If a Man Builds a Joyful House: Assyriological Studies in Honor of Erie Verdun Leichty (Cuneiform Monographs) [Hardcover]

et al. (Author), Ann K. Guinan (Editor), Matthew Waters (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 15, 2006 | Series: Cuneiform Monographs (Book 31)

This volume honors Erle Verdun Leichty's substantial and wide-ranging contributions to the study of ancient Mesopotamia. The articles represent the latest thinking of leading scholars in the field of Assyriology/Sumerology.

Thirty-eight contributions cover the following subjects: history, divination, magic, religion, ritual, medicine, literature, prosopography, lexicography, art and archaeology, and the history of the field. Some fifty texts are published and discussed for the first time. The volume is a valuable resource for Assyriologists and Sumerologists.

The editors are both students of the honoree and colleagues from the Babylonian Section of the University Museum.

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About the Author

Ann K. Guinan is a Research Associate at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. She has published on Mesopotamian divination and divinatory theory and on gender and sexuality. She is a series editor of Ancient Magic and Divination, Brill Academic Press. The editors are both students of the honoree and colleagues from the Babylonian Section of the University Museum.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 529 pages
• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers (May 15, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9004146326
• ISBN-13: 978-9004146327
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.4 x 1.3 inches
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