Women in the ancient Near East : a sourcebook / edited by Mark W. Chavalas.

London : Routledge, 2012.

xii, 319 pages ; 24 cm.

An exploration of the world of women in third-millennium Mesopotamia / Harriet Crawford -- The feminine in myths and epic / Alhena Gadotti -- Sumerian wisdom literature / Alhena Gadotti -- Akkadian wisdom literature / Karen Nemet-Nejat -- Medicine and healing magic / Joann Scurlock -- Women and law / Martha T. Roth -- The Epic of Gilgamesh / Karen Nemet-Nejat -- The descent of Ishtar to the netherworld compared to Nergal Ereshkigal / Karen Nemet-Nejat -- Akkadian texts: women in letters: old Assyrian Kanis̆ / Cécile Michel -- Akkadian texts: women in letters: the neo-Assyrian period / Sarah C. Melville -- Women in neo-Assyrian texts / Sarah C. Melville -- Women in neo-Assyrian inscriptions / Karen Nemet-Nejet -- Women in Hittite ritual / Billie Jean Collins -- Hurro-Hittite stories and Hittite pregnancy and birth rituals / Mary Bachvarova.

Includes bibliography and index.