Life and Thought in the Ancient near East.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Yardstick of Time -- Introduction -- Vignettes -- Mesopotamia -- In the Tablet Houses of Mesopotamia -- New Year's Day in Babylon -- Decoding the Hammurabi Law Code -- On the Lighter Side of Mesopotamia: A Glimpse into Sumerian Palace and Temple Household Life -- Wild Animals and Game Parks -- Archaeology: The "Cold Case File" of the Historian -- Egypt -- Theme and Variations on Herodotus's Statement That "Egypt Is the Gift of the Nile -- On the Essential Cosmic Rhythms of Ancient Egyptian Life -- The Palestinian Corridor -- The Seagoing Phoenicians -- From Tribal Coalition to Statehood in Ancient Israel -- Ancient Persia and a Tale of Two Cities: Athens and Jerusalem in the Fifth Century -- On Nomads and Nomadism -- Anatolia -- An Old Assyrian Trading Enterprise in Asia Minor -- On Chariot Warfare -- Some Observations on Ancient Near Eastern Treaties -- When Princes Squabble: A Royal Dispute in Central Anatolia -- Some Literary Observations -- On the Greatness of Gilgamesh as an Ancient Near Eastern Epic -- Reflections on Ancient Near Eastern Myth -- Wisdom Literature -- Translating an Old Babylonian Poem: "Prayer to the Gods of Night" -- Background -- Physical Background: Landforms, Climate, and Hydrology of the Near East -- Historical Background: The Setting of Prehistoric Cultural Development in Mesopotamia and Egypt -- Civic Background: Cities and Gods in the Ancient Near East-Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Israel -- Especially for Students -- Languages and Literature -- A Brief Note on Languages -- A General View of Ancient Near Eastern Literature -- Decipherments -- The Decipherment of Cuneiform Writing -- The Discovery of Hittite Civilization and the Decipherment of Hittite -- Conclusion: Who Will Know about Us When We're Gone?.

A Summary of Culture Growth in Mesopotamia and Egypt -- Methodological Fallacies in the Study of Ancient Near Eastern Religion -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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