The ancient Orient : an introduction to the study of the ancient Near East - Soden, Wolfram von, 1908-1996. (Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, 1994)
I. The Term "Ancient Orient" and Its Demarcation -- II. The Scene -- III. Peoples and Cultures in the Ancient Orient -- 1. The Ancient Oriental Cultures before 3000: The Sumerians -- 2. The Semites in Western Asia -- 3. Hurrians and Urartians -- 4. Peoples and Cultures in Western Iran -- 5. Asia Minor: Proto-Hattians, Luwians, and Hittites -- 6. The Coalescence of Peoples -- IV. Writing and Systems of Writing -- 1. Sumerian Writing and Cuneiform -- 2. The Hittite Hieroglyphs (the Luwian Pictograms) -- 3. The Phoenician Alphabetic Script and Its Predecessors -- 4. Alphabetic Scripts in Cuneiform: Ugaritic and the Old Persian Script -- V. The History of Ancient Western Asia: The Historical Sources -- 1. Chronology: King Lists, Date Lists, and Eponym Lists -- 2. Sources for Political History --
Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-254) and index.
Keywords: Oudheid; Middle East -- Civilization -- To 622.; Moyen-Orient -- Civilisation -- Jusqu'a 622.; Moyen-Orient -- Civilisation -- Jusqu'a 622.; Prehistoric civilisation; Mesopotamia