Assyrian Historiography, Vol. 3: A Source Study (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Olmstead, Albert Ten Eyck

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0656022264 ISBN 13: 9780656022267

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from Assyrian Historiography, Vol. 3: A Source Study

To the serious student of Assyrian history, it is obvious that we cannot write that history until we have adequately dis cussed the sources. We must learn what these are, in other words, we must begin with a bibliography of the various docu ments. Then we must divide them into their various classes, for different classes of inscriptions are of varying degrees of accuracy. Finally, we must study in detail for each reign the sources, discover which of the various documents or groups of documents are the most nearly contemporaneous with the events they narrate, and on these, and on these alone, base our history of the period.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0656022264
• ISBN 13: 9780656022267
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 78