Origins: The Ancient Near Eastern Background of Some Modern Western Institutions

by William W. Hallo

Origins is the first fully comprehensive study of the debt owed by modern western culture to Ancient Near Eastern civilization - a debt touched upon by standard histories of the Ancient Near East but never as systematically investigated as here by William W. Hallo.
The author, who has devoted a lifetime to the study of the Ancient Near East, places the emphasis on the way the Ancient Near East continues to shape our Western world. He takes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004103287
• ISBN13: 9789004103283
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.6"