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Title: History, Anthropology and the Aramaeans
Subtitle: Apropos of a New History of the Aramaeans
Author(s): BUNNENS, Guy
Journal: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Volume: 56    Date: 2019   
Pages: 347-366
DOI: 10.2143/ANES.56.0.3286823

Abstract :
Taking as a starting point the recently published book A Political History of the Arameans by K.L. Younger, Jr., the paper advocates a broadening of the methodological approach to the reconstruction of ancient history, which, besides textual criticism and anthropological models, should consider diachronic sequences of phenomena complemented by a comparative study of similar sequences and phenomena occurring in distinct and unrelated contexts.

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