Research Catalog

Title

The Oxford history of the ancient Near East / edited by Karen Radner, Nadine Moeller, D. T. Potts.

Publication

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]-[2023].

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Details

Additional Authors

• Radner, Karen
• Moeller, Nadine
• Potts, Daniel T.

Description

5 volumes : illustrations, maps; 22 cm

Summary

"The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East offers a comprehensive and fully illustrated survey of the history of Egypt and Western Asia (Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia and Iran) in five volumes, from the emergence of complex states to the conquest of Alexander of Great. The authors represent a highly international mix of leading academics whose expertise brings alive the people, places and times of the remote past. The emphasis lies firmly on the political and social histories of the states and communities under investigation. The individual chapters present the key textual and material sources underpinning the historical reconstruction, giving special attention to the most recent archaeological finds and how they have impacted our interpretation. The first volume covers the long period from the mid-tenth millennium to the late third millennium BC and presents the history of the Near East in ten chapters "From the Beginnings to Old Kingdom Egypt and the Dynasty of Akkad". Key topics include the domestication of animals and plants, the first permanent settlements, the subjugation and appropriation of the natural environment, the emergence of complex states and belief systems, the invention of the earliest writing systems and the wide-ranging trade networks that linked diverse population groups across deserts, mountains and oceans"--

Series Statement

Oxford History of the Ancient Near East

Alternative Title

• From the beginnings to Old Kingdom Egypt and the dynasty of Akkad.
• From the End of the Third Millennium BC to the Fall of Babylon.
• From the Hyksos to the Late Second Millennium BC.
• Age of Assyria.
• Age of Persia.

Subject

• Antiquities
• Civilization
• History > Sources
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Egypt
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Middle East
• Egypt > Civilization
• Egypt > Antiquities
• Egypt > History > Sources
• Middle East > Civilization
• Middle East > Antiquities
• Middle East > History > Sources
• Assyria > History > Neo-Assyrian Empire, 912-609 B.C
• Iran > History > To 640
• Égypte > Civilisation
• Égypte > Antiquités
• Moyen-Orient > Civilisation
• Moyen-Orient > Antiquités
• Moyen-Orient > Histoire > Sources
• Égypte > Histoire > Sources
• Iran > Histoire > Jusqu'à 651
• Egypt
• Middle East
• Middle East

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Volume 1. From the beginnings to Old Kingdom Egypt and the dynasty of Akkad -- vol. 2. From the End of the Third Millennium BC to the Fall of Babylon -- vol. 3. From the Hyksos to the Late Second Millennium BC --
• Vol. 1. From the beginnings to Old Kingdom Egypt and the dynasty of Akkad. Prehistoric Western Asia / Peter M. M. G. Akkermans -- Prehistoric Egypt / E. Christiana Köhler -- The Uruk phonomenon / Gebhard J. Slez -- Early dyanastic Egypt / Laurel Bestock -- Egypt's Old Kingdom: a view from within / Miroslav Bárta -- Egypt's Old Kingdom in contact with the world / Pierre Tallet -- Egypt's Old Kingdom: perspectives on culture and society / Richard Bussmann -- The Early Daynastic Near East / Vitali Bartash -- The kingdom of Akkad: a view from within / Ingo Schrakamp -- The kingdom of Akkad in contact with the world / Piortr Michalowski.
• Vol. 2. From the End of the Third Millennium BC to the Fall of Babylon. Establishing an absolute chronology of the Middle Bronze Age / Felix Höflmayer -- Egypt in the First Intermediate Period / Juan Carlos Moreno García -- The kingdom of Ur / Steven J. Garfinkle -- The Middle East after the fall of Ur: Isin and Larsa / Klaus Wagensonner -- The Middle East after the fall of Ur: from Assur to the Levant / Ilya Arkhipov -- The Middle East after the Fall of Ur: from Ešnunna and the Zagros to Susa / Katrien De Graef -- Before the kingdom of the Hittites: Anatolia in the Middle Bronze Age / Gojko Barjamovic -- The kingdom of Babylon and the kingdom of the Sealand / Odette Boivin -- Egypt's Middle Kingdom: a view from within / Harco Willems -- Middle Kingdom Egypt and Africa / Kathryn A. Bard -- Middle Kingdom Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean / Ezra S. Marcus -- Egypt's Middle Kingdom: perspectives on culture and society / Wolfram Grajetzki.
• Vol. 3. From the Hyksos to the Late Second Millennium BC. The Hyksos State / Irene Forstner-Müller -- Upper Egypt before the New Kingdom / Daniel Polz -- Early Kush: the Kingdom of Kerma / Geoff Emberling and Elizabeth Minor -- The New Kingdom of Egypt under the 18th Dynasty / Nicky Nielsen -- The New Kingdom of Egypt under the Ramesside Dynasty / Kathlyn M. Cooney -- Egypt's New Kingdom in Contact with the World / Pierre Grandet -- Mittani and Its Empire / Eva von Dassow -- The Hittite Empire / Mark Weeden -- The Aegean in the Context of the Eastern Mediterranean World / Dimitri Nakassis -- Assyria in the Late Bronze Age / Hervé Reculeau -- Kassite Babylonia / Susanne Paulus -- Elam in the Late Bronze Age / Behzad Mofidi-Nasrabadi.

ISBN

• 9780190687854
• 0190687851
• 9780190687571
• 0190687576
• 9780190687601
• 0190687606
• 9780190687632
• 0190687630
• 0190687657
• 9780190687656
• 9780190687663
• 0190687665
• 9780190687878 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780197521014 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780190687656 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780190687687 (canceled/invalid)
• 0190687681 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780190687595 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780197601037 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2020002854

OCLC

• on1154851822
• 1154851822
• SCSB-14293510

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library