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Ideologies as Intercultural Phenomena

Proceedings of the Third Symposium
of the Melammu Project
Held in Chicago, USA, October 27-31, 2000

Edited by A. Panaino and G. Pettinato
With the collaboration of G.P. Basello and A. Piras

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  Table of contents  
Antonio Panaino & Giovanni Pettinato Foreword v
  Symposium Program viii
  List of Participants xi
Antonio Panaino New Perspectives for an Intercultural Approach to the Sciences of Antiquity between East and West Some Reflections on the Cultural Meaning of the Melammu Project [PDF] 1
Gian Pietro Basello Babylonia and Elam. The Evidence of the Calendars [PDF] 13
Gary Beckman "My Sun-God" Reflections of Mesopotamian Conceptions of Kingship among the Hittites [PDF] 37
Hanan Charaf & Anis Chaaya Syriac Cult Places in Wadi Qadisha in Lebanon [PDF] 45
Silvia M. Chiodi Plato and the Mesopotamian Astronomy [PDF] 53
Christopher A. Faraone From Magic Ritual to Semiotic Game. The Transformation of Neo-Assyrian Love Spells in Classical and Hellenistic Greece [PDF] 61
Richard N. Frye Mapping Assyria [PDF] 75
Tommaso Gnoli "Pasgriba" at Hatra and Edessa [PDF] 79
Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila Continuity of Pagan Religious Traditions in Tenth-Century Iraq [PDF] 89
Amir Harrak The Assembly of Seleucia on the Tigris according to the Syriac Acts of Mar Mari [PDF] 109
Caroline Janssen At the Banquet of Cultures. Mesopotamia's Heritage in Arabic Times [PDF] 119
Klaus Karttunen The Naked Ascetics of India and Other Eastern Religions in the Greek and Roman Sources of the Late Classical Antiquity [PDF] 135
Reinhard Kratz From Nabonidus to Cyrus [PDF] 143
Baruch A. Levine On the Role of Aramaic in Transmitting Syro-Mesopotamian Legal Institutions [PDF] 157
Scott B. Noegel Dreaming and the Ideology of Mantics. Homer and Ancient Near Eastern Oneiromancy [PDF] 167
Joachim Oelsner Hellenization of the Babylonian Culture? [PDF] 183
Giovanni Pettinato Ideology and Nomenclature of Power in Sumer and Ebla [PDF] 197
Andrea Piras Preliminary Remarks on Melammu Database. The Continuity of Mesopotamian Culture showed by Iranological Evidences [PDF] 205
Beate Pongratz-Leisten "Lying King" and "False Prophet". The Intercultural Transfer of a Rhetorical Device within Ancient Near Eastern Ideologies [PDF] 215
Stefano Seminara The Babylonian Science of the Translation and the Ideological Adjustment of the Sumerian Text to the "Target Culture" [PDF] 245
  Statuto & Statutes 257
  Addresses of the Contributors 265

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