the ancient Near East 🔍
Soden, Wolfram von, 1908-1996 Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Mich, Michigan, 1994
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xx, 262 p. : 24 cm, Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-254) and index
Alternative author
Wolfram von Soden; translated by Donald G. Schley
Alternative author
Von Soden, Wolfram
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William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
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Eerdmans Books For Young Readers
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United States, United States of America
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Grand Rapids, Mich, ©1993
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n, PT, 1994
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-254) and index.
Alternative description
<p>Translated by Donald J. Schley</p><p>This book represents the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary presentation of ancient Near Eastern civilization. Concentrating on Mesopotamia and North Syria and focusing particularly on the cultures of Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria, von Soden covers the earliest times to Hellenization. His study of ancient "humanity in its wholeness" includes treatments of the history of language and systems of writing, the state and society, nutrition and agriculture, artisanry, economics, law, science, religion and magic, art, music, and more. Valuable background work for students of the Bible. Includes 18 black-and-white photographs."</p> <h3>IZBG: Issues in Law & Medicine</h3> <p>An important book that belongs in all research collections.</p>
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This book represents the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary presentation of ancient Near Eastern civilization. Concentrating on Mesopotamia and North Syria and focusing particularly on the cultures of Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria, von Soden covers the earliest times to Hellenization. His study of ancient "humanity in its wholeness" includes treatments of the history of language and systems of writing, the state and society, nutrition and agriculture, artisanry, economics, law, science, religion and magic, art, music, and more. A valuable background work for students of the Bible. Includes 18 black-and-white photographs.
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This book brings together into a single picture the history, languages and cultures of the ancient Semitic and Indo-European Near East. It embraces intellectual, artistic, economic, political and social life and brings within the grasp of the nonspecialist the enormous advances the have been made in Assyriology in recent decades. -- Back cover
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2023-06-28
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