MESOPOTAMIA /ANE


Mesopotamia and Ancient Near East

Ascalone, Enrico :                   Mesopotamia : Assyrians, Sumerians, Babylonians  , Translated by Rosanna M.. Giammanco Frongia, Pub. 2007.

Bahrani , Zainab :                   Rituals of War : The Body and Violence in Mesopotamia , Pub. 2008.

* Bell, Catherine:                    Ritual: Perspective and Dimensions, Pub. 1997.

Bottero, Jean :                         Everyday Life In Ancient Mesopotamia, Translated by Antonia Nevill , Pub. 2001.

Bottero, Jean :                         Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning , and the Gods, Translated by Zainab Bahranis and Marc Van De Mieroop, Pub. 1992.

Bottero, Jean:                          Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia, Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan, Pub. 2001.

Brisch , Nicole (Editor):          Religion and Power : Divine Kingship in the Ancient World and Beyond , Pub. 2008 and 2016.

Bryce, Trevor :                         Ancient Syria : A Three Thousand Year History , Pub. 2014.

Chavalas , Mark W. (Editor) : The Ancient Near East ( Historical Sources in Translation) , Pub. 2006.

Cline, Eric H.  :                       1177 B.C. : The Year Civilization Collapsed , Pub. 2014.               

Crawford, Harriet (Editor) :   The Sumerian World . Pub. 2017.

Dalley, Stephanie :                  Myths From Mesopotamia : Creation, The Flood , Gilgamesh and Others, Pub. 2008.

Finegan , Jack :                       Myth and Mystery : An Introduction To The Pagan Religions of the Biblical World, Pub. 1989 and 1997.

Foster , Benjamin and
Karen Polinger Foster :           Civilizations of Ancient Iraq , Pub. 2009.

Foster, Benjamin R. :              From Distant Days : Myths , Tales, and Poetry of Ancient Mesopotamia , Pub. 1995.

Foster, Benjamin R. :              The Age of Agade : Inventing Empire in Ancient Mesopotamia , Pub. 2016.

* Franfort , Henri :                    Kingship and The Gods : A Study in Ancient Near Eastern Religion as The Integration of Society and Nature, Pub.1948.

* Frankfort , Henri :                   The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient , Pub. 1954  , 1970 fourth edition.

* Frankfort, Henri :                  The Birth of Civilization in the Near East, Pub. 1950.

* Hooke , S. H. (Editor)  :          Myth , Ritual and Kingship : Essays on the Theory and Practice of Kingship in the Ancient Near East and Israel , Pub. 1959.

* James, E. O. :                         Myth and Ritual in the Ancient Near East , An Archaeology and Documentary Study, Pub. 1958.

* Jacobsen , Thorkild :             The treasures Of Darkness ; A History of Mesopotamian Religion, Pub. 1976.

* Jacobsen, Thorkild :              The Harps That Once..., Sumerian Poetry in Translation ,  Pub. 1987.

Kramer , Samuel Noah :          The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, And Character, Pub. 1963.

Kramer, Samuel Noah :           History Begins At Sumer: Thirty Nine Firsts in Recorded History, Pub. 1956.

Kramer, Samuel Noah
and Diane Wolkstein :              Inanna : Queen of Heaven and earth : Her Stories and Hymns From Sumer, Pub. 1983.

Kriwaczek , Paul :                    Babylon : Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization , Pub. 2010. 

Kuhrt , Amelie :                       The Ancient Near East , Volume 1; c. 3000-330 BC. Pub. 1995.  and Volume II  Pub. 1995 and 2000.

Leick, Gwendolyn :                 Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City , Pub. 2001.

Leick, Gwendolyn (Editor) :    The Babylonian World , Pub. 2009.

Liverani , Mario :                     Myth and Politics in Ancient Near Eastern Historiography , Edited and introduced by Zainab and Marc Van De Mieroop , Pub. 2004.

Maier, Paul L. (editor and translator ) :  Josephus: The Essential Works , Pub. 1994.

* Malinowski, Bronislaw :        Magic Science and religion  and other Essays, Pub. 1948 & 1994,

Marc Van De Mieroop:               A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 BC , Pub. 2016.

Marc Van De Mieroop :              King Hammurabi of Babylon, A Biography Pub. 2005.

Marc Van De Mieroop:               The Ancient Mesopotamian City , Pub. 2004.

Marc Van De Mieroop :               Philosophy Before The Greeks : The Pursuit of Truth in Ancient Babylonia, Pub. 2016.

Nissen, Hans J. :                         The Early History of the Ancient Near East; 9000-2000 B.C. , Translated by Elizabeth Lutzeier and Kenneth J. Northcott , Pub. 1988.

* Oppenheim, A. Leo :                Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of A Dead Civilization , Pub. 1977.

Podany, Amanda H. :                   Brotherhood of Kings : How International relations Shaped the Ancient Near east , Pub. 2010.

Pollock, Susan :                           Ancient Mesopotamia : The Eden That Never Was , Pub. 1999.

Postgate, J. N. :                             Early Mesopotamia: Society and Economy at the Dawn of History  , Pub. 1992.

Provan, Iain, V. Philips Long
and Tremper Longman III :            A Biblical History of Israel , Pub. 2003.   

Richardson , Peter:                         Herod: King of the Jews and Friend of the Romans , Pub. 1999.

Roaf , Michael :                              Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and The Ancient Near East , Pub. 2004.

Roux , Georges :                            Ancient Iraq , Pub. 1964 and republished Third Edition 1992.

Seymour, Michael :                        Babylon: Legend , History and the Ancient City , Pub. 2016.

Vermes, Geza :                               The True Herod , Pub. 2014.

Wolfram Von Soden :                     The Ancient Orient : An Introduction to the study of the Ancient Near East , Pub. 1994  Translated by Donald G. Schley.

Woolley, C. Leonard :                     The Sumerians, Pub. 1965.               


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