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Jehu's Tribute : What Can Biblical Studies Offer Assyriology? / edited by Jeffrey L. Cooley and Rannfrid I. Lasine Thelle.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Explorations in ancient Near Eastern civilizations.
- Explorations in Ancient near Eastern Civilizations Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Assyriology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (291 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, PA : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- The findings of Assyriology have been applied to biblical studies ever since the former emerged as a scholarly discipline in the mid-nineteenth century.Today, the scholarly flow from Assyriology to biblical studies continues, yet rarely are the fruits of biblical scholarship brought to bear on the study of ancient Assyria and Babylon.
- Contents:
- Intro
- COVER Front
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Remodeling Albright's House in the Twenty-First Century : From a Patrimonial Household to an Open- Concept Structure
- Chapter 2: Museum Models : Assyriology, the Bible, and Avenues for Public Engagement
- Chapter 3: An Enlivening Biblical Geist for Assyriology
- Chapter 4: Some Thoughts on the Applicability of Comparative Studies to the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible
- Chapter 5: Text in Context : Priestly Writings in the Bible and Babylonia
- Chapter 6: Aniconism as a Local Response to Assyrian Godnapping
- Chapter 7: Assyria Through the Looking- Glass : The Hebrew Bible as Opposition Literature
- Chapter 8: Maṣṣartu, Mišmeret, and Duties in Temples : A Contextual Parallel
- Chapter 9: The Prayer of Ashurnaṣirpal I to Ishtar : An Exegetical Reading
- Chapter 10: Does a Magic Still Dwell in Comparing the Tribes of Israel and Mari ?
- Chapter 11: Alphabetic Scrolls in a Cuneiform World : Noteson the Study of an Invisible Literature
- Chapter 12: Impaling and Corpse Display in the Hebrew Bible and Assyrian Sources
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Cooley, Jeffrey L. Jehu's Tribute
- ISBN:
- 9781646023158
- 9781646023165
- OCLC:
- 1521500780
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