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Kuhrt,
Amelie The Ancient
Near East c.3000-330 BC (Routledge History of the Ancient World, Fergus Miller [genera] editorial,
London & New York: Routledge, 1995.
*Sasson J.,
Civilizations
of the Ancient Near East 2, 807-817, 831-915; 817-827,9
17-979.
*Hallo W. W & Simpson, W. K.,
The Ancient Near East. A History (2nd
edition),
Harcourte Brace & Co., 1998, chapters 2-3; 4-5.
*Roux G.,
Ancient
Iraq (3rd
edition) Penguin [ISBN 0-1401 2523-X1, Chapters 8-13; 14-24.
*Roaf
M., Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East,
78-89,
96-103, 108-23;
132-50, 158-75, 176-91, 198-215.
~‘Sasson,
J., Civilizations of the Ancient Near East 2,
679-748;
749-89.
*Hallo W. W & Simpson, W. K., The Ancient Near East. A History (2nd
edition),
Harcourte Brace & Co., 1998, chapters 8-10; 11-12.
‘The Chronology of the Ancient Near East in the
Second Millennium B.C.E.,’ Patriarchs (World History of the Jewish People 2, ed. by B. Mazar) 63-101.
*“‘Chronology
of the OT,” Interpreter's Dictionary
of the Bible 1, 580-589.
“The Chronology of the First Temple
Period,” The Age of the
Monarchies:
Political History (World History of the Jewish People 4/1 ,ed. by A.Malamat),
44-60.
“Israel, History of,”
Interpreter’s
Dictionary of the Bible 2, 750-761.
“Egyptian Relations With Canaan,”
Anchor Bible Dictionary 2, 399-407.
“Canaan in the Patriarchal Age,”
Patriarchs (World History of the Jewish People2, ed. by B. Mazar), 169-187.
“The Historical
Development,” and “The Egyptian
Decline in Canaan and the Sea-Peoples,” Judges (World
History of the Jewish People 3, ed. by B. Mazar), 3-22; 23-38.
“Israel: Fall and Exile,” “The History of Judah
from Hezekiah to Josiah ,“The Last Years of the Kingdom of
Judah,” and
“Assyrian Dominion in
Palestine,” ibid.,
180-191;
193-204; 205-221 ;276-289.
Hoerth, A. J.,
Peoples of the
Old Testament World, Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1998.
Wiseman, D. J.
Peoples of Old
Testament Times. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973.
*“Sumer Sumerians,”
Encyclopedia Judaica 15, 512-15;
Anchor Bible
Dictionary 6,
231-37.
*
“Writing,”
Interpreter’s
Dictionary of the Bible 4, 909-911.
Kramer, S. N.,
The Sumerians:
Their History, Culture and Character. University
of Chicago Press, 1963
*“The History of Anatolia and of the Hittite
Empire,” CANE 2, 1085-1105
*“Hittite History, Religion, Literature,
in OT,” Anchor Bible
Dictionary 3,
219-33.
*“Reflections of a Late Bronze Age Empire: The
Hittites,” Biblical Archaeologist
52 (1989) 62-142.
*“The Kingdom of Mitanni
in Second Millennium Mesopotamia,” CANE
2 1243-1254
*“Hurrians,”
Anchor
Bible Dictionary 3, 335-38.
“Hurrians and Hittites,”
At the Dawn
of Civilization, (World History of the Jewish People 1, edited by E. A. Speiser),
153-161.
Gurney, 0. R., The Hittites. Pelican
Books, 1962.
*"Ebla: A Third Millennium
City-State in Ancient Syria," CANE
2, 1219-29.
‘*“The
Ebla Tablets: An Interim Perspective,” Biblical Archaeologist
43 (1980) 76-87.
*Literary Sources for the History of Palestine and
Syria,” Biblical Archaeologist
47 (1984) 6-16
Pettinato. G., The Archives of
Ebb. Doubleday
& Co., 1981
*“Amorite Tribes and Nations of Second Millennium
Western Asia,” CANE
2,
1231-41.
*“The Amorite Migrations,”
Man in Retrospect. Fifty Years of Marl and
Man Studies (ed.
G. D. Young), 233-241.
*“Ebla and the Amorites,”
Eblaitica: Essays on the Ebla Archives and
Eblaite Language 3, 83-104.
*“Ugarit: A Second Millennium Kingdom on the
Mediterranean Coast,” CANE
2, 1255-65
*“Canaanite Inscriptions and the Story of the
Alphabeth,” Patriarchs (World
History of the Jewish People 2), 24-34.
*Greenfield J. C., “The Hebrew Bible and Canaanite
Literature, “Literary
Guide to the Bible,545-60.
“Remembering
Ugarit,” Biblical
Archaeology
Review 9 (1983) 54-75.
“The Role of the Canaanites in the History of
Civilization,” The
Bible and the Ancient Near East
(ed. G. E.
Wright), 328-362.
*“The Phoenicians,”
CANE 2, 1321-1333.
Harden, D.,
The
Phoenicians. Praeger,
1963.
The
'Sea Peoples' and the Philistines of
Ancient Palestine,” CANE
2, 1267-79.
*“The Philistines,”
Biblical
Archaeology Review 8 (1982) )Q.44
*“Aramean Tribes and
the Nations of the First Millennium
Western Asia “ CANE
2, 1281-1293.
*“A Statue from Syria with Assyrian and Aramaic
Inscriptions.” Biblical Archaeologist 45/3
(1982) 135-141.
*“Neighbors on the East, “Tire Age of the Monarchies: Political
History, 247-275.
“Ammon,”
Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible IL 108-114.
*“Moab,
Anchor Bible Dictionary 4, 882-893.
*“Edom.”
Anchor Bible Dictionary 2, 287-301.
*“New
Light on the Edomites,
“Biblical
Archaeology Review 14 (1989) 28-41.
A.Dearman,
Studies in the Mesha Inscription and Moab (1989).
*
“Semitic
Languages,”
Encyclopedia Judaica 14149-1157 or “Languages,
‘Anchor Bible
Dictionary 4, 155-170.
“Linguistic
Data,” At the Dawn of Civilization, 99-134
*
“The Northwest
Semitic Languages,”
Patriarchs,
102-124
*“The
Hebrew Language in its Northwest Semitic Background,” The
Bible and the Ancient Near
East (ed. G.E. Wright), 54-72
“The
Writing and Language of Ebla,” The
Archives of Ebla, 54-66.
Greenfield,
J. C., “Amurrite. Ugaritic, and Canaanite,” Proceedings
of the International Conference Of
Semitic Studies (Jerusalem, 1965
[1969]),
1-10.
Mari
Nuzi
Ugarit
El Amarna
Ebla
Entrées
in:
Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East.
Interprete
Anchor Bible
Dictionary
Ancient
Near Eastern legal texts
Ancient
Near Eastern wisdom texts
Ancient Near Eastern
love songs
Ancient Near Eastern
lamentations
Ancient Near Eastern
historical texts
Ancient Near Eastern treaties
Ancient Near Eastern
myths and epics
Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions
Ugaritic texts
H.
Walton, Ancient Israelite Literature in its Cultural Context, Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1989.
J.
B. Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old
Testament (3rd
edition or 2nd edition and supplement).
B. Foster, Before
the Muses (2
vols.), Bethesda: CDLPress, 1996 (2nd
ed.)
J.Sasson, Civilizations
of the Ancient Near East 4.
W. W. Hallo, The Context of Scripture, 1, 2.
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