Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture

by William H. Stiebing Jr. and Susan Helft

Book Overview

Organized by the periods, kingdoms, and empires generally used in ancient Near Eastern political history, Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture interlaces social and cultural history with a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 032106674X
• ISBN13: 9780321066749
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Rare comprehensive and readable history of Ancient Near East

This has been the textbook in my "History of the Ancient Near East" course and I find it to be remarkably effective in keeping a broad perspective and good continuity over time and space in the several topics it covers. Stiebings is a very good distiller of factual content and fairly presents conflicting theories. My professor pointed out a few flaws, though nothing too significant except when Stiebing's used and misconstrued his very work (primarily on the Indo-European migration and The Sea Peoples). It would have also been nice to have more diagrammed maps given the density of the text at times. There is just so much misinformation in this field of study and little effort to tie together "The Near East" into a single narrative core - a need which Stiebing's book fills marvelously. This one will stay on my bookshelf for years to come.