The idea of history in the ancient Near East
By: by Roland H. Bainton [and others]
Contributors: Bainton, Roland H. (Roland Herbert), 1894-1984
Series: American Oriental series -- v.38.; American oriental series -- v.38.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1966
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
Copyright date: 1955
Subjects: History; Philosophy
Notes: "Lectures of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures at Yale University."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ancient Egypt, by L. Bull.; title: Ancient Mesopotamia, by E. A. Speiser.; title: Ancient Persia, by G. G. Cameron,; title: Ancient Israel, by M. Burrows.; title: The Hellenistic Orient, by C. B. Welles.; title: Earliest Christianity, by E. Dinkler.; title: Patristic Christianity, by R. H. Bainton.; title: Early Islam, by J. Obermann.; title: The twentieth-century West and the ancient Near East, by P. Schubert.