The Amarna Letters
An ancient inscription identified some of the ruins at el Amarna as "The Place of the Letters of the Pharaoh." Discovered there, circa 1887, were nearly four hundred cuneiform tablets containing correspondence of the Egyptian court with rulers of neighboring states in the mid-fourteenth century B.C. Previous translations of these letters were both incomplete and reflected an imperfect understanding of the Babylonian dialects in which they were written. William Moran devoted a lifetime of...
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"The acknowledged master of these texts is William Moran, who produced a complete re-edition of the tablets, in French, in 1987. The Amarna Letters is a revised version of this, done into English. Open it, and hear these voices from a vanished empire speak after three and a half millennia." -- Times Literary SupplementZeitschrift fuur AssyriologieA superb treatment of the Amarna Letters.
\ Times Literary SupplementThe acknowledged master of these texts is William Moran, who produced a complete re-edition of the tablets, in French, in 1987. The Amarna Letters is a revised version of this, done into English. Open it, and hear these voices from a vanished empire speak after three and a half millennia.\ \ \ \ \ Libraries and CultureFascinating... The refined scholarship and mature pedagogy of a distinguished student of the ancient Near East.\ \ \ Zeitschrift für AssyriologieA superb treatment of the Amarna Letters.\ \ \ \ \ \ Zeitschrift fur AssyriologieA superb treatment of the Amarna Letters.\ \ \ \ \ Times Literary SupplementThe acknowledged master of these texts is William Moran, who produced a complete re-edition of the tablets, in French, in 1987. The Amarna Letters is a revised version of this, done into English. Open it, and hear these voices from a vanished empire speak after three and a half millennia.\ \ \ \ \ Libraries and CultureFascinating . . . The refined scholarship and mature pedagogy of a distinguished student of the ancient Near East.\ \ \ \ \ Zeitschrift fuur AssyriologieA superb treatment of the Amarna Letters.\ \ \ \ \ BooknewsDiscovered at el Amarna in about 1887, were nearly 400 cuneiform tablets containing correspondence of the Egyptian court with rulers of neighboring states in the mid-14th century B.C. Moran has prepared an authoritative English translation which supplants previous translations that were incomplete or based on imperfect understanding of the particular Babylonian dialects. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
