Mari and the Early Israelite Experience

by Abraham Malamat

Book Overview

In 1936 a French archaeological expedition to Mari, the capital of a kingdom on the Middle Euphrates in Syria, uncovered a vast archive of some 25,000 cuneiform tablets. Examining this huge corpus of Old Babylonian documents, mostly from the Mari palace, Malamat provides evidence of how the tablets reveal a vivid picture of Mesopotamia at a time when the Israelites were in their earliest formative stage. The broad spectrum of the Mari documents, from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197261175
• ISBN13: 9780197261170
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: British Academy
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"