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Mesopotamia
(6,968 words)
[German Version] I. Geography – II. History – III. Society – IV. Religion – V. Literature and Art
I. Geography The name Mesopotamia, Greek “(land) bewteen the rivers (i.e. Euphrates and Tigris),” originally only denoted the territories between the bend of the Euphrates near Baghdad and the Khabur River, i.e. the area known as Ğazīra (“island”) in Arabic; the meaning of the name was later extended to include the entire land between the Persian fringe mountains in the east (Zagros) and the Syro-Arabian desert in…
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Religion Past and Present
Historiography
(5,830 words)
[German Version] I. Ancient Near East – II. Greece – III. Rome – IV. The Bible – V. Christianity – VI. Judaism
I. Ancient Near East Historiography in the classic sense, with a reflective account of historical linkages, developed rudimentarily at best in the cuneiform cultures of the ancient Near East in Hittite and Neo-Assyrian annals and the introductions to treaties; even these documents were usually written to justify the political actions. Around the middle of the 3rd millennium bce, however, there appeared an immense number of all sorts of texts containing more …
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Religion Past and Present
Soden, Wolfram von
(713 words)
Dt. Assyriologe. Geb. am 19. 6. 1908 in Berlin, gest. am 6. 10. 1996 in Münster. Schulbesuch in Berlin und Marburg; Studium der Assyriologie und semitischer Sprachen in Marburg, München und Leipzig, dort 1931 Prom.; 1933 Habil. Göttingen. Ab 1934 Dozent, ab 1936 ao.Prof. ebda.; 1940 o.Prof. Berlin, Lehrtätigkeit wegen Militärdienst (zuletzt als Leutnant u. a. als Dolmetscher) jedoch nicht angetreten. 1945 Lehrauftrag in Göttingen; 1954 o.Prof. Assyriologie in Wien; 1961 o.Prof. in Münster für Al…
