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Globalization and cheaper travel have led to a rapid increase in cross-cultural encounters worldwide—which makes understanding problems of conflict, prejudice, interaction, and adaptation ever more important.     Fortunately, we have a powerful historical example to draw on: the closely knit, yet very different cultures that inhabited and interacted in the Near East. Contributors look at the interactions of nomads, traders, religious groups, armies, and more to help answer questions about cultural encounters through both theoretical and empirical lenses. They present cases drawn from a range of fields within the overall history of the Near East, including Mesopotamian history, the rise of Islam, and the effects of Hellenism.  

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Thomas Klitgaard Hertel was part the Old Assyrian Text Project with the research project Social Networks and Development in the Old Assyrian Period. He has been an Assyriological consultant and postdoctoral fellow at the Centre of Canon and Identity Formation. His research interests focus on social dynamics and developments, identity and the individual in society, law and legal practices, and canonisation of literature. Mogens Trolle Larsen is Professor Emeritus of Assyriology at the University of Copenhagen. He has written several books on Ancient Assyria, in particular about the Assyrian-Anatolian city of Kanesh (by modern-day Kültepe), both scholarly and popular works. Kim Ryholt is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Copenhagen and specializes in ancient Egyptian history and literature.

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