The History of Phoenicia by Elayi, Josette

The History of Phoenicia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781937040819)

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The History of Phoenicia by Elayi, Josette

The History of Phoenicia

$39.95
The History of Phoenicia by Elayi, Josette

The History of Phoenicia

$39.95
Format: Paperback
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The history of the Phoenicians, explorers and merchants, is little known. What a paradox for this ingenious people, who invented the alphabet, to have left so few written traces of their existence. Their literature, recorded on papyrus, has disappeared. And yet this civilization fired the imagination of its contemporaries--the Jews in particular--inspiring terror among the Romans and Greeks, who depicted them as a cruel people who practiced human sacrifice. Their clients were the pharaohs and the Assyrians, their ships criss-crossed the Mediterranean, laden with the luxuries of the day such as wine, oil, grain, and mineral ore. Buried beneath the modern cities of Lebanon, and a few of Syria and Israel, ancient Phoenicia has resuscitated in this volume.

Author: Josette Elayi
ISBN-10: 193704081X
ISBN-13: 9781937040819
Publisher: Lockwood Press
Language: English
Published: 06/15/2018
Pages: 324
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
By Josette Elayi
By Josette Elayi
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Josette Elayi is a historian and researcher with degrees in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Akkadian, and an unrivaled expert on Phoenicia. She has taught at the Lebanese University in Beirut and Mustansiriye University in Baghdad and currently continues her research in Paris at the College de France. She has developed a new pluridisciplinary historical method combining epigraphy, numismatics, archaeology, economics and sociology.

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