In The Books behind the Masks Anthony Spalinger continues his work on the warrior kings of pharaonic Egypt.
This pioneering study wrestles with the perpetual problem of chronology in the Books of Kings.
The study of the ancient Egyptian military and warfare now encompasses the background court society in which the various eulogies drawn up for the glorification of the kings were composed.
Examines in detail the function, form, and symbolism of ancient tents, specifically in the Hebrew Bible, but also in the greater context of the Ancient Near East.
Readership: Scholars in the field of the Ancient Near East, the Bible, and of the history of Freedom in the Western tradition."--BOOK JACKET.
Freedom as a value is older than Greece, as evidence from the Ancient Near East shows us through this book. Snell first looks at words for freedom in the Ancient Near East.
Readership: Scholars in the field of the Ancient Near East, the Bible, and of the history of Freedom in the Western tradition."--BOOK JACKET.
This work is a presentation on a people of Transjordan known to readers of the Bible as a neighbour, and often an enemy, of first millennium B.C. Israel.
"Well-informed and sober, these essays offer rewarding reading for every area of biblical scholarship." A.R. Millard
Literature begins at Sumer, we may say.