Perspectives on the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies

Agnes Garcia-Ventura is Ramon y Cajal Fellow at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. She is the coeditor of Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East, also published by Eisenbrauns. Lorenzo Verderame is Associate Professor of Assyriology at Sapienza University of Rome. He is the author and coeditor of several books, including Receptions of the Ancient Near East in Popular Culture and Beyond.

Introduction: Perspectives on the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies: An Introduction Lorenzo VERDERAME / Agnes GARCIA-VENTURA Part I. The Edge of the Abyss: the Study of Antiquity under the Totalitarism Threat 1. Hittite Studies at the Crossroads: Albrecht Goetze's and Hans Gustav Gueterbock's Flight from Nazi Germany Silvia ALAURA 2. Language and Race in Assyriology: from Benno Landsberger to Wolfram von Soden Sebastian FINK 3. Assyriology in Nazi Germany: the Case of Wolfram von Soden Jakob FLYGARE 4. Carthage the Deceitful and Perfidius Albion: the Phoenicians and the British in Fascist Italy Pietro GIAMMELLARO 5. The sharing out of Antiquities in Syria during the Interwar Period: Sir Leonard Woolley's Excavation at Tell Sheikh Yusuf (Al Mina). Patrick Maxime MICHEL 6. "Die Assyriologie nicht weiter unberuecksichtigt bleiben duerfte...": On the (Non-)Existence of Assyriology at the German University in Prague (1908-1945) Ludik VACIN / Jitka SYKOROVA Part II. Intellectual History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies: some Case Studies 7. Notes on the History of the Historiography of Cuneiform Mathematics Carlos GONCALVES 8. Feudalism and Vassalage in Twentieth-Century Assyriology Emanuel PFOH 9. Nation-building in the Plain of Antioch, from Hatti to Hatay Eva VON DASSOW Part III. From our Stories to the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies 10. The Historiography of Assyriology in Turkey: A Short Survey Selim Ferruh ADALI / Hakan EROL 11. Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Portuguese Academia: a Love-affair under Construction Isabel ALMEIDA 12. Near Eastern Archaeology and the Czech-speaking Lands Petr CHARVAT 13. Tintin in Mesopotamia. The Story of Belgian Assyriology (1890-2017) Katrien DE GRAEF 14. Assyriology in Iran? Parsa DANESHMAND 15. Assyriology in China Changyu LIU 16. Looking for a Tell. The Beginnings of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Barcelona Jordi VIDAL Part IV. Current Prospectives, Future Perspectives 17. Big Data, Big Deal: Use of Google Books Ngram Viewer and JSTOR Data for Research for Charting the Rise of Assyriology Steven W. HOLLOWAY 18. The Future of the Past. How the Past Contributes to the Construction of Syrian National Identity Ahmed Fatima KZZO Notes on Contributors Index of Authors