The Legacy of MesopotamiaStephanie Dalley Oxford University Press, 1998 - 227 من الصفحات Influence from Mesopotamia on adjacent civilizations has often been proposed on the basis of scattered similarities. For the first time a wide-ranging assessment from 3000 BC to the Middle Ages investigates how similarities arose in Egypt, Palestine, Anatolia, and Greece. The development of writing for accountancy, astronomy, devination, and belles lettres emanated from Mesopotamians who took their academic traditions into countries beyond their political control. Each country soon transformed what it received into its own, individual culture. When cuneiform writing disappeared, Babylonian cults and literature, now in Aramaic and Greek, flourished during the Roman Empire. The Manichaeans adapted the old traditions which then perished under persecution, but traces persist in Hermetic works, court narratives and romances, and in the Arabian Nights. When ancient Mesopotamia was rediscovered in the last century, British scholars were at the forefront of international research. Public excitement has been reflected in pictures and poems, films and fashion. |
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Occasions and Opportunities | 9 |
Occasions and Opportunities | 35 |
The Influence of Mesopotamia upon Israel and the Bible | 57 |
Mesopotamian Contact and Influence in the Greek World | 85 |
Mesopotamian Contact and Influence in the Greek World | 107 |
Legacies in Astronomy and Celestial Omens | 125 |
The Legacy of Babylon and Nineveh in Aramaic Sources | 139 |
The Sassanian Period and Early Islam c AD 224651 | 163 |
Rediscovery and Aftermath | 183 |
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Achaemenid Ahiqar Akkadian alphabetic Anatolia ancient Antiquity Anu Enlil Arabic Aramaeans Aramaic Ashur Ashurbanipal Assyrian Assyrian king astronomical Babyl Babylon Babylonian Berossos Bible biblical Book Bronze Age century BC Chaldaean Christian cities clay tablets court cult culture cuneiform texts cylinder seals DALLEY deities divine early East Edessa Egypt Egyptian empire Enlil Enoch Epic of Gilgamesh Esarhaddon Euphrates evidence excavations Genesis gods Greece Greek Harran Hatra Hebrew Herodotos History Hittite Hurrian influence inscribed inscription Iran Iraq Islam Jewish known language Late Bronze Age later Layard literature London Marduk Meso Mesopotamia MUL.APIN Museum Nabu neo-Assyrian Nimrud Nineveh omens oracles Oriental Oxford pagan palace Palestine Palmyra Paris Parthian period Persian Pingree potamian records ritual Roman Rome royal Sardanapalos Sargon scholars scribes script sculpture second millennium Seleucid Semiramis Semitic Sennacherib story Sumerian Susa Syria temple tion tradition translation Ugarit Uruk word writing written