Nuzi Texts and Their Uses as Historical Evidence

Contributor(s): Maidman, Maynard Paul (Author), Maidman, M P (Author)

ISBN: 9781589832138

Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature

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Pub Date: July 9, 2010

Dewey: 492.1

LCCN: 2010008664

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.73" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 1.05 lbs) 296 pages

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Series: Writings from the Ancient World

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Description: Ancient Nuzi, buried beneath modern Yorghan Tepe in northern Iraq, is a Late Bronze Age town belonging to the kingdom of Arrap a that has yielded between 6,500 and 7,000 legal, economic and administrative tablets, all belonging to a period of some five generations (ca. 1475 1350 B.C.E.) and almost all from known archaeological contexts.