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Assyria

The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

By: Eckart Frahm

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Assyria

The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

By: Eckart Frahm

A new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen. Here, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic story of Assyria and its formative role in global history. Assyria’s wide-ranging conquests have long been known from the Hebrew Bible and later Greek accounts. But nearly two centuries of research now permit a rich picture of the Assyrians and their empire beyond the battlefield: their vast libraries and monumental sculptures, their elaborate trade and information networks, and the crucial role played by royal women. Although Assyria was crushed by rising powers in the late seventh century BCE, its legacy endured from the Babylonian and Persian empires to Rome and beyond. Assyria is a stunning and authoritative account of a civilization essential to understanding the ancient world and our own.

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Basic Books

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1541674391

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Babylonian and Assyrian Text Commentaries

Origins of Interpretation

By: Eckart Frahm

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Babylonian and Assyrian Text Commentaries

Origins of Interpretation

By: Eckart Frahm

The systematic study of written texts began, not in Biblical Israel or the classical world, but in ancient Mesopotamia. Nearly one thousand clay tablets from Babylonia and Assyria, dating from the eighth to the second century BCE, comprise the earliest substantial corpus of text commentaries known from anywhere in the world. Texts commented on by Mesopotamian scholars include literary works, rituals and incantations, medical treatises, lexical lists, laws, and, most importantly, omen texts. Frahm's book provides the first comprehensive study of the challenging and so far little studied Babylonian and Assyrian text commentaries. Topics discussed include the place of commentaries in the Mesopotamian philological tradition, cuneiform commentary types, hermeneutic techniques used by the ancient scholars, the sources of their explanations, the socio-cultural milieu of Mesopotamian commentary studies, canonization and the formation of the commentary tradition, the reception history of the Babylonian Epic of Creation, and the legacy of Babylonian and Assyrian hermeneutics. A complete catalogue of the commentaries and full editions of two typical examples complete the study, which is accompanied by a bibliography and ample indexes.

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386835056X

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Assyria

The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

By: Eckart Frahm

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The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

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Promises of States under International Law

By: Christian Eckart

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Promises of States under International Law

By: Christian Eckart

Textbooks on international law, dicta of the International Court of Justice and the International Law Commission's 'Guiding Principles applicable to unilateral declarations of states capable of creating legal obligations' of 2006, all reflect the fact that in international law a state's unilateral declaration can create a legally binding obligation. Unilateral declarations are common, as a look at the weekly headlines of any major newspaper will reveal. Many of the declarations made at the highest level are, of course, vaguely expressed and carry no tangible legal commitment. But others deliver a very clear message: for instance the US's April 2010 declaration on its future use of nuclear weapons or Kosovo's declaration of independence and pledge to follow the Ahtisaari Plan, are two recent and prominent examples of unilateral declarations at the international level. The same sources, however, also reveal that while state promises are accepted as a means for states to create full blown legal commitments, the law governing such declarations is far from clear. This monograph fills a gap in international legal scholarship by raising and answering the question of the precise legal value of such pledges in the realm of public international law. After a brief introduction state promises in international law are defined and contrasted with other unilateral acts of states, and the history of promises in state practice and court decisions is delineated, together with scholarly opinion. The book then provides a detailed picture of the international legal framework governing promises of states, and ends with a brief assessment of the raison d'être for promises as a binding mechanism in international law, along with their advantages and disadvantages in comparison with the classical mechanism for assuming international obligations - the international treaty. This is currently the only book to present a comprehensive overview of the legal effect of promises by states in international law.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1847318770

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Neo-Babylonian Letters and Contracts from the Eanna Archive

By: Eckart Frahm,Michael Jursa

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Neo-Babylonian Letters and Contracts from the Eanna Archive

By: Eckart Frahm,Michael Jursa

This new volume presents facsimile copies of over two hundred previously unpublished Babylonian letters and documents written in cuneiform script. The texts, dating from the sixth century B.C., mainly originate from the archives of the Eanna temple in Uruk in southern Mesopotamia, and they contribute important information relating to the political, social, and economic history of this period. In a detailed introduction the authors discuss the significance of these texts and explore their historical and socioeconomic implications. The volume also includes summaries of the contents of the individual documents and comprehensive indices to facilitate full access to the primary data for students and scholars.

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0300169590

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The Cuneiform Uranology Texts

Drawing the Constellations

By: Paul-Alain Beaulieu,Eckart Frahm,Wayne Horowitz,John M. Steele

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The Cuneiform Uranology Texts

Drawing the Constellations

By: Paul-Alain Beaulieu,Eckart Frahm,Wayne Horowitz,John M. Steele

The cuneiform uranology texts: drawing the constellations, presents a newly recovered group of cuneiform texts from first millennium Babylonia and Assyria that provide prose descriptions of the drawing of Mesopotamian constellations

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American Philosophical Society Press

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160618072X

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Assyria

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Babylonian and Assyrian Text Commentaries

Babylonian and Assyrian Text Commentaries

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Assyria

Promises of States under International Law

Promises of States under International Law

Neo-Babylonian Letters and Contracts from the Eanna Archive

Neo-Babylonian Letters and Contracts from the Eanna Archive

The Cuneiform Uranology Texts

The Cuneiform Uranology Texts

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