Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 494 p. Studies of seals and sealing practices have traditionally investigated aspects of social, political, economic, and ideological systems in ancient societies throughout the Old World. Previously, scholarship has focused on description and documentation, chronology and dynastic histories, administrative function, iconography, and style....
Routledge, 2017. — 275 p. Examining the evolution of kingship in the Ancient Near East from the time of the Sumerians to the rise of the Seleucids in Babylon, this book argues that the Sumerian emphasis on the divine favour that the fertility goddess and the Sun god bestowed upon the king should be understood metaphorically from the start and that these metaphors survived in...
De Gruyter, 2015. - 879 p. The roughly 5,000 cuneiform tablets from Ebla (3rd millennium BC) attest to the oldest Semitic language and provide insight into a period in the history of Syria that was previously unknown. Their restoration, interpretation, and classification has taken more than thirty years. The essays collected in this volume offer important insight into the...
Baker Academic, 2016. — 560 p. What people groups interacted with ancient Israel? Who were the Hurrians and why do they matter? What do we know about the Philistines, the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, and others? In this up-to-date volume, leading experts introduce the peoples and places of the world around the Old Testament, providing students with a...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 576 p. The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean offers a comprehensive survey of ancient state formation in western Eurasia and North Africa. Eighteen experts introduce readers to a wide variety of systems spanning 4,000 years, from the earliest known states in world history to the Roman Empire and its...
Leiden: Brill, 2011. — IX, 370 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East; ISSN: 1566-2055; v. 52). — ISBN: 978-90-04-19493-9. The proceedings of the conference “Egypt, Canaan and Israel: History, Imperialism, Ideology and Literature” include the latest discussions about the political, military, cultural, economic, ideological, literary and administrative relations...
Museum Tusculanum Press, 2011. — 537 p. — (CNI Publications 38). — ISBN: 978-87-635-3645-5, ISSN: 0902-5499. This book presents a revised model of the historical geography of Anatolia during the Old Assyrian Colony Period (c. 1969-1715 BC) based on topographical, archaeological and written records. It challenges traditional views of Anatolian geography by using arguments based...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. — ix, 383, vii p.: ill., maps. The quest for the real Dilmun, the lost civilisation of Arabia, began when the author Geoffrey Bibby revisited Bahrain in order to explore the thousands of undated burial mounds scattered across the country. A brief season's digging was enough to establish the existence of a major civilisation dating from around...
Oxbow Books, 2010. - 222 p. This book explores the dynamics of small-scale societies in the ancient Near East by examining the ways in which particular communities functioned and interacted and by moving beyond the broad neo-evolutionary models of social change which have characterised many earlier approaches. By focusing on issues of diversity, scale, and context, it...
Brill Academic Pub, 2012. - 483 p. - (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 60). Twenty nine scholars from Israel, Europe and the Americas came together to honor and celebrate Prof. Bezalel Porten's (Emeritus, Dept. of History of the Jewish People, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) academic career. Covering a wide variety of topics within Aramaic, Biblical, and ancient...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 208 p. — (Emblems of Antiquity). Just prior to the rise of Islam in the sixth century AD, southern Arabia was embroiled in a violent conflict between Christian Ethiopians and Jewish Arabs. Though little known today, this was an international war that involved both the Byzantine Empire, which had established Christian churches in Ethiopia, and...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. — 357 p. — ISBN: 978–0–19–964667–8 The 3000-year history of ancient Syria, from Bronze Age to the Roman era - and beyond The essential back-story to one of the world's most trouble-prone and volatile regions Includes a vast array of historical characters, from the Egyptian pharoahs, through Biblical villains such as Nebuchadnezzar, to...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 393 p. Syria has long been one of the most trouble-prone and politically volatile regions of the Near and Middle Eastern world. This book looks back beyond the troubles of the present to tell the 3000-year story of what happened many centuries before. Trevor Bryce reveals the peoples, cities, and kingdoms that arose, flourished, declined, and...
Routledge, 2003. — 244 p. — ISBN 041525857X. Offering fascinating insights into the people and politics of the ancient near Eastern kingdoms, Trevor Bryce uses the letters of the five Great Kings of Egypt, Babylon, Hatti, Mitanni and Assyria as the focus of a fresh look at this turbulent and volatile region in the late Bronze Age. Numerous extracts from the letters are...
Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1986. — 273 p. — (The Lycians. A Study of Lycian History and Civilisation to the Conquest of Alexander the Great. Vol. 1.). — ISBN: 87-7289-023-1. This book is the first of a projected 2-volume account of the ancient Lycians. The Lycian civilisation has proved, and is continuing to prove, a rich field of investigation for historians,...
Routledge, 2016. — 336 p. This atlas provides students and scholars with a broad range of information on the development of the Ancient Near East from prehistoric times through the beginning of written records in the Near East (c. 3000 BC) to the late Roman Empire and the rise of Islam. The geographical coverage of the Atlas extends from the Aegean coast of Anatolia in the west...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2014. — 290 p. — (Topoi. Berlin Studies of the Ancient World. Vol. 17). — ISBN 978-3-11-026641-2. The Mittani empire is one of the most enigmatic political structures in Mesopotamian history. Reconstructing the emergence and the organisation of this state, whose territory encompassed Upper Mesopotamia touching the Levant and the piedmont plains of...
Oxford [et al.]: Oxford University Press, 2005. — 316 p. — ISBN: 0-19-814871-2. The Greek Wars treats of the whole course of Persian relations with the Greeks from the coming of Cyrus in the 540s down to Alexander the Great's defeat of Darius III in 331 BC. Cawkwell discusses from a Persian perspective major questions such as why Xerxes' invasion of Greece failed, and how...
Second Edition. — Equinox Publishing Ltd., 2005. — 268 p. — ISBN: 1-904768-77-6. This is an expanded and revised edition of First Civilizations: Ancient Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt , which originally appeared in 1996 (Les Éditions Champ Fleury, Montréal, Canada). First Civilizations is a one-volume, introductory overview of two of the world’s oldest civilizations: ancient...
Routledge, 2013. — 336 p. "Women in the Ancient Near East" provides a collection of primary sources that further our understanding of women from Mesopotamian and Near Eastern civilizations, from the earliest historical and literary texts in the third millennium BC to the end of Mesopotamian political autonomy in the sixth century BC. This book is a valuable resource for...
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1969. — 315 p. — (The Norton Library. History/Archaeology). — SBN 393-00469-4. New Light on the Most Ancient East offers a detailed survey of major archaeological discoveries in the Near and Middle East. V. Gordon Childe's classic account focuses on the findings in the three great centers of ancient civilization: Egypt, Sumer, and the Indus...
Proceedings of an International Conference on Cross-Cultural Interaction, September 17–19, 2004, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. — Oxbow Books, 2008. — 216 p. — ISBN 978-1-84217-270-4. The papers in this collection are the product of the conference "Hittites, Greeks and Their Neighbors in Ancient Anatolia: An International Conference on Cross-Cultural Interaction," hosted by...
SBL Press, 2014. -234 p. Crouch focuses on Deuteronomy’s subversive intent, asking what would be required in order for Deuteronomy to successfully subvert either a specific Assyrian source or Assyrian ideology more generally. The book reconsiders the nature of the relationship between Deuteronomy and Assyria, Deuteronomy’s relationship to ancient Near Eastern and biblical...
BRILL, 2005. — 281 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 22). A Journey to Palmyra originates from the desire to remember Delbert R. Hillers, who greatly contributed with his work to Palmyrene studies. However, it is not meant just as a memorial volume, but as a research tool. It contains thirteen papers by scholars in the field of Palmyrene studies and Semitics...
World Scientific, 2015. — 314 p. — ISBN: 978-9814619097. As key nodes that connected ancient silk routes traversing China, Japan and India, trading hubs, towns and cities in Java and Sumatra and other places in Asia were key destination points for merchants, monks and other itinerants plying these routes. Recent archaeological excavations in countries bordering the South China...
De Gruyter, 2015. - 321 p. This volume assembles scholars working on cuneiform texts from different periods, genres, and areas to examine the range of social, cultural, and historical contexts in which specific types of texts circulated. Using different methodologies and sources of evidence, these articles reconstruct the contexts in which various cuneiform texts circulated,...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 360 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-76313-4. In this book, Bleda S. During offers an archaeological analysis of Asia Minor, the area equated with much of modern-day Turkey, from 20,000 to 2000 BC. During this period, human societies moved from small-scale hunter-gatherer groups to complex and hierarchical communities with economies based on agriculture...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2007. — 726 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 30). This book contains a new epigraphic, philological, legal and historical analysis of the Aramaic manuscripts from the Wadi Daliyeh written in the city of Samaria in the fourth century B.C.E., and shed new light on the history of Samaria and Judaea in the Persian period.
