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Informationen zum Autor Mark W. Chavalas is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. He has edited or authored six books, including most recently Life and Culture in the Ancient Near East (2002), Mesopotamia and the Bible (2002) and Bible Background Commentary of the Old Testament (2000). He is currently on the Board of Trustees of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Klappentext This book provides the reader with the primary sources for the history of the ancient Near East. Covering the period from the earliest historical and literary texts (ca. 2700 BC) to the advent of Alexander the Great (331 BC), it presents new translations of Mesopotamian and ancient Near Eastern historiographic texts, and other related materials. An opening chapter sets out the themes of the book and discusses the difficulties of translating cuneiform texts into English, as well as the difficulty of reconstructing ancient Near Eastern history from textual sources. Texts featured in the main body of the book range from the code of Hammurabi to the Assyrian royal inscriptions. For each text, a detailed commentary is provided, placing it in its historical and cultural context. A map helps to orient the reader. Zusammenfassung This book presents new translations of Mesopotamian and ancient Near Eastern historiographic texts! providing the reader with the primary sources for the history of the ancient Near East. * A primary source book presenting new translations of Mesopotamian and ancient Near Eastern historiographic texts! and other related materials. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. Notes on Contributors. Illustrations. Introduction (Mark W. Chavalas). 1. Sumerian Early Dynastic Royal Inscriptions (Glenn Magid). 2. Old Akkadian Period Texts (Benjamin Studevent-Hickman and Christopher Morgan). 3. Late Third Millennium BCE Sumerian Texts (Richard Averbeck! Benjamin Studevent-Hickman! and Piotr Michalowski). 4. Old Babylonian Period Inscriptions (Frans van Koppen). 5. Miscellaneous Old Babylonian Period Documents (Frans van Koppen). 6. Late Bronze Age Inscriptions from Babylon! Assyria! and Syro-Palestine (Frans von Koppen! Kyle Greenwood! Christopher Morgan! Brent A. Strawn! Jeff Cooley! Bill T. Arnold! Eva von Dassow! and Yoram Cohen). 7. Correspondence from El-Amarna in Egypt (Eva von Dassow and Kyle Greenwood). 8. Hittite Historical Texts I (Gary Beckman! Petra Goedegebuure! Joost Hazenbos! and Yoram Cohen). 9. Hittite Historical Texts II (Kathleen R. Mineck! Theo van den Hout! and Harry A. Hoffner! Jr.). 10. Neo-Assyrian and Syro-Palestinian Texts I (Sarah C. Melville! Brent A. Strawn! Brian B. Schmidt! and Scott Noegel). 11. Neo-Assyrian and Syro-Palestinian Texts II (Brent A. Strawn! Sarah C. Melville! Kyle Greenwood! and Scott Noegel). 12. Neo-Babylonian Period Texts from Babylonia and Syro-Palestine (Benjamin Studevent-Hickman! Sarah C. Melville! and Scott Noegel). 13. Achaemenid Period Historical Texts Concerning Mesopotamia (Bill T. Arnold and Piotr Michalowski). Indexes. ...
