The practice of ancient Near Eastern history Van de Mieroop, Marc creator author. text bibliography History. gw 2021 monographic eng print x, 531 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. Part I: Writing history. On writing a history of the ancient Near East -- Recent trends in the study of ancient Near Eastern history : some reflections -- Ancient Near Eastern history in its Middle Eastern setting -- Economic theories and the ancient Near East -- Southern Mesopotamia during the Old Babylonian period -- The Eastern Mediterranean in early antiquity -- Part II: Reading. The administration of crafts in the early Isin period -- An accountant's nightmare: the drafting of a year's summary -- A study in contrast : Sargon of Assyria and Rusa of Urartu -- Reading Babylon -- Part III: Economy history. Gifts and tithes to the temples in Ur -- Sheep and goat herding according to the Old Babylonian texts from Ur -- Reed in the Old Babylonian texts from Ur -- Wood in the Old Babylonian texts from southern Babylonia -- A history of Near Eastern debt? -- The invention of interest : Sumerian loans -- Old Babylonian interest rates : were they annual? -- Silver as a financial tool in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia -- Part IV: Social history. Women in the economy of Sumer -- In search of prestige : foreign contacts and the rise of an elite in early dynastic Babylonia -- The city in ancient Mesopotamia -- The government of an ancient Mesopotamian city : what we know and why we know so little -- Democracy and the rule of law, the assembly, and the first law code -- Part V: Intellectual history -- A Babylonian cosmopolis -- Ancient Near Eastern philosophy -- Theses on Babylonian philosophy -- Literature and political discourse in ancient Mesopotamia : Sargon II of Assyria and Sargon of Agade -- The madness of King Rusa : the psychology of despair in eighth century Assyria. opera minora by Marc Van de Mieroop. Anthology of previously published articles. Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-482) and indexes. aw----- Middle East History To 622 Historiography Middle East History To 622 Historiography Middle East To 622 fast DS62.2 .V345 2021 Alter Orient und Altes Testament ; Bd. 400 9783868353334 386835333X pda,print OHX 220716 20250318223517.0 in00004736572 eng