Personal Names in Cuneiform Texts from Babylonia (c. 750–100 BCE)
Personal Names in Cuneiform Texts from Babylonia (c. 750–100 BCE)

Author: Caroline Waerzeggers

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2024-01-18

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 1009291068

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Personal names provide fascinating testimony to Babylonia's multi-ethnic society. This volume offers a practical introduction to the repertoire of personal names recorded in cuneiform texts from Babylonia in the first millennium BCE. In this period, individuals moved freely as well as involuntarily across the ancient Middle East, leaving traces of their presence in the archives of institutions and private persons in southern Mesopotamia. The multilingual nature of this name material poses challenges for students and researchers who want to access these data as part of their exploration of the social history of the region in the period. This volume offers guidelines and tools that will help readers navigate this difficult material. The title is also available Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Personal Names in Cuneiform Texts from Babylonia (c. 750-100 BCE)
Personal Names in Cuneiform Texts from Babylonia (c. 750-100 BCE)

Author: Caroline Waerzeggers

Publisher:

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781009291071

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"This book is for students and researchers of ancient Middle Eastern history who work with cuneiform texts from Babylonia (c. 750-100 BCE). These sources contain large numbers of personal names of different linguistic origins. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core"--

Judeans in Babylonia
Judeans in Babylonia

Author: Tero Alstola

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-12-16

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 9004365427

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In Judeans in Babylonia, Tero Alstola presents a comprehensive investigation of deportees in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE. By using cuneiform documents as his sources, he offers the first book-length social historical study of the Babylonian Exile, commonly regarded as a pivotal period in the development of Judaism. The results are considered in the light of the wider Babylonian society and contrasted against a comparison group of Neirabian deportees. Studying texts from the cities and countryside and tracking developments over time, Alstola shows that there was notable diversity in the Judeans’ socio-economic status and integration into Babylonian society.

Hellenistic Astronomy
Hellenistic Astronomy

Author: Alan C. Bowen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-02-17

Total Pages: 783

ISBN-13: 9004400567

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In Hellenistic Astronomy: The Science in Its Contexts, renowned scholars address questions about what the ancient science of the heavens was and the numerous contexts in which it was pursued.

The Elements of Hittite
The Elements of Hittite

Author: Theo van den Hout

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-10-27

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 113950178X

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Hittite is the earliest attested Indo-European language and was the language of a state which flourished in Asia Minor in the second millennium BC. This exciting and accessible introductory course, which can be used in both trimester and semester systems, offers in ten lessons a comprehensive introduction to the grammar of the Hittite language with ample exercises both in transliteration and in cuneiform. It includes a separate section of paradigms, a grammatical index, as well as a list of every cuneiform sign used in the book. A full glossary can be found at the back. The book has been designed so that the cuneiform is not essential and can be left out of any course if so desired. The introduction provides the necessary cultural and historical background, with suggestions for further reading, and explains the principles of the cuneiform writing system.

Socio-onomastics
Socio-onomastics

Author: Terhi Ainiala

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2017-06-09

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9027265690

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The volume seeks to establish socio-onomastics as a field of linguistic inquiry not only within sociolinguistics, but also, and in particular, within pragmatics. The linguistic study of names has a very long history, but also a history sometimes fraught with skepticism, and thus often neglected by linguists in other fields. The volume takes on the challenge of instituting onomastic study into linguistics and pragmatics by focusing on recent trends within socio-onomastics, interactional onomastics, contact onomastics, folk onomastics, and linguistic landscape studies. The volume is an introduction to these fields – with the introductory chapter giving an overview of, and an update on, recent onomastic study – and in addition offers detailed in-depth analyses of place names, person names, street names and commercial names from different perspectives: historically, as well as from the point of view of the impact of globalization and glocalization. All the chapters focus on the use and function of names and naming, on changes in name usage, and on the reasons for, processes in, and results of names in contact.