Oriental and Biblical Studies : : Collected Writings of E. A. Speiser /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
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Speiser, E. A.,
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Finkelstein, J. J.,
Greenberg, Moshe,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [1967]
©1967
Year of Publication:1967
Language:English
Series:Anniversary Collection
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Physical Description:1 online resource (616 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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