The Amorites: a political history of Mesopotamia in the early second millennium BCE
"This study of the political history of Mesopotamia - today's Iraq and Syria - in the Old Babylonian period (ca. 2000-1600 BCE) is the first comprehensive historical synthesis of this kind published in English after many decades. Based on numerous written sources in Sumerian and Akkadian -...
| Summary: | "This study of the political history of Mesopotamia - today's Iraq and Syria - in the Old Babylonian period (ca. 2000-1600 BCE) is the first comprehensive historical synthesis of this kind published in English after many decades. Based on numerous written sources in Sumerian and Akkadian - royal inscriptions, letters, law collections, economic records, etc. - and on up-to-date research, it presents the region's political history in a meticulous geographic and chronological manner. This allows the interested academic and non-academic reader an in-depth view into the scene of ancient Mesopotamia ruled by competing dynasties of West Semitic (Amorite) origin, with a complex web of political and tribal connections between them"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index The present monograph originates from the authors' 2019 volume "The Amorites: Mesopotamia in the Early Second Millenium BCE", (Jerusalem: Carmal), published in Hebrew (Preface) |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 570 Seiten), Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9789004547315 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004547315 |