Brill Academic Pub, 2012. - 219 p. - (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 54). The theme of the book stands on the intersection of epigraphy and historical research: the Aramaic and Hebrew inscriptions discovered in the vicinity of the Yahwistic sanctuary on Mt. Gerizim and their historical background. The study addresses the evidence from three perspectives: the...
Brill Academic Pub, 2009. — 233 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 36). Exploring the military, legal, social and literary aspects of ancient warfare, this study examines the multifaceted nature of the siege phenomenon in the Ancient Near East. The book is based on Akkadian and biblical (and, to lesser degree, Greek, Aramaic, Egyptian, Hittite and Ugaritic)...
Brill, 2008. — 246 p. — (Brill’s Inner Asian Library; Volume 21). — ISBN: 978-90-04-17165-7. This book covers new ground on the diffusion and transmission of geographical knowledge that occurred at critical junctures in the long history of the Silk Road. Much of twentieth-century scholarship on the Silk Road examined the ancient archaeological objects and medieval historical...
Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 1990. — Xxxi, 853 p. This volume covers the Isin-Larsa and Old Babylonian periods, a period marked initially by the struggle of two city-states, Isin and Larsa, for control over the land of Sumer in southern Babylonia. In the end the city-state of Babylon, under its energetic ruler Hammurabi, intervened. At an opportune...
Eisenbrauns, 2002. — 288 p. The fourth and final volume in the series Eblaitica: Essays on the Ebla Archives and Eblaite Language embodies eight cogent essays by a variety of specialists. Of particular interest in this issue is the second part of Michael Astour’s history of Ebla. Contributors include Alfonso Archi, Michael C. Astour, Cyrus H. Gordon, Gary A. Rendsburg, Robert...
Fourth Edition. — W. W. Norton & Company, 1997. — 345 p. — ISBN: 0-393-03942-0. The stories collected in the Hebrew Bible provide for many an essential and original vision of a moral and coherent universe. It is thus surprising to learn that these stories were not simply the product of a single culture, of Hebrew poets, prophets, and priests; they had strange and diverse...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2013. - 215 p. - (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 66). In Dinner at Dan, Jonathan S. Greer provides biblical and archaeological evidence for sacred feasting at the Levantine site of Tel Dan from the late 10th century - mid-8th century BCE. Biblical texts are argued to reflect a Yahwistic and traditional religious context for these feasts...
Routledge, 2006. — 517 p. — (Warfare and History). — ISBN: 978-0-415-25588-2. For many historians, military history began in Classical Greece. Chronologically, however, half of recorded military history occurred before the Greeks rose to military predominance. In this groundbreaking and fascinating study, William J. Hamblin synthesises current knowledge of early ancient Near...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-515931-8. The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert track, reaching from China to Rome. The reality was different--and far more interesting--as revealed in this new...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 372 p. This book investigates the founding and building of cities in the ancient Near East. The creation of new cities was imagined as an ideological project or a divine intervention in the political narratives and mythologies of Near Eastern cultures, often masking the complex processes behind the social production of urban space. During the...
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019. — x, 317 p. : illustrations, maps. South Arabia, an area encompassing all of today’s Yemen and neighboring regions in Saudi Arabia and Oman, is one of the least-known parts of the Near East. However, it is primarily due to its remoteness, coupled with the difficulty of access, that South Arabia remains...
Eisenbrauns, 2007. — 226 p. Representation of political power seems to have been necessary at all times in all complex urban societies. To secure order — to construct a certain social, ideological, religious, economic, and cultural stability — seems to be one of the main intentions of representation. When order breaks down or is threatened, political power comes under threat...
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2013. — 480 p. For almost three thousand years, Egypt and Mesopotamia were each ruled by the single sacred office of kingship. Though geographically near, these ancient civilizations were culturally distinct, and scholars have historically contrasted their respective conceptualizations of the ultimate authority,...
