Oriental and Biblical Studies : : Collected Writings of E. A. Speiser / / E. A. Speiser; ed. by Moshe Greenberg, J. J. Finkelstein.
Rarely has mastery of a field been combined with such style and lucidity as in the writings of E. A. Speiser. For forty years before his death, in 1965, Dr. Speiser, the renowned author of the Anchor Bible Genesis, was a leading American orientalist. Speiser was at home in the modern as well as the...
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A. Speiser: An Appreciation* restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Rarely has mastery of a field been combined with such style and lucidity as in the writings of E. A. Speiser. For forty years before his death, in 1965, Dr. Speiser, the renowned author of the Anchor Bible Genesis, was a leading American orientalist. Speiser was at home in the modern as well as the ancient Near East and knew its many cultures intimately. His wide-ranging biblical studies are informed with a profound knowledge of Assyriology, and to both he brought the insights of a brilliant comparative linguist. Speiser's unique vision of the whole of ancient Near Eastern culture resulted in several classic syntheses that are included in these pages.Collected in this volume are thirty-six of his now difficult-to-obtain articles. The reader will discover papers that deal not only with biblical studies and linguistics but also with the civilizations of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine; with law and political science; and with intellectual and social progress in the ancient Near East."Speiser insisted on the simultaneous concentration upon analysis and synthesis; the first without the second he deemed sterile, the second without the first an empty playing with words. . . . [This insistence], so eloquently exemplified in his own work was . . . the most distinctive and certainly the most enduring part of his legacy as a teacher (from the Appreciation, by J. J. Finkelstein).E. A. Speiser was born in Galicia in 1902. After his graduation from the College of Lemberg, Austria, in 1918, he came to the United States, arriving in 1920. He received his M.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1923 and Ph.D. degree from Dropsie College, Philadelphia, in 1924. During World War II, Speiser was the chief of the Near East section, research and analysis branch of the Office of Strategic Services. Following the war, in 1947, Speiser was named chairman of the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1954 he became Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures at the University. One year prior to his death, he was named University Professor of Oriental Studies, the highest honor that the University of Pennsylvania awards to distinguished faculty members.Those familiar with one or another aspect of Speiser's contribution will find here a selection and arrangement designed to capture the underlying unity in approach that informed all of his work. And the nonspecialist cannot help but discover the broader, humanistic implications of oriental studies. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. 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Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- BIBLICAL STUDIES -- ΈD in The Story of Creation -- The Rivers of Paradise -- YDWN, Gen 6:3 -- In Search of Nimrod -- Word Plays on the Creation Epic's Version of the Founding of Babylon -- The Wife-Sister Motif in the Patriarchal Narratives -- "Coming" and "Going" at the "City" Gate -- "I Know Not the Day of My Death" -- The Verb SHR in Genesis and Early Hebrew Movements -- An Angelic "Curse": Exodus 14:20 -- Background and Function of the Biblical Nasi' -- Leviticus and the Critics -- The Shibboleth Incident (Judges 12:6) -- Of Shoes and Shekels (I Samuel 12:3; 13:21) (1940) -- "People" and "Nation" of Israel -- Census and Ritual Expiation in Mari and Israel -- The Biblical Idea of History in its Common Near Eastern Setting (1957) -- ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN HISTORY AND CULTURE -- The Sumerian Problem Reviewed -- Some Factors in the Collapse of Akkad -- The Hurrian Participation in the Civilization of Mesopotamia, Syria and Palestine -- The Idea of History in Ancient Mesopotamia (1955) -- Authority and Law in Mesopotamia (1954 ) -- The Name Phoinikes (1936) -- The muskênum (1958) -- The Case of the Obliging Servant -- LINGUISTIC STUDIES -- Secondary Developments in Semitic Phonology: An Application of the Principle of Sonority -- Studies in Semitic Formatives -- The Pitfalls of Polarity -- A Note on the Derivation of summa -- The "Elative" in West-Semitic and Akkadian -- The Terminative-Adverbial in Canaanite-Ugaritic and Akkadian* -- The Durative Hithpa'el: A tan Form -- PERSPECTIVES -- Some Sources of Intellectual and Social Progress in the Ancient Near East1 -- Early Law and Civilization -- Religion and Government in the Ancient Near East -- Oriental Studies and Society -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- E. A. Speiser: An Appreciation* |
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