Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture
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Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture

  1. 526 pages
  2. English
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Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture

About this book

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 comprehensive introduction to the history and culture of the Near East, from prehistory and the beginnings of farming to the fall of Achaemenid Persia. Through text, images, maps, and historical documents, readers discover the material, social, and political world of cultures from Egypt to India, allowing students to see how these intertwined cultures interacted throughout history. Now fully updated and incorporating the latest scholarship on society, religion, and the economy, this book highlights the changing fortunes of these great civilizations. A special feature of this book is its many "Debating the Evidence" sections, where the reader becomes familiar with scholarly disputes concerning the interpretation of textual and archaeological evidence on a variety of topics and case studies.

The fourth edition of Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture remains a crucial textbook for undergraduates and general readers studying the ancient Near East, particularly the political and social history of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, as well as students of archaeology and biblical studies who are working on the region.

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Yes, you can access Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture by William H. Stiebing Jr.,Susan N. Helft in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Ancient History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780367744830
eBook ISBN
9781000880663
Edition
4
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of figures
  8. List of maps
  9. List of documents
  10. List of tables
  11. Introduction: Studying the Ancient Near East
  12. 1 Near Eastern Prehistory
  13. 2 The Dawn of the State in Western Asia
  14. 3 The First Mesopotamian Empires
  15. 4 Urbanism and Statehood in Wider Western Asia
  16. 5 Egypt to the End of the Old Kingdom
  17. 6 The Old Babylonian Period and Its Aftermath
  18. 7 The Rise and Fall of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom
  19. 8 The Era of Egypt’s Pre-Eminence
  20. 9 The End of the Bronze Age
  21. 10 The Early Iron Age—Recovery and Transformation
  22. 11 Mesopotamian Supremacy
  23. 12 The Achaemenid Persian Empire
  24. 13 Ancient Israel and Judah
  25. Afterword: The Legacy of the Ancient Near East
  26. Index