Series:

Oriental Institute Publications

1 primary work • 6 total works

LXXIX

Cover of Soundings at Tell Fakhariyah

Soundings at Tell Fakhariyah

by C.W. McEwan and etc.

Published 15 May 1958

Cover of Nippur First

Nippur First

by D.E. McCown and etc.

Published July 1967

Cover of Excavations in the Plain of Antioch

Cover of Discoveries in Anatolia, 1930-31

Cover of Nuzi Personal Names

Nuzi Personal Names

by Ignace J. Gelb and etc.

Published December 1943

Cover of Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man
The people in ancient times the phenomenal world was teeming with life; the thunderclap, the sudden shadow, the unknown and eerie clearing in the wood, all were living things. This unabridged edition traces the fascinating history of thought from the pre-scientific, personal concept of a humanized world to the achievement of detached intellectual reasoning.

The authors describe and analyze the spiritual life of three ancient civilizations: the Egyptians, whose thinking was profoundly influenced by the daily rebirth of the sun and the annual rebirth of the Nile; the Mesopotamians, who believed the stars, moon, and stones were all citizens of a cosmic state; and the Hebrews, who transcended prevailing mythopoeic thought with their cosmogony of the will of God. In the concluding chapter the Frankforts show that the Greeks, with their intellectual courage, were the first culture to discover a realm of speculative thought in which myth was overcome.