Originally published: Locust Valley, N.Y.: J. J. Augustin, 1975.
The volume, which incorporates revisions and additions by the author and a transcription of the cuneiform, includes every example of Sumerian, Assyrian, and Babylonian historiographic literature, and magisterial essays on the genre and on ...
This engaging and informative introduction to the the Babylonians were important not only because of their many historical contacts with ancient Israel but because they and their predecessors, the Sumerians, established the philosophical ...
Esarhaddon, King of Assyria continues Josette Elayi's narrative journey through the lives of the kings of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
A critical resource for students and scholars of the ancient Near East and the Bible Josette Elayi’s Sennacherib, King of Assyria is the only biography of Sargon II’s famous son.
Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society
This volume publishes twenty-papers on the history of Assyria and Babylonia as a Festschrift for A K (Kirk) Grayson.
Early Assyriologists were lured to Babylonian studies by the light which cuneiform text shed on ancient history and the Bible, and for later scholars this is still the attraction.
This new examination of the region of Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon (605-562 BC) includes revised interpretations of the Babylonian Chronicles for his reign, especially for the years of the campaigns against the West and the capture of ...
This book, filled with amazing facts and photographs, describes what life was like for ancient Mesopotamians.
In Study on the Synchronistic King List from Ashur, CHEN Fei reconstructs the texts of the list, interprets the format of the list, and analyzes some problems, especially the purpose of its compilation.