Author: BARRé, MICHAEL L. (BARRE)
Title: The God-List in the Treaty between Hannibal and Philip V of Macedonia a Study in Light of the Ancient Near Eastern Treaty Tradition
Description: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. Hardcover. ISBN: 0801827876. Very faint Bumping to 1 corner. Else very minor shelfwear. ; In 215 BC in the second Punic War, Philip V of Macedonia sent an emissary to Hannibal in order to form an alliance with the Carthaginian general. This alliance was formalized in a treaty, the document which provides the corpus for this study. In this treaty is a list of "divine witnesses", which comprise the "official pantheon" of Carthage. The organization of the material and the presentation of the god-lists of all the treaties in a series of charts in Appendix I as well as the extensive indexes and bibliography make the book a useful reference work. Any further treatment of West Semitic pantheons will have to take this study seriously and all who are interested in Near Eastern religion will consult this work with great profit. ; The Johns Hopkins Near Eastern Studies; 10.5 x 0.75 x 7.25 Inches; 236 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .

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