A history of the animal world in the ancient Near East /

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Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002.
Description:	1 online resource (xxii, 620 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, Near and Middle East ; v. 64 = Handbuch der Orientalistik Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; 64 Bd.
Subject:	Human-animal relationships -- Middle East. Animals in art. Animals in literature. Animals -- Religious aspects. Animals in the Bible. Animals in art. Animals in literature. Animals in the Bible. Animals -- Religious aspects. Human-animal relationships. Middle East. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11135923

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Other authors / contributors:	Collins, Billie Jean.
ISBN:	141759084X 9781417590841 9047400917 9789047400912 9789004121263 9004121269 9004121269
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-601) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	This title concerns man's contact with the animal world: sacrifice, sacred animals, diet, and domestication. Chapters on art, literature, religion and animal husbandry reveal a picture of the complex relationships between the peoples of the Ancient Near East and (their) animals.
Other form:	Print version: History of the animal world in the ancient Near East. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002 9004121269
Standard no.:	9789004121263 10.1163/9789047400912

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