Literature as politics, politics as literature : essays on the ancient Near East in honor of Peter Machinist

Literature as politics, politics as literature : essays on the ancient Near East in honor of Peter Machinist /

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 o...

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Other Authors: Vanderhooft, David Stephen (Editor), Winitzer, Abraham (Editor), Machinist, Peter (honouree.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns Inc., [2013]
Subjects:
Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible > History of Biblical events.
Bible > History of contempory events.
Middle East > Civilization > To 622.
Middle East > Literatures > History and criticism.
Literature.
Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of 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

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