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This collection of essays honours the life and work of Gary Beckman, Professor of Hittite and Mesopotamian Studies at the University of Michigan. The essays traverse ancient Anatolia, Syria, Mesopotamia…
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Gary D. Beckman, Karl Androes
For entrepreneurs in the creative fields, decision making is both a necessity and an art. Applying creativity to strategic decisions requires skills developed over time. This textbook provides arts entrepreneurship…
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Gary Beckman
Hittite culture of the second millennium B.C.E. was strongly influenced by Mesopotamian culture, in part through the mediation of the peripheral cuneiform civilizations of northern Syria, in part through direct…
The New Arts Entrepreneur is the first uniquely designed pedagogy for arts entrepreneurship educators and students. Melding an arts-first approach with understandable entrepreneurial concepts and newly formulated tools, the text…
The adventures of Gilgamesh were well known throughout Babylonia and Assyria. This is a new edition of the material from Bogazkoy, of particular importance to modern scholars in reconstructing the…
Translated from the Akkadian, Sumerian, and Hittite.
Gary Beckman,Ulla Kasten
Gary M. Beckman
A comprehensive survey of the Law of the Ancient Near East by a team of specialist scholars, this volume allows non-specialists access to the world’s earliest known legal systems.
Gary M. Beckman,Harry A. Hoffner
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Pays a tribute to America’s preeminent scholar of Hittite language and culture, Professor Harry A Hoffner, Jr, of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
Volume Two, Catalogue of the Babylonian Collections at Yale
Gary M. Beckman,Trevor R. Bryce,Eric H. Cline
This volume offers, for the first time in a single source, English translations of all twenty-six fifteenth-thirteenth centuries B.C.E. Ahhiyawa texts, a commentary and brief exposition on each text’s historical…
From an Antique Land introduces the various cultures and literatures of the Ancient Near East, including literature originally written in Egyptian, Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Ugaritic, Canaanite, Hebrew, and Aramaic. The…
Gary D. Beckman
Increasingly, the availability of entrepreneurship education is becoming a factor in college choice as fine arts students demand training that helps them create an arts-based career after graduation. Disciplining the…
