Recommended Readings & Audio Visual Titles

RECOMMENDED READINGS:

Bahrani, Zainab. Women of Babylon: Gender and Representation in Mesopotamia. New York: Routledge, 2001.

Oppenheim, A. Leo and Erica Reiner. Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977.

Parpola, S. and R. M. Whiting. Sex and Gender in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the 47th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Helsinki, July 2-6, 2001.  Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project - NATCP, 2002.

Roaf, Michael. Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East. New York: Facts on File, 1990.

Roth, Martha. Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995.

Roux, Georges. Ancient Iraq. New York: Penguin. 1993.

Sasson, J. M. (Ed.). Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. 4 vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons; Macmillan Library Reference USA; (original pub. Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1995.). Hendrickson Publishers, 2000.

• Dion, P. E. “Aramaean Tribes and Nations of First Millennium Western Asia.” Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 2, pp.  1281-1294.

• Greengus, S. “Legal and Social Institutions of Ancient Mesopotamia.” Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. J. M. Sasson (Ed.). Vol. 1, pp. 469-484.

• Robertson, J. F. “The Social and Economic Organization of Ancient Mesopotamian Temples.” Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. J. M. Sasson (Ed.). Vol. 1, pp. 443-454.

• Sommerfeld, W. “Kassites of Ancient Mesopotamia: Origins, Politics, and Culture.”  Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. J. M. Sasson (Ed.). Vol. 2, pp. 917-930. 

• Stol, M. “Private Life in Ancient Mesopotamia.”  Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. J. M. Sasson (Ed.). Vol. 1, pp. 485-502.

• Wiggerman, F.A.M.  “Theologies, Priests, and Worship in Ancient Mesopotamia.” Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. J. M. Sasson (Ed.). Vol. 3, pp. 1857-1870.

FILMS & VIDEOS:

“Ancient Mesopotamia.” YouTube.com. The Phoenix Learning Group, Inc. Link to resource (accessed May 7, 2010).

Mesopotamia: Scribes and the Ruling Class. Link to resource (accessed May 7, 2010).

Roth, Martha. “Compare Laws from Ancient Mesopotamia to Laws of Today.” Ancient Mesopotamia: This History, Our History. Link to resource (accessed May 7, 2010).

Roth, Martha. “The Laws of Hammurabi.” Ancient Mesopotamia: This History, Our History. Link to resource (accessed May 7, 2010).

Roth, Martha. “Life in Ancient Mesopotamia.” Link to resource (accessed May 7, 2010).

Online Resources

Jennie Myers

Research Associate, University of Chicago
 

MAPS:

Map of Babylonia at the Time of Hammurabi. Wikimedia Commons. Link to resource (accessed May 7, 2010).

Map of Sumer, Akkad and Elam. Wikimedia Commons. Link to resource (accessed May 7, 2010).

Maps of Mesopotamia to 2500 BCE and the Fertile Crescent. Houghton Mifflin History-Social Science. Link to resource (accessed May 7, 2010).