Featuring a rich array of Mesopotamian wisdom literature and proverbs from Late Bronze Age sites, this collection includes newly published manuscripts that offer fresh insights into ancient thought. The translations provide readers with access to wisdom traditions that have shaped Near Eastern culture, highlighting the enduring relevance of these ancient texts.
Focusing on advancements in water desalination, this book compiles insights from world leaders regarding various technologies and processes. It evaluates both established methods and innovative approaches, including energy extraction from salinity gradients and membrane distillation. The discussion encompasses the feasibility of desalting high salinity water and highlights recent developments in nanomaterials, carbon nanotubes, and membrane surface structuring. Overall, it offers a comprehensive assessment of the current landscape and future potential of desalination technologies.
The subject of this book is the Hittite prohibitive expression, natta Üra - 'not allowed', 'not correct'. This expression, studied here in a full contextual and semantic approach, prohibits over twenty different social behaviours. It touches upon matters of sexual conduct, religious observances, political injunctions and ethics. The study questions how the authoritative and punitive institutions in the land of Hatti utilized this expression in order to define and articulate various prohibitions and what role did these prohibitions play in the legal and moral systems of the Hittites. The aim is to describe what the Hittites thought of as forbidden or taboo and by so to achieve for the modern scholar a sharper image of some of the distinctive traits of Hittite society. The study is intended primarily for Hittitologists and Assyriologists but it will appeal to other audiences such as biblical and classical scholars, and to those interested in the social history of ancient societies.
Studies on the Hittites and their Neighbours in Honour of Itamar Singer
Mit Pax Hethitica erscheint die Festschrift für Itamar Singer, langjähriger Professor an der Universität Tel Aviv und führender Hethitologe und Historiker des Alten Orients. Die Festschrift enthält 34 Beiträge von seinen Kollegen aus der Altanatolistik und Altorientalistik vor allem zu hethitologischen, aber auch zu assyriologischen, syrischen, indogermanischen und ägäischen Themen. Die vielfältigen Beiträge entsprechen den umfassenden Forschungsinteressen des Jubilars, die weit über die Grenzen Anatoliens und der Hethitologie hinausreichen. Mit Beiträgen von: A. Altman, A. Archi, T. Bryce, B. J. Collins, L. d’Alfonso, S. de Martino, A. Dinçol, B. Dinçol, Y. Feder, M. Forlanini, M. Giorgieri, S. Gordin, J. D. Hawkins, V. Haas, S. Heinhold-Krahmer, H. A. Hoffner, Jr., C. Karasu, H. C. Melchert, C. Mora, N. Oettinger, I. Peled, F. Pecchioli Daddi, M. Poetto, M. Popko, A. F. Rainey, E. Rieken, D. Schwemer, O. Soysal, I. Tatišvili, P. Taracha, G. Torri, T. van den Hout, G. Wilhelm, I. Yakubovich, A. Yasur-Landau und R. Zadok