This volume honors Ran Zadok's work by focusing on his sustained interest in Mesopotamian social history. It brings together a rich array of scholarship on anci

An authoritative guide to the whole of the cradle of civilization.

The present volume collects eighteen essays exploring the history of ancient Near Eastern studies. Combining diverse approaches—synthetic and analytic, diachr

History and analysis of the economic and social development of debt, interest-bearing loans, royal remission of debts, and economic renewal policies.

Consists of articles organized in eleven parts: the ancient Near East in Western thought; the environment; population; social institutions; history and culture;