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A collection of transliterations of Sumerian cuneiform tablets from the city of Iri-Saĝrig (Iraq), covering many aspects of life: administration, economy, religion, law, and poetry"
"A Musicological Poetics is a hybrid serial work that tracks the appearance of the word "trouble" in 20th- and 21st-century American music. It reads (and sings) songs and poems, with reference to cultural events ranging from the death of a pop singer to the growth of popular res…
"In Study on the Synchronistic King List from Ashur, CHEN Fei conducts a full investigation into that king list, which records all the kings of Assyria and Babylonia in contemporary pairs from the 18th to the 7th century BC. The texts of all the exemplars of the Synchronistic Ki…
The Chronicle of Zuqnin is a universal history beginning with the Creation according to the biblical account and ending with the time of the Chronicler, the years 775-776 AD. The author is most probably Joshua the Stylite, a contemporary of the Caliphs al-Mansur and al-Mahdi, wh…
"In Ancient Egyptian Letters to the Dead: the Realm of the Dead through the Voice of the Living Julia Hsieh investigates the beliefs and practices of communicating with the dead in ancient Egypt through close lexical semantic analysis of extant Letters. Hsieh shows how oral indi…
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Writings of early scholars in the ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome, and Greece: translating ancient scientific texts
by Imhausen, Annette, Pommerening, Tanja, Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt and Greece : Zur Übersetzbarkeit von Wissenschaftssprachen des Alterums, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
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Charlene M. Eska presents a critical edition and translation of the previously unpublished medieval Irish legal tract 'Anfuigell'. Although the Old Irish text itself is fragmentary, the copious accompanying commentaries provide a wealth of legal, historical, and linguistic infor…
This is the first philological-critical edition and detailed investigation of a literary disputation between two women conducted in the Sumerian language, written approx. 4,000 years ago in Babylonia. Their debate on the status of womanhood finally ends up in court. "Two Women B…
"How to Read Ethnography is an invaluable guide to approaching anthropological texts. Laying bare the central conventions of ethnographic writing, it helps students to develop a critical understanding of texts and explains how to identify and analyse the core ideas in order to a…
