| Course Textbooks: | |
| Beckman | Beckman, G. Hittite Diplomatic Texts, ed. H. A. Hoffner. 2nd edition. Writings from the Ancient World. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 1999. [COURSE TEXT] |
| Hamblin | Hamblin, W. J. Warfare in the Ancient Near East to 1600 BC: Holy Warrior at the Dawn of History. Warfare and History Series. Routledge, 2006. [COURSE TEXT] |
| Moran | Moran, William L., editor. The Amarna Letters. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. [COURSE TEXT] |
| Podany | Podany, Amanda H. The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction. Very Short Introductions Series. London & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. [COURSE TEXT] |
| Shaw | Shaw, Ian, ed. The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt. New edition. New York, Oxford University Press, 2004. [COURSE TEXT] |
| Spalinger | Spalinger, A. J. War in Ancient Egypt: The New Kingdom. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Professional, 2005. [COURSE TEXT] |
| Other Texts and Sources: | |
| AEL | Lichtheim, Miriam. Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Book of Readings. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975-1980. Volume 1, The Old and Middle Kingdoms (1975). Volume 2, The New Kingdom 1976). Volume 3, The Late Period (1980).(Addlestone Library Reserve) |
| ANET | Pritchard, James. B., editor. Ancient Near Eastern Texts Related to the Old Testament, 3rd ed. with Supplement. Princeton. Princeton University Press, 1969. (Addlestone Library Reference) |
| CANE | Sasson, Jack M., editor-in-chief. Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Four volumes. New York: Scribner, 1995 onward. (Addlestone Library Reference) |
| ETCSL | Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, Oxford University. Web address: https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/ |
| Hallo, Context of Scripture | Hallo, W. H., and K. L. Younger, eds. The Context of Scripture. Three volumes. Leiden: Brill, 1997-2002. Volume 1, Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World (1997). Volume 2, Monumental Inscriptions from the Biblical World (2001). Volume 3, Archival Documents from the Biblical World (2002).(Addlestone Library Reference) |
| Per | Addlestone Library Periodicals Room (among the journals) |
| Ref | Addlestone Library Reference Room |
| RS | Addlestone Library Two-hour Reserve (behind the check-out counter) |
| W | Link on this Web Page; available for downloading |
Week 1: August 22 and 24
(8/22) Introduction: Course Description
(8/24) NO CLASS
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Week 2: August 29 and 31
(8/29) What is Expected of the Historian?
W American Historical Association, "Statement on Standards of Professional Conduct" (1993) (click to open).
(8/31) Questioning Data and Sources: The Kinds of Questions
W/Ref P. Piccione, "From Queries to Answers: A Taxonomy of Historical Questioning" (click to open)
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Week 3: September 5 and 7
(9/5) Ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern Historiography
Shaw, "Introduction," 1-15;
Hamblin, "Introduction," 1-13;
W/Ref H. Whitehouse, "Egypt in European Thought," in CANE 1, 15-31 (click to open);
Discussant: BECK .
W/Ref J. Lundquist, "Babylon in European Thought," in CANE 1, 67-80 (click to open);
Discussant: COOK .
(9/7) Earliest Warfare and Emergence of the State
W M. Hoffman, "Cemetery 117: An Epitaph to Violence at Jebel Sahaba" in M. Hoffman, Egypt before the Pharaohs, 90-99 (click to open);
Discussant: EAGLE .
Hamblin, "The Neolithic Age and the Origin of Warfare," 14-34;
Discussant: MARSH .
W C. Reichel, "Hamoukar: Revisiting the Origins of Urbanism in Ancient Syria," O.I. News & Notes 211 (Fall 2011): 3-9 (click to open).
Discussant: ROBERTS .
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Week 4: September 12 and 14
(9/12) NO CLASS - STORM
(9/14) The Emergence of States and Early Warfare and Diplomacy
Podany, The Ancient Near East, Chapters 2 and 3, 16-39;
Hamblin, "Early Dynastic Mesopotamia," 35-72;
Discussant: MELCON .
Bard, "The Emergence of the Egyptian State," in Shaw, Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, 57-82;
Discussant: SPOON .
W The Vulture Stela and the Umma-Lagash wars (click to open);
Discussant: TURNER .
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Week 5: September 19 and 21
(9/19) The Akkadian Empire
Podany, The Ancient Near East, Chapter 4, 40-50;
Hamblin, "The Akkadian Empire," 73-101;
W "Legend of Sargon (Akkadian)" (click to open)
W "The Sargon Legend: Translation (Sumerian)" (click to open)
W "The Curse of Agade (Sumerian)" (click to open).
