'Like 'Ilu are you wise' : studies in northwest Semitic languages and literatures in honor of Dennis G. Pardee / edited by H.H. Hardy II, Joseph Lam, and Eric D. Reymond.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pardee, Dennis, honouree.

Hardy, H. H., II, 1979- editor.

Lam, Joseph, 1976- editor.

Reymond, Eric D., editor.

Series:

Studies in ancient oriental civilization ; 73.

Studies in ancient oriental civilization, 0081-7554 ; number 73

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semitic languages, Northwest.

Inscriptions, Semitic.

Semitic philology.

Hebrew language.

Semitic literature--History and criticism.

Semitic literature.

Semitic languages.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

lii, 596 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, [2022]

Summary:

"This volume honors Dennis G. Pardee, Henry Crown Professor of Hebrew Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago and one of the preeminent experts in Northwest Semitic languages and literatures, particularly Ugaritic studies. The thirty-seven essays by colleagues and former students reflect the wide range of Professor Pardee's research interests and include, among other topics, new readings of inscriptions, studies of poetic structure, and investigations of Late Bronze Age society" -- Publisher, page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Part 1 - Ugaritic Studies: 1. The Futher Quest for Ugaritic / Peter T. Daniels

2. A Critique of the Counter-Argument for yaqtul Preterite in Ugaritic / Edward L. Greenstein

3. God [ʼIlu] and King in KTU 1.23 / Theodore J. Lewis

Patrons, Brokers, and Clients at Late Bronze Age Ugarit / Miller C. Prosser

5. Transmission and Mortal Anxiety in the Tale of Aqhat / Jacqueline Vayntrub

Part 2 - 6. Northwest Semitic Inscriptions: Where Is the Devourer? A Reappraisal of the Arslan Tash II Plaque in Its ANE Context / Dan Belnap

7. A Revised Interpretation of the Melqart Stele (KAI 201) / Jo Ann Hackett ; Aren M. Wilson

8. The Incised ʼIšbaʿl Inscription from Khirbet Qeiyafa: Paleographic, Onomastic, and Historical Notes / Christopher A. Rollston

9. Grammatical and Historical Notes on the Phoenician Text of the Incirli Inscription / Philip Schmitz

10. "And Now" wʿt(h): A Transition Particle in Ancient Hebrew / William M. Schniedewind

11. A Study of the Preposition b- in Samʼalian Aramaic: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach with Ramifications for the Interpretation of the Katumuwa Stele / K. Lawson Younger Jr.

Part 3 - Biblical Hebrew Poetry : 12. Line Lengths in Poetic Units in Ugaritic and Biblical Hebrew Poetry / Drayton C. Benner

13. Biblical "Alternation" and Its Poetics / Simeon Chavel

14. So-Called "Number Parallelism" in Biblical Poetry / F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp

15. Pronominal Gender Parallelism as a Poetic Device in Biblical Hebrew / Hardy II

16. Psalm 1: Structure and Meaning / Koowon Kim 17. Acrostic Style and Word Order: An Examination of Macrostructural Constraints and Local Syntax in the Acrostic Poem of Lamentations 3 / Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé ; Jacobus A. Naudé

18. Vertical Grammar of Parallelism in Ugaritic Poetry / David Toshio Tsumura Part 4 Semitic Philology: 19. Part 1 - Ugaritic Studies: 1. The Futher Quest for Ugaritic / Peter T. Daniels

18. Vertical Grammar of Parallelism in Ugaritic Poetry / David Toshio Tsumura Part 4 Semitic Philology: 19. "His Tent": Pitched at the Intersection of Orthography and Source Criticism / Joel S. Baden 20. A Brief History of the Phrase "King of Kings." Samuel L. Boyd

21. Akkadian kaslu, Ugaritic ksl, and Hebrew כסל : A (Very Tardy) Response to Moshe Held / John Burnight

22. The Ugaritic Compound Adjective ʼib ʼiqnʼi "Lapis-Lazuli-Pure" and the Three Special Types of Construction in Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew, and Ugaritic, in Which the Nonpredicate Adjective Precedes the Noun / Chaim Cohen (ZʺL) 23. The Biblical Hebrew Root bhl in Light of New Ugaritic the Noun / Chaim Cohen (ZʺL) 23. The Biblical Hebrew Root bhl in Light of New Ugaritic Evidence / Joseph Lam. 24. From Kothar to Kythereia: Exploring the Northwest Semitic Past of Aphrodite / Carolina López-Ruiz

25. The Root GMR and a Shared Divine Epithet in Ugaritic and Classical Hebrew / Nathan Mastnjak 26. Biblical King Og and the Ugaritic Deity Rāpiʼu: Sorting Out Two Figures in Light of the Rephaim and the Toponyms Ashtaroth and Edrei / Matthew McAffee 27. "From the Burrows of Their Lairs . . .": The Imagery of a Prophetic Utterance in a Mari Letter / Adam E. Miglio

28. The Third Masculine Singular Suffix on Nouns Written with heh mater / Eric D. Reymond

29. Pondering Pandemonium: Reimagining ʼĔlōhîm in 1 Samuel 28:13 / Brian B. Schmidt Part 5 Hebrew Linguistics and Verbal System 30. The Hebrew Verbal System in an Oyster Shell: Egypto-Semitic Notes. David Calabro

31. On Some Syntactic Alternations in Biblical Hebrew / Stuart Creason

32. The Coordinated Perfect / W. Randall Garr

33. Dating the Earliest Hebrew Verbal System: The Role of Dialect Variation in Ancient Linguistic Change / Seth Sanders Part 6 : Comparative Semitics

34. An Aramaic Cognate to Akkadian -iš, Hebrew -ɔ, and Ugaritic -h / Aaron Michael Butts 35. The Origin of the Third-Person Markers on the Suffix Conjugation in Semitic / Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee 36. Ugaritic ǵ from Proto-Semitic *θ̣ / John Huehnergard

Part 7 : Beyond 37. On the Human Mind and Deities / Gary A. Long.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

British Library not licensed to copy 0.

Other Format:

Online version: 'Like 'Ilu are you wise'.

ISBN:

9781614910756

1614910758

OCLC:

1348392283