The Blackwell Companion to Ancient Near East.pdf

A COMPANION

TO THE

ANCIENT NEAR EAST

BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD

This series provides sophisticated and authoritative overviews of periods of ancient history,

genres of classical literature, and the most important themes in ancient culture. Each volume

comprises between twenty-five and forty concise essays written by individual scholars within

their area of specialization. The essays are written in a clear, provocative, and lively manner,

designed for an international audience of scholars, students, and general readers.

A NCIENT H ISTORY

L ITERATURE AND C ULTURE

Published

A Companion to the Ancient Near East

Edited by Daniel C. Snell

A Companion to Latin Literature

Edited by Stephen Harrison

A Companion to the Hellenistic World

Edited by Andrew Erskine

In preparation

A Companion to Ancient Epic

Edited by John Miles Foley

In preparation

A Companion to Ancient History

Edited by Andrew Erskine

A Companion to Greek Tragedy

Edited by Justina Gregory

A Companion to the Archaic Greek World

Edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub and

Hans van Wees

A Companion to Classical Mythology

Edited by Ken Dowden

A Companion to Greek and Roman

Historiography

Edited by John Marincola

A Companion to the Classical Greek World

Edited by Konrad Kinzl

A Companion to the Roman Republic

Edited by Nathan Rosenstein and Robert

Morstein-Marx

A Companion to Greek Religion

Edited by Daniel Ogden

A Companion to the Roman Empire

Edited by David Potter

A Companion to Greek Rhetoric

Edited by Ian Worthington

A Companion to the Roman Army

Edited by Paul Erdkamp

A Companion to Roman Rhetoric

Edited by William J. Dominik and

Jonathan Hall

A Companion to Late Antiquity

Edited by Philip Rousseau

A Companion to Classical Tradition

Edited by Craig Kallendorf

A Companion to Byzantium

Edited by Elizabeth James

A Companion to Roman Religion

Edited by J¨rg R¨ pke

A COMPANION

TO THE

ANCIENT NEAR

EAST

Edited by

Daniel C. Snell

# 2005 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

A companion to the ancient Near East / edited by Daniel C. Snell.

p. cm. — (Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-631-23293-1 (hardback : alk. paper)

1. Middle East—Civilization—To 622. I. Snell, Daniel C. II. Series.

DS57.C56 2005

939 ’ .4—dc22

2004012928

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