Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, vol. 2: The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence.

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Volume II: The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence, Martin Bernal (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1991) xxxiii + 736 pp. $60.00 cloth, $16.95 paper.

Not since the Old Testament has a book about the second millennium B.C.E. generated as much controversy as Black Athena. The second volume of this projected four-volume work arouses equal degrees of awe and skepticism.

In Black Athena, Martin Bernal attempts to derive Greek civilization and language from Egypt and the Semitic Near East. Volume 1 (1987) argues that Western scholarship, ...

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