Schools Of Oriental Studies And The Development Of Modern Historiography

Cover\r......Page 1
SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL STUDIES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN HISTORIOGRAPHY......Page 4
FOREWORD......Page 6
CONTENTS......Page 8
Symposium Program......Page 9
List of Participants\r......Page 12
GIAN PIETRO BASELLO: Elam between Assyriology and Iranian Studies......Page 14
A Name for Elam......Page 15
Elamite Studies in Italy......Page 24
The Name Elam......Page 29
The Place and Role of Elam in Ancient Near Eastern Studies......Page 31
REFERENCES......Page 36
FIGURES......Page 53
WALTER BURKERT: Gyges to Croesus: Historiography between Herodotus and Cuneiform......Page 60
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 69
ANTONIO CARILE: Political Thought in Byzantium as Seen by 20th Century Historians......Page 72
APPENDIX: SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BYZANTINE POLITICAL IDEOLOGY......Page 77
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 82
ELEONORA CAVALLINI: From Mazzarino until Today: Italian Studies between East and West......Page 106
SILVIA MARIA CHIODI: Eracle tra Oriente e Occidente......Page 112
Versioni di Sultantepe e di Uruk......Page 123
SALVO DE MEIS: A Modern Approach to Assyrian-Babylonian Astronomy......Page 136
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 144
FIGURES......Page 146
RICHARD N. FRYE: Truth and Lies in Ancient Iranian History......Page 158
Introduzione......Page 162
Monete Achemenidi (cat. nn. 1-3)......Page 163
Monete Partiche......Page 168
Monete Sasanidi......Page 171
BIBLIOGRAFIA......Page 172
CATALOGO......Page 176
KLAUS KARTTUNEN: Expansion of Oriental Studies in the Early 19th Century......Page 190
REFERENCES......Page 196
BARUCH A. LEVINE: The Jewish Ketūbbāh as a ‘Dialogue Document’: The Continuity of a Cuneiform Tradition......Page 198
Babatha’s Ketubbah (Papyrus Yadin 10) and the Mishnah, Ketubbot 4:7-12......Page 200
Comparative Analysis......Page 202
Marriage Agreements of the ‘Dialogue’ Type at Elephantine (Aramaic) and in Neo-Babylonian Cuneiform......Page 204
I. The Formal Proposal of Marriage and Related Declarations......Page 205
II. Other elements of dialogue......Page 207
ABBREVIATIONS AND REFERENCE BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 208
1. Introductory Remarks......Page 212
2. Language Erosion and Maintenance: Clarification of Terminology......Page 213
3. Language Reversal and Revitalization......Page 215
4. Past and Present Survival Conditions of Assyrian Language......Page 216
4.1. 1991-Present: the ADM Project......Page 217
5. Concluding Remarks......Page 222
PAOLO OGNIBENE: The Ossetic Studies in 17th and 18th Centuries: from the Travel Notes to the First Ossetic Grammars......Page 226
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 230
Introduction......Page 238
A Short Historical Overview......Page 239
The Question of the Mutual Influences between Pre-Islamic and Jewish Religious Cultures......Page 244
BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES......Page 255
SIMO PARPOLA: Back to Delitzsch and Jeremias: The Relevance of the Pan-Babylonian School to the MELAMMU Project......Page 266
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 273
ANDREA PIRAS: Mesopotamian Sacred Marriage and Pre-Islamic Iran......Page 278
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 287
1. Separating facts from conjectures......Page 290
2. Textual and archaeological evidence......Page 291
3. Other relevant facts......Page 293
4. More interpretations and conjectures......Page 296
5. Towards a new historical picture......Page 301
6. Conclusions......Page 304
REFERENCES......Page 305
FIGURES......Page 309
I. Deceptive Familiarity......Page 314
II. Shepherd Ideology......Page 315
A. Early Evidence of the Shepherd King Trope......Page 316
B. Development of the Shepherd King Trope......Page 320
C. Fossilisation of Shepherd King Trope......Page 325
D. Divine Ideology......Page 327
F. From ‘Sipa-zi’ to ‘Good Shepherd’......Page 329
A. Ancient Near Eastern Iconography......Page 331
B. Classical Iconography of the Ram-bearer (kriophoros)......Page 335
C. The Pagan Good Shepherd in Early Christian Art......Page 336
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 338
FIGURES......Page 342
AMAR ANNUS, SIMO PARPOLA & ROBERT M. WHITING: The MELAMMU Database......Page 348