A bibliographical list of cuneiform inscriptions from Canaan, Palestine/Philistia, and the land of Israel.

From: The Journal of the American Oriental Society | Date: October 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

The area of study of this paper, (1) unlike Egypt to the west, and Syria and Mesopotamia to the north and east, has yet to produce a proper archive of cuneiform texts, although archaeologists and others have discovered around ninety cuneiform objects over the past century or so. Yet, due to the uneven pace of discovery and changing political and academic realities in the region over the years, no attempt has ever been made to study these cuneiform objects as a group, and the last published list of the relevant material was that of K. Galling in Textbuch zur Geschichte Israels in 1968. (2) ...

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