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Overview"Based on articles originally published in ""L'Histoire"" by Jean Bott ro, Andr Finet, Bertrand Lafont, and Georges Roux, this volume presents new discoveries about Mesopotamian culture made during the 1990s. Features of everyday Meopotamian life highlight the sections of the book. Both gourmet cuisine and popular cookery used fish, meats, fruits, vegetables, grains, available fresh or preserved (through methods still used today), and served with beer and wine. While feelings toward love and sex are rarely found in personal writings or correspondence, myths, prayers, and accounts of an acceptance of a wide range of behaviours (despite monogamy, prostitution flourished) argue that both were considered natural and necessary for a happy existence. Under law woman existed as a man's property, yet stories show that wives frequently used beauty and wits to keep husbands in hand, and a wife's financial holdings remained her property, reverting to her family at her death. Women were allowed to participate in activities that could increase this wealth and some, pledged to the gods and shut away in group homes, were nonetheless able to participate in lucrative business ventures. Also included in this new section are accounts of the exceptional life of the queen and the women of Mari, the story of the great Queen Semiramis, and chapters on magic, medicine, and astrology. The concluding section offers a fascinating in-depth comparison of ancient Sumerian myths and stories similar to those found in the old Hebrew bible." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jean Bottéro , Antonia NevillPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.30cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9780801868641ISBN 10: 0801868645 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 31 October 2001 Recommended Age: From 17 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of ContentsReviews<p>The book covers many interesting topics not typically addressed in general texts such as cuisine, love and sex, women's rights, and the idea of sin. The book is written for the novice in the field, but it does not simply skim the surface or summarize the authors' longer works; rather, it makes accessible much interesting primary source material that is normally only found in scholarly book sand journals.--Linda Bergstein Scherr Religious Studies Review <p> The book covers many interesting topics not typically addressed in general texts such as cuisine, love and sex, women's rights, and the idea of sin. The book is written for the novice in the field, but it does not simply skim the surface or summarize the authors' longer works; rather, it makes accessible much interesting primary source material that is normally only found in scholarly book sand journals. -- Linda Bergstein Scherr, Religious Studies Review A popular work for understanding Mesopotamian social life... Written in a vigorous and interesting style with much useful information. -- Mark W. Chavalas Religious Studies Review The book covers many interesting topics not typically addressed in general texts such as cuisine, love and sex, women's rights, and the idea of sin. The book is written for the novice in the field, but it does not simply skim the surface or summarize the authors' longer works; rather, it makes accessible much interesting primary source material that is normally only found in scholarly book sand journals. -- Linda Bergstein Scherr Religious Studies Review Author InformationJean Bottero is director of studies and chair of the Department of Assyriology at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. Andre Finet is a professor of Assyriology at the Free University of Brussels. Bertrand Lafont is director of research on Assyrian history at the Centre National de Reserches Scientifiques. Georges Roux is the author of Ancient Iraq. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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