Routledge, 2001. — 336 p. — (Peoples of the Ancient World). — ISBN 0–415–19535–7. Long before Muhammad preached the religion of Islam, the inhabitants of his native Arabia had played an important role in world history as both merchants and warriors. Arabia and the Arabs provides the only up-to-date, one-volume survey of the region and its peoples from prehistory to the coming...
Springer, 2007. — 306 p. This survey of the ancient levels of lakes, rivers and the sea, as well as changes in the compositions of stalagmites and sediments reveals an astonishing correlation of climate changes with the emergence and collapse of civilizations in the Middle East. The authors conclude that climate change has been the decisive factor in the history surrounding the...
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2006 - 300 p. ISBN: 0195306198 In this book Richard Kalmin offers a thorough reexamination of rabbinic culture of late antique Babylonia. He shows how this culture was shaped in part by Persia on the one hand, and by Roman Palestine on the other. The mid fourth century CE in Jewish Babylonia was a period of particularly intense...
Columbia University Press, 2019. — 672 p. — ISBN: 978-0-231174-36-5. In the early modern world, the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal empires sprawled across a vast swath of the earth, stretching from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. The diverse and overlapping literate communities that flourished in these three empires left a lasting legacy on the...
Warszawa: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1971. — 163 s. Przełożył Franciszek Przebinda. Wstępem opatrzył Rudolf Ranoszek. Tytuł oryginału: Geschichte Und Kultur Altsyhiens. Horst Klengel, jeden z wybitnych niemieckich historyków Starożytnego Wschodu, przedstawia w niniejszej pracy w formie żywo napisanego popularnego wykładu mało znaną historię dawnej Syrii od czasów...
Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1992. — 263, [11] p. : maps. A handbook for the political history of prehellenistic Syria, informing on all pertinent sources and giving an outline of about two millennia of Syrian history. It offers a concise survey of the history of Syria from the first written testimonies to the time when the Orient was conquered by Alexander the Great. Each chapter...
Brill, 2008. — 601 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 29). This book examines modes of economic contribution in the ancient world through taxes, tribute, or so-called gifts. Specialists in the field of the ancient Near East, Egypt, classical Greece, Rome, and Israel, joined by an economic anthropologist, present a fresh evaluation of the textual and...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. — 605 p. — (Probleme der Ägyptologie 31). Edited by Gary N. Knoppers and Antoine Hirsch Major scholars in North America, Europe, and the Middle East provide a variety of fresh studies on the history, literature, religion, and art of Egypt, Israel, Phoenicia, and the rest of the ancient Mediterranean world. The first part of the book features...
Logos Verlag Berlin, 2010. — 386 p. Die vorliegende Studie verfolgt ein doppeltes Ziel: auf der einen Seite, die Frage der umstrittenen Datierung der ''phrygischen'', bzw. anatolisch/späthethitischen Skulpturen zu klären und auf der anderen, ihren Einfluss auf die archaische, griechische Plastik zu bestimmen. Gegenstand der Untersuchung sind Skulpturen männlicher und weiblicher...
Barcelona: Crítica, 2000. — 492 pág. Prólogo Abreviaturas Introducción El desarrollo de Estados y ciudades (c. 3000-c. 1600) Mesopotamia durante el tercer milenio a.C. Mesopotamia c. 2000-c.1600: los períodos Paleobabilónico y Paleoasirio Egipto desde la Dinastía I hasta la Dinastía XVII (c. 3100/3000-1552) Las grandes potencias (c. 1600-c. 1050) El Egipto imperial: El Imperio...
Trad. de Teófilo de Lozoya; Barcelona: Crítica, 2001 [1995]; 416 pags. Tercera parte: La transformación política y los grandes imperios (c. 1200-330); caps. 8-13 [Levante - Israel - Imperio Neoasirio - Anatolia - (neo)Babilonia - Egipto (post Imperio Nuevo) - Imperio Aqueménida].
Routledge, 1999. — 229 p. — (Who’s Who Series). — ISBN: 0-415-13230-4. What do we know of the real Nebuchadnezzar? Was there an historical precedent for the mythical Gilgamesh? Who were the Hittites? When did Isaiah preach? How did Jezebel get her reputation? These and many more questions are answered in this fascinating survey of the people who inhabited the Near East between...
