Vient de paraître (novembre 2013) l’ouvrage sous la direction de Mark Chavalas,

Women in the Ancient Near East.

Women in the Ancient Near East
Mark Chavalas (Editor)
Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
Routledge, London & New York, 2013
Paperback: 336 pages / Language: English / ISBN-10: 0415448565 / ISBN-13: 978-0415448567

Women in the Ancient Near East provides a collection of primary sources that further our understanding of women from Mesopotamian and Near Eastern civilizations, from the earliest historical and literary texts in the third millennium bc to the to the end of Mesopotamian political autonomy in the sixth century bc. This book is a valuable resource for historians of the Near East and for those studying women in the ancient world. It moves beyond simply identifying women in the Near East to attempting to place them in historical and literary context, following the latest research. A number of literary genres are represented, including myths and epics, proverbs, medical texts, law collections, letters, treaties, as well as building, dedicatory, and funerary inscriptions.

       Introduction, by Mark W. Chavalas

1. An exploration of the world of women in third-millennium Mesopotamia, by Harriet Crawford
2. The feminine in myths and epic, by Alhena Gadotti
3. Sumerian wisdom literature, by Alhena Gadotti
4. Akkadian wisdom literature, by Karen Nemet-Nejat
5. Medecine and healing magic, by Joann Scurlock
6. Women  and law, by Martha T. Roth
7. The Epic of Gilgamesh, by Karen Nemet-Nejat
8. The Descent of Ishtar to the Netherworld compared to Nergal and Ereshkigal, by Karen Nemet-Nejat
9. Akkadian Texts – Women in letters : Old Assyrian Kaniš, by Cécile Michel
10. Akkadian Texts – Women in letters : The Neo-Assyrian period, by Sarah C. Melville
11. Women in Neo-Assyrian Texts, by Sarah C. Melville
12. Women in Neo-Assyrian Inscriptions, by Karen Nemet-Nejat
13. Women in Hittite ritual, by Billie Jean Collins
14. Hurro-Hittite stories and Hittite pregnancy and birth rituals, by Mary Bachvarova

 

 

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