Melammu

The Ancient World in an Age of Globalization

Preface: The Globalization of Knowledge in the Ancient
Near East

Jürgen Renn
Introduction to Melammu: Early Globalization
Markham J. Geller
1 Globalization of Religion:
Jewish Cosmology in its Ancient Near Eastern Context

Simo Parpola
2 Global Monotheism:
The Contribution of the Israelite Prophets

Baruch A. Levine
3 Globalization and Imperialism:
Political and Ideological Reactions to the Assyrian Presence in Syria (IXth–VIIIth Century BCE)

Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault
4 The Tale of the Wild Man and the Courtesan in India
and Mesopotamia: The Seductions of Ṛśyaśṛnga in the
Mahābhārata and Enkidu in the Epic of Gilgamesh

Tzvi Abusch, Emily West
5 Globalization in Literature:
Re-Examining the Gilgameš Affair

Cynthia Jean
6 Gilgamesh’s Plant of Rejuvenation and Qāṭīne’s Sīsīsāmbur
Nineb Lamassu
7 Some Observations about “Foreigners” in Babylonia
during the VI Century BCE

Kabalan Moukarzel
8 The Religious Reform of Nabonidus: A Sceptical View
Kabalan Moukarzel
9 New Light on George Smith’s Purchase of the
Egibi Archive in 1876 from the Nachlass Mathewson

Strahil V. Panayotov, Cornelia Wunsch
10 Phrygian Bronzes in the Greek World:
Globalization through Cult?

Maya Vassileva
11 Power and Ritual in the Achaemenian Royalty
Antonio Panaino
12 Religious Ontology and Taxonomic Structures in Indo-Iranian Oral Poetry
Velizar Sadovski
13 Elements of “Globalization” in Ancient Iranian Numismatics
Andrea Gariboldi
14 The Spread of the Cuneiform Culture to the Urartian North (IX–VII Century BCE)
Mirjo Salvini
15 India and World Trade: From the Beginnings to the
Hellenistic Age

Klaus Karttunen
16 Ancient Near Eastern Polities and the Greek Polis: Secondary States, Structural Similarities and the Problem of Diffusion
Kristoffer Momrak
17 Seeing Otherwise: On the Rules of Comparison in
Historical Humanities

Amar Annus
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