Walter de Gruyter, 2014. — 289 p. — (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 4). Ugaritic literary and ritual studies have often neglected or even ignored the Akkadian material from the same archives, which can be used as a frame of reference for the Ugaritic texts. The aim of this work is to offer a comprehensive study of the consonantal (Ugaritic) as well as the syllabic...
Leiden/Köln: E.J. Brill, 1979. - 185 p. — ISBN: 90-04-05953-9 (Missing pp. 144-159, 184). The present survey of the evidence for transport by wheeled vehicle and on the ridden animal in the Near East covers Mesopotamia, Iran, the Levant, and Anatolia. Material from Transcaucasia, Egypt, and Cyprus is considered only when it complements or illuminates the areas of primary...
Oxbow Books, 2014. — 148 p. The city of Erbil, which now claims to be one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, lies on the rich alluvial plains at the foot of the piedmont of the Zagros mountains in a strategic position which from the earliest times made it a natural gateway between Iran and Mesopotamia. Within the context of ancient Mesopotamian...
Oxbow Books, 2014. — 148 p. The city of Erbil, which now claims to be one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, lies on the rich alluvial plains at the foot of the piedmont of the Zagros mountains in a strategic position which from the earliest times made it a natural gateway between Iran and Mesopotamia. Within the context of ancient Mesopotamian...
Two-volume set. — Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2006. — xxxii + 894 p. — ISBN: 978-1-57506-103-0. Ami Mazar has gained a reputation as one of the most prolific and reliable archaeologists doing work in Israel during the last 40 years. Not only has he participated in and directed excavations at many sites, his professional standards are of the first order, and what's more,...
Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. — 388 p. — ISBN: 0-203-45064-7. The Emergence of Civilisation is a major contribution to our understanding of the development of urban culture and social stratification in the Near Eastern region. Charles Maisels argues that our present assumptions about state formation, based on nineteenth century speculations, are wrong. His investigation...
Left Coast Press, 2013. - 564 p. The discovery of 17,000 tablets at the mid-third millennium BC site of Ebla in Syria has revolutionized the study of the ancient Near East. This is the first major English-language volume describing the multidisciplinary archaeological research at Ebla. Using an innovative regional landscape approach, the 29 contributions to this expansive...
Routledge, 2003. — 376 p. Written by the French Egyptologist who was Director of Archaeology for the French government in Egypt, this book is a complete account of the ancient worlds of Egypt and Assyria. All aspects of society, from royalty to peasantry, religion to death, war to peace are described here in great detail. Clearly and enthusiastically written, it is like...
Brill Academic Pub, 2012. - 315 p. - (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 58). Since the 1990s there has been an emphasis on the study of ancient Israelite prophecy in its ancient Near East context. Prophecy in the Ancient Near East is the first book-length study that compares prophecy in the ancient Near East by focusing on texts from Mari, the Neo-Assyrian State...
The Scarecrow Press, 2007. — 497 p. — (Historical Dictionaries of Ancient Civilizations and Historical Eras, No. 18). — ISBN: 978-0-8108-5522-9. Anyone who has seen the stunning ruins at Angkor, Bagan, and Barabudur will readily understand why Southeast Asia is the host of so many United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization World Heritage Sites. As...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 168 p. — (Very Short Introductions). The phrase "silk road" evokes vivid scenes of merchants leading camel caravans across vast stretches to trade exotic goods in glittering Oriental bazaars, of pilgrims braving bandits and frozen mountain passes to spread their faith across Asia. Looking at the reality behind these images, this Very Short...
Oxford University Press, 2009 - 400 p. The world's first known empires took shape in Mesopotamia between the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, beginning around 2350 BCE. The next 2,500 years witnessed sustained imperial growth, bringing a growing share of humanity under the control of ever-fewer states. Two thousand years ago, just four major powers...
Brill, 2013. — 604 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East; volume 64). — ISBN: 978-90-04-25279-0. The Luwians inhabited Anatolia and Syria in late second through early first millennium BC. They are mainly known through their Indo-European language, preserved on cuneiform tablets and hieroglyphic stelae. However, where the Luwians lived or came from, how they...
