Review text: "The book provides not only a nuanced literary analysis of several chapters in Ezekiel but also a very useful synthesis of the history and culture of Tyre in the first millennium."Jacob L. Wright in: ReligiousStudies Review 3/2010.
The present study is devoted to an exact analysis of the Oracles against Tyre in the Book of Ezekiel, which are handed down in the Old Testament in Ez 26-28. The first main section locates the Old Testament text within literary history. The second section reconstructs the histor…
This synthesis of archaeological and historical data is a study of the Phoenicians, who established the first trading system to encompass the entire length of the Mediterranean basin, from their homeland, in what is now Lebanon, to colonies in Cyprus, Tuni.
Between the eighth and the sixth centuries BC, the Phoenicians established the first trading system to encompass the entire length of the Mediterranean basin, from their homeland, in what is now Lebanon, to colonies in Cyprus, Tunisia, Sicily, Sardinia and southern Spain. The Ph…