Leaders and Legacies in Assyriology and Bible : : The Collected Essays of David B. Weisberg / / David B. Weisberg.
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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Year of Publication: | 2021 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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