(9/21) Egypt: The Old Kingdom
Malik, "The Old Kingdom," in Shaw, Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, 83-107;
Hamblin, "Warfare during the Old Kingdom," 353-367;
Discussant: WILSON .
W "The Autobiographies of Weni and Harkhuf" (click to open);
Discussant: BECK .
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Week 6: September 26 and 28
(9/26) Egypt: The First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom
Callendar, "The Middle Kingdom Renaissance," in Shaw, Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, 137-171;
W "Annals of King Amenemhat II (extract)" (click to open);
Discussant: COOK .
W "Three Graffiti from Campaigns to Nubia," in Parkinson, Voices from Ancient Egypt, 95-96 (click to open);
Discussant: EAGLE .
W "Sesostris III Boundary Stela [Year 8]" (click to open);
Discussant: MARSH .
W "Boundary Stela of Sesostris III [Year 16]," Lichtheim, AEL 1, 118-120 (click to open);
Discussant: MARSH .
W "Report from a Frontier Garrison: From the 'Semna Despatches'," in Parkinson, Voices from Ancient Egypt, 93-95 (click to open).
(9/26) THESIS STATEMENT AND PRELIMINARY BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE
(9/28) Neo-Sumerian Empire: Third Dynasty of Ur (Ur III)
Podany, The Ancient Near East, Chapter 5, 51-62;
Discussant: ROBERTS .
Hamblin, "The Neo-Sumerian Period," 102-128;
Discussant: ROBERTS .
W "The Victory of Utu-hegal," ETSCL (click to open);
Discussant: SPOON .
W "Lament of the Fall of Ur," ETSCL (local) (click to open);
Discussant: TURNER .
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Week 7: October 3 and 5
(10/3) Babylonian Empire (Old Babylonia)
Podany, The Ancient Near East, Chapter 7, 74-86;
Discussant: TURNER .
Hamblin, "Middle Bronze Mesopotamia," 154-184.
(10/5) Babylonian and Mesopotamian Warfare
W "Postgate, "War and Peace," in Early Mesopotamia, 241-259 (click to open).
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(10/7) Saturday: Storm Makeup Day
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Week 8: October 10 and 12
(10/10) Individual Descriptions of Preliminary Outlines
Discussants: All .
(10/10) ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND PRELIMINARY OUTLINE DUE
(10/12) Expulsion of the Hyksos and Founding of the Egyptian Empire (Dynasties 17 and 18)
Bourriau, J., Extract: "The Second Intermediate Period: Thebes the Southern City,"
in Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, 191-206;
W Smith, H. S. and Smith A., "The Kamose Texts," 59-62 (click to open);
Discussant: WILSON .
W/Res "Autobiography of Ahmose Son of Abana," in Lichtheim, AEL 2, 12-15 (click to open);
Discussant: BECK .
W "The Praises of (Queen) Ahhotep" (click to open);
Discussant: COOK .
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+ + + NO FALL BREAK + + +
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Week 9: October 17 and 19
(10/17) Writing Day: No class
(10/19) Egyptian Empire: Dynasty 18
Shaw, "Egypt and the Outside World," in Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, 308-323;
Spalinger, "The Southern and Northern Expansion," in 46-69;
W "Autobiography of Ahmose Pennekhbet," adapted from Breasted, Ancient Records of Egypt 2 (passim) (click to open).
Discussant: EAGLE .
W/Res "Annals of Thutmose III: The Battle of Megiddo," in Lichtheim, AEL 2, 29-35;) (click to open);
Discussant: MARSH .
W/Ref "Biography of Amenemheb: First Battle of Kadesh," in ANET, 240-241 (click to open).
Discussant: ROBERTS .
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Week 10: October 24 and 26
(10/24) The Amarna Period and Diplomatic Letters
Discussant: SPOON .
(10/26) Conferencing and Writing Day: No class
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Week 11: October 31 and November 2
(10/31) Report on First Drafts (BECK, COOK, EAGLE)
(11/2) Report on First Drafts: (MARSH, ROBERTS)
(11/2) RESEARCH PAPER FIRST DRAFT DUE IN CLASS
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Week 12: November 7 and 9
(11/7) Report on First Drafts: (TURNER, WILSON)
(11/9) Conferencing and Writing: No class
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Week 13: November 14 and 16
(11/14) Formal Presentation of Research: BECK .
"Nubian Forts of the Middle New Kingdom":
W/Ref B. Kemp, "The Nubian Forts," in Ancient Egypt 167-177 (click to open).