Brill, 2014. - 1095 p. - (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 62). 'Archaeology, Artifacts and Antiquities of the Ancient Near East' follows the evolution of the author’s scholarly work and interests and is divided into several categories of interrelated fields. The first part deals primarily with excavations and associated artifacts, issues in ancient geography and...
Brill, 2013. — 350 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies, Book 106). The historical and cultural role of the Aramaeans in ancient Syria can hardly be overestimated. Thus The Aramaeans in Ancient Syria gives precise and up-to-date information on different aspects of Aramaean culture. To that end, history, society, economy and law, language and script, literature, religion, art and...
Montvert Publications, 1997. — 81 p. Bactrian warfare within the chronological limits proposed has never been comprehensively examined as a whole. The aim of this work is to fill this gap by using all of the available source material to reconstruct the history and development of such fundamental components of warfare as martial equipment and costume, armed forces, battle...
Montvert Publications, 1997. — 66 p. Bactrian warfare within the chronological limits proposed has never been comprehensively examined as a whole. The aim of this work is to fill this gap by using all of the available source material to reconstruct the history and development of such fundamental components of warfare as martial equipment and costume, armed forces, battle...
University of Chicago Press, 1990. — 224 p. Hans J. Nissen here provides a much-needed overview of 7000 years of development in the ancient Near East from the beginning of settled life to the formation of the first regional states. His approach to the study of Mesopotamian civilization differs markedly from conventional orientations, which impose a sharp division between...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1948. — 670 p. At the foot of the Mount of Mercy in southeastern Persia, Darius the Great built his capital, Persepolis — symbol of Persian glory for two centuries. At its height the Achaemenid Empire, with its power centered in this city, reached from the Nile and Greece eastward to India. Dominating the major travel routes between...
University of Michigan Press, 2007. — 284 p. Intended for readers seeking insight into the day-to-day life of some of the world's most ancient peoples, Life and Thought in the Ancient Near East presents brief, fascinating explorations of key aspects of the civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Palestine, Asia Minor, and Iran. With vignettes on agriculture, architecture, crafts...
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016. — (Philippika 93). — X, 144 p. — ISBN 978-3-447-10568-2; e-ISBN PDF 978-3-447-19481-5. Preface. Abbreviations. Introduction. Historical Overview. Sardis and the Archaeology of Lydia. The Lydian Language. Lydian Inscriptions. The Lydian Civilisation. From Croesus to Scrooge McDuck.
Routledge, 2016. — 246 p. Syria-Palestine in the Late Bronze Age presents an explicitly anthropological perspective on politics and social relationships. An anthropological reading of the textual and epigraphic remains of the time allows us to see how power was constructed and political subordination was practised and expressed. Syria-Palestine in the Late Bronze Age identifies...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 432 p. Amanda Podany here takes readers on a vivid tour through a thousand years of ancient Near Eastern history, from 2300 to 1300 BCE, paying particular attention to the lively interactions that took place between the great kings of the day. Allowing them to speak in their own words, Podany reveals how these leaders and their ambassadors...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 278 p. — (Very Short Introductions). The ancient Near East is known as the "cradle of civilization"--and for good reason. Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia were home to an extraordinarily rich and successful culture. Indeed, it was a time and place of earth-shaking changes for humankind: the beginnings of writing and law, kingship and...
De Gruyter, 2015. - 259 p. Two topics of current critical interest, agency and materiality, are here explored in the context of their intersection with the divine. Specific case studies, emphasizing the ancient Near East but including treatments also of the European Middle Ages and ancient Greece, elucidate the nature and implications of this intersection: What is the...
3rd Edition with Supplement. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969. — 743 p. This anthology brought together the most important historical, legal, mythological, liturgical, and secular texts of the ancient Near East, with the purpose of providing a rich contextual base for understanding the people, cultures, and literature of the Old Testament. A scholar of religious...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 773 p. — (Oxford Handbooks). — ISBN 456–2–34–477582–3. The cuneiform script, the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia, was witness to one of the world's oldest literate cultures. For over three millennia, it was the vehicle of communication from (at its greatest extent) Iran to the Mediterranean, Anatolia to Egypt. The Oxford Handbook of...
