Current Issues in the History of the Ancient Near East
| UW-L Author: | Mark W. Chavalas, Ph.D. History |
| Copyright: | 2007 |
| Publisher: | Regina Books |
Rubio, Garfinkle, Beckman, Gonzalo. Edited by Mark W. Chavalas. Current Issues in the History of the Ancient Near East. Publications of the Association of Ancient Historians, 8. Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 2007.
From the preface...
Carol Thomas approached me in 2003 with the prospect of organizing a volume concerning the ancient Near East for the PAAH series, with the goal of providing an overview of the current state of scholarship, intended for other ancient scholars who have little or no knowledge of the subject. It was decided that, like other volumes in PAAH, it was best to divide the work among several contributors. Thus we decided to divide the work into four very general areas: Hittites, Assyrians, Mesopotamia (i.e., Babylonia), and Syria/Palestine.
About the Author
Mark W. Chavalas is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, where he has taught since 1989. His PhD is from UCLA, where he studied ancient Near Eastern history, archaeology, and languages, specializing in Mesopotamia. He has taught courses on ancient Near Eastern history, archaeology, and the Akkadian language. He has had fellowships from various universities, including Yale, Cal-Berkeley, Brown, Cornell, the Univ. of Arizona, and Wisconsin-Madison. He also has had nine seasons of archaeological field experience in Syria at Tell Ashara/Terqa, Tell Qraya, and Tell Mozan/Urkesh.
His previous books include the co-edited Mesopotamia and the Bible (Sheffield Academic Press, 2002), Life and Culture in the Ancient Near East (CDL Press, 2003), Emar: The History, Religion, and Culture of a Syrian Town in the Late Bronze Age (Bethesda: CDL Press, 1996), and New Horizons in the Study of Ancient Syria (Malibu: Undena, 1992), and the the co-authored, Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament (Intervarsity Press, 2000).
He is a past president of the American Oriental Society Middle West, formerly on the Board of Directors of the American Oriental Society, and is currently on the Board of Trustees for the American Schools of Oriental Research