The ancient near east and the foundations of Europe : proceedings of the Mellammu Workshop held in Jena 19th september 2017

Die Beiträge dieses Melammu-Workshops befassen sich mit einem für das Melammu-Projekt grundlegenden Thema: der Untersuchung und Veranschaulichung der vielen und tiefgreifenden Verbindungen zwischen dem alten Nahen Osten und europäischen und westlichen Kulturen. Die Umkehrung der wissenschaftlichen Paradigmen, die orientalistische und klassische Studien trennten, erhielt seit den 1980er Jahren besondere Impulse. Die Forschungen widmeten sich hauptsächlich der Identifizierung von Importen und Zuflüssen von Ost nach West und entwickelten sich schrittweise weiter hin zur Identifizierung der chronologisch vielschichtigen und multidirektionalen Kontakte und Beziehungen. Aufgrund seiner Komplexität erfordert diese Forschungsperspektive die Berücksichtigung von Methoden, die in verschiedenen Bereichen der historischen Forschung erarbeitet wurden, und die Offenhaltung des Dialogs mit Historikern anderer Epochen und Gebiete. Die verschiedenen von den Teilnehmern gewählten Gesichtspunkte berühren Forschungsperspektiven, methodische Probleme sowie die Position und Rolle des Melammu-Ansatzes gegenüber dem erkenntnistheoretischen Szenario der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. The contributions of this Melammu workshop address an issue fundamental for the Melammu project: the investigation and illustration of the many and profound links between the Ancient Near East and European and Western cultures. The reversing of the scholarly paradigms that separated Near Eastern and Classical studies received particular impulse since the 1980s and researches have been devoted primarily to identify imports and influxes going from east to west and progressively developed to contribute to identifying the chronologically multi-layered and multidirectional contacts and relations. Due to its complexity this research perspective requires to take into consideration methodologies elaborated in different sectors of historiographic research and to keep open the dialogue with the historians of other periods and areas. The various points of view chosen by the participants touch research perspectives, methodological problems, and also the position and role of the Melammu approach vis-a-vis the past and present epistemological scenario. The contributions of this Melammu workshop address an issue fundamental for the Melammu project: the investigation and illustration of the many and profound links between the Ancient Near East and European and Western cultures. The reversing of the scholarly paradigms that separated Near Eastern and Classical studies received particular impulse since the 1980s and researches have been devoted primarily to identify imports and influxes going from east to west and progressively developed to contribute to identifying the chronologically multi-layered and multidirectional contacts and relations. Due to its complexity this research perspective requires to take into consideration methodologies elaborated in different sectors of historiographic research and to keep open the dialogue with the historians of other periods and areas. The various points of view chosen by the participants touch research perspectives, methodological problems, and also the position and role of the Melammu approach vis-à-vis the past and present epistemological scenario Table of Contents 7 Krebernik / Ponchia: Introduction 9 Wiesehöfer: Alte Geschichte und Alter Orient. Anmerkungen eines Althistorikers 13 Pongratz-Leisten: Approaches to the Concept of Literature in Assyriology 23 Droß-Krüpe: Semiramis and the Italian Unification. An Oriental Queen as an ‘Anchor’ of European Identity? 43 Fink: Königsherrschaft und Kritik. Ein Blick auf den Kult 57 Haubold: Strabos Chaldäer 73 Geller / Rudolf: Mesopotamian Medicine in Aramaic 97 Ponchia: Foreigners, Deportees and Slaves as Agents of Change and Cultural Transfer. Some Reflections on the Neo-Assyrian Period 111 Cavigneaux: Der altorientalische Kultkalender und sein Fortleben in Judentum und Islam 145 Index 159