The Amarna Letters

The Amarna Letters PDF Author: William L. Moran
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 9780801867156
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
An ancient inscription identified some of the ruins at el Amarna as "The Place of the Letters of the Pharaoh." Discovered there, circa 1887, were nearly four hundred cuneiform tablets containing correspondence of the Egyptian court with rulers of neighboring states in the mid-fourteenth century B.C. Previous translations of these letters were both incomplete and reflected an imperfect understanding of the Babylonian dialects in which they were written. William Moran devoted a lifetime of study to the Amarna letters to prepare this authoritative English translation. The letters provide a vivid record of high-level diplomatic exchanges that, by modern standards, are often less than diplomatic. An Assyrian ruler complains that the Egyptian king's latest gift of gold was not even sufficient to pay the cost of the messengers who brought it. The king of Babylon refuses to give his daughter in marriage to the pharaoh without first having proof that the king's sister—already one of the pharaoh's many wives—is still alive and well. The king of Karaduniyash complains that the Egyptian court has "detained" his messenger—for the past six years. And Egyptian vassal Rib-Hadda, writing from the besieged port of Byblos, repeatedly demands military assistance for his city or, failing that, an Egyptian ship to permit his own escape.

The El-Amarna Correspondence (2 vol. set)

The El-Amarna Correspondence (2 vol. set) PDF Author: Anson F. Rainey
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004281541
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1671

Book Description
The El-Amarna Correspondence offers a completely new edition of the Amarna Letters based on personal inspection and reading of all the extant tablets. This edition includes new transcriptions and a translation along with an extensive introduction and glossary of the Amarna Letters.

The Verb in the Amarna Letters from Canaan

The Verb in the Amarna Letters from Canaan PDF Author: Krzysztof J. Baranowski
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781575064611
Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description
Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Toronto, 2014.

Amarna Diplomacy

Amarna Diplomacy PDF Author: Raymond Cohen
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801871030
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
Published in 1992, William L. Moran's definitive English translation, The Amarna Letters, raised as many questions as it answered. How did Pharaoh run his empire? Why did the god-king consent to deal with his fellow, mortal monarchs as equals? Indeed, why did kings engage in diplomacy at all? How did the great powers maintain international peace and order? In Amarna Diplomacy, Raymond Cohen and Raymond Westbrook have brought together a team of specialists, both social scientists and ancient historians, to explore the world of ancient Near Eastern statecraft portrayed in the letters. Subjects discussed include Egyptian imperial and foreign policy, international law and trade, geopolitics and decision making, intelligence, and diplomacy. This book will be of interest to scholars not only of the ancient Near East and the Bible but also of international relations and diplomatic studies. Contributors are Pinhas Artzi, Kevin Avruch, Geoffrey Berridge, Betsy M. Bryan, Raymond Cohen, Steven R. David, Daniel Druckman, Serdar Güner, Alan James, Christer Jönsson, Mario Liverani, Samuel A. Meier, William J. Murnane, Nadav Na'aman, Rodolfo Ragionieri, Raymond Westbrook, and Carlo Zaccagnini.

Language of Amarna - Language of Diplomacy

Language of Amarna - Language of Diplomacy PDF Author: Jana Mynářová
Publisher: Czech Institute of Egyptology Charles University
ISBN: 9788073081911
Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
It is a generally accepted presumption that during the Late Bronze Age the language accepted for the 'international' or 'diplomatic' written communication between the representatives or members of the particular polities within the Ancient Near East was Akkadian, or more accurately Peripheral Akkadian. Thus it is the aim of this publication to analyse the corpus of Amarna letters on the subject of diplomatic terminology and procedures.

Canaanite in the Amarna Tablets

Canaanite in the Amarna Tablets PDF Author: Anson F. Rainey
Publisher: Handbook of Oriental Studies
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
This four-volume reference work deals with the language of the Amarna letters written by scribes who had adopted a peculiar dialect mixture of Accadian and West Semitic syntax. Each volume is written as a separate monograph; together they treat the problems of morphology and syntax, providing an invaluable source for the historical study of the North West Semitic family, including biblical Hebrew.

Inscribed in Clay

Inscribed in Clay PDF Author: Yuval Goren
Publisher: Emery and Claire Yass Archaeology Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Book Description
Examines letters from the Tell el-Amarna archive in Egypt, written between Egypt and other Middle Eastern nations ca. 1360-1334 B.C. Uses material and chemical analysis for provenance information and historical geography.

Canaan in the Second Millennium B.C.E.

Canaan in the Second Millennium B.C.E. PDF Author: Nadav Na'aman
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
ISBN: 1575061139
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426

Book Description
Throughout the past three decades, Nadav Na'aman has repeatedly proved that he is one of the most careful historians of ancient Canaan and Israel. With broad expertise, he has brought together archaeology, text, and the inscriptional material from all of the ancient Near East to bear on the history of ancient Israel and the land of Canaan during the second and first millenniums B.C.E. Many of his studies have been published as journal articles or notes and yet, together, they constitute one of the most important bodies of literature on the subject in recent years, particularly because of the careful attention to methodology that Na'aman always has brought to his work. Collected here are 23 essays on the Hurrians, the Egyptians and their presence in the Levant during the second millennium B.C.E., Canaanite city-states, the Amarna Letters, and the neighbors of Canaan in the north, such as Alalakh and Damascus. The essays range over such topics as scribes and language, archaeology, cultural influences, and the interrelations of the great powers during this period. The volume includes indexes of ancient personal names, place-names, and biblical references.
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