New York – London: Routledge, 2003. – 352 p. – (Routledge Classical Monographs). ISBN 0-203-32192-8 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-34195-3 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0–415–30596–9 (Print Edition) Raised and educated in Rome, Juba II (48 BC – AD 23) was sent to uphold Roman interests in northwest Africa as ruler of the new client kingdom of Mauretania. Together with his wife...
Rose Publishing, 2015. — 250 p. NEW Anniversary Edition of Rose Book of Bible Charts, Maps and Timelines, Volume 1 covers over 200 Bible topics and features MORE pages, 6 EXTRA topics, updated information, and a bonus 24' fold-out on Jesus' Family Tree. The #1 Bible Reference book celebrates its 10th anniversary with an updated 230-page edition that features more Bible maps,...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). Trouble in the West provides the first full and continuous account of the Persian-Egyptian War, a conflict that continued for nearly the two-hundred-year duration of the Persian Empire. Despite its status as the largest of all ancient Persian military enterprises- including any aimed at Greece- this conflict...
Routledge, 2009. — 432 p. — (Routledge World Archaeology). — ISBN: 978–0–415–48123–6. Students of antiquity often see ancient Turkey as a bewildering array of cultural complexes. Ancient Turkey brings together in a coherent account the diverse and often fragmented evidence, both archaeological and textual, that forms the basis of our knowledge of the development of Anatolia...
Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, 1979. — 52 p. — (Collection de la Maison de l'Orient. Hors série. Année 1979, Volume 3). Avant-Propos, par le Docteur Afif Bahnassi, Directeur Général des Antiquités et des Musées de Syrie. Introduction, par le Professeur C.F.A. Schaeffer-Forrer, Membre de l'Institut. Les périodes anciennes. Ougarit. Urbanisme et...
Brill Academic Pub, 2010. — 603 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 32). "The Furniture from Tumulus MM" is a study of the furniture from the largest tomb at Gordion, Turkey, excavated in 1957 by the University of Pennsylvania Museum. The tomb dates to the eighth century BC and is thought to be the burial of the great Phrygian king Midas or his father. The...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2005. - 525 p. ISBN: 0631232931. A Companion to the Ancient Near East offers students and general readers a comprehensive overview of Near Eastern civilization from the Bronze Age to the conquests of Alexander the Great. Covers the civilizations of the Sumerians, Hittites, Babylonians, Assyrians, Israelites and Persians. Places particular emphasis on social and...
London ‒ New York: Continuum, 2008. – 225 p. ISBN 978-1-84725-034-6 The ancient sources for the life and times of Zenobia are sparse, and the surviving literary works are biased towards the Roman point of view, much as are the sources for two other famous women who challenged Rome, Cleopatra and Boudica. In Empress Zenobia, Pat Southern seeks to tell the other side of the...
Brill Academic Pub, 2013. - 158 p. - (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 63). Societies, both ancient and modern, have frequently celebrated and proclaimed their military victories through overt public demonstrations. In the ancient world, however, the most famous examples of this come from a single culture and period - Rome in the final years of the Roman Republic...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. — 1174 p. — ISBN 978-0-19-537614-2. The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia is a unique blend of comprehensive overviews on archaeological, philological, linguistic, and historical issues at the forefront of Anatolian scholarship in the twenty-first century. Anatolia is home to early complex societies and great empires, and was the...
3rd Edition — Routledge, 2017. — 486 p. Organized by the periods, kingdoms, and empires generally used in ancient Near Eastern political history, Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture interlaces social and cultural history with a political narrative. Charts, figures, maps, and historical documents introduce the reader to the material world of the ancient Near East, including...
Brill Academic Pub, 2012. - 315 p. - (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 56). Since the 1990s there has been an emphasis on the study of ancient Israelite prophecy in its ancient Near East context. Prophecy in the Ancient Near East is the first book-length study that compares prophecy in the ancient Near East by focusing on texts from Mari, the Neo-Assyrian State...
De Gruyter, 2016. — 706 p. Women in the Ancient Near East offers a lucid account of the daily life of women in Mesopotamia from the third millennium BCE until the beginning of the Hellenistic period. The book systematically presents the lives of women emerging from the available cuneiform material and discusses modern scholarly opinion. Stol’s book is the first full-scale...
