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The Ancient Near East and the Foundations of Europe

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Summary	The contributions of this Melammu workshop address an issue fundamental for the Melammu project: the investigation and illustration of the many and profound links between the Ancient Near East and European and Western cultures. The reversing of the scholarly paradigms that separated Near Eastern and Classical studies received particular impulse since the 1980s and researches have been devoted primarily to identify imports and influxes going from east to west and progressively developed to contribute to identifying the chronologically multi-layered and multidirectional contacts and relations. Due to its complexity this research perspective requires to take into consideration methodologies elaborated in different sectors of historiographic research and to keep open the dialogue with the historians of other periods and areas. The various points of view chosen by the participants touch research perspectives, methodological problems, and also the position and role of the Melammu approach vis-à-vis the past and present epistemological scenario.
Table of Contents	Manfred Krebernik / Simonetta Ponchia: Introduction Josef Wiesehöfer: Alte Geschichte und Alter Orient. Anmerkungen eines Althistorikers Beate Pongratz-Leisten: Approaches to the Concept of Literature in Assyriology Kerstin Droß-Krüpe: “Semiramide de qua innumerabilia narrantur”. Semiramis as an ‘anchor’ of European identity? Sebastian Fink: Königsherrschaft und Kritik. Ein Blick auf den Kult Johannes Haubold: Strabos Chaldäer Markham J. Geller / Stefanie Rudolf: Mesopotamian Medicine in Aramaic Simonetta Ponchia: Foreigners, Deportees and Slaves as Agents of Change and Cultural Transfer. Some Reflections on the Neo-Assyrian Period Antoine Cavigneaux: Der altorientalische Kultkalender und sein Fortleben in Judentum und Islam Index

Summary

The contributions of this Melammu workshop address an issue fundamental for the Melammu project: the investigation and illustration of the many and profound links between the Ancient Near East and European and Western cultures. The reversing of the scholarly paradigms that separated Near Eastern and Classical studies received particular impulse since the 1980s and researches have been devoted primarily to identify imports and influxes going from east to west and progressively developed to contribute to identifying the chronologically multi-layered and multidirectional contacts and relations. Due to its complexity this research perspective requires to take into consideration methodologies elaborated in different sectors of historiographic research and to keep open the dialogue with the historians of other periods and areas. The various points of view chosen by the participants touch research perspectives, methodological problems, and also the position and role of the Melammu approach vis-à-vis the past and present epistemological scenario.

Table of Contents

Manfred Krebernik / Simonetta Ponchia: Introduction

Josef Wiesehöfer: Alte Geschichte und Alter Orient. Anmerkungen eines Althistorikers

Beate Pongratz-Leisten: Approaches to the Concept of Literature in Assyriology

Kerstin Droß-Krüpe: “Semiramide de qua innumerabilia narrantur”. Semiramis as an ‘anchor’ of European identity?

Sebastian Fink: Königsherrschaft und Kritik. Ein Blick auf den Kult

Johannes Haubold: Strabos Chaldäer

Markham J. Geller / Stefanie Rudolf: Mesopotamian Medicine in Aramaic

Simonetta Ponchia: Foreigners, Deportees and Slaves as Agents of Change and Cultural Transfer. Some Reflections on the Neo-Assyrian Period

Antoine Cavigneaux: Der altorientalische Kultkalender und sein Fortleben in Judentum und Islam

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