Schools Of Oriental Studies And The Development Of Modern Historiography

Cover ......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 ......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