Women in the Ancient Near East

Mark Chavalas is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, where he has taught since 1989. Among his publications are the edited, Emar: The History, Religion, and Culture of a Syrian Town in the Late Bronze Age (1996), Mesopotamia and the Bible (2002), and The Ancient Near East: Historical Sources in Translation (2006), and he has had research fellowships at Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Cal-Berkeley, and a number of other universities. He has nine seasons of excavation at various Bronze Age sites in Syria, including Tell Ashara/Terqa and Tell Mozan/Urkesh.

• Introduction Mark W. Chavalas1. An exploration of the world of women in third-millenium Mesopotamia Harriet Crawford2. The feminine in myths and epic Alhena Gadotti3. Sumerian wisdom literature Alhena Gadotti4. Akkadian wisdom literature Karen Nemet-Nejat5. Medicine and healing magic JoAnn Scurlock6. Women and law Martha T. Roth7. The Epic of Gilgamesh Karen Nemet-Nejat8. The Descent of Ishtar to the Netherworld compared to Nergal and Ereshkigal Karen Nemet-Nejat9a. Akkadian texts - Women in letters: Old Assyrian Kaniš Cécile Michel 9b. Akkadian texts - Women in letters: The Neo-Assyrian period Sarah C. Melville10a. Women in Neo-Assyrian texts Sarah C. Melville10b. Women in Neo-Assyrian inscriptions Karen Nemet-Nejat11. Women in Hittite ritual Billie Jean Collins12. Hurro-Hittite storie and Hittite pregnancy and birth rituals Mary BachvarovaIndex