Personal names in cuneiform texts from Babylonia (c. 750-100 BCE) an introduction
Personal names provide fascinating testimony to Babylonia's multi-ethnic society. This volume offers a practical introduction to the repertoire of personal names recorded in cuneiform texts from Babylonia in the first millennium BCE. In this period, individuals moved freely as well as involunta...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cambridge University Press
2024
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Table of Contents:
- Part One. Babylonian Names
- Social Aspects of Babylonian Names / Francis Joann es
- Babylonian Male Names / Julia Giessler
- Babylonian Female Names / Laura Cousin and Yoko Watai
- Babylonian Family Names / John Nielsen
- Names of Officials ('Beamtennamen') / Michael Jursa
- Reading Neo-Babylonian Names / Cornell Thissen
- Part Two. Non-Babylonian Names
- Assyrian Names / Heather D. Baker
- Aramaic Names / Rieneke Sonnevelt
- Hebrew Names / Kathleen Abraham
- Phoenician and Related Canaanite Names / Ran Zadok
- Arabian Names / Ahmad Al-Jallad
- Egyptian Names / Steffie Van Gompel
- Anatolian Names / Zsolt Simon
- Greek Names / Paola Cor o
- Old Iranian Names / Jan Tavernier
- Elamite Names / Elynn Gorris
- Sumerian Names / Uri Gabbay
- Residual, Unaffiliated, and Unexplained Names / Ran Zadok