DeGruyter, 2016. — 696 p. Women in the Ancient Near East offers a lucid account of the daily life of women in Mesopotamia from the third millennium BCE until the beginning of the Hellenistic period. The book systematically presents the lives of women emerging from the available cuneiform material and discusses modern scholarly opinion. Stol’s book is the first full-scale...
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2009. — 304 p. For decades, scholars have struggled to understand the complex relationship between pastoral nomadic tribes and sedentary peoples of the Near East. The Oriental Institute's fourth annual post-doc seminar (March 7-8, 2008), Nomads, Tribes, and the State in the Ancient Near East, brought together archaeologists,...
Brill, 2025. — 638 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1. The Near and Middle East 185). In Kizzuwatna, Andrea Trameri presents a history of the kingdom of Kizzuwatna, located in Cilicia (southern Anatolia), from its origins to the fall of the Hittite Empire. Encompassing both philological and archaeological evidence in the discussion, this book is the first...
Second Edition. — Blackwell Publishing, 2007. — 341 p. — (Blackwell History of the Ancient World). — ISBN: 978-1-4051-4910-5. If the history of the Near East has always seemed a little daunting and confusing, this book by one of the best known writers on the subject should show you the light at the end of the tunnel. Beginning c.3000 BC with the advent of the first writing...
3rd Edition — Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 432 p. Incorporating the latest scholarly research, the third edition of A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000–323 BC presents a comprehensive overview of the multicultural civilizations of the ancient Near East. - Integrates the most up-to-date research, and includes a richer selection of supplementary materials - Addresses the wide...
3rd Edition — Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 432 p. Incorporating the latest scholarly research, the third edition of A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000–323 BC presents a comprehensive overview of the multicultural civilizations of the ancient Near East. - Integrates the most up-to-date research, and includes a richer selection of supplementary materials - Addresses the wide...
Sanz y Torres, 2003. — 256 p. Este libro es un manual sobre la Historia Antigua del Próximo Oriente y Egipto sin precedentes en el panorama de la Universidad española, en la que viene a llenar el amplio vacío largo tiempo existente sobre uno de campos de estudio más atrayentes del Próximo Oriente Antiguo, así como de los de mayor interés internacional: el estudio de las gentes...
Sanz y Torres, 2004. — 442 p. Este libro es un manual sobre la Historia Antigua del Próximo Oriente y Egipto sin precedentes en el panorama de la Universidad española, en la que viene a llenar el amplio vacío largo tiempo existente sobre uno de campos de estudio más atrayentes del Próximo Oriente Antiguo, así como de los de mayor interés internacional: el estudio de las gentes...
Eisenbrauns, 2012. — 848 p. In July, 2008, the International Association for Assyriology met in Würzburg, Germany, for 5 days to deliver and listen to papers on the theme "Organization, Representation, and Symbols of Power in the Ancient Near East". This volume, the proceedings of the conference, contains 70 of the papers read at the 54th annual Rencontre, including most of the...
Piscataway (NJ), Gorgias Press, 2007. — 230 p. Digest of articles. A New Look at Ugaritic Šdmt. The Titles of the Ugaritic Storm-God. The Pruning of the Vine in KTU 1.23. Understanding Polytheism: Structure and Dynamic in a West Semitic. Pantheon. Religion at Ugarit: an overview. Epic in Ugaritic Literature. May Horon Smash Your Head!: a Curse Formula from Ugarit. Word of Tree...
McGraw-Hill. 1963. — 484 p. — ASIN B0007DK08C. This book-which is a first attempt to discuss all the facets of the art of warfare its implements techniques and strategy in all Biblical lands-requires a few explanatory words as to its structure and method of presentation to the reader. Although the book discusses a variety of subjects, each of which is in a sense independent, it...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1985. — xv + 141 p. — (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization (SAOC); No 41). — ISBN: 0-918986-41-9; ISSN: 0081-7554. The literate civilizations of the ancient Near East preserve some of the earliest records of such basic political institutions as the city, national state, and empire. Those interested in such phenomena will welcome...
Gorgias Press, 2014. - 308 p. - (Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East 9). Tell en-Nasbeh (biblical Mizpah of Benjamin) was excavated on a grand scale by William F. Badè of Pacific School of Religion between 1926 and 1935. His team uncovered approximately two-thirds of this eight-acre site, providing an unmatched view of a typical rural Israelite town in the hill country in...
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