10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CUNEIFORM»
Discover the use of
cuneiform in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
cuneiform and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Oxford Handbook of
Cuneiform Culture
Written by a team of international scholars, with chapter bibliographies and numerous illustrations, the Handbook is a state-of-the-art guide to the discipline as well as offering pathways for future research.
Karen Radner, Eleanor Robson, 2011
Describes the writing system used from before 3000 BC to AD 75 by Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, and other Mesopotamian cultures.
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The Invention of
Cuneiform: Writing in Sumer
In The Invention of Cuneiform Jean-Jacques Glassner offers a compelling introduction to a seminal era in human history.
Jean-Jacques Glassner, Zainab Bahrani, Marc Van de Mieroop, 2003
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Cuneiform Texts and the Writing of History
The city of Ugarit on the north Syrian coast has an especially rich cuneiform
record of the fourteenth through twelfth centuries, again in a variety of languages
including Akkadian and Hurrian. An alphabetic cuneiform script was in use, as for
...
Marc Van De Mieroop, 2005
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Cuneiform to Computer: A History of Reference Sources
Cuneiform to Computer provides a brief history of how reference works developed, but concentrates on how they reflect attitudes of their particular period of publication.
William A. Katz, Bill Katz, 1998
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New Seals and Inscriptions, Hebrew, Idumean, and
Cuneiform
This collection of 15 papers is a significant addition to our textual evidence for the world of the Bible: it presents over 50 inscriptions, tablets and seals from the collections of Shlomo Moussaieff, in Hebrew, Idumean, and cuneiform.
Meir Lubetski, Shlomo Moussaieff, 2007
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Cuneiform Documents from the Chaldean and Persian Periods
Over 100 cuneiform texts on legal and economic tablets of the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid kings presently housed in the World Heritage Museum of the University of Illinois, described, transliterated and translated in this volume.
Ronald Herbert Sack, 1994
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Theory and Method in Biblical and
Cuneiform Law: Revision, ...
The essays in this volume focus on two crucial topics that have been given short shrift in the contemporary debate on the composition and formation of the Pentateuch: (1) biblical law, and the development of Israelite legal institutions; ...
Bernard M. Levinson, 1994
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Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Literary ...
This important scholarly work is volume two in a series of four volumes that will publish all the more than six hundred cuneiform tablets in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Ira Spar, 2005
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The Writing Revolution:
Cuneiform to the Internet
From the first cuneiform clay tablet to the World Wide Web – by way of Egyptian hieroglyphs, Japanese syllabaries, and the printing press, among others – this book offers a fascinating insight into the history of one of the world’s ...
Amalia E. Gnanadesikan, 2011
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CUNEIFORM»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
cuneiform is used in the context of the following news items.
Iraq celebrates return of antiquities, appeals for world help
... officials said dated back to Iraq's Sumerian era between 4,000 and 2,000 B.C., tiny vases, pottery seals and fragments with cuneiform writing. «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
Din Din's Book combines art and poetry
It could be the cuneiform or hieroglyphics of our modern age. © Copyright (c) The StarPhoenix. E-mail this Article · Print this Article; Share this ... «Saskatoon StarPhoenix, Jul 15»
The Big Read: It all comes out in the wash
... familiar with the rituals, and we peer into the gloom of the tub, trying to decipher the cuneiform washing instructions on the labels. Cold wash. «Times LIVE, Jul 15»
Ancient Jewish Locations in Top 10 Travel + Leisure Locations
“Here, you can tuck a miniature prayer into the Western Wall, or see a fragment of clay engraved with cuneiform at the excavation site at Temple ... «JP Updates, Jul 15»
Dean Granros' Tall Tales at The Nicollet, July 10
... he was featured on Curlew's much lauded 2003 Cuneiform release, Mercury. Also in 2003, Dean began playing weekly Wednesday nights at ... «Jazz Police, Jul 15»
Glenn Rogers Announces The Second Book of THE IMMORTAL …
Aaron recognizes the symbols as ancient Sumerian cuneiform letters. It was the alphabet he'd learned as a boy almost fifty-five hundred years ... «PR.com, Jul 15»
And this year's world's best city is ...
Here, you can tuck a miniature prayer into the Western Wall, or see a fragment of clay engraved with cuneiform at the excavation site at Temple ... «CNN, Jul 15»
Brutal ISIS regime is funded by raiders of lost art
Danti, a professor of archaeology at Boston University, said he has seen a spike in the number of uploaded photos of cuneiform tablets and ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
Rants from the Hill: Such Sweet Sorrow
In fact, it has recently been discovered that the oldest joke in recorded history, which appears in cuneiform script on a Sumerian tablet dated to ... «High Country News, Jul 15»
Roses by a variety of names
Inscriptions on a 2900-year-old Sumerian cuneiform tablet show the plant was also popular in Mesopotamia. Most of the ancient breeds of ... «The West Australian, Jul 15»
