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Sealing pots in Upper Mesopotamia in the late third millennium [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Although the practice of sealing is well attested in Mesopotamia due to the numerous finds of cylinder-seals, clay sealings and bullae, when considering sealing impressions on pots the scope of this study dwindles remarkably.
Gallego López, Alejandro
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Context for Confusion: Understanding Babel in the Book of Beginnings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The meaning of the Tower of Babel episode in Genesis 11 proves to be continually elusive for both biblical scholars and pastors. While the results of this momentous event in world history seem obvious, owing to the racial and linguistic diversity present
Osselaer, Douglas R
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Elam: filiación, nombre, caracteres

open access: yesPanta rei, 2007
La civilización elamita es peculiar por muchos aspectos. Ahora que su estudio se está poniendo internacionalmente de moda, resulta conveniente poner de relieve ciertos elementos básicos, que no por conocidos, han sido adecuadamente tenidos en cuenta. Así,
Enrique Quintanta Cifuentes
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Prophecy, Gastronomic Ghosts, and Oracular Flatulence: On the Substance of Spirit in Ancient Israel and Mesopotamia

open access: yesReligions
In this contribution, I contend that the divine “spirit, wind” was conceived as moist, wet, and vaporous in nature in ancient Israel and Mesopotamia. I adduce support for this view from biological reality and from a number of biblical and cuneiform texts
Scott B. Noegel
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El periodo Isin-Larsa. Una comparativa historiográfica

open access: yesPanta rei, 2006
Dentro de los periodos de la historia, tal vez sea el surgimiento de la civilización «occidental» en Mesopotamia el que menos se ha estudiado por diversos factores, la dificultad de investigación, la hegemonía investigadora sobre historia romana y griega,
Felipe Cerezo Andreo
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Accounting And Forms Of Accountability In Ancient Civilizations: Mesopotamia And Ancient Egypt [PDF]

open access: yes
The aim of this paper is to identify the relevance and implications of ancient accounting practices to the contemporary theorizing of accounting. The paper provides a synthesis of the literature on ancient accounting particularly in relation to issues of
SALVADOR CARMONA
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From Farmers to Merchants, Voluntary Conversion and Diaspora: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish History [PDF]

open access: yes
From the end of the second century C.E., Judaism enforced a religious norm requiring any Jewish father to educate his children. We present evidence supporting our thesis that this exogenous change in the religious and social norm had a major influence on
Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein
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