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

The Amorites: A Political History of Mesopotamia in the Early Second Millennium BCE
ISBN-10
9004547312
ISBN-13
9789004547315
Category
History
Pages
588
Language
English
Published
2023-07-24
Publisher
BRILL
Authors
Nathan Wasserman, Yigal Bloch

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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