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Water of life
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| Title |
Water of life : essays from a symposium held on the occasion of Peder Mortensen's 80th birthday / edited by John Kuhlmann Madsen, Nils Overgaard Andersen and Ingolf Thuesen. |
|---|---|
| Contributors |
Madsen, John Kuhlmann (editor) Andersen, Nils Overgaard (editor) Thuesen, I. (editor) Mortensen, Peder (honouree) Danish Institute in Damascus (sponsoring body) Københ vns Universitet (host institution) |
| Publisher |
Copenhagen, Denmark : Orbis Publishing House |
| Creation Date |
[2016] |
| Notes |
Essays from the symposium "Water of Life" held at the University of Copenhagen on the 27th to 28th November 2014.- Introduction. Includes bibliographical references. |
| Content |
Introduction -- Water in the Hebrew Bible : myth and theology / Hans J.L. Jensen -- Water in sumerian mythology / Nicole Brisch -- The age of water atom trap, Krypton-81, and global groundwater / Zheng-Tian Lu -- Humans in the Moroccan desert [Sahara] during the humid periods of the lower and middle stone ages / Poul Erik Lindelof -- Climate changes and the human impact on rainfall in NW Europe and the Levant / Niels Schroder -- The role of water in the last gatherer-hunter and earliest farming communities of Southwest Asia / Tobias Richter -- Deluge and early Urbanism / Ingolf Thuesen -- The development of urban life in Mesopotamia and the implementation of canal systems / Hans J. Nissen -- Living with and on the river-side the example of Roman Antiochia-on-the-Chrysorrhoas-formerly-called-Gerasa / Achim Lichtenberger and Rubina Raja -- The water system in the decapolis city of Umm Qais [Gadara] / Susanne Kerner -- Life on the edge of the desert : a late antique monastery and its water supply / Louise Blanke -- Water power : the driving force of economic life in the medieval and early modern levant / Stephen McPhillips -- Qanot Romoni : the rehabilitation of ancient underground water tunnels in Syria / Josepha Ivanka Wessels -- The Syrian spring and civil war and the demise of Syrian politics / Jorgen Baek Simonsen -- Paradise on earth : water and the Islamic garden / Kjeld von Folsach --About the authors. |
| Series |
Proceedings of the Danish Institute in Damascus 11 |
| Extent |
200 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) 26 cm. |
| Language |
English |
| Copyright Date |
©2016 |
| National Library system number |
990040572190205171 |
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