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

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Wasserman, Nathan, author

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"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 publis...

"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"--

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