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Jacqueline Vayntrub's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months ago
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Jacqueline Vayntrub deposited Like Father, Like Son: Theorizing Transmission in Biblical Literature on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months ago
Behind the literary form of testament and expressions memorializing the dead is a concept of how objects, rights, and speech pass from one generation to the next: transmission. This essay examines two interrelated phenomena that give filial succession in the biblical and Ugaritic literature its contours: first, the discourses surrounding…[Read more]
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Jacqueline Vayntrub's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months ago
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Jacqueline Vayntrub's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months ago
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Jacqueline Vayntrub's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months ago
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Jacqueline Vayntrub's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months ago
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Jonathan Valk deposited “They Enjoy Syrup and Ghee at Tables of Silver and Gold”: Infant Loss in Ancient Mesopotamia in the group
Assyriologists on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe present study draws on interdisciplinary research to establish an interpretative framework for an analysis of the material and textual evidence concerning infant loss in ancient Mesopotamia (c. 3000-500 BCE). This approach rejects the notion that highinfant mortality rates result in widespread parental indifference to infant loss, arguing…[Read more]
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Jonathan Valk deposited “They Enjoy Syrup and Ghee at Tables of Silver and Gold”: Infant Loss in Ancient Mesopotamia in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe present study draws on interdisciplinary research to establish an interpretative framework for an analysis of the material and textual evidence concerning infant loss in ancient Mesopotamia (c. 3000-500 BCE). This approach rejects the notion that highinfant mortality rates result in widespread parental indifference to infant loss, arguing…[Read more]
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Heather D Baker deposited The meaning of ṭuppi in the group
Assyriologists on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe meaning of the Akkadian term ṭuppi has been hotly debated by Assyriologists for the greater part of a century. The present article argues that ṭuppi, commonly found in temporal expressions, can only refer to a one-year period. This proposal arises out of the observation that, among a substantial corpus of Neo-Babylonian house rental con…[Read more]
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Heather D Baker deposited The meaning of ṭuppi in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe meaning of the Akkadian term ṭuppi has been hotly debated by Assyriologists for the greater part of a century. The present article argues that ṭuppi, commonly found in temporal expressions, can only refer to a one-year period. This proposal arises out of the observation that, among a substantial corpus of Neo-Babylonian house rental con…[Read more]
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Jonathan Valk's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months ago
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The meaning of the Akkadian term ṭuppi has been hotly debated by Assyriologists for the greater part of a century. The present article argues that ṭuppi, commonly found in temporal expressions, can only refer to a one-year period. This proposal arises out of the observation that, among a substantial corpus of Neo-Babylonian house rental con…[Read more]
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Jonathan Valk deposited “They Enjoy Syrup and Ghee at Tables of Silver and Gold”: Infant Loss in Ancient Mesopotamia on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months ago
The present study draws on interdisciplinary research to establish an interpretative framework for an analysis of the material and textual evidence concerning infant loss in ancient Mesopotamia (c. 3000-500 BCE). This approach rejects the notion that highinfant mortality rates result in widespread parental indifference to infant loss, arguing…[Read more]
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Jacqueline Vayntrub's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years ago
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Jacqueline Vayntrub's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month ago
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Jacqueline Vayntrub's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months ago
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Jonathan Valk's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months ago
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Jacqueline Vayntrub's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months ago
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Heather D Baker deposited A waste of space? Unbuilt land in the Babylonian cities of the first millennium BC in the group
Urban Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis article uses both textual and archaeological evidence to examine the role of unbuilt land in the Babylonian city. Detailed study of such land is vital not only for understanding urban living conditions but also for any attempt to estimate urban population based on density of occupation of residential areas. By classifying and investigating…[Read more]
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Heather D Baker deposited A waste of space? Unbuilt land in the Babylonian cities of the first millennium BC in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis article uses both textual and archaeological evidence to examine the role of unbuilt land in the Babylonian city. Detailed study of such land is vital not only for understanding urban living conditions but also for any attempt to estimate urban population based on density of occupation of residential areas. By classifying and investigating…[Read more]
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