Babylonian and Assyrian Text Commentaries - Origins of Interpretation (GMTR 5) – online in Vorbereitung ISBN: 978-3-934628-43-4

ISBN: 978-3-934628-43-4

Ruth Mayer-Opificius

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6: Hymnus mit Selbstprädikation der Ištar (Tf

Babylonian and Assyrian Text Commentaries - Origins of Interpretation (GMTR 5) – online in Vorbereitung ISBN: 978-3-934628-43-4In his influential book on the origin and goal of history, written shortly after World War 2, the German philosopher Karl Jaspers claimed that the period from 800 to 200 BCE played a particularly crucial role in the intellectual history of man (Jaspers 1949). Jaspers argued that in the centuries in question, dubbed by him the axial age, thinking, for the first time in human history, became the object of itself. Jaspers distinguished China, India, and