Geller, Markham J.
Markham Geller received his BA from Princeton University in 1970 and PhD from Brandeis University in 1974. He taught at University College London from 1976, in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, from where he is currently on secondment to the Freie Universität Berlin, where he is currently Professor für Wissensgeschichte. He came to the Topoi Excellence Cluster in February 2010, after having spent five research visits to the MPIWG, between 2002 and 2009. He was formerly an Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellow at the Universities of Munich, Leipzig, and the FU Berlin, was twice Fellow of the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), and Visiting Professor at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris. He has an honorary doctorate from the New Bulgarian University.

A collection of articles from various disciplines on globalization

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Preface: The Globalization of Knowledge in the Ancient Near East (J. Renn)
Introduction to Melammu: Early Globalization (M. J. Geller)
Globalization of Religion: Jewish Cosmology in its Ancient Near Eastern Context (Simo Parpola)
Global Monotheism: The Contribution of the Israelite Prophets (Baruch A. Levine)
Globalization and Imperialism: Political and Ideological Reactions to the Assyrian Presence in Syria (IXth-VIIIth Century BCE) (Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault)
The Tale of the Wild Man and the Courtesan in India and Mesopotamia: The Seductions of R s yas r nga in the Maha bha rata and Enkidu in the Epic of Gilgamesh (Tzvi Abusch and Emily West)
Globalization in Literature: Re-Examining the Gilgames Affair (Cynthia Jean)
Gilgamesh's Plant of Rejuvenation and Qa ine's Sisisambur (Nineb Lamassu)
Some Observations about "Foreigners" in Babylonia during the VI Century BCE (Kabalan Moukarzel)
The Religious Reform of Nabonidus: A Sceptical View (Kabalan Moukarzel)
New Light on George Smith's Purchase of the Egibi Archive in 1876 from the Nachlass Mathewson (Strahil V. Panayotov and Cornelia Wunsch)
Phrygian Bronzes in the Greek World: Globalization through Cult? (Maya Vassileva)
Power and Ritual in the Achaemenian Royalty (Antonio Panaino)
Religious Ontology and Taxonomic Structures in Indo-Iranian Oral Poetry (Velizar Sadovski)
Elements of "Globalization" in Ancient Iranian Numismatics (Andrea Gariboldi)
The Spread of the Cuneiform Culture to the Urartian North (IX-VII Century BCE) (Mirjo Salvini)
India and World Trade: From the Beginnings to the Hellenistic Age (Klaus Karttunen)
Ancient Near Eastern Polities and the Greek Polis: Secondary States, Structural Similarities and the Problem of Diffusion (Kristoffer Momrak)
Seeing Otherwise: On the Rules of Comparison in Historical Humanities (Amar Annus)
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Melammu volumes have broadened the horizons of studies of antiquity by encouraging the crossing of geographical and cultural boundaries between ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean and Near East. The present Melammu volume extends from Greece to India, with articles on Phrygia and Armenia, also viewing texts from ancient Israel, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. The globalization described in this volume extends over language barriers and literatures, showing how texts as well as goods can travel between societies and regions. This collection of papers offer new insights and perspectives into connections between the Mediterranean World, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Persia and India. --- The series Proceedings of the Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge presents the results of scientific meetings on current issues and supports further cooperation on these issues via an electronic platform. The volumes are available both as print-on-demand books and as open-access publications on the Internet. The material is freely accessible online at edtion-open-access.de, supplemented by additional information and interactive features. The original scholarly work presented in these volumes is published under the responsibility of designated members of the Scientific Board and their appointed reviewers.