CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

List of Maps

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. / Canaan in the Eleventh and Tenth Centuries B.C.E.: The Origin of the Phoenicians

2. / The Phoenician City-States Receive and Transmit Knowledge: The Ninth Century B.C.E.

3. / The Phoenician Exploration of the Mediterranean World: A Result of the Pax Assyriaca in the Eighth Century B.C.E.

4. / The World of Tyre in the Seventh Century B.C.E.

5. / The Sixth-Century Phoenician World Becomes a Differentiated Semitic and European World

6. / The Carthaginian World of the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.E.: Between the Persians and the Greeks

Conclusion

Index of Authors

Index of Biblical Citations

Index of Geographical Names