Description: EBLA : A REVELATION IN ARCHAEOLOGY ENGLISH VG CONDITION, HARDCOVER A strange but stylish report on the remarkable ongoing excavations at Tell Mardikh in northwestern Syria, site of the lost civilization of Ebla. Bermant is a journalist, Weitzman an expert on Near Eastern languages, and in some ways they make a very good team. Their book is richly informative, sophisticated, witty, and, when it comes to cloudy issues (such as the connection between the Eblaites and the Israelites), highly judicious. But its structure is a mess. After opening with an abrupt plunge into the controversies surrounding the Italian archaeologists in charge of the dig, the story wanders off on a leisurely digression that takes up half the text. First we get an incoherent, impressionistic chapter surveying five millenia of ancient history, then a chatty discussion of contradictions in the Bible and problems in biblical chronology. Finally, in ""Cuneiform Without Tears,"" Bermant and Weitzman tell the fascinating tale of how 19th-century scholars went about deciphering Sumerian, Akkadian, and Elamite. They rattle on merrily, and then--oops, back to Ebla, and facts they should have given us a hundred pages sooner. Such as, that Ebla seems to have been a notable empire, a prosperous city-state with a population (c. 2500 B.C.) of around 260,000 people, making it one of the largest conurbations in the world at that time. That the Eblaites worshipped a bewildering pantheon of at least five hundred gods and goddesses. That Ebla was destroyed by a king of Akkad. And so on. Of course, the picture is far from complete. Only a small fraction of the 140-acre site has been uncovered, and a still smaller fraction of the over 15,000 clay tablets translated. When all the evidence is in, the ancient Near East will never be the same again. We have over 500,000 books of Jewish interest in Stock, please make sure to check out our Our eBay Store Questions, comments, Requests? WE CAN BE REACHED AT 347ll78G492!!14G6508!14 Our storefront location is at Mizrahi Book Store 3108 Quentin Rd Brooklyn NY 11234 Visitors welcome during business hours COMBINED SHIPPING DISCOUNTS: There is $4 off each additional item paid for and shipped together, which makes the shipping just .99 for almost all additional items. Please note that purchases must be paid for at once, not individually to qualify for the discount. If you plan on adding additional items, please hold off payment until done purchasing. This discount should be deducted automatically, please contact us if for some reason it does not. STORE HOURS: Our storefront is located at 3108 Quentin Rd, Brooklyn, NY, 11234. Visitors are welcome during business hours. Store hours are: Sunday-Thursday 10 am - 6:30 pm and Friday 10 am - 2 pm. We are closed on Saturday and Jewish Holidays. For assistance in processing hours, we can be reached at our listed Mizrahi Bookstore phone number. INTERNATIONAL BUYERS: For most individual books, we ship first class mail via USPS. Price is by weight, and this service is tracked. For multiple purchases, we can combine postage manually and charge at cost. Please reach out to us for a quote if interested in shipping multiple items together internationally. RETURN CUSTOMERS: Return customers get 7% off every order, from the second shipment and on. This is not deducted automatically, please message us for a discount code to be able to apply it to the order. REFUNDS: We offer full refunds within 30 days of purchase. QUESTIONS: We are here for you and usually respond immediately, feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have. 1ST EDITIONS: We try to be precise when marking the edition, but if you are looking for first editions only, please ask us to verify the edition before purchasing, to prevent any misunderstandings. First Edition can have multiple definitions unfortunately and best to clarify in advance. WANT LIST: Looking for something and don't see it? Let us know and we'll look out for you. We have an additional hundreds of thousands of books of Jewish interest in stock, that are not listed online. SELL US YOUR BOOKS: We purchase Jewish books and books of Jewish interest, used, rare and antiquarian books and collections. Languages we specialize in are English, Hebrew, Yiddish, German, Spanish, Ladino, Russian and French. We purchase over 200,000 Jewish books a year and will travel to purchase libraries. Please contact us for details DISCLAIMER: The descriptions we use for our books offered, may come from a variety of sources, such as standard reference books, auction catalogs, the Publishers' descriptions, online resources and customer reviews.... If you feel any specific description violated third part rights, please contact us and we will have it removed immediately. Images sell! Get Supersized Images & Free Image Hosting Attention Sellers - Get Templates Image Hosting, Scheduling at Auctiva.com.
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