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Rivkah Harris's cross-cultural and multidisciplinary approach breaks new ground in assessing Mesopotamian attitudes toward youth and mature adulthood, aging and the elderly, generational conflict, gender differences in aging, relationships between men and women, women's contributions to cultural activities, and the """"ideal woman.""""To uncover Mesopotamian perspectives, Harris combed through primary sources - including literature and myth, letters, economic and legal texts, and visual materials. Even such pivotal cultural influences as the Gilgamesh Epic and Enuma Elish are reinterpreted in an original manner.

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Harris has done something special. Her work is highly innovative, opening up a new field of study. An excellent work, easy to read, and strongly based on statements from many cuneiform tablets, from the Sumerian (circa 3000 BCE) to the neo-Babylonian period (circa 539 BCE). The author's comments are well grounded and informative. The topics addressed in this volume are seldom discussed in the scholarly literature, making the author's insights here even more appreciated.

An excellent work, easy to read, and strongly based on statements from many cuneiform tablets, from the Sumerian (circa 3000 BCE) to the neo-Babylonian period (circa 539 BCE). The author's comments are well grounded and informative. The topics addressed in this volume are seldom discussed in the scholarly literature, making the author's insights here even more appreciated. Harris has done something special. Her work is highly innovative, opening up a new field of study.

Harris has done something special. Her work is highly innovative, opening up a new field of study.

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Rivkah Harris was Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of Ancient Sipper: A Demographic Study of an Old Babylonian City and a contributor to the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary Project. She currently resides in Houston, Texas.

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