Perspectives on the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies

Published by Penn State University Press 2020

Perspectives on the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies

Edited by: Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Lorenzo Verderame

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781646020898

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The present volume collects eighteen essays exploring the history of ancient Near Eastern studies. Combining diverse approaches—synthetic and analytic, diachronic and transnational—this collection offers critical reflections on the who, why, and how of this cluster of fields. How have political contexts determined the conduct of research? How do academic agendas reflect larger social, economic, and cultural interests? How have schools of thought and intellectual traditions configured, and sometimes predetermined, the study of the ancient Near East? Contributions treating research during the Nazi and fascist periods examine the interpenetration of academic work with politics, while contributions dealing with specific national contexts disclose fresh perspectives on individual scholars as well as the conditions and institutions in which they worked. Particular attention is given to scholarship in countries such as Turkey, Portugal, Iran, China, and Spain, which have hitherto been marginal to historiographic accounts of ancient Near Eastern studies.

Author / Editor information

Garcia-Ventura Agnès :

Agnès Garcia-Ventura is Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She is the coeditor of Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East, also published by Eisenbrauns.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Perspectives on the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies: An Introduction Lorenzo Verderame and Agnès Garcia-Ventura Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Part I The Edge of the Abyss: The Study of Antiquity Under Totalitarian Threat
Chapter 1 Hittite Studies at the Crossroads: Albrecht Goetze’s and Hans Gustav Güterbock’s Flight from Nazi Germany Silvia Alaura Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Chapter 2 Language and Race in Assyriology: From Benno Landsberger to Wolfram von Soden Sebastian Fink Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Chapter 3 Assyriology in Nazi Germany: The Case of Wolfram von Soden Jakob Flygare Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
Chapter 4 Carthage the Deceitful and Perfidious Albion: The Phoenicians and the British in Fascist Italy Pietro Giammellaro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Chapter 5 The Sharing Out of Antiquities in Syria During the Interwar Period: Sir Leonard Woolley’s Excavation at Tell Sheikh Yusuf (Al- Mina) Patrick Maxime Michel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Chapter 6 “Die Assyriologie nicht weiter unberücksichtigt bleiben dürfte”: On the (Non-)Existence of Assyriology at the German University in Prague (1908–1945) Luděk Vacín and Jitka Sýkorová Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Part II Intellectual History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies: Some Case Studies
Chapter 7 Notes on the History of the Historiography of Cuneiform Mathematics Carlos Gonçalves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Chapter 8 Feudalism and Vassalage in Twentieth- Century Assyriology Emanuel Pfoh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
Chapter 9 Nation Building in the Plain of Antioch from Hatti to Hatay Eva von Dassow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
Part III From Our Stories to the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Chapter 10 The Historiography of Assyriology in Turkey: A Short Survey Selim Ferruh Adali and Hakan Erol Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Chapter 11 Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Portuguese Academia: A Love Affair Under Construction Isabel Gomes de Almeida Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
Chapter 12 Near Eastern Archaeology and the Czech- Speaking Lands Petr Charvát Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Chapter 13 Tintin in Mesopotamia: The Story of Belgian Assyriology (1890–2017) Katrien De Graef Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	252
Chapter 14 Assyriology in Iran? Parsa Daneshmand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
Chapter 15 Assyriology in China Changyu Liu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Chapter 16 Looking for a Tell: The Beginnings of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Barcelona Jordi Vidal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Part IV Current Prospectives, Future Perspectives
Chapter 17 Big Data, Big Deal: Use of Google Books Ngram Viewer and JSTOR Data for Research for Charting the Rise of Assyriology Steven W. Hollowa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
Chapter 18 The Future of the Past: How the Past Contributes to the Construction of Syrian National Identity Ahmed Fatima Kzzo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	326
Conclusions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	338
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	340

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 352
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 78
- Images: 78
- Tables: 3
- Other: 78 illustrations
Keywords: Historiography; Ancient Near Eastern Studies; Intellectual History; Totalitarism; Nazi Germany; Feudalism; Sumerian; Cuneiform Mathematics

eBook

Published: March 3, 2021
ISBN: 9781646020898