MELAMMU The Ancient World in an Age of Globalization

Preface: The Globalization of Knowledge in the Ancient Near East (J. Renn)
Introduction to Melammu: Early Globalization (M. J. Geller)
Globalization of Religion: Jewish Cosmology in its Ancient Near Eastern Context (Simo Parpola)
Global Monotheism: The Contribution of the Israelite Prophets (Baruch A. Levine)
Globalization and Imperialism: Political and Ideological Reactions to the Assyrian Presence in Syria (IXth-VIIIth Century BCE) (Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault)
The Tale of the Wild Man and the Courtesan in India and Mesopotamia: The Seductions of R s yas r nga in the Maha bha rata and Enkidu in the Epic of Gilgamesh (Tzvi Abusch and Emily West)
Globalization in Literature: Re-Examining the Gilgames Affair (Cynthia Jean)
Gilgamesh's Plant of Rejuvenation and Qa ine's Sisisambur (Nineb Lamassu)
Some Observations about "Foreigners" in Babylonia during the VI Century BCE (Kabalan Moukarzel)
The Religious Reform of Nabonidus: A Sceptical View (Kabalan Moukarzel)
New Light on George Smith's Purchase of the Egibi Archive in 1876 from the Nachlass Mathewson (Strahil V. Panayotov and Cornelia Wunsch)
Phrygian Bronzes in the Greek World: Globalization through Cult? (Maya Vassileva)
Power and Ritual in the Achaemenian Royalty (Antonio Panaino)
Religious Ontology and Taxonomic Structures in Indo-Iranian Oral Poetry (Velizar Sadovski)
Elements of "Globalization" in Ancient Iranian Numismatics (Andrea Gariboldi)
The Spread of the Cuneiform Culture to the Urartian North (IX-VII Century BCE) (Mirjo Salvini)
India and World Trade: From the Beginnings to the Hellenistic Age (Klaus Karttunen)
Ancient Near Eastern Polities and the Greek Polis: Secondary States, Structural Similarities and the Problem of Diffusion (Kristoffer Momrak)
Seeing Otherwise: On the Rules of Comparison in Historical Humanities (Amar Annus)
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