Ebla: A Revelation in ArcheologyTimes Books, 1979 - 244 pages The story of the discovery of a lost 4,500 year-old city and empire and its sensational impact on Biblical history. |
Contents
Setting the Scene | 14 |
The Things That Youre Liable to Read | 44 |
Cuneiform without Tears | 70 |
Copyright | |
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Abraham Achaemenian Akkad Akkadian Amorites ancient antiquity Ar-Ennum Arabic Arch archaeology archive Assyrian Assyriologie Babylonian Behistun Bible biblical called centre century BC characters chronology consonants culture cuneiform script cuneiform signs Darius decipherment deity Deuteronomy discovered discovery divine dynasty early East Ebla Ebla tablets Eblaite Ebrum Egypt Elamite Enlil evidence example excavations Exodus expedition Gelb Genesis Grotefend Hamazi Hebrew Hincks Hittites Hurrians Ibbit-Lim Ibid Ibla inscriptions Iraq Irkab-Damu Israel JRAS king of Ebla king-list kingdom Kish known Lagash later lists logograms London Mari Matthiae's Mesopotamia millennium BC Moses Münter Naram-Sin Old Persian Old Testament palace Pentateuch perhaps period Persepolis Professor Matthiae pronounced Ramsay Homa Rawlinson reign royal Sargon scholars scribes second millennium Semitic languages suggested Sumer Sumerian syllables Syria Tell Mardikh temple texts third millennium tinato tion tradition translation Ugaritic Uruk vowels word writing Xerxes YHWH