Eisenbrauns epub Perspectives on the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies

This volume brings together essays that encompass the two principal approaches to the history of ancient Near Eastern studies. The first approach is descriptive, compiling data to reconstruct the way ancient Near Eastern studies was founded and how it progressed within a specific country or academic tradition. The essays in this volume focus especially on those countries often neglected in international research to date, such as Turkey, Portugal, Belgium, Iran, China, Spain, and the Czech-speaking regions. The second approach&;often labeled &;intellectual history&; in the English-speaking academy&;examines topics in ancient Near Eastern studies analytically and critically through a diachronic or transnational lens. These essays either synthesize the previous descriptive work within one academic tradition or develop that work from a transnational point of view. This collection treats the two approaches as complementary to one another. The result is a rich and wide-reaching collection of essays that share a reflective approach to the discipline and to research on the ancient Near East. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Selim Ferru Adali, Isabel Almeida, Silvia Alura, Petr Charvát, Parsa Daneshmand, Eva von Dassow, Hakan Erol, Sebastian Fink, Jakob Flygare, Pietro Giammellaro, Carlos Gonçalves, Katrien de Graef, Steven W. Holloway, Ahmed Fatima Kzzo, Changyu Liu, Patrick Maxime Michel, Emanuel Pfoh, Jitka Sýkorová, Luděk Vacín, and Jordi Vidal.