Has anyone else tackled this book? Thoughts on his "dead civilization" thesis?
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More importantly – for those who've read it: How well does Oppenheim's "portrait" hold up against more recent works like The Babylonians by G. Leick or Ancient Mesopotamia by S. Pollock? His insistence on viewing Mesopotamian civilization as fundamentally "dead" (i.e., with no living continuity) seems provocative but also limiting. Has anyone else tackled this book