Until the end of the eighteenth century A.D., everything men knew about the history of the ancient Near East came either from the Old Testament or from scattered, often fictional traditions preserv…
This book is a notable experiment in trying to cope with a problem that confronts the whole world of scholarship in the present state of knowledge. How can one retain the depth and grasp that are t…
The essays in this volume are presented in affection and respect to a great scholar, teacher and friend. The work of William Foxwell Albright during the past forty and more years has been an except…
Henry R. Hall’s brilliant study of the ancient near east uncovers how these civilizations developed, what they believed in, how they survived, adapted and changed to differing pressures, and how …