MARI, one of the principal centers of Mesopotamia during the third and early second millennia B.C.E. The archaeological and epigraphical discoveries there are of prime significance for the history of Mesopotamia and Upper Syria.

…is vividly mirrored in the Mari Letters, a great archive of royal correspondence found at the site of Mari, near the modern frontier with Iraq. Among the principal figures mentioned are the celebrated lawgiver Hammurabi of Babylon (himself an Amorite) and a king of Aleppo, part of whose kingdom was…

Feb 6, 2006 · Hazor is spoken of often in the Mari texts, and there is a reference to Laish (Dan) as well. A unique collection of 30 texts deals with prophetic messages that were delivered to local rulers who relayed them to the king.

The 15,000 texts in the Mari archives dating from the Amorite period, named after the Semitic people who settled and ruled throughout Mesopotamia at the turn of the 3 rd and 2 nd millennia BCE, are spread over about half a century.

Aug 30, 2016 · Yet, without question, the most enduring quality of Mari is its texts. Archaeologists have excavated tens of thousands clay tablets, which contain anything from census lists, legal texts, diplomatic texts, to narratives. In short, these texts shed light on all facets of ancient Near Eastern society.

Since it was first excavated, Mari has proved to be exceptional with several thousand cuneiform texts found in the ruins of the palace of Zimri-Lim, adding to its reputation as an extraordinary capital.

The Mari texts, with other information from Mesopotamia, reveal an out line of the political history of Mari in the early second millennium B.C.: a local dynasty, followed by a period of rule by neighboring Assyria, the local dynasty again in power, and then the destruction of the city by Hammurabi of Babylon about 1757 B.C.3 These texts are ...

In this new Mesopotamian Civilizations volume, Professor Heimpelcollects the corpus of the Mari correspondence and provides anintroduction, a reconstruction of ...

Dec 1, 2019 · One of the most important is found in Mari letters. These letters are considered by many authors as the origin of biblical prophetism. This article is part one of a two-part paper.

A separate section is devoted to the "theological relevance" of Mari prophecy. Generally speaking, a text will have theological relevance if it bears on one's own reli-gious beliefs. Therefore, while scholars may argue over the religio-historical significance of a text, they should not argue over theological relevance, "which would only be an