Michael Baizerman Author

Coordinators from Academia.com, a site that I use extensively in my quests, offered me to launch my website under their auspices. It is called  https://independent.academia.edu/BaizermanMichael I decided to upload most of my articles published on other sites. I started with the extracts from my first book, "Dawn and Sunset: A Tale of the Oldest Cities in the Near East". Up to now, I have transmitted four chapters: The Divine Round Dance: The Sumerian Astronomical Calendar.  This is a chapter from Unit IV, Beyond the Threshold of Rain Agriculture; it  explains the importance of the introduction of the calendar in the complex society, who was in charge to keep the records, and what impact on state affairs it produced.  https://www.academia.edu/39608575/The_Divine_Round_Dance_The_Sumerian_Astronomical_Calendar   The Birth of Proto-writing. This is a chapter from Unit III, The Marvels of the Sumerian Script; it looks  into the origins of cuneiform, ...

My Scriggler audience is growing; it will hopefully hit the 20 K mark within two weeks. My readers mostly come from the USA, India, the UK, and Hungary. You can view my articles that refer the interest to entangled issues of ancient, medieval, and early modern histories. https://scriggler.com/Profile/michael_baizerman These articles belong to four projects: Book 1, Dawn and Sunset: A Tale of the Oldest Cities in the Near East (already published); Book 2, The Enchanting Encounter with the East (in progress); Book 3 (about the quest for the sea passage to India); and an attempt to construct the genuine history of ancient Israel. My most popular extracts from Book 1 are about the Sumerian astronomy https://scriggler.com/DetailPost/Story/21077 and the Akkadian standing army https://scriggler.com/DetailPost/Opinion/25017 From Book 2 about the measurement of the earth's circumference https://scriggler.com/DetailPost/Opinion/31762 about the spherical image of eart...

US Reviews published a very favorable review of my book, Dawn and Sunset. Dawn and Sunset: A Tale of the Oldest Cities in the Near East  Michael Baizerman AuthorHouseUK HISTORY 978-1-5049-3611-8 Four Stars (out of Five) Dawn and Sunset is a well researched, nicely written, organized account of early Mesopotamian history. Some of the world’s first cities emerge, prosper, and decline over the course of several millennia while their citizens chart remarkable advances in art, linguistics, religion, politics, warfare, and other areas. Michael Baizerman explores these developments in  Dawn and Sunset: A Tale of the Oldest Cities in the Near East , a scholarly look at the history of ancient Mesopotamia. Baizerman begins with a brief explanation of the region’s history and geography, and an outline of its different historic periods. He argues that the twelve things required for a settlement to be considered urban were all present in Mesopotamian cities. These include a dedicat...

There are two pieces of news concerning my history book, Dawn and Sunset, that I'd like to share with you. My book entered the contest, Eric Hoffer Book Award, for independent books. The results will be published in May, 2017. It's a great honor. The book was nominated by my publishing house, Authorhouse UK. Pacific Book Review published a review of my book and I could not expect anything better. Here is the text.  Author: Michael Baizerman Publisher: AuthorHouseUK ISBN: 9781504936118 Pages: 289 Genre: Education Reviewed by: S. Marie Vernon Rating: 4 Star Review Pacific Book Review Dawn and Sunset is a compelling Tale of the Oldest Cities of the Near East written by amateur historian and Israeli high school English teacher, Michael Baizerman. It’s clear, Baizerman has spent countless hours researching and documenting this work . He has compiled minute details of everyday life of the inhabitants of the old world known as Mesopotamia and the...

This is a review of an article by D. Mandal, The World's Oldest Known Pieces of Literature Pertain to Two Ancient Sumerian Works, published in Realm of History, July 21, 2016. According to the conventional opinion, Sumerian scribes were the group who left us the remnants of their literature. What we can lay hand is not the first attempts but part of the long written tradition. The author mentions the Kesh Temple Hymns; this is in the present state a collection of 8 hymns comprising 134 lines. Also, the hymns heap their praises to Nisaba, the goddess responsible for writing, which only emphasizes the age of recording. During the same Early Dynastic period we see a tradition of donating statuettes of believers to temples. Some of these statuettes carry short texts written on behalf of the members of the elite or even the middle class. The schools, where these literary texts were recorded, served the earliest libraries. Another literary piece, the Instructions of Shuruppak, where ...

Welcome Page Welcome to my blog! I'm an amateur historian who is building an alternative career of a non-fiction writer. I wrote a history book "Dawn and Sunset" about the emergence, bloom, and demise of the early Mesopotamian civilization (IV-III millennia BCE). You can view it on my websibe http://www.michaelbaizerman.com/  I am currently writing a second manuscript with the working title "The Enchanting Encounter with the East" which focuses on the contacts between West and East throughout the Middle Ages, especially the Late Middle Ages, xiii-xiv centuries.