Study of the Ancient Near East in the Twenty-First Century

The William Foxwell Albright Centennial Conference

Inbunden, Engelska, 1996

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Beskrivning

Sixteen essays from the Albright conference held at the Johns Hopkins University charting the course of ancient Near Eastern studies in the twenty-first century. This landmark volume is essential reading for both students and scholars.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1996-06-30
Mått:178 x 254 x 37 mm
Vikt:1 315 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:432
Förlag:Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN:9780931464966

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Prologue - Jerrold S. Cooper and Glenn M. Schwartz‘The Contextualization of Near Eastern Art’Constructing Context: The Gebel el-Arak Knife—Greater Mesopotamian and Egyptian Interaction in the Late Fourth Millennium B.C.E. - Holly PittmanArt, Empire, and the End of the Late Bronze Age - Betsy M. Bryan‘The Integration of Archaeological and Textual Data’Written Documents as Excavated Artifacts and the Holistic Interpretation of the Mesopotamian Archaeological Record - Richard L. ZettlerToward a New Periodization and Nomenclature of the Archaeology of the Southern Levant - Israel Finkelstein‘The Technological Revolution in Archaeology and Its Ramifications’Underwater Archaeology in the Near East: Past, Present, and Future - George F. BassNear Eastern Archaeometallurgy: Modern Research and Future Directions - Vincent C. Pigott‘Philology and the Study of Ancient Literature in the Postmodern Academy’Sailing to Babylon, Reading the Dark Side of the Moon - Piotr MichalowskiA Search for a New Biblical Hermeneutics: Preliminary Observations - Adele BerlinDefining Egyptian Literature: Ancient Texts and Modern Literary Theory - Antonio Loprieno‘From Ebla to Deir ’Alla: New Paradigms for the Early History of Semitic Languages and Scripts’The Linguistics Classification of Eblaite: Methods, Problems, and Results - Manfred KrebernikNew Directions in the Study of Semitic Languages - John HuehnergardSemitics: Directions and Re-Directions - Stephen A. Kaufman‘Ideology, Propaganda, and National Consciousness in the Ancient Near East’2084: Ancient Propaganda and Historical Criticism - Mario LiveraniSybil, or the Two Nations? Archaism, Kinship, Alienation, and the Elite Redefinition of Traditional Culture in Judah in the 8th-7th Centuries B.C.E. - Baruch HalpernContextualizing Egyptian Representations of Society and Ethnicity - John BainesWilliam Foxwell Albright: The Man and His Work - Peter MachinistEpilogue - Robert McC. AdamsIndex of Authors