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Mesopotamia and the Bible : comparative explorations / edited by Mark W. Chavalas and K. Lawson Younger, Jr.

Contributor(s): Chavalas, Mark W. (Mark William), 1954- | Younger, K. Lawson
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: 395 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 080102420X (paper)Subject(s): Iraq -- History -- To 634 -- Congresses | Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses | Syria -- History -- To 333 B.C. -- Congresses | Bible. Old Testament -- Comparative studies -- CongressesDDC classification: 935 LOC classification: DS67.4 | .M47 2002Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Assyriology and biblical studies : a century of tension / Mark W. Chavalas -- The quest for Sargon, Pul, and Tiglath-Pileser in the nineteenth century / Steven W. Holloway -- Sumer, the Bible, and comparative method : historiography and temple building / Richard E. Averbeck -- Syria and Northern Mesopotamia to the end of the third millennium BCE / Mark W. Chavalas -- Syro-Mesopotamia : the old Babylonian period / Ronald A. Veenker -- Syria to the early second millennium / Victor H. Matthews -- Apprehending kidnappers by correspondence at provincial Arrapḫa / David C. Deuel -- The Bible and Alalakh / Richard S. Hess -- Emar : on the road from Harran to Hebron / Daniel E. Fleming -- Voices from the dust : the tablets from Ugarit and the Bible / Wayne T. Pitard -- The rise of the Aramean states / William Schniedewind -- Recent study on Sargon II, King of Assyria : implications for biblical studies / K. Lawson Younger, Jr. -- What has Nebuchadnezzar to do with David? : on the neo-Babylonian period and early Israel / Bill T. Arnold -- The Eastern Jewish Diaspora under the Babylonians / Edwin Yamauchi.

Based on a conference held Nov. 17, 1995 in Philadelphia, Pa.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Assyriology and biblical studies : a century of tension / Mark W. Chavalas -- The quest for Sargon, Pul, and Tiglath-Pileser in the nineteenth century / Steven W. Holloway -- Sumer, the Bible, and comparative method : historiography and temple building / Richard E. Averbeck -- Syria and Northern Mesopotamia to the end of the third millennium BCE / Mark W. Chavalas -- Syro-Mesopotamia : the old Babylonian period / Ronald A. Veenker -- Syria to the early second millennium / Victor H. Matthews -- Apprehending kidnappers by correspondence at provincial Arrapḫa / David C. Deuel -- The Bible and Alalakh / Richard S. Hess -- Emar : on the road from Harran to Hebron / Daniel E. Fleming -- Voices from the dust : the tablets from Ugarit and the Bible / Wayne T. Pitard -- The rise of the Aramean states / William Schniedewind -- Recent study on Sargon II, King of Assyria : implications for biblical studies / K. Lawson Younger, Jr. -- What has Nebuchadnezzar to do with David? : on the neo-Babylonian period and early Israel / Bill T. Arnold -- The Eastern Jewish Diaspora under the Babylonians / Edwin Yamauchi.

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