Personal Names in Cuneiform Texts From Babylonia (C. 750100 Bce) - An Introduction

"This book is for students and researchers of ancient Middle Eastern history who work with cuneiform texts from Babylonia (c. 750-100 BCE). These sources contain large numbers of personal names of different linguistic origins. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core"--

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Babylonian Names: 1. Social aspects of Babylonian names Francis Joannès; 2. Babylonian male names Julia Gießler; 3. Babylonian female names Laura Cousin and Yoko Watai; 4. Babylonian family names John Nielsen; 5. Names of officials Beamtennamen Michael Jursa; 6. Reading neo Babylonian names Cornell Thissen; Part II. Non-Babylonian Names: 7. Assyrian names Heather D. Baker; 8. Aramaic names Rieneke Sonnevelt; 9. Hebrew names Kathleen Abraham; 10. Phoenician and related Canaanite names Ran Zadok; 11. Arabian names Ahmad Al-Jallad; 12. Egyptian names Steffie Van Gompel; 13. Anatolian names Zsolt Simon; 14. Greek names Paola Corò; 15. Old Iranian names Jan Tavernier; 16. Elamite names Elynn Gorris; 17. Sumerian names Uri Gabbay; 18. Residual, unaffiliated, and unexplained names Ran Zadok.

About the author

CAROLINE WAERZEGGERS is Professor of Assyriology at Leiden University, specializing in the social and cultural history of Babylonia in the first millennium BCE. Together with M. M. Groß she directs Prosobab, an online prosopography of Babylonia (620–330 BCE).MELANIE M. GROß is an Assyriologist specialising in the socio-economic history of first millennium BCE Mesopotamia. She recently published the monograph At the Heart of an Empire: The Royal Household in the Neo-Assyrian period (2020) and is currently working on a monograph about traders' archives from Late Babylonian Sippar. Together with C. Waerzeggers she directs Prosobab, an online prosopography of Babylonia (620–330 BCE).

Product details

• Authors: Caroline (Rijksuniversiteit Leiden Waerzeggers
• Assisted by: Melanie M. Groÿ (Editor), Melanie M Groß (Editor), Melanie M. Groß (Editor), Caroline Waerzeggers (Editor), Waerzeggers Caroline (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781009291088
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0929108-8
• No. of pages: 346
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; BIBLES / General, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, c 1000 BCE to start of CE period, Classical style, BCE to c 500 CE, Babylonia, For higher / tertiary / university education, Assyro-Babylonian (Akkadian) languages, Old Testaments