Western Asia in the Days of Sargon of Assyria, 722-705 B.C.: A Study in Oriental History
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The University of Missouri Studies, Vol. 3: Social Science Series, Assyrian Historiography, a Source Study (Classic Reprint)
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When the German excavations were begun at Ashur, the earliest capital Of the Assyrian empire, it was hoped that the scanty data with which we were forced to content ourselves in writing the early history would soon be much amplified. In part, our expectations have been gratified. We now know the names of many new rulers and the number of new inscriptions has been enormously increased. But not a single annals inscription from this earlier period has been discovered, and it is now becoming clear that such documents are not to be expected. Only the so called Display inscriptions, and those with the scantiest con tent, have been found, and it is not probable that any will be hereafter discovered.
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Travels And Studies In The Nearer East
Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead, B. B. Charles, J. E. Wrench
s.n., 1911
History; Middle East; General; History / Middle East / General; Inscriptions, Hittite; Middle East
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Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead was an American historian and academic, who specialized in Assyriology.
Background
Albert Olmstead was born in Troy, New York, the eldest of three children of Charles and Ella (Blanchard) Olmstead. He spent his early childhood in the village of Sand Lake, not far from Troy, where his father owned a small truck farm and later a store; after the store was destroyed in a flash flood, the family moved to Troy.
Education
In Troy Albert was able to obtain an excellent schooling in the classical languages, Hebrew, and history. He won a scholarship to Cornell University, where he earned his A. B. (1902), A. M. (1903), and, in 1906, a Ph. D. in ancient oriental history under the guidance of Nathaniel Schmidt.
Career
At Cornell, Olmstead received the training in historical method and political science which, combined with his knowledge of classical and oriental languages, was to win him renown as a historian of the pre-Islamic civilizations of the Near East. His doctoral dissertation, Western Asia in the Days of Sargon of Assyria, 722-705 B. C. , distinguished for its critical acumen, was published in 1908. Even before he finished his doctoral studies, Olmstead had completed the first of several extended sojourns in the Near East. In 1904-05, as fellow of the American Schools of Oriental Research in Jerusalem, he toured numerous sites in Syria and Palestine. In 1906-07 he was a fellow of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, broadening his already extensive knowledge of the classical world. In 1907-08 he served as director of the Cornell University Expedition to Asia Minor and the Assyro-Babylonian Orient and tramped through many remote areas in Anatolia and Mesopotamia. These trips, reinforced by a later tour of duty as annual professor for the American Schools of Oriental Research in Baghdad in 1936-37, gave him invaluable firsthand experience of the terrain about which he wrote and lent peculiar vividness to his description of past events in that remote world.
Olmstead's academic career began with a year as instructor in Greek and Latin at the Princeton Preparatory School (1908 - 09), followed by several years of teaching ancient history at the University of Missouri (1909 - 17). During this period he published Travels and Studies in the Nearer East (1911) and Assyrian Historiography (1916). The latter, though only a small monograph, became a classic in the fields of Assyriology and ancient history by establishing the principles of source interpretation for the vast literature of the Assyrian royal annals. Before Olmstead's book, these annals, unabashedly propagandistic, had sometimes been taken at face value, with little or no attempt at either textual or historical criticism. Olmstead stressed the need to sift the various versions of the annals in order to arrive at the original text and then, by systematic collecting and comparison of ancient sources, to test their relation to reality.
In 1917 Olmstead moved to the University of Illinois, where he served as professor of history and as curator of the Oriental Museum until 1929. He was president of the American Oriental Society in 1922-23, a signal accolade for so young a scholar. (He later, 1941-42, was president of the Society for Biblical Research. ) His mammoth and definitive History of Assyria appeared in 1923; and he contributed to scholarly journals and anthologies a series of analytical articles on the history of Babylonia and Assyria and numerous essays on politics, geography, anthropology, and ancient art. In 1929 Olmstead was appointed Oriental Institute Professor of Oriental History at the University of Chicago, a post he held until his death. While producing major books in new areas such as his History of Palestine and Syria (1931) and Jesus in the Light of History (1942), Olmstead trained in his seminars a significant number of young historians of the ancient Near East and inculcated in them a methodical accuracy and insistence on comprehension and sensitive interpretation of the original sources. His final work, History of the Persian Empire, appeared posthumously in 1948.
An arduous career of research and teaching prematurely weakened his strength. Shortly before his scheduled retirement, he died at Billings Hospital, Chicago, of a cerebral thrombosis following an operation for a fractured hip. His remains were cremated. Olmstead was practically unique among historians of his day in trying to cover almost all of the pre-Islamic Near East. The only other comparable scholar, the German historian Eduard Meyer, wrote broad syntheses dealing with periods of history across several countries, whereas Olmstead preferred to write of one country at a time in great detail. His pioneering and highly interpretative work, although since superseded by later scholarship, will long be remembered, especially for its principles of source utilization.