Carolina López-Ruiz is Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School and Department of Classics. She is the author of Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean, for which she received the support of the National Endowment of the Humanities. Her previous books include Tartessos and the Phoenicians in Iberia, When the Gods Were Born: Greek Cosmogonies and the Near East, and Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia: Phoenician, Greek, and Indigenous Relations (co-edited with M. Dietler). Some of her books have been translated into Turkish and Spanish. Brian R. Doak is Professor of Biblical Studies and Faculty Fellow in the William Penn Honors Program at George Fox University, just outside of Portland, Oregon. He is the recipient of the Aviram Prize for archaeological research as well as the George Fox University Undergraduate Researcher of the Year. He is the author of several books, including Phoenician Aniconism in its Mediterranean and Ancient Near Eastern Contexts, Ancient Israel's Neighbors, and Heroic Bodies in Ancient Israel.
An extremely useful compendium, chock-full of the latest
information. Carolina López-Ruiz and Brian R. Doak are to be highly
commended for having pulled together this very handy volume, with
valuable contributions from a stellar array of scholars.
*Eric H. Cline, George Washington University*
Studies of the Phoenician world now have a new entry point and
benchmark, thanks to this magisterial volume. López-Ruiz and Doak
have assembled an all-star cast to distill and communicate current
knowledge of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean. This
impressive work covers a host of topics—from the language and
literature of the Phoenicians to their archaeology, society, and
reception in antiquity and in the modern day. This is the single
most useful survey covering the Phoenician influence on the
Mediterranean world on the market today, and it will serve the next
generation of scholars exceptionally well.
*Jeremy M. Hutton, University of Wisconsin-Madison*
Today it is no longer possible to study the ancient Mediterranean
without taking into account the Phoenicians and Carthaginians. For
those who embark on their discovery, this Handbook provides a
wealth of background information, and more. The work brings readers
confidently and comfortably into a world that has never ceased to
arouse aversion, suspicion, and fascination. Ancient and modern
stereotypes are illuminated and contextualized; and the languages,
stories, customs, religions, and artefacts of the Phoenician and
Carthaginian world are made accessible to all through a prism of
the most up-to-date knowledge.
*Véronique Krings, University of Toulouse*
It will be difficult to surpass such [a] comprehensive and detailed
reference work in the next few decades... This [Handbook] has
already become a must-read manual for experts and students because
of the depth and range of its approach and its updated
bibliography. Most chapters not only include the most recent data
but also produce fresh interpretations and paradigms which are
incorporated into the analyses provided....Finally, The Oxford
Handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean successfully
breaks away from traditional accounts that placed Phoenician
communities as a 'third party' in the history of the ancient
Mediterranean. For this reason alone, it is a highly recommended
and worthwhile read.
*Francisco Machuca Prieto, Universidad de Málaga*
Lopez-Ruiz and Doak's Oxford Handbook of the Phoenician and Punic
Mediterranean must certainly be considered a 'sine qua non' for the
field of Biblical and ancient Near Eastern Studies. It is so very
detailed, current, and broad in scope...focusing not only on the
history of Phoenicia (from the Late Bronze Age to the Roman
Period), but also on Phoenician religion and art, Phoenician
language and culture, Phoenician colonial activities, Phoenician
seafaring and trade, and even the most recent archaeological
fieldwork of all things Phoenician. No serious library can afford
to be without this superb volume.
*Christopher A. Rollston, George Washington University*
With the maturation of social scientific models and more refined
interpretation of historical evidence, López-Ruiz and Doak have
assembled an outstanding collection of essays that cover every
major aspect of the Phoenicians. These 'Sea Peoples' did so much
more than spread the alphabet or provide background for biblical
and classical works. The Phoenicians were, in fact, central players
in the unfolding of Mediterranean history, and this volume finally
gives the field of Phoenician studies the appropriate attention.
This work is an essential reference tool for teachers and scholars
of the ancient Mediterranean world.
*Roger S. Nam, Emory University*
[This] Handbook gives a clear, balanced, and up-to-date overview of
the archaeology and the geopolitical, linguistic, epigraphic, and
religious history of the people known today as the Phoenicians. The
articles cover a wide range of topics that are important for
specialists in the history of the Levant...scholars of the broader
study of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean...[and are] also
accessible to undergraduate and graduate student
audiences....Another important contribution is the attention paid
to the reception history of the Phoenicians in biblical and
classical works. In short, this work is essential to any course on
the ancient history of the Near East, and to any scholar's
library.
*Alice Mandell, Johns Hopkins University*
Marks a significant advancement in the growing discipline of
Phoenician (and Punic) Studies.... The an immense contribution to
Phoenician Studies that will easily facilitate seminars at the
intermediate-to-advanced undergraduate and graduate levels that
would have been extremely difficult to organize at English-speaking
universities beforehand. I have no doubt that it will quickly
become an indispensable tool for both experienced researchers and
younger scholars just beginning to learn about the field.
*Russell J. Clark, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
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