Sources
The Hurrians
Citation Formats
General Reference
APA Style
BibTeX
Gernot Wilhelm's The Hurrians is a scholarly history of the ancient Hurrian people and their civilization in the ancient Near East, published by Aris and Phillips, an academic press specializing in classical and Near Eastern texts. Wilhelm is a recognized specialist in Hurrian language and history, and the book's authority rests on his direct command of the cuneiform textual sources, a genuinely specialized skill given how comparatively little Hurrian material survives next to better documented neighboring civilizations like Assyria and Babylon. Its concise scope reflects the state of the surviving evidence rather than an incomplete treatment. Its limit is the ordinary one for a compact survey, useful as the standard English language introduction to the Hurrians, while a very specific philological question about a Hurrian text benefits from the specialist journal literature Wilhelm's own bibliography points toward.
Facts
Assessment
Reliability Tier1
Gernot Wilhelm's The Hurrians, published by Aris and Phillips, an academic press specializing in classical and Near Eastern texts, is a scholarly history by a recognized specialist in Hurrian language, treated at the top tier as academic press scholarship. NotesScholarly history of the ancient Hurrians.
Citation
AuthorGernot Wilhelm
PublisherAris and Phillips
Publication Year1989
Source Typeacademic monograph
Cross-Tradition Connections
Associated With
This source names Babylon directly: "civilizations like Assyria and Babylon."
This source names Hurrians directly: "Gernot Wilhelm's The Hurrians is a scholarly history of the ancient Hurrian people and their civilization in the ancient Near East, published by Aris and Phillips, an academic press specializing in..."
Claims Backed By This Source (37 claims)
This source backs 37 claims across the atlas. As facts: 22 well-attested. As cited relationships: 11 holds. Plus 4 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Deities, 24 claims: 13 well-attested, 9 holds, 2 general references.
- Sources, 9 claims: 7 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Religions, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
- Cultures, 1 claims: 1 general references.
Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.
Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.
View At A Past Year
The atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.