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- catalog abstract ""Freedom as a value is older than Greece, as evidence from the Ancient Near East shows us through this book. Snell first looks at words for freedom in the Ancient Near East. Then he examines archival texts to see how runaways expressed their interest in freedom in Mesopotamian history. He next examines what elites said about flight and freedom in edicts, legal collections, and treaties. He devotes a chapter to flight in literature and story. He studies freedom in Israel by looking at Biblical terminology and then practice in narratives and legal collections. In a final chapter Snell traces the descent of ideas about freedom among Jews, Greeks and Christians, and Muslims, concluding that the devotion to freedom may be nearly a human universal. Readership: Scholars in the field of the Ancient Near East, the Bible, and of the history of Freedom in the Western tradition."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12044366.
- catalog coverage "Middle East History To 622.".
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""Freedom as a value is older than Greece, as evidence from the Ancient Near East shows us through this book. Snell first looks at words for freedom in the Ancient Near East. Then he examines archival texts to see how runaways expressed their interest in freedom in Mesopotamian history. He next examines what elites said about flight and freedom in edicts, legal collections, and treaties. He devotes a chapter to flight in literature and story. He studies freedom in Israel by looking at Biblical terminology and then practice in narratives and legal collections. In a final chapter Snell traces the descent of ideas about freedom among Jews, Greeks and Christians, and Muslims, concluding that the devotion to freedom may be nearly a human universal.".
- catalog description "Ch. 1. The History of Freedom and Getting Away -- Ch. 2. The Reality of Flight -- Ch. 3. The Ideology of Flight and Freedom -- Ch. 4. Flight in Literature and Story -- Ch. 5. Freedom in Israel -- Ch. 6. Freedom Beyond Mesopotamians and Greeks -- App. I. Selected Archival Texts on Escape -- App. II. Transliterations of Selected Legal, Treaty, and Canonical texts on Freedom and Escape -- Ancient Near Eastern Texts Cited.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-191) and indexes.".
- catalog description "Readership: Scholars in the field of the Ancient Near East, the Bible, and of the history of Freedom in the Western tradition."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "viii, 200 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Flight and freedom in the ancient Near East.".
- catalog identifier "9004120106 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Flight and freedom in the ancient Near East.".
- catalog isPartOf "Culture and history of the ancient Near East, 1566-2055 ; v. 8".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Leiden ; Boston : Brill,".
- catalog relation "Flight and freedom in the ancient Near East.".
- catalog spatial "Middle East History To 622.".
- catalog spatial "Middle East".
- catalog subject "323.44/0939/4 21".
- catalog subject "Forced labor Middle East History.".
- catalog subject "Government, Resistance to Middle East History.".
- catalog subject "Human rights Middle East History.".
- catalog subject "JC599.M53 S65 2001".
- catalog subject "Liberty History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ch. 1. The History of Freedom and Getting Away -- Ch. 2. The Reality of Flight -- Ch. 3. The Ideology of Flight and Freedom -- Ch. 4. Flight in Literature and Story -- Ch. 5. Freedom in Israel -- Ch. 6. Freedom Beyond Mesopotamians and Greeks -- App. I. Selected Archival Texts on Escape -- App. II. Transliterations of Selected Legal, Treaty, and Canonical texts on Freedom and Escape -- Ancient Near Eastern Texts Cited.".
- catalog title "Flight and freedom in the ancient Near East / by Daniel C. Snell.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".