Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Maps ix
4. Introduction: An Unexpected Discovery 1
5. Part I. The Players
6. 1 Dealers and Destructions 9
7. 2 Budge 16
8. 3 Sayce 23
9. 4 The Young Berliners 32
10. Part II. The Fellowship of the Kings
11. 5 Šarru Rabû 41
12. 6 An Arzawan Alliance? 47
13. 7 All’s Fair in Love and War (and Diplomacy) 52
14. 8 The Hand of Nergal 58
15. Part III. The Rules and the Race
16. 9 No No Necho 67
17. 10 Lost in Translation 73
18. 11 Flights of Fancy 79
19. 12 Winckler and Abel 87
20. Part IV. Lab’ayu and Sons, Inc.
21. 13 The Lab’ayu Affair 95
22. 14 The Sons of Lab’ayu 102
23. Part V. The Game: Winners and Losers
24. 15 Jerusalem, O Jerusalem 109
25. 16 Publish or Perish 116
26. 17 Bezold and Budge, Finally 121
27. 18 Facts and Alternative Facts 128
28. Part VI. Amurru, Byblos, and Jerusalem
29. 19 The Dog of His House 141
30. 20 Triple-A Roster 149
31. 21 Gaslighting the Pharaoh 156
32. 22 If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem 165
33. Part VII. The Social Networks and Globalized World of the Late Bronze Age
34. 23 It’s a Small World After All 177
35. 24 Three Degrees of Separation 190
36. Epilogue: After Amarna 200
37. Dramatis Personae 205
38. Acknowledgments 211
39. Notes 213
40. Works Cited 235
41. Index 245
42. A Note on the Type 253