Research Catalog

Title

Syria, 3000 to 300 B.C. : a handbook of political history / Horst Klengel.

Author

Klengel, Horst.

Publication

Berlin : Akademie Verlag, ©1992.

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Details

Description

263 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

A handbook for the political history of prehellenistic Syria, informing on all pertinent sources and giving an outline of about two millennia of Syrian history. It offers a concise survey of the history of Syria from the first written testimonies to the time when the Orient was conquered by Alexander the Great. Each chapter starts with an introduction into the pertinent archives and continues with an outline history referring to all relevant textual sources and to the scholarly discussion. Material from the cuneiform texts of Ebla to the testimony of the Bible is presented as clearly as possible.

Alternative Title

Syria

Subjects

• Syria > History > 333 B.C.-634 A.D
• Syria > History > To 333 B.C

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• I. The early bronze age -- 1. First written evidence pertaining to Syria and the period of the Ebla archives -- Sources -- Outline history -- 2. Syria from the Ebla archives to the end of the 3rd millennium -- Sources -- Outline history -- II. The Middle Bronze Age -- 1. The establishment of Amorite political rule in Syria (c. 2000-1800 B.C.) -- Sources -- Outline history -- 2. The period of the kingdom of Yamhad (c. 1800-1600 B.C.) -- a. Sources -- b. Outline history -- (1) The dynasty of Halab/Yamhad -- (2) Other Syrian principalities and political centres -- Qatna -- Karkamish -- Urshum -- Ugarit -- Gubla -- 3. The invasion of northern Syria by the Hittites.
• III. The Late Bronze Age -- 1. The period of Mittanian and Egyptian domination (c. 1600-1350 B.C.) -- a. Sources -- b. Outline history -- 2. Syria at the time of Egyptian and Hittite overlordship (c.1350-1200 B.C.) -- a. Sources -- b. Outline history -- (1) The interference of Hatti and Egypt in Syria -- (2) The Syrian states, 15th to 12th centuries B.C. -- The major kingdoms of the north: Karkamish -- Halab -- Ugarit -- The major kingdoms of the central plains: Nuhashe and Niya -- Qatna -- Between Hatti and Egypt: Qidshu/Qadesh -- Amurru -- Urban centres of the south.
• IV. The Iron Age -- 1. Ethnic and political changes at the beginning of the Iron Age (c.1200-1000 B.C.) -- a. Sources -- b. Outline history -- 2. Syria in the Early Iron Age, c.1000-745 B.C.: The development of new political entities and the Assyrian aggression -- a. Sources -- b. Outline history -- (1) General development -- The rise of the Phoenician, Aramaean, and "Late Hittite" states (10th century B.C.) -- The defence of the Syrian states against the Assyrians until the reign of Tiglath-pileser III (c.900-745 B.C.) -- (2) Regional political development -- Tyre and the urban centres of the littoral -- Damascus and southern Syria -- Hamath and the central plains -- Sam'al, Bit Agusi and Karkamish in the north -- 3. Syria under Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian rule (c.745-330) -- a. Sources -- b. Outline history -- The Neo-Assyrian period -- The Neo-Babylonian period -- Syria under the rule of the Achaemenids -- V. Indexes.

ISBN

• 3050018208
• 9783050018201

LCCN

97175459

OCLC

• ocm27088965
• 27088965
• SCSB-1994651

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library