BARview: Tell el-Amarna Conference Grueling but Stimulating

The Middle West Branch of the American Oriental Society (AOS) has hit on a marvelous idea. Every couple of years, it devotes its annual meeting—a two-day affair—to a particular archaeological site that has produced an important ancient archive. Then the papers delivered at the meeting are collected in a published volume. In 1979, the meeting was devoted to Ugarit, an ancient city on the Syrian coast that produced a 14th- to 13th-century B.C. cuneiform archive in a Canaanite language known to scholars as Ugaritic.a The book that resulted from that meeting, Ugarit in Retrospect, was published by Eisenbrauns in […]