A Contribution to the History of Upper Mesopotamia in the Second Millennium B.C.by Roger T. O'Callaghan; Aram Naharaim

✍ Scribed by Review by: Albrecht Goetze

• Book ID: 125628280
• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Year: 1948
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 760 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1557-5594
• DOI: 10.2307/3515932

✦ Synopsis

3C9 Critical Revie(vwV Roger T. C'Callaghan, b.J., Aram Naharaim. A Contribution to the History of Upper Mesopotamia in the Seccnd Millennium E.C. (=Analecta Orientalia 26). Roma, Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1948. XV+164pp., 38 plates and 3 maps. It is apparently difficult to find a fitting title for a bock dealing with the history of Upper Mescpotamia in the seccnd Millennium B.C., the period in which the vital impulses cf the political and cultural development of the ancient wcr.ld originated in the north of M;esopotamia rather than in the south. I had to face the problem myself when writing the book which was finally published under the title "Hethiter, Churriter and Assyrer" (Oslo, 1936). "Aram Naharaim" could have been selected only by a scholar whose interests center around the Bible and for whom the history of Upper Mesopotamia in the second millennium provides the background for a better understanding of the Old Testament. However, the biblical term is vague; burdened down with a reference tc the Arameans it is anachronistic when applied tc a period in which Arameans play no part. Were