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1 online resource (226 pages) |
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Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies, 0902-5499 ; 34 |
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CNI publications ; 34.
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| Contents |
FRONT COVER ; TITLE PAGE ; COLOPHONE ; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTORY REMARKS; Nature vs. Culture; On the research history; Aim; THE UNIVERSALIST VIEW; THE PRACTICE OF INCEST; Incest exists/existed, but is not a problem; The prohibition against incest is not universal; The Egyptian evidence; Pharaonic Egypt; Brother-Sister Marriage; Parent-Child Marriage; Dreams; Curses; Incest with affines; Graeco-Roman Egypt; Economics; 'Salonfähig'; 'Camp'-mentality; Other explanations -- and the Greeks; The Persian evidence; The law texts; The ranking system and raison d'être of xvētōdah |
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On RankingRaison d'être; Earlier history of Persian close-kin marriage; Achaemenids; Strabo; Quintus Curtius Rufus; Inscriptions from Dura-Europos; Pausanias; Tatian; Bardesanes; Clement of Alexandria; Kartir; Diocletian; Basil the Great; Priscus; Agathias; Laws of Justinian I and Justin II; Summary; Persian Christians contra Zoroastrians; Theodoret; S. Eustathius the Cobbler -- a source from Georgia; Armenian Sources; Mar Aba I; Jesubokht; S. Pethion; Abu Qurra; Summary; Arab Sources; History writing; On religious superiority; Literary texts; Oriental influence: 'Mesopotamians' and Hittites |
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CONCLUDING REMARKSNOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF NAMES; INDEX OF SUBJECTS; INDEX OF TEXTS CITED; Ancient Near Eastern Sources; Persian sources; Scriptures; Classical Writers, Writers of Late Antiquity, Writers in Arabic; BACK COVER |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Incest -- Egypt -- History
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Incest -- Iran -- History
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Consanguinity -- Egypt -- History
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Consanguinity -- Iran -- History
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Consanguinity
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Incest
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Egypt
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Iran
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
8763507781 |
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9788763507783 |
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