Bronze/Biblical Ages

(Also see the listing of related Osprey military history references)

The Oxford History of the Biblical World, by Michael Coogan, ed. (Oxford Univ. Press, Nov. 1989) 643 pages.

The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization, by Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth, and Simon Spawforth, editors. (Oxford Univ. Press, Dec. 1998) 752 pages.

The Kingdom of the Hittites by Trevor Bryce, (Clarendon, May 1998). A more reasonably priced softcover edition is also available.

The Hittites, by Oliver Robert Gurney (Penguin USA, Feb. 1991). Softcover, 214 pages.

The Hittites : And Their Contemporaries in Asia Minor (Ancient Peoples and Places Series), by J. G. MacQueen (Thames & Hudson, Nov. 1996). Softcover, 176 pages.

Battles of the Bible (Rev. Ed.), by Chaim Herzog, Mordechai Gichon (Stackpole, March 1997). 320 pages, hardcover.

The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt, by Bill Manley (Penguin USA, Jan. 1997). 144 pages, softcover.

The End of the Bronze Age : Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe Ca. 1200 B.C., by Robert Drews (Princeton Univ. Press, Feb. 1996.). Softcover. Also available in hard cover edition.

The Phoenicians by Sabatino Moscati, ed. (Rizzoli, Feb. 2000).