Iconoclasm and text destruction in the ancient Near East and beyond / edited by Natalie Naomi May ; with contributions by Angelika Berlejung, Betsy M. Bryan, Robin Cormack, Petra Goedegebuure, Eleanor Guralnick, Victor A. Hurowitz, Silke Knippschild, Nathaniel B. Levtow, Natalie N. May, W.J.T. Mitchell, Seth Richardson, Robert K. Ritner, Hanspeter Schaudig, JoAnn Scurlock, Claudia E. Suter, Lee Palmer Wandel, Joan G. Westenholz, and Christopher Woods.

The eighth in the Oriental Institute Seminar Series, this volume contains papers that emerged from the seminar Iconoclasm and Text Destruction in the Ancient Near East and Beyond, held at the Oriental Institute April 8-9, 2011. The purpose of the conference was to analyze the cases of and reasons fo...

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Other Authors:	Guralnick, Eleanor (honouree.), May, Natalie N. (Natalie Naomi) (Editor)
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago, Illinois : The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, [2012]
Series:	University of Chicago Oriental Institute seminars ; no. 8.
Subjects:	Middle East > Antiquities. Manuscripts > Mutilation, defacement, etc. > Middle East. Art > Mutilation, defacement, etc. > Middle East. Iconoclasm > Middle East.
Physical Description:	xv, 528 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Variant Title:	Iconoclasm and text destruction. [Spine title]
Format:	Book