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Assyriology and Biblical Studies: Time for Reassessment? - By Bill T. Arnold (1691 words) |
 | Indeed, it may be argued that intense interest in Mesopotamia at the close of the nineteenth century, generated largely by those interested in biblical studies, made the emergence of Assryiology as an independent discipline possible. |
| Landsberger sought to place Assyriology on a new path, in which Babylonian culture could be investigated on its own terms. |
| Assyriologists today are often isolated and tend not to consider comparative issues due to a cultural climate in the academic community, perhaps still as a result of the excesses of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. |
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Assyriology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (595 words) |
| The large number of cuneiform clay tablets preserved by these cultures provide an enormous resource for the study of the period and the region's (and the world's) first cities such as Ur are archaeologically invaluable as for studying the growth of urbanisation. |
| As an academic discipline, Assyriology presents itself as one of the most demanding fields in the humanities. |
| Few universities teach advanced Assyriology, and not that many teach, for example, introductory Akkadian which at least provides some orientation to the language and culture of the Latin of the Ancient Near East. |
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