Liknande böcker

Gender and Aging in Mesopotamia : The Gilgamesh Epic and Other Ancient L...
Bok av Rivkah Harris
The Elephantine papyri in English : three millennia of cross-cultural co...
Bok av Bezalel Porten
Assur Is King! Assur Is King!: Religion in the Exercise of Power in the...
Bok av Steven W. Holloway
Hiera Kala: Images of Animal Sacrifice in Archaic and Classical Greece
Bok av F. T. Straten
Epipaleolithic Subsistence Strategies in the Levant: A Zooarchaeological...
Bok av Guy Bar-Oz
Dynastic Lycia: A Political History of the Lycians and Their Relations w...
Bok av Antony. G. Keen
Twice Neokoros : Ephesus, Asia and the cult of the Flavian imperial family
Bok av Steven J. Friesen
Human Nature In Gregory Of Nyssa : Philosophical Background and Theologi...
Bok av Johannes Zachhuber

The care of the elderly in the ancient Near East

Bok av Stol
Looking at the care of the elderly in the Ancient Near East, this text investigates how the various cultures countered this problem. It studies the strategies used when there was no son at hand to honour father and mother, and examines legal texts, testaments and other sources for evidence.