Leaders and Legacies in Assyriology and Bible : : The Collected Essays of David B. Weisberg /

Leaders and Legacies in Assyriology and Bible : : The Collected Essays of David B. Weisberg / / David B. Weisberg.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
VerfasserIn:
Weisberg, David B.,
MitwirkendeR:
Arnold, Bill T.,
Hallo, William W.,
Lehman, Israel O.,
Pfeiffer, Andrew,
Weisberg, David B.,
Zion Wacholder, Ben,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2012
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (424 p.)
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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

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