Schools of oriental studies and the development of modern historiography
Schools of oriental studies and the development of modern historiography : Melammu Symposia IV ; proceedings of the Fourth Annual Symposium of the Assyrian and Babylonian Intellectual Heritage Project ; held in Ravenna, Italy, October 13 - 17, 2001
Edizioni Mimesis | 2004-12-01 | 350 pages | English | ISBN : 8884832063,8884832061 | PDF | 7MB
Product description :
Questo volume contiene gli interventi presentati al quarto Simposio annuale del Progetto Melammu. La direzione scientifica dell’evento è stata curata da alcuni docenti italiani dell’Università di Bologna, sede di Ravenna.
The present volume contains many of the papers deliveder at the fouth Annual Symposium of the Melammu Project. The scientific direction of this event was endorsed by a group of Italian scholars, belonging to the University of Bologna, Ravenna Branch.
CONTENTS:
FOREWORD – Antonio Panaino & Andrea Piras
Symposium Program
List of Participants
G. P. BASELLO, Elam between Assyriology and Iranian Studies
W. BURKERT, Gyges to Croesus: Historiography between Herodotus and Cuneiform
A. CARILE, Political Thought in Byzantium as Seen by 20th Century Historians
E. CAVALLINI, From Mazzarino until Today: Italian Studies between East and West
S. M. CHIODI, Eracle tra Oriente e Occidente
S. DE MEIS, A Modern Approach to Assyrian-Babylonian Astronomy
R. N. FRYE, Truth and Lies in Ancient Iranian History
A. GARIBOLDI, Monete dell’Iran preislamico dal Medagliere del Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna: catalogo e considerazioni in margine
K. KARTTUNEN, Expansion of Oriental Studies in the Early 19th Century
B. A. LEVINE, The Jewish Ketūbbāh as a ‘Dialogue Document’: The Continuity of a Cuneiform Tradition
E. Y. ODISHO, Assyrian (Aramaic): A Recent Model for its Maintenance and Revitalization
P. OGNIBENE, The Ossetic Studies in 17th and 18th Centuries: from the Travel Notes to the First Ossetic Grammars
A. PANAINO, Trends and Problems concerning the Mutual Relations between Iranian Pre-Islamic and Jewish Cultures
S. PARPOLA, Back to Delitzsch and Jeremias: The Relevance of the Pan-Babylonian School to the MELAMMU Project
A. PIRAS, Mesopotamian Sacred Marriage and Pre-Islamic Iran
M. VIDALE, Growing in a Foreign World: For a History of the “Meluhha Villages” in Mesopotamia in the 3rd Millennium BC
J. G. WESTENHOLZ, The Good Shepherd
A. ANNUS, S. PARPOLA & R. M. WHITING, The MELAMMU Database
Addresses of the Contributors