The Worlds of Yesterday (Volume 1): A. Leo Oppenheim and the Study of Ancient Mesopotamia in the Light of the Twentieth Century (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004771734)

Vendor: Abraham Winitzer
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Format: Hardcover
$179.00
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The Worlds of Yesterday (Volume 1): A. Leo Oppenheim and the Study of Ancient Mesopotamia in the Light of the Twentieth Century

$179.00

The Worlds of Yesterday (Volume 1): A. Leo Oppenheim and the Study of Ancient Mesopotamia in the Light of the Twentieth Century

$179.00
Format: Hardcover
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What shapes the modern understanding of ancient Mesopotamia? The Worlds of Yesterday explores this question through the life and work of the Assyriologist and historian A. Leo Oppenheim. Drawing on an edition of previously unknown family correspondence written during years of exile and upheaval, Abraham Winitzer places Oppenheim's famous vision of Mesopotamia as a "dead civilization" within the historical world in which it emerged. Combining intellectual biography, the history of Assyriology, and a remarkable family archive, this two-volume work illuminates the intertwined histories of the twentieth century and the study of the ancient Near East.


Author: Abraham Winitzer
ISBN-10: 9004771735
ISBN-13: 9789004771734
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 01/07/2027
Format: Hardcover
By Abraham Winitzer
By Abraham Winitzer
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Abraham Winitzer, Ph.D. (Harvard University, 2006), teaches ancient Near Eastern studies at the University of Notre Dame. An Assyriologist specializing in Mesopotamian literature and intellectual history, he was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2024-2025.

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