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"This splendid work of scholarship . . . sums up with economy and power all that the written record so far deciphered has to tell about the ancient and complementary civilizations of Babylon and Assyria."âEdward B. Garside, New York Times Book Review
Ancient Mesopotamiaâthe area now called Iraqâhas received less attention than ancient Egypt and other long-extinct and more spectacular civilizations. But numerous small clay tablets buried in the desert soil for thousands of years make it possible for us to know more about the people of ancient Mesopotamia than any other land in the early Near East.
Professor Oppenheim, who studied these tablets for more than thirty years, used his intimate knowledge of long-dead languages to put together a distinctively personal picture of the Mesopotamians of some three thousand years ago. Following Oppenheim's death, Erica Reiner used the author's outline to complete the revisions he had begun.
"To any serious student of Mesopotamian civilization, this is one of the most valuable books ever written."âLeonard Cottrell, Book Week
"Leo Oppenheim has made a bold, brave, pioneering attempt to present a synthesis of the vast mass of philological and archaeological data that have accumulated over the past hundred years in the field of Assyriological research."âSamuel Noah Kramer, Archaeology
A. Leo Oppenheim, one of the most distinguished Assyriologists of our time, was editor in charge of the Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute and John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Chicago.
Ancient Mesopotamiaâthe area now called Iraqâhas received less attention than ancient Egypt and other long-extinct and more spectacular civilizations. But numerous small clay tablets buried in the desert soil for thousands of years make it possible for us to know more about the people of ancient Mesopotamia than any other land in the early Near East.
Professor Oppenheim, who studied these tablets for more than thirty years, used his intimate knowledge of long-dead languages to put together a distinctively personal picture of the Mesopotamians of some three thousand years ago. Following Oppenheim's death, Erica Reiner used the author's outline to complete the revisions he had begun.
"To any serious student of Mesopotamian civilization, this is one of the most valuable books ever written."âLeonard Cottrell, Book Week
"Leo Oppenheim has made a bold, brave, pioneering attempt to present a synthesis of the vast mass of philological and archaeological data that have accumulated over the past hundred years in the field of Assyriological research."âSamuel Noah Kramer, Archaeology
A. Leo Oppenheim, one of the most distinguished Assyriologists of our time, was editor in charge of the Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute and John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Chicago.
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Publisher
University of Chicago PressYear
2013Print ISBN
9780226631875, 9780226631899eBook ISBN
9780226177670Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface to the Revised Edition
- Prefatory Note
- Introduction: AssyriologyâWhy and How?
- I. The Making of Mesopotamia
- II. Go to, let us build us a city and a tower!
- III. Regnum a gente in gentem transfertur
- IV. Nah istâund schwer zu fassen der Gott
- V. Laterculis coctilibus
- VI. There are many strange wonders, but nothing more wonderful than man
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Mesopotamian Chronology of the Historical Period by J. A. Brinkman
- Notes
- Bibliographical Notes
- Glossary of Names and Terms
- Index