The Study of the Ancient Near East in the Twenty-first Century: The William Foxwell Albright Centennial ConferenceJerrold S. Cooper, Glenn M. Schwartz Eisenbrauns, 1996 - 422 pages Sixteen essays from the Albright conference held at the Johns Hopkins University charting the course of ancient Near Eastern studies in the twenty-first century. This landmark volume is essential reading for both students and scholars. |
Contents
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Art Empire and the End of the Late Bronze Age | 33 |
Written Documents as Excavated Artifacts and the Holistic Interpretation of the Mesopotamian Archaeological Record | 81 |
Toward a New Periodization and Nomenclature of the Archaeology of the Southern Levant | 103 |
Past Present and Future | 125 |
Modern Research and Future Directions | 139 |
Sailing to Babylon Reading the Dark Side of the Moon | 177 |
Methods Problems and Results | 233 |
New Directions in the Study of Semitic Languages | 251 |
Directions and ReDirections | 273 |
Ancient Propaganda and Historical Criticism | 283 |
Sybil or the Two Nations? Archaism Kinship Alienation and the Elite Redefinition of Traditional Culture in Judah in the 8th7th Centuries BCE | 291 |
Contextualizing Egyptian Representations of Society and Ethnicity | 339 |
The Man and His Work | 385 |
Epilogue | 405 |
Preliminary Observations | 195 |
Ancient Texts and Modern Literary Theory | 209 |
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