Title: Not good for historical purposes
Review: This book contains certainly the most recent 'complete' English translations of the corpus of Amarna Letters, however the translations themselves have been challenged several times in the last years for being extremely inaccurate when dealing with the old and much debated problem of the coregency between Amenhotep III and Amenhotep IV. Here the translator of the texts chooses to render certain difficult and problematic passages as if they would appear contrary to a coregency, while exact translations reveal that they are not indeed. So while the book is good in general, it is to be avoided when dealing with historical and, most of all, chronological problems related to the succession of Amenhotep III. See for this the strong comments of F. J. Giles and A. B. Knapp in 'The Amarna Age: Western Asia', vol. 1, 1997.
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