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“This splendid work of scholarship . . . sums up with economy and power all that the written record so far deciphered has to tell about the ancient and complementary civilizations of Babylon and Assyria.”—Edward B. Garside, New York Times Book Review
Ancient Mesopotamia—the area now known as Iraq—has received less attention than ancient Egypt and other long-extinct and more spectacular civilizations. But a lot of small clay tablets buried in the desert soil for thousands of years make it conceivable for us to know more about the people of ancient Mesopotamia than any other land in the early Near East.
Professor Oppenheim, who studied these tablets for more than thirty years, used his intimate knowledge of long-dead languages to put together a distinctively personal picture of the Mesopotamians of a few three thousand years ago. Following Oppenheim’s death, Erica Reiner used the creator’s outline to complete the revisions he had begun.
“To any serious student of Mesopotamian civilization, this is likely one of the most valuable books ever written.”—Leonard Cottrell, Book Week
“Leo Oppenheim has made a bold, brave, pioneering attempt to present a synthesis of the vast mass of philological and archaeological data that have accumulated during the last hundred years in the field of Assyriological research.”—Samuel Noah Kramer, Archaeology
A. Leo Oppenheim, probably the most distinguished Assyriologists of our time, used to be editor accountable for the Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute and John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Chicago.
Ancient Mesopotamia—the area now known as Iraq—has received less attention than ancient Egypt and other long-extinct and more spectacular civilizations. But a lot of small clay tablets buried in the desert soil for thousands of years make it conceivable for us to know more about the people of ancient Mesopotamia than any other land in the early Near East.
Professor Oppenheim, who studied these tablets for more than thirty years, used his intimate knowledge of long-dead languages to put together a distinctively personal picture of the Mesopotamians of a few three thousand years ago. Following Oppenheim’s death, Erica Reiner used the creator’s outline to complete the revisions he had begun.
“To any serious student of Mesopotamian civilization, this is likely one of the most valuable books ever written.”—Leonard Cottrell, Book Week
“Leo Oppenheim has made a bold, brave, pioneering attempt to present a synthesis of the vast mass of philological and archaeological data that have accumulated during the last hundred years in the field of Assyriological research.”—Samuel Noah Kramer, Archaeology
A. Leo Oppenheim, probably the most distinguished Assyriologists of our time, used to be editor accountable for the Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute and John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Chicago.
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