Books in Brief
The Amarna Letters
Edited and translated by William L. Moran
(Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1992) 448 pp., $68.00
Reviewed by Anson F. Rainey
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With this monumental achievement, a fresh collation and translation of all the letters in the 14th-century B.C.E. Amarna archive,1 William L. Moran crowns his career as the unquestioned dean of Amarna studies. This is the English version of Moran’s work, which appeared in a French edition in 1987, just 100 years after the initial discovery of the Amarna tablets by a peasant woman digging at el-Amarna, Egypt, in the ruins of ancient Akhetaton, the capital of the “heretic” king, Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV, 1350–1334 B.C.E.).

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