by J. David Bolter
Univ. of N.C., 1984
264 pp. $19.95
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Princeton, 1984
288 pp. $22.50
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Simon & Schuster, 1985
240 pp. $16.95
by Robert Kuttner
Houghton, 1984
308 pp. $19.95
A. Malamat, H. Tadmor, M. Stern, S. Safrai, H. H. Ben-Sasson, S. Ettinger. Harvard, 1985. 1,170 pp. $18.95
In the last quarter of the second mille- nium B.c., "with the collapse of the Hit- tite Empire to the north and the decline of Egyptian power to the south," condi- tions were ripe for the peoples of Syria and Palestine to rise up and establish themselves as nations. The Arameans did so in the north; in Palestine, the Israelites emerged victorious, taking over all lands "from...
by Edith Efron
Simon & Schuster, 1984
589 pp. $19.95
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Press of America, 1985.300 pp. $12.75
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Farrar, 1984
338 pp. $19.95