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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Assyriology"”.
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Codes as Constitution: The Development of the Biblical Law-Codes from Monarchy to Theocracy
As a result of influence from assyriology and the sociology of law, the Hebrew legal texts have commonly been categorised in recent study as ancient law-codes analogous to the cuneiform codes recovered from the ancient Near East. This has not led, however, to a more constructive and decisive stage …
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The Uses of ‘Bēlu’ and ‘Marduk’ in Neo-Assyrian Royal Inscriptions and other Sources from the First Millennium BC
My dissertation seeks to understand why Marduk, the chief god of ancient Babylon, was often also called ‘Bēl’ (which means ‘lord’). Although this matter has never been investigated, a consensus seems to have formed in the field that ‘lord’ is an appropriate by-name for a chief god, and that the two …
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Ancient Childhood: Perspectives from Iraq and Syria in the Early Second Millennium BC
Despite being a major demographic component, our reconstructions of Old Babylonian social, economic, and legal history have tended not to consider how children fit into them. In part, this is because scholars’ opinion was that syntheses at this level required the publication of the remaining …
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As Below So Above: Reconstructing the Neo-Babylonian Worldview
<p>To add to our knowledge about a Near Eastern culture, this project examines through textual evidence how the early first millennium BCE Neo-Babylonians thought, reasoned, and wrote in order to partially reconstruct the shared, generally held worldview of the Neo-Babylonian people using the …