Daniel C. Snell Livres

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This historical account explores the evolution of religious practices in the Ancient Near East, tracing developments from the advent of agriculture through to the conquests of Alexander the Great. It delves into the cultural and spiritual landscape of the region, highlighting key beliefs, rituals, and the impact of societal changes on religious life. Through a comprehensive analysis, the book offers insights into how ancient civilizations shaped their understanding of the divine and the role of religion in everyday life.

Teaches the basic cuneiform signs in both an active and passive way, allowing students to produce the Neo-Assyrian signs as well as to recognize them.

Freedom as a value is older than Greece, as evidence from the Ancient Near East shows us through this book. Snell first looks at words for freedom in the Ancient Near East. Then he examines archival texts to see how runaways expressed their interest in freedom in Mesopotamian history. He next examines what elites said about flight and freedom in edicts, legal collections, and treaties. He devotes a chapter to flight in literature and story. He studies freedom in Israel by looking at Biblical terminology and then practice in narratives and legal collections. In a final chapter Snell traces the descent of ideas about freedom among Jews, Greeks and Christians, and Muslims, concluding that the devotion to freedom may be nearly a human universal.