504 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 Introduction / Bill T. Arnold, Brent A. Strawn -- The
Amorites / Daniel E. Fleming -- Assyria and the Assyrians
/ Christopher B. Hays, Peter Machinist -- Babylonia and
the Babylonians / David S. Vanderhooft -- Ugarit and the
Ugaritians / Mark S. Smith -- Egypt and the Egyptians /
Joel M. LeMon -- The Hittites and the Hurrians / Billie
Jean Collins -- Aram and the Arameans / K. Lawson Younger
Jr. -- Phoenicia and the Phoenicians / Christopher A.
Rollston -- Transjordan : The Ammonites, Moabites, and
Edomites / Joel S. Burnett -- Philistia and the
Philistines / Carl S. Ehrlich -- Persia and the Persians /
Pierre Briant -- Arabia and the Arabians / David F. Graf -
- Greece and the Greeks / Walter Burkert.

520 Leading experts introduce the people and contexts of the
Old Testament. What people groups interacted with ancient
Israel? Who were the Hurrians and why do they matter? What
do we know about the Philistines, the Egyptians, the
Amorites, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, and others? In
this up-to-date volume, leading experts introduce the
peoples and places of the world around the Old Testament,
providing students with a fresh exploration of the ancient
Near East. The contributors offer comprehensive
orientations to the main cultures and people groups that
surrounded ancient Israel in the wider ancient Near East,
including not only Mesopotamia and the northern Levant but
also Egypt, Arabia, and Greece. They also explore the
contributions of each people group or culture to our
understanding of the Hebrew Scriptures. This supplementary
text is organized by geographic region, making it
especially suitable for the classroom and useful in a
variety of Old Testament courses. Approximately eighty-
five illustrative items are included throughout the book.
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