Lingering over words : : studies in ancient Near Eastern literature in honor of William L. Moran / / edited by Tzvi Abusch, John Huehnergard, Piotr Steinkeller.

• Superior document: Harvard Semitic studies ; no. 37
• TeilnehmendeR: Moran, William L.; Abusch, I. Tzvi.; Huehnergard, John.; Steinkeller, Piotr.
• Place / Publishing House: Atlanta, Ga. : : Scholars Press.; ©1990.
• Year of Publication: 1990
• Language: English; French; German
• Series: Harvard Semitic Studies 37.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 524 pages) :; illustrations

Table of Contents

An early form of the witchcraft ritual Maqlû and the origin of a Babylonian magical ceremony / Tzvi Abusch -- Lugalbanda and the early epic tradition in Mesopotamia / Bendt Alster -- The Babylonian Chronicle revisited / J.A. Brinkman -- On poetry, theirs and ours / Giorgio Buccellati -- Job's children / Michael David Coogan -- Selbstgespräch und Monolog in der akkadischen Literatur / Dietz Otto Edzard -- On weaving etymological and semantic threads : the Semitic root qlc / Barry L. Eichler -- Prayer to the gods of the night / David Ferry -- La conception de la beauté en Assyrie / Paul Garelli -- The language of imagery in Psalm 114 / Stephen A. Geller -- Two proverbs of Aḥiqar / Jonas C. Greenfield -- Proverbs quoted in epic / William W. Hallo -- Images of women in the Gilgamesh Epic / Rivkah Harris -- The Gilgamesh Epic : tragic and romantic vision / Thorkild Jacobsen -- BM 96927 : a prime example of ancient scribal redaction / Samuel Noah Kramer -- The case against Joseph / James Kugel -- A new Babylonian descent to the netherworld / W.G. Lambert -- A tamītu from Nippur / Erle Leichty -- Canonical and official Cuneiform texts : towards an understanding of Assurbanipal's personal tablet collection / Stephen J. Lieberman -- A seasonal pattern for the Amarna letters / Mario Liberani -- Welches Orakel gab de Davididen Dauer? Ein Textproblem in 2 Kön 8,19 und das Funktionieren der dynastischen Orakel im deuteronomistischen Geschichtswerk / Norbert Lohfink -- Gilgamesh and other epics / Albert B. Lord -- Presence at the creation / Piotr Michalowski -- Praises to the Pharaoh in response to his plans for a campaign to Canaan / Nadav Naʼaman -- The prefix conjugation patterns of early northwest Semitic / Anson F. Rainey -- Nocturnal talk / Erica Reiner -- "Versstrukturen" als Stilmittel in den Inschriften Sargons II von Assyrien / Johannes Renger -- Mari historiography and the Yakhdun-Lim Disc inscription / Jack M. Sasson-- A Celtic-Latin-Hittite etymology / Calvert Watkins -- Orthographie, Grammatik und literarische Form : Beobachtungen zu der Vaseninschrift Lugazaggesis (SAKI 152-156) / Claus Wilcke -- Marginalien zu Herodot : Klio 199 / Gernot Wilhelm.