Sweet Girls and Strong Men
The corpus of personal names of the second and first millennia BC Babylonia represents a wonderful field of research for historians and allows to question several issues like gender, identity and ethnicity. This contribution will focus on the personality and physical traits, and it will propose an a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
[2020]
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Die Welt des Orients
Year: 2020, Volume: 50, Issue: 2, Pages: 339-357 |
| RelBib Classification: | KBL Near East and North Africa TC Pre-Christian history ; Ancient Near East ZB Sociology |
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| Summary: | The corpus of personal names of the second and first millennia BC Babylonia represents a wonderful field of research for historians and allows to question several issues like gender, identity and ethnicity. This contribution will focus on the personality and physical traits, and it will propose an approach of the topic from the gender studies, investigating what kind of name is rather attributed to boys and girls. Names can suggest the place of women and men in the society, as well as the role they have been given in the Babylonian society. Thus, the choice of a name in Babylonia helps to establish the history of mentalities and representations in the ancient Near East. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-9019 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Die Welt des Orients
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.13109/wdor.2020.50.2.339 |