Format:
1 online resource (xii, 319 pages)
ISBN:
9780203737026
,
9781135008253
,
9781135008215
,
9781135008246
Series Statement:
Routledge sourcebooks for the ancient world
Content:
1. An exploration of the world of women in third-millennium Mesopotamia / Harriet Crawford -- 2. The feminine in myths and epic / Alhena Gadotti -- 3. Sumerian wisdom literature / Alhena Gadotti -- 4. Akkadian wisdom literature / Karen Nemet-Nejat -- 5. Medicine and healing magic / Joann Scurlock -- 6. Women and law / Martha T. Roth -- 7. The epic of Gilgamesh / Karen Nemet-Nejat -- 8. The descent of Ishtar to the netherworld compared to Nergal and Ereshkigal / Karen Nemet-Nejat -- 9a. Akkadian texts : women in letters : old Assyrian Kanis / Cecile Michel -- 9b. Akkadian texts : women in letters : the neo-Assyrian period / Sarah C. Melville -- 10a. Women in neo-Assyrian texts / Sarah C. Melville -- 10b. Women in neo-Assyrian inscriptions / Karen Nemet-Nejat -- 11. Women in Hittite ritual / Billie Jean Collins -- 12. Hurro-Hittite stories and Hittite pregnancy and birth rituals / Mary Bachvarova.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415448550
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415448567
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780415448550
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203737026
