The Amarna Letters

The Amarna Letters
Author: William L. Moran
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801867156

An ancient inscription identified some of the ruins at el Amarna as "The Place of the Letters of the Pharaoh." Discovered there, circa 1887, were nearly four hundred cuneiform tablets containing correspondence of the Egyptian court with rulers of neighboring states in the mid-fourteenth century B.C. Previous translations of these letters were both incomplete and reflected an imperfect understanding of the Babylonian dialects in which they were written. William Moran devoted a lifetime of study to the Amarna letters to prepare this authoritative English translation. The letters provide a vivid record of high-level diplomatic exchanges that, by modern standards, are often less than diplomatic. An Assyrian ruler complains that the Egyptian king's latest gift of gold was not even sufficient to pay the cost of the messengers who brought it. The king of Babylon refuses to give his daughter in marriage to the pharaoh without first having proof that the king's sister—already one of the pharaoh's many wives—is still alive and well. The king of Karaduniyash complains that the Egyptian court has "detained" his messenger—for the past six years. And Egyptian vassal Rib-Hadda, writing from the besieged port of Byblos, repeatedly demands military assistance for his city or, failing that, an Egyptian ship to permit his own escape.

The El-Amarna Correspondence (2 vol. set)

The El-Amarna Correspondence (2 vol. set)
Author: Anson F. Rainey
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 1671
Release: 2014-11-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004281541

The El-Amarna Correspondence offers a completely new edition of the Amarna Letters based on personal inspection and reading of all the extant tablets. This edition includes new transcriptions and a translation along with an extensive introduction and glossary of the Amarna Letters.

The Verb in the Amarna Letters from Canaan

The Verb in the Amarna Letters from Canaan
Author: Krzysztof J. Baranowski
Publisher:
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2016
Genre: Akkadian language
ISBN: 9781575064611

Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Toronto, 2014.

Amarna Diplomacy

Amarna Diplomacy
Author: Raymond Cohen
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2002-10-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801871030

Published in 1992, William L. Moran's definitive English translation, The Amarna Letters, raised as many questions as it answered. How did Pharaoh run his empire? Why did the god-king consent to deal with his fellow, mortal monarchs as equals? Indeed, why did kings engage in diplomacy at all? How did the great powers maintain international peace and order? In Amarna Diplomacy, Raymond Cohen and Raymond Westbrook have brought together a team of specialists, both social scientists and ancient historians, to explore the world of ancient Near Eastern statecraft portrayed in the letters. Subjects discussed include Egyptian imperial and foreign policy, international law and trade, geopolitics and decision making, intelligence, and diplomacy. This book will be of interest to scholars not only of the ancient Near East and the Bible but also of international relations and diplomatic studies. Contributors are Pinhas Artzi, Kevin Avruch, Geoffrey Berridge, Betsy M. Bryan, Raymond Cohen, Steven R. David, Daniel Druckman, Serdar Güner, Alan James, Christer Jönsson, Mario Liverani, Samuel A. Meier, William J. Murnane, Nadav Na'aman, Rodolfo Ragionieri, Raymond Westbrook, and Carlo Zaccagnini.

Canaanite in the Amarna Tablets

Canaanite in the Amarna Tablets
Author: Anson F. Rainey
Publisher: Handbook of Oriental Studies
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1996
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

This four-volume reference work deals with the language of the Amarna letters written by scribes who had adopted a peculiar dialect mixture of Accadian and West Semitic syntax. Each volume is written as a separate monograph; together they treat the problems of morphology and syntax, providing an invaluable source for the historical study of the North West Semitic family, including biblical Hebrew.

Inscribed in Clay

Inscribed in Clay
Author: Yuval Goren
Publisher: Emery and Claire Yass Archaeology Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2004
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Examines letters from the Tell el-Amarna archive in Egypt, written between Egypt and other Middle Eastern nations ca. 1360-1334 B.C. Uses material and chemical analysis for provenance information and historical geography.

Language of Amarna - Language of Diplomacy

Language of Amarna - Language of Diplomacy
Author: Jana Mynářová
Publisher: Czech Institute of Egyptology Charles University
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Akkadian language
ISBN: 9788073081911

It is a generally accepted presumption that during the Late Bronze Age the language accepted for the 'international' or 'diplomatic' written communication between the representatives or members of the particular polities within the Ancient Near East was Akkadian, or more accurately Peripheral Akkadian. Thus it is the aim of this publication to analyse the corpus of Amarna letters on the subject of diplomatic terminology and procedures.