Author : Muhammad A. Dandamaev
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,47 MB
Release : 2008-11
Category : Slavery
ISBN : 9780875806211
Presents an analysis of the economics of slavery and a picture of Neo-Babylonian society as a whole.
Author : Jonathan S. Tanny
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9004206892
Life at the Bottom of Babylonian Society is a study of the population dynamics, family structure, and legal status of publicly-controlled servile workers in Kassite Babylonia. It compares some of the demographic aspects proper to this group with other intensively studied past populations, such as Roman Egypt, Medieval Tuscany, and American slave plantations. It suggests that families, especially those headed by single mothers, acted as a counter measure against population reduction (flight and death) and as a means for the state to control this labor force. The work marks a step forward in the use of quantitative measures in conjunction with cuneiform sources to achieve a better understanding of the social and economic forces that affected ancient Near Eastern populations.
Author : Trevor Bryce
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 33,41 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0198726473
Exploring key historical events as well as the day-to-day life of the ancient Babylonians. A comprehensive guide to one of history's most profound civilizations.
Author : Hammurabi
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 26,62 MB
Release : 2017-07-20
Category :
ISBN : 9781973773627
The Code of Hammurabi (Codex Hammurabi) is a well-preserved ancient law code, created ca. 1790 BC (middle chronology) in ancient Babylon. It was enacted by the sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi. One nearly complete example of the Code survives today, inscribed on a seven foot, four inch tall basalt stele in the Akkadian language in the cuneiform script. One of the first written codes of law in recorded history. These laws were written on a stone tablet standing over eight feet tall (2.4 meters) that was found in 1901.
Author : Tero Alstola
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 46,98 MB
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9004365427
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.
Author : Isaac Mendelsohn
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 48,20 MB
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313204999
Author : John Bodel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 10,97 MB
Release : 2016-12-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1119162483
On Human Bondage—a critical reexamination of Orlando Patterson’s groundbreaking Slavery and Social Death—assesses how his theories have stood the test of time and applies them to new case studies. Discusses the novel ideas of social death and natal alienation, as Patterson first presented them 35 years ago and as they are understood today Brings together exciting new work by a group of esteemed historians of slavery, as well as a final chapter by Patterson himself that responds to and expands upon the other contributions Provides insights into slave societies around the world and across time, from classical Greece and Rome to modern Brazil and the Caribbean, and from Han China and pre-colonial South Asia to early modern Europe and the New World Delves into a wide range of topics, including the reformation of social identity after slavery, the new historicist approach to slavery, rituals of enslavement and servitude, questions of honor and dishonor, and symbolic imagery of slavery
Author : Paul Kriwaczek
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 29,61 MB
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1429941065
Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and deserts began to create increasingly sophisticated urban societies. In the cities that they built, half of human history took place. In Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek tells the story of Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements seven thousand years ago to the eclipse of Babylon in the sixth century BCE. Bringing the people of this land to life in vibrant detail, the author chronicles the rise and fall of power during this period and explores the political and social systems, as well as the technical and cultural innovations, which made this land extraordinary. At the heart of this book is the story of Babylon, which rose to prominence under the Amorite king Hammurabi from about 1800 BCE. Even as Babylon's fortunes waxed and waned, it never lost its allure as the ancient world's greatest city. Engaging and compelling, Babylon reveals the splendor of the ancient world that laid the foundation for civilization itself.
Author : Marten Stol
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 18,65 MB
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1614512639
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.
Author : Jacqueline Dembar Greene
Publisher :
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 36,25 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780531116920
Follows the course of slavery in Mesopotamia and Egypt, examining how this practice began and spread, the work slaves did, and the impact of slavery on ancient societies.
