The World around the Old Testament: The People and Places of the Ancient Near East (Biblia.com)

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What people groups interacted with ancient Israel? Who were the Hurrians and why do they matter? What do we know about the Philistines, the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, and others? In this up-to-date volume, leading experts introduce the peoples and places of the world around the Old Testament, providing students with a fresh exploration of the ancient Near East. The...

Most prominent among ancient Israel’s neighbors east of the Jordan were the Ammonites, Moabites, and Edomites. Like the Israelites, they shared in a common cultural heritage rooted in Syria-Palestine’s Bronze Age past while asserting distinct identities recognized in biblical, epigraphic, and archaeological sources. During the exceptional circumstances of the Iron Age, independent regional kingdoms associated with

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