Leaders and legacies in Assyriology and Bible the collected essays of David B. Weisberg /

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Main Author: Weisberg, David B.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Loyalty and death : some ancient near eastern metaphors
  • Zabaya, an early king of the Larsa dynasty
  • Rib-Hadda's urgent tone : a note on EA 74:50
  • The length of the reign of Hallusu-Insusinak
  • Esarhaddon and Egypt : a preliminary investigation
  • A sale of property from the time of Esarhaddon, "king of lands"
  • The neo-Babylonian empire
  • The "antiquarian" interests of the neo-Babylonian kings
  • Royal women of the neo-Babylonian period
  • A "dinner at the palace" during Nebuchadnezzar's reign
  • Notes on Nebuchadnezzar's 37th year
  • Polytheism and politics : some comments on Nabonidus' foreign policy
  • The impact of Assyriology on Biblical studies
  • An old Babylonian forerunner to Summa Alu
  • The R. Campbell Thompson tablets published by Ivan Lee Holt
  • A guided tour through Babylonian history : cuneiform inscriptions in the Cincinnati Art Museum.
  • Jacob Wards off endangerment
  • Wool and linen material in texts from the time of Nebuchadnezzar
  • Character development in the Book of Ruth
  • The rare accents of the twenty-one books
  • Break in the middle of a verse : some observations on a Massoretic feature
  • I.O. Lehman, HUC mss 951-981 from Kai Feng, and a purported link between China and Yemen
  • Some observations on late Babylonian texts and rabbinic literature
  • Visibility of the new moon in cuneiform and rabbinic sources
  • "Feet of iron" in the Babylonian Talmud?
  • Everyday life in the neo-Babylonian period : the integration of material and non-material culture
  • A neo-Babylonian dialogue document
  • A Mar Banutu text from the town of Hubat
  • A neo-Babylonian temple report
  • Pirquti or Sirkuti? : was Istar-ab-Ussur's freedom affirmed or was he re-enslaved?
  • "Splendid truths" or "prodigious commotion"? : ancient near eastern texts and the study of the Bible
  • A centennial review of Friedrich Delitzsch's "Babel und Bibel" lectures
  • Delitzsch in context
  • Babel und Bibel und Bias : how anti-Semitism distorted Friedrich Delitzsch's scholarship
  • On reading archival texts : M. Jursa's comments to OIP 122 and the limits of criticism.