Title Literature as politics, politics as literature : essays on the ancient Near East in honor of Peter Machinist / edited by David S. Vanderhooft and Abraham Winitzer

Published Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns Inc., [2013]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Fearful Symmetry -- The Poetics, Genre, and Form of Lines 109-118, Tablet I in the Poem of Erra -- Yoram Cohen, Tel Aviv University -- Menahem's Reign Before the Assyrian Invasion (2 Kings 15:14-16) -- Peter Dubovsk -- Ethnicity in the Assyrian Empire: A View from the Nisbe, -- (I): Foreigners and Special Inner Communities -- Frederick Mario Fales -- David and the Ark: A Jerusalem Festival Reflected in Royal Narrative -- Daniel E. Fleming -- Creation and the Divine Spirit in Babel and Bible Reflections on mummu in Enema eliÅ¡ I 4 and R in Genesis 1:2Eckart Frahm -- Niá¹£irti bÄ?rûti: une autre approche -- Jean-Jacques Glassner -- NB Administrative Terminology and Its Influence in Biblical Literature: Hebrew 7;? -- Ronnie Goldstein -- Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Literature's: -- A General Introduction -- William W. Hallo -- Between Elective Autocracy and Democracy: Formalizing Biblical Constitutional Theory -- Baruch Halpern -- Prosperity and Kingship in Psalms and Inscriptions -- Mark W. Hamilton Redactors, Rationalists, and (Bloodied) Rivers:Some Comments on the First Biblical Plague -- John R. Huddlestun -- An Heir Created by AÅ¡Å¡ur -- Literary Observations on the Rassam Prism (A) of Ashurbanipal -- Victor Avigdor Hurowitz -- Of Bears and Men: -- Thoughts on the End of ulg's Reign and on the Ensuing Succession -- Piotr Michalowski -- A Hidden Anti-David Polemic in 2 Samuel 6:2 -- Nadav Na'aman -- The Prophet and the Augur at TuÅ¡á?±an, 611 B.C.E. -- Martti Nissinen -- Assyria and Judean Identity Beyond the Religions geschichtliche SchuleEckart Otto -- Psalm 22:16 and Its Sumerian and Akkadian Analogues -- Shalom M. Paul -- Do Ideas Travel Lightly? -- Early Greek Concepts of Justice in Their Mediterranean Context -- Kurt A. Raaflaub -- Errant Oxen -- Or: The Goring Ox Redux -- Martha T. Roth -- Jephthah -- Chutzpah and Overreach in a Hebrew Judge -- Jack M. Sasson -- The Remembrance of Kings Past -- The Persona of King Ibbi-Sin -- T.M. Sharlach -- Hittite Gods in Egyptian Attire: -- A Case Study in Cultural Transmission -- Itamar Singer How Did ulgi and IÅ¡bi-Erra Ascend to Heaven?Piotr Steinkeller -- War Crimes in Amos's Oracles Against the Nations (Amos 1:3 -- 2:3) -- Nili Wazana -- Grammar and Context: Enki & Ninhursag ll. 1-3 and a Rare Sumerian Construction -- Christopher Woods -- Towards a Biography of Kish: -- Notes on Urbanism and Comparison -- Norman Yoffee Summary This volume, in celebration of Peter Machinist, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages at Harvard University, includes twenty-eight illuminating essays on ancient Near Eastern history and literature, which focus especially on the intersection of these fields. Contributors include one of Machinist's teachers, several of his students, and numerous colleagues and friends. These essays probe topics for which Machinist's work has often set new standards. And in the spirit of the honoree and his interests, these comparative studies encompass Babel, Bibel, and more. In them, Assyriologists contend with biblical cruxes and biblicists engage Assyriological research, while classicists and Hittitologists participate with considerations of their respective disciplines within a broad cross-cultural context. The volume is a must for anyone committed to the ongoing comparative study of the ancient Near East, and within that framework, the historical study of the Hebrew Bible Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record SUBJECT Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013617 Bible -- History of Biblical events. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013655 Bible -- History of contempory events Bible fast Subject HISTORY -- Ancient -- General. Civilization History of Biblical events Literature SUBJECT Middle East -- Civilization -- To 622. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090503 Middle East -- Literatures -- History and criticism Subject Middle East Genre/Form Literature Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literature. Littérature. Form Electronic book Author Vanderhooft, David Stephen, editor Winitzer, Abraham, editor Machinist, Peter, honouree ISBN 9781575068671 1575068672

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