H. W. F. Saggs

Henry William Frederick Saggs ( born December 2, 1920 in Essex, † 31 August 2005) was a British Assyriologist of East Anglia.

Saggs attended Clacton County High School in Essex and studied from 1939 to 1942 Theology at King's College London. In 1942, he joined the Air Force. He was wounded during a crash in Invergordon. In 1947 he worked for the police in the British Mandate of Palestine. From 1948 he studied theology at King 's College. In 1949 he married and had four daughters. In 1953 he graduated from SOAS in Assyriology.

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Teaching

Works

  • The Greatness did what Babylon ( 1962)
  • Everyday Life in Babylonia and Assyria (1965).
  • The Encounter with the Divine in Mesopotamia and Israel (1978).
  • The Might did what Assyria (1984 )
  • Civilization before Greece and Rome (1989 )
  • Babylonians (1995).

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