Research Catalog

Title

Cross-cultural studies in Near Eastern history and literature / edited by Saana Svärd and Robert Rollinger.

Publication

Münster : Ugarit Verlag, 2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Svärd, Saana, 1977-
• Rollinger, Robert.

Description

259 p.; 25 cm

Summary

The contributions of this volume were born out of gatherings of the ?Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East? (IHANE) project, based at the University of Helsinki (2010?2015). The aim of the IHANE project was to examine the cultural, linguistic and literary relationships between the Near East and the West, and the interaction between the Near East and Ancient Greece in particular. Over the course of the project, several workshops and conferences were organized. The articles edited in this volume showcase some of the presentations delivered there, and they include papers from collaborators in the IHANE project as well. The various contributions aim at bringing together the narrow disciplines of Assyriology, Egyptology, Greco-Roman history and early Arabic and Islamic studies into an interconnected whole. The volume exhibits an awareness of the need to move from separate specializations when researching the history and literature of the Ancient and Medieval Near East, in order to study these issues as an integral part of the world?s history. This holds true for the study of Mesopotamian, Classical and Arabic sources.

Series Statement

• Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient and Mediaeval Near East ; 2
• IHAMNE ; 2

Uniform Title

Intellectual heritage of the ancient and mediaeval Near East ; 2.

Subject

• Cross-cultural studies > Middle East
• Comparative literature
• Middle East > Civilization > To 622

Note

• "The contributions of this volume were born out of gatherings of the "Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East" (IHANE) project, based at the University of Helsinki (2010--2015)"

Contents

Condiments and sweetening agents in Assyria and their role in the development of royal food-writing in the Near East / Salvatore Gaspa -- Translation and transmission in the first millennium CE Near East / Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila -- The ancient North Arabian and Early Islamic Arabic graffiti: a comparison of formal and thematic features / Jouni Harjumäki & Ilkka Lindstedt -- The references to colored animals in the Omen Series Šumma ālu ina mēlê šakin / Joonas Hirvonen -- Antiochos the Great and the robe of Nebuchadnezzar: intercultural transfer between Orientalism and Hellenocentrism / Irene Madreiter -- Warrior elites on the verge of Islam: between court and tribe in early Arabic poetry / Nathaniel Miller -- Arrian, the Second Sophistic, Xerxes, and the statues of Harmodios and Aristogeiton / Sabine Müller -- Methodological considerations on disability in the Ancient Near East / Simone Pittl -- The Battle of Arbela in 331 BCE, disloyal "Orientals" and the alleged "panic" in the Persian army: from Neo-Assyrian kings to Alexander III / Robert Rollinger -- Index

Call Number

JFE 17-889

ISBN

• 9783868352047
• 386835204X

OCLC

962189527

Title

Cross-cultural studies in Near Eastern history and literature / edited by Saana Svärd and Robert Rollinger.

Imprint

Münster : Ugarit Verlag, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient and Mediaeval Near East ; 2

IHAMNE ; 2

Intellectual heritage of the ancient and mediaeval Near East ; 2.

Added Author

Svärd, Saana, 1977-

Rollinger, Robert.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-889