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The Amorites: A Political History of Mesopotamia in the Early Second Millennium BCE

By Nathan Wasserman , Yigal Bloch

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2023
ISBN
9004546588, 9789004546585
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
247 MB (258516783 bytes)
Series
Culture and History of the Ancient Near East; 133
Pages
570\588
Time added
2024-03-02 16:59:28

Description

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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