The Face of the Ancient Orient: Near Eastern Civilization in Pre-Classical TimesCourier Corporation, 2012 M10 10 - 384 páginas "A lucid, intelligent, and lively summation … an appetizing and stimulating introduction to the study of man's early civilizations." — Science This fascinating, lively study — praised by the American Historical Review as "a valuable introduction, perhaps the best available in English, to the ancient Near Eastern civilizations" — is essential reading for history students and for anyone interested in the development of Western civilization. The author, who was director of the Center of Semitic Studies at the University of Rome, undertook the study in order to make sense of several enormously important discoveries from the mid-twentieth century — including the discovery of Ugarit, a Syrian city that flourished for 4,000 years; the unearthing of Mari, an equally important city of ancient Mesopotamia; and the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Professor Moscati begins with a chapter on the "Oriental Renaissance" and goes on to examine the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians, Hittites, Hurrians, Canaanites, Aramaeans, Israelites, and Persians, before offering, in the final chapter, a synthesis of Near Eastern accomplishments in politics, society, literature, and the arts. His conclusion is that "the civilizations of the ancient Orient [were] a tremendous human experience … without which another, subsequent civilization would not be conceivable." One of the great pleasures of this intriguing book is its delightful sampling of illustrative quotations from primary sources — some from the Bible and many others (often with strikingly biblical intonations) from the little-known writings of Sumer, Egypt, Hurria, and the other great civilizations that prefigured Greece and Rome. |
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... characteristic features of the ancient Oriental civilizations. How was such a project to be carried through? To begin with, it was necessary to define the spatial and temporal limits of the subject. Then its outstanding historical ...
... characteristic features of the ancient Oriental civilizations. How was such a project to be carried through? To begin with, it was necessary to define the spatial and temporal limits of the subject. Then its outstanding historical ...
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... characteristics, but upon historical community of origin, and, above all, on the close linguistic affinity which subsists within the group. In the regions which stretch in an arc about them—the “Fertile Crescent'—from the beginnings of ...
... characteristics, but upon historical community of origin, and, above all, on the close linguistic affinity which subsists within the group. In the regions which stretch in an arc about them—the “Fertile Crescent'—from the beginnings of ...
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... characteristic curved extremities—find their way from the Valley of the Two Rivers to that of the Nile; and even the Egyptian script, in its origin and development if not in its final forms, is seen to have been influenced by that ...
... characteristic curved extremities—find their way from the Valley of the Two Rivers to that of the Nile; and even the Egyptian script, in its origin and development if not in its final forms, is seen to have been influenced by that ...
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... characteristic features, and consequences. They are simply chronicles recording important religious or political incidents, chronicles relating to the various cities and composed and developed in the temples, as part of the service to ...
... characteristic features, and consequences. They are simply chronicles recording important religious or political incidents, chronicles relating to the various cities and composed and developed in the temples, as part of the service to ...
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... characteristic indications of this fusion, such as the names of sovereigns, partly Sumerian and partly Semitic; their divine appellatives, testifying to an approach towards that apotheosis of the monarch which had been a feature of the ...
... characteristic indications of this fusion, such as the names of sovereigns, partly Sumerian and partly Semitic; their divine appellatives, testifying to an approach towards that apotheosis of the monarch which had been a feature of the ...
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Otras ediciones - Ver todas
The Face of the Ancient Orient: Near Eastern Civilization in Pre-classical Times Sabatino Moscati Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
The Face of the Ancient Orient: Near Eastern Civilization in Pre-classical Times Sabatino Moscati Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
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