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Melammu
The Ancient World in an Age of Globalization

Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium
of the Melammu Project
Held in Sophia, Bulgaria, September 1-3, 2008

Edited by Markham J. Geller
With the cooperation of Sergei Ignatov
and Theodor Lekov

The cover of Melammu Symposia 6: The Ancient World in an Age of Globalization

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  Table of contents  
J. Renn Preface: The Globalization of Knowledge in the Ancient Near East [Open Access] 1
M. J. Geller Introduction to Melammu: Early Globalization [Open Access] 5
Simo Parpola Globalization of Religion: Jewish Cosmology in its Ancient Near Eastern Context [Open Access] 15
Baruch A. Levine Global Monotheism: The Contribution of the Israelite Prophets [Open Access] 29
Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault Globalization and Imperialism: Political and Ideological Reactions to the Assyrian Presence in Syria (IXth–VIIIth Century BCE) [Open Access] 49
Tzvi Abusch & Emily West 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 [Open Access] 69
Cynthia Jean Globalization in Literature: Re-Examining the Gilgameš Affair [Open Access] 111
Nineb Lamassu Gilgamesh's Plant of Rejuvenation and Qãṭīne's Sīsīsãmbur [Open Access] 117
Kabalan Moukarzel Some Observations about "Foreigners" in Babylonia during the VI Century BCE [Open Access] 129
Kabalan Moukarzel The Religious Reform of Nabonidus: A Sceptical View [Open Access] 157
Strahil V. Panayotov & Cornelia Wunsch New Light on George Smith's Purchase of the Egibi Archive in 1876 from the Nachlass Mathewson [Open Access] 191
Maya Vassileva Phrygian Bronzes in the Greek World: Globalization through Cult? [Open Access] 217
Antonio Panaino Power and Ritual in the Achaemenian Royalty [Open Access] 235
Velizar Sadovski Religious Ontology and Taxonomic Structures in Indo-Iranian Oral Poetry [Open Access] 241
Andrea Gariboldi Elements of "Globalization" in Ancient Iranian Numismatics [Open Access] 287
Mirjo Salvini The Spread of the Cuneiform Culture to the Urartian North (IX–VII Century BCE) [Open Access] 299
Klaus Karttunen India and World Trade: From the Beginnings to the Hellenistic Age [Open Access] 329
Kristoffer Momrak Ancient Near Eastern Polities and the Greek Polis: Secondary States, Structural Similarities and the Problem of Diffusion [Open Access] 341
Amar Annus Seeing Otherwise: On the Rules of Comparison in Historical Humanities [Open Access] 359
  Abbreviations [Open Access] 373
  Index [Open Access] 375

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