Sökning: "Akkadian"

Hittade 4 uppsatser innehållade ordet Akkadian.

  1. 1. 'Blood of a Woman' : A Critical Reevaluation of the Traditional Views on Menstrual Impurity in Akkadian Terminology

    Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Författare :Disa Lindholm; [2022]
    Nyckelord :menstruation; Akkadian; impurity; research bias; Ancient Mesopotamia; Translation; Standpoint theory; menstruation; akkadiska; orenhet; Mesopotamien; översättning; forskningsbias;

    Sammanfattning : Assyriology as a field of study has long been dominated by the ideas and values of the white, Western men who, during the 19th century, were responsible for the development and growth of all scientific research. This has resulted in a resilient androcentric bias in the discipline, which to this day continues to influence scholarly perceptions of Ancient Mesopotamian society - and particularly of Mesopotamian women. LÄS MER

  3. 2. “Han tog riket för sig själv“ : Den falske Smerdis uppror

    Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Antikens kultur och samhällsliv

    Författare :Jonathan Söderlund; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Smerdis; Gaumāta; Dareios I; Behistun; Herodotos; Ktesias;

    Sammanfattning : This study aims to analyse and compare the accounts of Darius I, Herodotus, and Ctesias of Cnidus regarding the uprising of the false Smerdis in 522 BCE, and to give a suggestion for a reconstruction of the chain of events. The theoretical framework employed consists of New Historicism, intertextuality and the concept of “the Other”, which is combined with a close reading, grammatical analysis, and translation to Swedish of the relevant ancient texts. LÄS MER

  4. 3. A History of Rule by Divine Law among Semitic Cultures

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Historia

    Författare :Karl Bjur; [2020]
    Nyckelord :History; Islam; Arabic; Judaism; Hammurabi; Akkadian; State; Divine law; Sharia; Halakha; Aksum; Ethiopia; Empire; Didascalia; Theocracy; Theonomocracy; Semitic; Israelite; Al-Māturīdī; Al-Māwardī; Religious History; Middle-east; Africa; Kitāb al-Tawḥīd; Māturīdīya; Rulership; Oriental; Despotism; Absolutism; Cultural Darwinism; Comparative oriental studies; Cross-cultural study; Orientalism; Large-scale History; History and Archaeology;

    Sammanfattning : This is a comparative study of several widespread and canonical texts from the lowlands of the Middle East and North Africa, with regard to historically reoccurring interconnected traits of ideal state structure among cultures, where Semitic languages have been main languages of communication from the 18th century BC to the modern day. The study is of reoccurring ideals of state structure with defined limits and causes for its existence across several Semitic speaking cultures. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Fågel, fiende eller mitt i mellan? En studie över ordet nešers betydelse och användning i Gamla Testamentet

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

    Författare :Elin Vilhelmsson; [2013]
    Nyckelord :nešer; נֶשֶר; eagle; vulture; Old Testament; Hebrew bible; ornithology; Philosophy and Religion;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is a study of the Hebrew word nešer, which is the name of the bird most often mentioned in the Old Testament. What kind of bird it is, is not defined in any of the texts in which it occurs, but the modern interpretations call it either an eagle or a vulture. LÄS MER