We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it. In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of civilization, the earliest known writing system started around ...

This monograph is an essential resource for specialists and students of the New Testament as well as for scholars interested in religious transmission in the ancient Near East and the afterlife of ...

Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet clay – and some of the symbols used were carried over into proto-writing ...

59-91 (33 pages) In an effort to identify the social sources and environmental consequences of axial thinking, and in particular of rational naturalism, three civilizational centres are compared: ...

Yet to historians and archaeologists, Babylon is a real bricks-and-mortar place at the center of the vibrant Mesopotamian culture that it dominated for so many centuries. The Amorites, including ...

He reconstructs the Greek appropriation of Mesopotamian semantics while arguing that, despite geographical distance and cultural constraints, the Greeks adopted and transformed Babylonian cosmological ...

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Even though the research subject is temporally distant, it has something of value for people today: Western civilisation, culture and many religions are largely based on Mesopotamian culture. Research ...

In May this year, he prepared and presented a lecture about the role the Christian scholars of Mesopotamia played in helping to develop the Islamic culture and literature, especially during the ...