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From Mari to Jerusalem and back [electronic resource] : Assyriological and Biblical studies in honor of Jack Murad Sasson / edited by Annalisa Azzoni, Alexandra Kleinerman, Douglas A. Knight, and David I. Owen.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Azzoni, Annalisa, editor.
Kleinerman, Alexandra, editor.
Knight, Douglas A., 1943- editor.
Owen, David I., editor.
Sasson, Jack M., honouree.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Assyriology.
Middle East--History--To 622.
Middle East.
Middle East--Antiquities.
Bible.
Antiquities.
Bible--Antiquities.
Genre:
essays.
History
Essays
Essays.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Place of Publication:
University Park, Pennsylvania : Eisenbrauns, 2020.
Summary:
"A collection of essays by 35 scholars of the ancient Near East, honoring the career of Jack M. Sasson, and focusing on a variety of Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Amorite, Egyptian, Eblaite, Hittite, Ugaritic, Aramaic, Canaanite, Israelite, biblical, and archaeological subjects"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Kamiš at Ebla / Alfonso Archi
"Not Tonight, Josephine!": Women at War in Third Millennium BCE Syria? / Maria Giovanna Biga
L'election du P. Scheil au College de France en 1905 / Dominique Charpin
Royal Hunt among the Semites, West and East: Fertility and Kingship in Myth and Ritual / Gregorio del Olmo Lete
Heurs et malheurs de la vie conjugale en Mesopotamie: La separation de corps dans quelques sources cuneiformes / Sophie Demare-Lafont
"Si ce n'est toi, c'est donc ton frere ... " / Jean-Marie Durand
Albrecht Goetze: Three Mid-Century Reflections on Cuneiform Studies and Linguistics / Benjamin R. Foster
A New Manuscript of Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld / Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman
Priere à Itûr-Mêr pour le salut de Zimrî-Lîm / Michaël Guichard
Royal Women Sages in Aramaic Literature: The Unnamed Queen in Daniel 5 and Saritrah in the "Revolt of Babylon" / Tawny L. Holm
The Beginning of the Sumerian Epic "Gilgameš and the Bull of Heaven" and Its Possible Historical-Political Background / Jacob Klein and Yitschak Sefati
À propos d'une defaite de Mari et d'une negociation diplomatique / Bertrand Lafont
Paul Haupt: Between Two Worlds / Peter Machinist
Sumerian Literature at the Crossroads / Piotr Michalowski
Contributions to the Dossier of Princess Simat-Ištaran / David I. Owen
The Sitting Moon and the Goats of Gilead: A Rare Akkadian Astronomical Term and a Hapax in Song of Songs / Gonzalo Rubio
Old Babylonian Bread Offerings / Marten Stol
Ilumma-ila Unveiled / Karel Van Lerberghe and Gabriella Voe
"Talking to Doors": Paraklausithyron in Akkadian Literature / Nathan Wasserman
Die Klausel á mu-ú/u8 -a-še in altbabylonischen Miet- und Feldpachtverträgen aus Nippur, Isin und unbekannter Herkunft: Politische Motive für die Stilisierung von Rechtsurkunden? / Claus Wilcke
Hurritische Beschwörungen mit Bezugnahme auf Ursprungsmythen / Gernot Wilhelm
Un enfant à Alep / Nele Ziegler.
Part II. Biblical Studies. Translating Biblical Dialogue / Robert Alter
Job and Not / Giorgio Buccellati
The Earliest Israel: Territorial History in the Highlands of Canaan / Israel Finkelstein
The Name Yhwȝ as a People: Reconsidering the Amorite Evidence / Daniel E. Fleming
Joshua and Anomie: Retrojection, Projection, and Recovery / Douglas A. Knight
The Plague of Darkness and the Creation of Light: A Reading of Psalm 105:26-36 from the Notion of Calamities in Chinese Perspective / Archie C. C. Lee
The Oracular Insertion in Zechariah 4: Another Look at the Evidence of Akkadian Royal Building Inscriptions / Eric M. Meyers and Carol Meyers
Myth, Poetry, and Cosmic Construction in Job 38:4-18 / Choon-Leong Seow
A Mosaic for Miriam / Phyllis Trible.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed March 31, 2026).
Other Format:
Print version: From Mari to Jerusalem and back.
ISBN:
9781646023455
1646023455
9781646023462
1646023463
OCLC:
1521388156
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license

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