Time at Emar: The Cultic Calendar & the Rituals from the Diviner's House (Mesopotamian Civilizations 11) (Mesopotamian Civilizations 11) [Hardcover]

Daniel E. Fleming (Author)

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• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: Eisenbrauns (October 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1575060442
• ISBN-13: 978-1575060446
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,552,405 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Time at Emar: The Cultic Calendar & the Rituals from the Diviner's House (Mesopotamian Civilizations 11) (Mesopotamian Civilizations 11) (Hardcover)

I am not an archaeologist nor a Semitics specialist but I am very interested in the work at Emar, particulary Fleming's. Yet this book was full of jargon and almost unapproachable. Moreover, I missed treatments of some of the old work on related topics, such those of Hildegard & Julius Lewy.

Had this been a science work, it would have been published with a forbidding title rather than a sexy one. And it would have appeared as a scholarly monograph. As a monograph, I feel certain it must be doing a great job (because many specialists refer to it). But one day I hope that Fleming will reach out to the serious non-specialist with a different book, perhaps one called "Ancient Semitic Calendars for Dummies."