Perspectives on the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies: An Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Perspectives on the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies: An Introduction vii
4. Part I The Edge of the Abyss: The Study of Antiquity Under Totalitarian Threat
5. Chapter 1 Hittite Studies at the Crossroads: Albrecht Goetze’s and Hans Gustav Güterbock’s Flight from Nazi Germany 3
6. Chapter 2 Language and Race in Assyriology: From Benno Landsberger to Wolfram von Soden 25
7. Chapter 3 Assyriology in Nazi Germany: The Case of Wolfram von Soden 44
8. Chapter 4 Carthage the Deceitful and Perfidious Albion: The Phoenicians and the British in Fascist Italy 61
9. Chapter 5 The Sharing Out of Antiquities in Syria During the Interwar Period: Sir Leonard Woolley’s Excavation at Tell Sheikh Yusuf (Al- Mina) 77
10. Chapter 6 “Die Assyriologie nicht weiter unberücksichtigt bleiben dürfte”: On the (Non-)Existence of Assyriology at the German University in Prague (1908–1945) 87
11. Part II Intellectual History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies: Some Case Studies
12. Chapter 7 Notes on the History of the Historiography of Cuneiform Mathematics 147
13. Chapter 8 Feudalism and Vassalage in Twentieth- Century Assyriology 172
14. Chapter 9 Nation Building in the Plain of Antioch from Hatti to Hatay 190
15. Part III From Our Stories to the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
16. Chapter 10 The Historiography of Assyriology in Turkey: A Short Survey 211
17. Chapter 11 Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Portuguese Academia: A Love Affair Under Construction 222
18. Chapter 12 Near Eastern Archaeology and the Czech- Speaking Lands 237
19. Chapter 13 Tintin in Mesopotamia: The Story of Belgian Assyriology (1890–2017) 252
20. Chapter 14 Assyriology in Iran? 266
21. Chapter 15 Assyriology in China 283
22. Chapter 16 Looking for a Tell: The Beginnings of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Barcelona 289
23. Part IV Current Prospectives, Future Perspectives
24. Chapter 17 Big Data, Big Deal: Use of Google Books Ngram Viewer and JSTOR Data for Research for Charting the Rise of Assyriology 299
25. Chapter 18 The Future of the Past: How the Past Contributes to the Construction of Syrian National Identity 326
26. Conclusions 338
27. References 340