Ex Oriente Lux Et Veritas: Yale, Salisbury and Early Orientalism

by Karen Polinger Foster

"This book presents expanded versions of the papers delivered at a symposium held during the 175th anniversary celebration of Yale's 1841 appointment of Edward Elbridge Salisbury as America's first professor of Arabic and Sanskrit. Often drawing on original archival research, the articles place Salisbury in the context of 19th-century Orientalism, with particular attention to the interconnected growth of Assyriology in northern Europe and the U.S...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692824278
• ISBN13: 9780692824276
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Yale Babylonian Collection
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.7" x 8.8"