The Amorites: a political history of Mesopotamia in the early second millennium BCE

Nathan Wasserman, Yigal Bloch

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Abstract

"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"--
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationLeiden; Boston
PublisherBrill
Number of pages570
ISBN (Electronic)9004547312, 9789004547315
StatePublished - 2023

Publication series

NameCulture and history of the ancient Near East
PublisherBrill
Volumevolume 133

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