(11/14) Formal Presentation of Research: COOK .
"The Sea People and the Iron Age Migrations:
W/Ref T. Dothan, "The 'Sea Peoples' and the Philistines of Ancient Palestine," in CANE 2, 1267-1279 (click to open);
W/Ref "The War Against the Peoples of the Sea," in ANET, 262-263; (click to open)
W Edgerton, W. & J. Wilson (accounts of the Sea People war), from
Historical Records of Ramses III, 35-39, 41-43, 45; (click to open)
W/Ref "Summary of the Northern Wars (Papyrus Harris I)," in ANET, 262; (click to open).
(11/16) Finish Tuesday's Presentation: BECK .
W "Report from a Frontier Garrison: From the 'Semna Despatches'," in
Parkinson, Voices from Ancient Egypt, 93-95 (click to open).
(11/16) Formal Presentation of Research: EAGLE .
"Goddess on the Ramparts"
W "Myth of Inana and Ebih," in ETCSL (local) (click to open);
W R. Harris, "Inanna-Ishtar as Paradox and a Coincidence of Opposites,"
History of Religions 30/3 (1991}: 261-278 (click to open);
W J. Grahn, "Ecology of the Erotic in a Myth of Inanna," International Journal of
Transpersonal Studies 29/2 (2010): 58-67 (click to open).
(11/16) RESEARCH PAPER SECOND DRAFT WITH NOTES DUE IN CLASS
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Week 14: November 21 and 23 (Thanksgiving Week)
(11/21) Formal Presentation of Research: MARSH .
"Qadesh" The Experience and the Legacy"
W/Ref "The Kadesh Battle Inscriptions of Ramesses II," in Lichtheim, AEL 2, 57-72 (click to open);
W/Ref "Hattusilis on Muwatallis' War Against Egypt," in ANET, 319 (click to open);
Beckman, Hittite Diplomatic Texts, "Treaty Between Hattusili IIII of Hatti and
Ramesses II of Egypt," no. 15, pp. 90-95;
Beckman, Hittite Diplomatic Texts, "Hattusili III & Beteshina of Amurru," no. 16, pp. 95-97;
W "Goedicke, H. "Considerations on the Battle of Kadesh," Journal of Egyptian
Archaeology 52 (1966):71-80 {Jstor} (click to open).
(11/21) Formal Presentation of Research: ROBERTS .
"Sargonid Innovation in Warfare and Administration"
W Lambert, W. G. "A New Fragment of the King of Battle," Archiv fuer
Orientforschung 20 (1963): 161-62 (click to open);
W "Nigro, L. "The Two Steles of Sargon: Iconology and Visual Propaganda at the Beginning of
Royal Akkadian Relief," Iraq 60 (1998): 85-102 {Jstor} (click to open);
W Van De Mieroop, M. "Hammurabi's Self-presentation," Orientalia, N.S. 80/4
(2011): 305-38 {Jstor} (click to open):
(11/23) Thanksgiving - NO CLASS
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Week 15: November 28 and 30
(11/28) Formal Presentations of Research TURNER .
"Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom Fortifications East of the Nile Delta"
Hamblin, "Middle Kingdom Egypt," 382-399;
W Hoffmeier, "The Walls of the Ruler," BASOR 343 (2006): 1-20 (click to open);
W Wilson, J. "The Egyptian Middle Kingdom at Megiddo," AJSL 58(1941): 225–36 (click to open).
(11/28) Formal Presentations of Research WILSON .
"Regional Diplomacy: Assertion of Influence"
Beckman, Hittite Diplomatic Texts, "Treaty between Suppiluliuma I of Hatti and Aziru of Amurru," no. 5, pp. 36-41;
W Schulman, A. R. "Diplomatic Marriage in the Egyptian New Kingdom," JNES 38 (1979): 177-93 (click to open);
W Bryce, T., "The 'Eternal Treaty' from the Hittite perspective," BMSAES 6 (2006): 1-11 (click to open).
(11/30) Finish Tuesday's Presentation: WILSON .
W/Ref "Suppiluliumas and the Egyptian Queen," in ANET, 319; (click to open);
W/Ref Extract from "Plague Prayers of Mursilis," in ANET, 394-395 (click to open);
W Eyma, A., "Hittite Correspondence in the Zannanza Affair,"
extracted from Egyptology Electronic Forum (click to open).
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Week 16: December 4 (Last Day of Term)
(12/4) RESEARCH PAPER FINAL COPY DUE
(12/4) REFLECTIVE ESSAY & STUDENT PORTFOLIO DUE (all registered students)