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Studia Orientalia Electronica
ISSN 2323-5209 · Finnish Oriental Society · 117 artikel di indeks
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Review of Laura Culbertson and Gonzalo Rubio (eds): Society and the Individual in Ancient Mesopotamia
Review of Laura Culbertson & Gonzalo Rubio (eds): Society and the Individual in Ancient Mesopotamia. (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 33) . Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. ISBN 978-15-01-52125-6. xii + 309 pp.
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Kingship and Queenship in the Ancient Near Eastern Empires of the First Millennium BCE: Presentation to the Public as Builder
Empires and kingship are long-standing topics of research in ancient Near Eastern studies; the study of queenship has gradually received more attention over recent decades. However, discussions of the social implications of kingship and queenship, comparisons of the gender roles, and their study…
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A Bhutanese in Gyantse: The Treaty of Punakha and the Protection of Bhutanese Subjects
This paper focuses on the case of a Bhutanese subject who was assaulted by a Chinese soldier in Tibet, within the premises of the Trade Mart of Gyantse, in 1912. When the British Trade Agent asked the Political Officer in Sikkim, Charles A. Bell, about possible action, the latter stated that he…
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Negation in Sakhalin Ainu: History and Typology
This paper investigates negation in Sakhalin Ainu by focusing on the morphosyntax, semantics, and historical development of the negative proclitic ham=, which is employed for standard negation (including copula negation) and non-standard negation (including constituent negation, prohibitions…
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Rasmus Rask (1787–1832) in Iran
Rasmus Rask visited Iran en route to India in 1820. His letters, which are largely unknown to Iranologists, contain often vivid descriptions of his time there. While not as enchanted by the country as some of his contemporaries, Rask’s letters nevertheless present us with a forthright, unvarnished…
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Exploring Contemporary Trends of African Literature: Selfless Devotion for Socio-Political Transformation in Ben Okri’s Starbook and Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow
Modern African literature is founded on the socio-political history of the continent, and as such it has passed through historical trajectories with prominent writers exploring the various situations of the region. The main objective of this study is to explore contemporary trends in West and East…
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Is Guanche Berber?
Guanche is an extinct language or languages spoken by the indigenous people of the Canary Islands. Although it is widely assumed that their language belonged to the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic languages, this has not been adequately tested. This paper analyses the lexical and morphological…
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Causes of Suffering: Unravelling Suśruta and Sāṅkhya
A passage on suffering (duḥkha) in the first section of the Suśrutasaṃhitā (SS), one of the foundational compendia of Āyurveda, elaborates on three kinds of suffering. The very same scheme also occurs in the commentarial literature of Sāṅkhya, one of the oldest and most important philosophical…
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Vyāsa’s Bakavadhaparvan: A Source for Bhāsa’s Madhyamavyāyoga
As its primary/explicit source, the Madhyamavyāyoga has the Hiḍiṃbavadhaparvan, where Bhīma kills Hiḍiṃba and marries his sister Hiḍiṃbā. As a possible secondary/implicit source, it also has the Bakavadhaparvan, where Bhīma kills Baka and ends up saving a Brahman and his family. This paper proposes…
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Applying History: Towards a Responsive Writing
This article discusses African historiography with an emphasis on Nigeria. It posits that the themes in African historiography have continued to evolve, with historians of different eras paying attention to a broad spectrum of issues. The need at one point was to recall the glory of Africa’s past…
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Darius as “King of Assyria” (Ezra 6:22)
The use of the title of King of Assyria in Ezra 6:22 is related to the Persian satrapy of Abar-Nahara.
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Early Islamic Inscriptions from Northeast Jordan
This study publishes fifteen new early Islamic-era Arabic inscriptions. They stem from the Jordanian panhandle in the northeastern part of the country, near the modern town of al-Ruwayshid. The inscriptions were recorded during the Badia Epigraphic Survey 2018. Three of the inscriptions give…
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Constructing Identities: Greek Names as a Marker of Hellenizing Identity
Even as Babylonia came under foreign rule, cuneiform documentation continued to record traditional activities. In the transition to the Hellenistic period, it is assumed that Greek practices became more prevalent, although documentary evidence for them remains limited. Cuneiform legal texts…
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Greek Inscriptions in Mesopotamia (and Babylonia)
This article provides a short overview on the few Greek inscriptions from Mesopotamia which date to the period between the third century bce and the first century ce. It argues that since the concept of “identity” has certain shortcomings for a historical analysis of an ancient society it might be…
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Sources at the End of the Cuneiform Era
The aim of this article is to discuss several groups of sources which are of special interest regarding the question of Mesopotamian identities after 539 bce, towards the end of the use of cuneiform writing. In this late period, several languages and scripts were in use in Mesopotamia; therefore…
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Changing Identities at the Turn of the Common Era: The Case of Semiramis
Babylon, a city of shifting identities, was a constant point of reference for the Mediterranean world. This article explores the portrayal of the Babylonian queen Semiramis in Greek and Roman sources, demonstrating how ancient Near Eastern identities were constructed from the external perspective…
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Construction of Identities and Late Mesopotamian Archives as Found in the Fragments of the ‘Graeco-Babyloniaca’
This article focuses on the social reality behind the so-called Graeco-Babyloniaca, a small sample of less than two dozen fragments of clay tablets, mainly inscribed with cuneiform signs on the obverse, with alphabetic Greek signs on the reverse. As possibly one of the last signs of life of the…
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Scribal Identities, Renaissances, and Dead Languages: From Barber Sumerian to Kitchen Latin
This article is an investigation of the role of the knowledge of dead languages, namely Latin and Sumerian, for scribal or scholarly identities. While at first glance there is no obvious reason why a “dead language” should be part of the curriculum of people who were about to become the foremost…
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Editors' Introduction
Editors' Introduction to the volume Mesopotamian identities in the last centuries of cuneiform writing by Sebastian Fink & Saana Svärd.
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Ezekiel, Ethnicity, and Identity
The written sources from the ancient Near East are for the most part authored from the perspective of the dominant group and yield a very limited view on people’s identities from an emic point of view that would correspond to their own self-identification. Self-defined minority groups in…