Ancient Mesopotamia : portrait of a dead civilization / by A. Leo Oppenheim.

By: Language: English Publication details: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, c1964.Description: ix, 433 p. : illus., maps (1 fold. in pocket) port. ; 24 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS69.5 O67 1964
Contents:
Introduction : Assyriology-Why and How? -- I. The Making of Mesopotamia -- The Background -- The Setting -- The Actors -- The World Around -- II. Go to, Let us build us a city and a tower -- The Social Texture -- Economic Facts -- "The Great Organizations" -- The City -- Urbanism -- III. Regnum a gente in gentem transfertur -- Historical Sources or Literature? -- An Essay on Babylonian History -- An Essay on Assyrian History -- IV. Nah ist - und schwer zu fassen de Gott -- Why a " Mesopotamian Religion" should not be Written -- The Care and feeding of the Gods -- Mesopotamian "Psychology -- The Arts of the Diviner -- V. Laterculis coctilibus -- The Meaning of writing -- The scribes -- The Creative effort -- Patterns in non-Literary Texts -- VI. There are many strange wonders, but nothing more wonderful than man -- Medicine and Physicians -- Mathematics and Astronomy -- Craftsmen and Artists.
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Includes index.

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 353-378) "Bibliographical notes": p. 379-387.

Introduction : Assyriology-Why and How? -- I. The Making of Mesopotamia -- The Background -- The Setting -- The Actors -- The World Around -- II. Go to, Let us build us a city and a tower -- The Social Texture -- Economic Facts -- "The Great Organizations" -- The City -- Urbanism -- III. Regnum a gente in gentem transfertur -- Historical Sources or Literature? -- An Essay on Babylonian History -- An Essay on Assyrian History -- IV. Nah ist - und schwer zu fassen de Gott -- Why a " Mesopotamian Religion" should not be Written -- The Care and feeding of the Gods -- Mesopotamian "Psychology -- The Arts of the Diviner -- V. Laterculis coctilibus -- The Meaning of writing -- The scribes -- The Creative effort -- Patterns in non-Literary Texts -- VI. There are many strange wonders, but nothing more wonderful than man -- Medicine and Physicians -- Mathematics and Astronomy -- Craftsmen and Artists.

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