Letters to the King of Mari - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Letters to the King of Mari write by Wolfgang Heimpel. This book was released on 2003. Letters to the King of Mari available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this new Mesopotamian Civilizations volume, Professor Heimpel collects the corpus of the Mari correspondence and provides an introduction, a reconstruction of events during Zimri-Lim's reign, and English translations of these Mari texts (26/1, 26/2, 27, and additional texts). This volume includes indexes of personal names/individuals, group designations/personnel, and places.
From the Mari Archives
From the Mari Archives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From the Mari Archives write by Jack M. Sasson. This book was released on 2015-06-11. From the Mari Archives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For over 40 years, Jack M. Sasson has been studying and commenting on the cuneiform archives from Mari on the Euphrates River, especially those from the age of Hammurabi of Babylon. Among Mari’s wealth of documents, some of the most interesting are letters from and to kings, their advisers and functionaries, their wives and daughters, their scribes and messengers, and a variety of military personnel. The letters are revealing and often poignant. Sasson selects more than 700 letters as well as several excerpts from administrative documents, translating them and providing them with illuminating comments. In distilling a lifetime of study and interpretation, Sasson hopes to welcome readers into a fuller appreciation of a remarkable period in Mesopotamian civilization. Sasson’s presentation is organized around major institutions in an ancient culture: (1) Kingship, treating accumulation of wealth, control of vassals, dynastic marriages, treaty-obligations, as well as illustrating the hazards and vexation of ruling a large territory; (2) Administration, from palaces that teem with bureaucrats, musicians, and cooks, to the management of provinces and vassal kingdoms; (3) Warfare, military establishment and martial practices; (4) Society, including organs of justice (and shortcuts to it), crime, punishment, and civil transactions; (5) Religion, including notices on diverse pantheons, rituals, priesthood, cultic paraphernalia, vows, ordeals, and channels to the gods (divination, dreams, and prophecy); and (6) Culture, including ethnic distinctions, class structure, and moments in the life cycle (birth, childhood, family life, health matters, death, and commemoration). Sasson’s presentation of the material brings to life a world entombed for four millennia, concretizes the realities of ancient life, and gives it a human perspective that is at once instructive and entertaining. The book is accompanied by extensive concordances and indexes (including to biblical passages) that will be useful to those who wish to study the letters more intensively.
Letters from Mesopotamia: Official Business, and Private Letters on Clay Tablets from Two Millennia
Letters from Mesopotamia: Official Business, and Private Letters on Clay Tablets from Two Millennia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Letters from Mesopotamia: Official Business, and Private Letters on Clay Tablets from Two Millennia write by A. Leo Oppenheim. This book was released on 1967. Letters from Mesopotamia: Official Business, and Private Letters on Clay Tablets from Two Millennia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Letters of the Republic
The Letters of the Republic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Letters of the Republic write by Michael Warner. This book was released on 2009-06-01. The Letters of the Republic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The subject of Michael Warner's book is the rise of a nation. America, he shows, became a nation by developing a new kind of reading public, where one becomes a citizen by taking one's place as writer or reader. At heart, the United States is a republic of letters, and its birth can be dated from changes in the culture of printing in the early eighteenth century. The new and widespread use of print media transformed the relations between people and power in a way that set in motion the republican structure of government we have inherited. Examining books, pamphlets, and circulars, he merges theory and concrete analysis to provide a multilayered view of American cultural development.
Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia
Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia write by Dominique Charpin. This book was released on 2010-11-15. Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ancient Mesopotamia, the fertile crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now western Iraq and eastern Syria, is considered to be the cradle of civilization—home of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires, as well as the great Code of Hammurabi. The Code was only part of a rich juridical culture from 2200–1600 BCE that saw the invention of writing and the development of its relationship to law, among other remarkable firsts. Though ancient history offers inexhaustible riches, Dominique Charpin focuses here on the legal systems of Old Babylonian Mesopotamia and offers considerable insight into how writing and the law evolved together to forge the principles of authority, precedent, and documentation that dominate us to this day. As legal codes throughout the region evolved through advances in cuneiform writing, kings and governments were able to stabilize their control over distant realms and impose a common language—which gave rise to complex social systems overseen by magistrates, judges, and scribes that eventually became the vast empires of history books. Sure to attract any reader with an interest in the ancient Near East, as well as rhetoric, legal history, and classical studies, this book is an innovative account of the intertwined histories of law and language.
