Puzzling out the past : : studies in Northwest Semitic languages and literatures in honor of Bruce Zuckerman / / edited by Marilyn J. Lundberg, Steven Fine, Wayne T. Pitard.

• Superior document: Culture and history of the ancient Near East
• TeilnehmendeR: Zuckerman, Bruce.; Lundberg, Marilyn J.; Fine, Steven.; Pitard, Wayne T.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : BRILL,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 55.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Bruce Zuckerman has transformed the way we look at ancient Semitic inscriptions. Through his efforts, the most important inscriptions of biblical times have been reread and the history of the biblical and Second Temple periods reimagined. He has made contributions to the fields of biblical studies and modern Judaism, and, in founding Maarav: A Journal for the Study of the Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures , has made the research of many scholars available to the scholarly community. The series of articles included here honor his many contributions through discussions of a wide variety of inscriptional materials, Biblical texts, archaeology, lexicography and teaching methodology. Included in the volume is a republication of his path breaking exhibition catalogue, Puzzling Out the Past .

Table of Contents

Front Matter / Marilyn J. Lundberg , Steven Fine and Wayne T. Pitard -- “Where Will Yehoyišmaʿ Go?”: A Reconsideration of TAD B3.8 / Annalisa Azzoni -- Yet Another Jewish Tombstone from Late Antique Zoar/Zoora: The Funerary Marker of Hannah Daughter of Levi / Jacob Bitton , Nathan Dweck and Steven Fine -- 4Q541, Fragment 24 Reconsidered / Edward M. Cook -- Space, Line, and the Written Biblical Poem in Texts from the Judean Desert / F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp -- An Inscribed Bulla with Grazing Doe from Tel ʿEton / Avraham Faust and Esther Eshel -- Torah and Testament: Teaching and Learning Scripture in Dialogue and in Hermeneutics / Zev Garber -- Methodological Principles in Determining that the So-Called Jehoash Inscription is Inauthentic / Edward L. Greenstein -- Gleanings from the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon I: Previously Unknown Syriac Words / Stephen A. Kaufman -- Job 19 in the Light of the Ketef Hinnom Inscriptions and Amulets / Theodore J. Lewis -- New Drawings and Photographs of Four Cypriot Inscriptions / Marilyn J. Lundberg -- An Inscribed Arrowhead of a Crown Prince of Babylon / P. Kyle McCarter, Jr. -- Jonah 2:7—The Descent to the Netherworld and Its Mesopotamian Congeners / Shalom M. Paul -- Nodding Scribe and Heavy Thumb: The Scribal Errors in Cat 1.14 III 52–V 8 / Wayne T. Pitard -- New Lighting on the Amarna Letters: Mainly London, Berlin and Paris / Anson F. Rainey -- An Old Hebrew Stone Inscription from the City of David: A Trained Hand and a Remedial Hand on the Same Inscription / Christopher A. Rollston -- Why was “Old Poetry” Used in Hebrew Narrative? Historical and Cultural Considerations about Judges 5 / Mark S. Smith -- Squeezing Blood from a Stone: The Archaeological Context of the İncirli Inscription / Lynn Swartz Dodd -- Mesha’s ryt in the Context of Moabite and Israelite Bloodletting / Ziony Zevit -- Indexes / Marilyn J. Lundberg , Steven Fine and Wayne T. Pitard -- Appendix—Exhibition Catalogue / Marilyn J. Lundberg , Steven Fine and Wayne T. Pitard -- Plates / Marilyn J. Lundberg , Steven Fine and Wayne T. Pitard.