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A COMPANION
TO THE
ANCIENT NEAR EAST
BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD
This series provides sophisticated and authoritative overviews of periods of ancient history,
genres of classical literature, and the most important themes in ancient culture. Each volume
comprises between twenty-five and forty concise essays written by individual scholars within
their area of specialization. The essays are written in a clear, provocative, and lively manner,
designed for an international audience of scholars, students, and general readers.
A
NCIENT
H
ISTORY
L
ITERATURE AND
C
ULTURE
Published
Published
A Companion to the Ancient Near East
Edited by Daniel C. Snell
A Companion to Latin Literature
Edited by Stephen Harrison
A Companion to the Hellenistic World
Edited by Andrew Erskine
In preparation
A Companion to Ancient Epic
Edited by John Miles Foley
In preparation
A Companion to Ancient History
Edited by Andrew Erskine
A Companion to Greek Tragedy
Edited by Justina Gregory
A Companion to the Archaic Greek World
Edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub and
Hans van Wees
A Companion to Classical Mythology
Edited by Ken Dowden
A Companion to Greek and Roman
Historiography
Edited by John Marincola
A Companion to the Classical Greek World
Edited by Konrad Kinzl
A Companion to the Roman Republic
Edited by Nathan Rosenstein and Robert
Morstein-Marx
A Companion to Greek Religion
Edited by Daniel Ogden
A Companion to the Roman Empire
Edited by David Potter
A Companion to Greek Rhetoric
Edited by Ian Worthington
A Companion to the Roman Army
Edited by Paul Erdkamp
A Companion to Roman Rhetoric
Edited by William J. Dominik and
Jonathan Hall
A Companion to Late Antiquity
Edited by Philip Rousseau
A Companion to Classical Tradition
Edited by Craig Kallendorf
A Companion to Byzantium
Edited by Elizabeth James
A Companion to Roman Religion
Edited by J¨rg R¨ pke
A COMPANION
TO THE
ANCIENT NEAR
EAST
Edited by
Daniel C. Snell
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2005 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
A companion to the ancient Near East / edited by Daniel C. Snell.
p. cm. — (Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-631-23293-1 (hardback : alk. paper)
1. Middle East—Civilization—To 622. I. Snell, Daniel C. II. Series.
DS57.C56 2005
939
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.4—dc22
2004012928
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