Cover Image
QR Code

Foreigners in the Ancient Near East.

A survey of diverse aspects of the reception, attitudes toward, and activities of foreigners in the major cuneiform cultures of the third through first millennia B.C.E. While outsiders could play important roles in their new environments, they were generally soon assimilated into their host societie...

Full description

Published in:Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 133; no. 2; pp. 203 - 216
Main Author: BECKMAN, GARY
Format: Article
Published: American Society for Premodern Asia (ASPA) 4/1/2013
Subjects:
Noncitizens
Ancient civilization
Cultural relations
Cultural pluralism
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
fields @attributes:
  recordID: 1
pdfLink:
plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=90555799&site=ehost-live
header:
  @attributes:
    shortDbName: hlh
    uiTerm: 90555799
    longDbName: Humanities International Complete
    uiTag: AN
  controlInfo:
    bkinfo:
    jinfo:
      jid:
        00030279
        JOY
      jtl: Journal of the American Oriental Society
      issn: 00030279
      maglogo: N
    pubinfo:
      dt: 4/1/2013
      vid: 133
      iid: 2
      pid: 1463
      pub: American Society for Premodern Asia (ASPA)
    artinfo:
      ui:
        90555799
        10.7817/jameroriesoci.133.2.0203
      ppf: 203
      ppct: 13
      formats:
        fmt:
          @attributes:
            type: P
            size: 847KB
      tig:
        atl: Foreigners in the Ancient Near East.
      aug:
        au: BECKMAN, GARY
        affil: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
      su:
        Noncitizens
        Ancient civilization
        Cultural relations
        Cultural pluralism
      sug:
        subj:
          Noncitizens
          Ancient civilization
          Cultural relations
          Cultural pluralism
      ab: A survey of diverse aspects of the reception, attitudes toward, and activities of foreigners in the major cuneiform cultures of the third through first millennia B.C.E. While outsiders could play important roles in their new environments, they were generally soon assimilated into their host societies without effecting significant changes in them. Only toward the close of this period did the arrival of large groups of invaders convinced of the superiority of their own cultures, such as Persians and Greco-Macedonians, radically alter the age-old civilizations of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia.
      pubtype: Academic Journal
      doctype: Article
      src: R
    language: English
    refInfo:
    copyright:
      @attributes:
        flag: Y
      custom: Copyright of Journal of the American Oriental Society is the property of American Society for Premodern Asia (ASPA) and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use.
      item: Journal of the American Oriental Society
      holder: American Society for Premodern Asia (ASPA)
      dt:
        @attributes:
          year: 2013
    holdings:
      @attributes:
        islocal: N