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David Weisberg became fascinated by Assyriology as an undergraduate at Columbia University. Already endowed with a strong background in Hebraica, he soon came to know that he needed the deeper immersion of a graduate program, and he enrolled at Yale to pursue it. David's interests soon focused...
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Campbell Thompson Tablets Published by Ivan Lee Holt -- A Guided Tour through Babylonian History: Cuneiform Inscriptions in the Cincinnati Art Museum -- Bible, Masorah, and Rabbinics -- Jacob Wards Off Endangerment -- Wool and Linen Material in Texts from the Time of Nebuchadnezzar -- Character Development in the Book of Ruth -- The Rare Accents of the Twenty-One Books -- Break in the Middle of a Verse: Some Observations on a Massoretic Feature -- I. O. 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Jursa's Comments to OIP 122 and the Limits of Criticism -- Index of Authors -- Index of Scripture -- Index of Subjects restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star David Weisberg became fascinated by Assyriology as an undergraduate at Columbia University. Already endowed with a strong background in Hebraica, he soon came to know that he needed the deeper immersion of a graduate program, and he enrolled at Yale to pursue it. David's interests soon focused on the Chaldean Dynasty of Nebuchadnezzar and the Achaemenid Dynasty of Cyrus the Great. Weisberg's thesis succeeded in illuminating the wider significance of some previously unpublished cuneiform texts from this period?as well as earning him the doctorate. The thesis appeared in the recently established Yale Near Eastern Researches (1967) under the somewhat daunting title Guild Structure and Political Allegiance in Early Achaemenid Mesopotamia, and David's career was launched.Weisberg's oeuvre, as exemplified by the nearly three dozen essays conveniently assembled in this volume, attest both to his prodigious industriousness and to the loss that the field of Assyriology has suffered in his untimely demise. As is clear from the Table of Contents, he continued to make major contributions to the study of the Neo-Babylonian period (especially regarding political and military history and the doings of ancient royals) but he also offered seminal insights in other areas, including Masoretic studies, rabbinics, social and economic life of the ancient Near East, as well as the interface between modern culture and study of the ancient world.-Based on W. W. Hallo's "Introduction" Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. 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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- Part 1 Political and Military History and Ancient Royals -- Loyalty and Death: Some Ancient Near Eastern Metaphors -- Zabaya, an Early King of the Larsa Dynasty -- Rib-Hadda's Urgent Tone: A Note on EA 74:50 -- The Length of the Reign of Hallusu-Insusinak -- Esarhaddon and Egypt: A Preliminary Investigation -- A Sale of Property from the Time of Esarhaddon, "King of Lands" -- The Neo-Babylonian Empire -- The "Antiquarian" Interests of the Neo-Babylonian Kings -- Royal Women of the Neo-Babylonian Period -- A "Dinner at the Palace" during Nebuchadnezzar's Reign -- Notes on Nebuchadnezzar's 37th Year -- Polytheism and Politics: Some Comments on Nabonidus' Foreign Policy -- Part 2 Texts and Legacies -- The Impact of Assyriology on Biblical Studies -- Assyriology -- An Old Babylonian Forerunner to Summa Alu -- The R. Campbell Thompson Tablets Published by Ivan Lee Holt -- A Guided Tour through Babylonian History: Cuneiform Inscriptions in the Cincinnati Art Museum -- Bible, Masorah, and Rabbinics -- Jacob Wards Off Endangerment -- Wool and Linen Material in Texts from the Time of Nebuchadnezzar -- Character Development in the Book of Ruth -- The Rare Accents of the Twenty-One Books -- Break in the Middle of a Verse: Some Observations on a Massoretic Feature -- I. O. Lehman, HUC mss 951-981 from Kai Feng, and a Purported Link between China and Yemen -- Some Observations on Late Babylonian Texts and Rabbinic Literature -- Visibility of the New Moon in Cuneiform and Rabbinic Sources -- "Feet of Iron" in the Babylonian Talmud? -- Part 3 Social and Economic History -- Everyday Life in the Neo-Babylonian Period: The Integration of Material and Non-Material Culture -- A Neo-Babylonian Dialogue Document (3.123) -- A Mar Banutu Text from the Town of Hubat -- A Neo-Babylonian Temple Report -- Pirquti or Sirkuti? Was Istar-ab-ußur's Freedom Affirmed or Was He Re-Enslaved? -- Part 4 Critical Self-Reflection -- "Splendid Truths" or "Prodigious Commotion"? -- A Centennial Review of Friedrich Delitzsch's "Babel und Bibel" Lectures -- Delitzsch in Context -- Babel und Bibel und Bias: How Anti-Semitism Distorted Friedrich Delitzsch's Scholarship -- On Reading Archival Texts: M. Jursa's Comments to OIP 122 and the Limits of Criticism -- Index of Authors -- Index of Scripture -- Index of Subjects |
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