The ancient Near East : historical sources in translation / [print]
edited by Mark W. Chavalas.
- Malden, Massachusetts ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., (c)2006.
- xx, 445 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
- Blackwell sourcebooks in ancient history .
Sumerian early dynastic royal inscriptions Old Akkadian period texts Late third millennium BCE Sumerian texts Old Babylonian period inscriptions Miscellaneous old Babylonian period documents Late Bronze Age inscriptions from Babylon, Assyria, and Syro-Palestine Correspondence from El-Amarna in Egypt Hittite historical texts I Hittite historical texts II Neo-Assyrian and Syro-Palestinian texts I Neo-Assyrian and Syro-Palestinian texts II Neo-Babylonian period texts from Babylonia and Syro-Palestine Achaemenid period historical texts concerning Mesopotamia Glenn Magid -- Benjamin Studevent-Hickman and Christopher Morgan -- Richard Averbeck, Benjamin Studevent-Hickman, and Piotr Michalowski -- Frans van Koppen -- Frans van Koppen -- Frans van Koppen ... [and others] -- Eva von Dassow and Kyle Greenwood -- Gary Beckman ... [and others] -- Kathleen R. Mineck, Theovan den Hout, and Harry A. Hoffner, Jr. -- Sarah C. Melville ... [and others] -- Brent A. Strawn ... [and others] -- Benjamin Studevent-Hickman, Sarah C. Melville, and Scott Noegel -- Bill T. Arnold and Piotr Michalowski.
"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 B.C.) to the advent of Alexander the Great (331 B.C.), it presents new translations of Mesopotamian and ancient Near Eastern historiographic texts, and other related materials."--Jacket.