Women in the Ancient Near East offers a lucid account of the daily life of women in Mesopotamia from the third millennium BCE until the beginning of the Hellenistic period. The book systematically presents the lives of women emerging from the available cuneiform material and discusses modern scholarly opinion. Stol’s book is the first full-scale treatment of the history of women in the Ancient Near East.

Women in the Ancient Near East offers a lucid account of the daily life of women in Mesopotamia from the third millennium BCE until the beginning of the Hellenistic period. The book systematically presents the lives of women emerging from the available cuneiform material and discusses modern scholarly opinion. Stol s book is the first full-scale treatment of the history of women in the Ancient Near East."

This book examines the outlook of the ancient Mesopotamians in such areas as their religious values; views on death and burial, health and healing, and scholarship. Specific topics discussed include the heavenly constellations, the historian Berossus, magic and witchcraft, the clergy, the legend of Adapa, and much more.

Stol's comprehensive exploration of the Babylonians' conception and treatment of epilepsy adds a new chapter to the history of this ancient disease. The author presents the sources, examines the terminology and places epilepsy in context among kindred illnesses. A full edition (transliteration, translation, commentary and cuneiform copy) of the relevant parts of the Diagnostic Handbook is included. According to the Ancients, epileptics are 'struck by the moon'. An examination of the relationship between epilepsy and the moon yields surprising results. This volume deals with material that was unavailable to O. Temkin, author of the classic "The Falling Sickness; A history of epilepsy from the Greeks to the beginning of modern neurology," (1971). It show that traditional views of the Ancient Near East lived on among the Greeks and Romans.

Utilising material spanning 3000 years, this book examines childbirth in the Biblical and Babylonian world. Stol's scholarship has an extraordinary range. He follows the mother and child from conception to weaning, analyzing a variety of different texts and topics. He deals, for example, with the vicissitudes and procedures of labor and delivery, delivery with magical plants and amulets, and with legal issues relating to abortion or to the liability of the wet-nurse. Many of the texts are rich and distinctive. Babylonian incantations to facilitate birth describe the child moving "over the dark sea" and, like a ship, reaching "the quay of life." His discussions are supplemented with relevant examples drawn from Greek and Roman sources, Rabbinic literature, and modern ethnographic material from traditional Middle Eastern societies. The last chapter, written by F.A.M. Wiggermann, deals with the horrible baby-snatching demon, Lamastum. This book is a fully re-worked edition of a volume originally written in Dutch (1983). Both authors teach at the Free University (Amsterdam).

This volume contains the copies of 101 Old-Babylonian texts from the Collection of the Babylonian Section (CBS) kept in the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, as well as full indices to these texts. Almost all the tablets come from the Sippar region and have a juridical or administrative character. One group of texts provides new and additional documentation for the study of the rental of the "journey of the divine weapon". Some texts give more information on the role and integration of the Kassites in Old-Babylonian society. Most interesting are the so-called "Quasi-Hüllen-tafeln", closely related to a group of tablets belonging to the archives of Ur-Utu at Tell ed-Der. The seal impressions on the tablets, both text and representation, are studied by G. Voet, providing copies and description.

Das Buch "Mesopotamien: Die altbabylonische Zeit" setzt die Reihe über ausgewählte, abgegrenzte Abschnitte der Keilschriftkulturen fort, nachdem die ersten beiden Bände (OBO 160/1 und 3, 1998 und 1999) das III. Jahrtausend in Mesopotamien abgedeckt haben. Im Teil zur altbabylonischen Zeit bieten drei angesehene Assyriologen, Dominique Charpin, Dietz Otto Edzard und Marten Stol, eine umfassende Synthese jahrzehntelanger Forschungen, die dem ferner Stehenden eine kompetente Einführung in das Thema und dem Fachmann eine aktuelle und weiterführende Darstellung bieten. Dominique Charpin verdanken wir die "Histoire politique du Proche-Orient amorrite (2002-1595) (S. 23-482). Eine Einleitung zu Raum und Zeitrahmen und einer Bewertung der Quellen führt in die eigentliche Darstellung der politischen Geschichte ein, die vom Ende der III. Dynastie von Ur bis ans Ende der I. Dynastie von Babylon führt. Eingefügt ist ein Exkurs über das politische Leben um 1765 zu den Aufgaben und dem Umfeld des Königs. Synchronistische Tabellen im Text, eine Übersicht über die wichtigsten Dynastien, ein "Who's who" der Könige der amurritischen Periode und eine Landkarte erleichtern den Zugang ebenso wie die ausführliche, thematisch gegliederte Bibliographie zu den Quellen altbabylonischer Geschichte. Dietz Otto Edzard behandelt die "Altbabylonische Literatur und Religion" (S. 483-640). Der Überblick über die literarischen Genres wird durch zahlreiche Exkurse, Bearbeitungen literarischer Texte, begleitet. Abgesehen von der im engeren Sinne "schönen Literatur" werden auch Omina, Rechtscodizes und Königsinschriften behandelt. Bemerkungen zum Übersetzen und Edieren stehen am Ende dieses Abschnitts. Die Religion führt vom Pantheon über Aspekte des Kults bis zu Tod und Totenwelt, Kult und Spass. Marten Stol fasst in "Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft in altbabylonischer Zeit" (S. 641-976) seine Forschungsarbeit zu diesem Themenbereich zusammen. Neben konzisen Darstellungen finden sich hier die Diskussion zentraler Thesen und für bisher vernachlässigte Themen umfassende Sammlungen und Diskussion einschlägiger Belege. Der Bogen spannt sich von Bevölkerung, Recht, Stadt, Haus, Familie, Diensten und Steuer zu Armee und Landwirtschaft; behandelt werden auch zentrale Aspekten der Wirtschaft wie Handel, Silber, Sklaven, Palastgeschäft. Abkürzungsverzeichnis und Indices zu Namen, Wörtern und Texten (S. 977-1027) beschließen das Werk. The present book "Mesopotamien: Die altbabylonische Zeit" continues a series of reference works on selected periods of cuneiform cultures, which has been opened with two volumes on the third millennium in Mesopotamia (OBO 160/1 and 3, 1998 and 1999). This part on the Old Babylonian period is authored by three renowned assyriologists, Dominique Charpin, Dietz Otto Edzard and Marten Stol, who have offered a substantial synthesis of their years long research. In this way colleagues of neighbouring areas are offered a competent introduction into the subject and the specialist will find an up-to-date and authorative presentation of the Old Babylonian period. Dominique Charpin offers a political history of the Near East in Old Babylonian times, the Amorite period (pp. 23-482). An introduction on space and time and an evaluation of the sources leads to the presentation of the political history from the end of the Third Dynasty of Ur to the end of the First Dynasty of Babylon (2002-1595). An excursus paints the picture of political life around 1765, dealing with the role of the Old Babylonian king, his family and court, and his obligations. This part features sychnronistic tables and a map, an overview of the principal dynasties, a "Who's who" of kings, and an exhaustive bibliography on sources pertaining to Old Babylonian history. Dietz Otto Edzard deals with Old Babylonian literature and religion (pp. 483-640). His overview on the various literary genres is illustrated by numerous citations from lit

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