The Age of Agade is the first book-length study of the Akkadian period of Mesopotamian
history, which saw the rise and fall of the world's first empire during more than a century of …

This volume presents the original texts and annotated translations of a collection of
Mesopotamian wisdom compositions and related texts of the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500 …

There has been substantial discussion about the presence of" schools" in Iron Age Israel
(that is, Israel and Judah), with some scholars affirming that there were schools and some …

Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture offers an historical overview of the civilizations of
the ancient Near East spanning ten thousand years of history. This new edition is a …

In this book, Aaron A. Burke explores the evolution of Amorite identity in the Near East from
ca. 2500-1500 BC. He sets the emergence of a collective identity for the Amorites, one of the …

Among the best-known and most esteemed people known from antiquity is the Babylonian
king Hammurabi. His fame and reputation are due to the collection of laws written under his …

Ce livre présente une collection de tablettes mathématiques d'époque paléo-babylonienne
(début du deuxième millénaire avant notre ère) qui ont été exhumées à la fin du XIXe siècle …

In the first half of the 2d millennium BCE, translation occasionally depicted semantically
incongruous correspondences. Such cases reflect ancient scribes substantiating their …

The purpose of this study is to argue that formal education had multiple, independent origins
in the emergence of ancient civilizations, for universally the same reasons. It uses socio …

This book initiates the reader into the study of Akkadian literature from ancient Babylonia
and Assyria. With this one relatively short volume, the novice reader will develop the literary …