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Orientalism, Assyriology and the Bible / edited by Steven W. Holloway.

Contributor(s): Holloway, Steven W. (Steven Winford), 1955-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Hebrew Bible monographs: 10.Publisher: Sheffield, England : Sheffield Phoenix Press, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: xiv, 572 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1905048378 (alk. paper); 9781905048373 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Assyriology | Orientalism | Bible. Old Testament -- HistoryBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction : Orientalism, Assyriology and the Bible / Steven W. Holloway -- The beginnings of Assyriology in the United States / Benjamin R. Foster -- Image of Assyria in nineteenth- and twentieth-century western scholarship / Eckart Frahm -- The Smithsonian Institution's religious ceremonial objects and Biblical antiquities exhibits at the world's Columbian exposition (Chicago, 1893) and the cotton states and international exposition (Atlanta, 1895) / Steven W. Holloway -- Egyptology under Khedive Ismail : Mariette, Al-Tahtawi, and Brugsch, 1850-82 / Donald Malcolm Reid -- Mari and the Holy Grail / Jack M. Sasson -- The production of Ancient Near Eastern text anthologies from the earliest to the latest / K. Lawson Younger, Jr. -- Inventing Assyria : exoticism and reception in nineteenth-century England and France / Frederick N. Bohrer -- Dalziels' Bible Gallery (1881) : Assyria and the Biblical illustration in nineteenth-century Britain / Donato Esposito -- Picturing Biblical pasts / Burke O. Long -- From 'semiramis of Babylon' to 'semiramis of Hammersmith' / Julia M. Asher-Greve -- Another look 'inside' : harems and the interpretation of women / Elna K. Solvang -- Biblical historiography in the Persian period : of how the Jews took over the empire / Lester L. Grabbe -- Josiah in a new light : Assyriology touches the reforming king / Lowell K. Handy -- Babylon in Bethel - new light on Jacob's dream / Victor Avigdor Hurowitz -- Whose truth and whose justice? the Uruk and other late Akkadian prophecies re-revisited / JoAnn Scurlock.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction : Orientalism, Assyriology and the Bible / Steven W. Holloway -- The beginnings of Assyriology in the United States / Benjamin R. Foster -- Image of Assyria in nineteenth- and twentieth-century western scholarship / Eckart Frahm -- The Smithsonian Institution's religious ceremonial objects and Biblical antiquities exhibits at the world's Columbian exposition (Chicago, 1893) and the cotton states and international exposition (Atlanta, 1895) / Steven W. Holloway -- Egyptology under Khedive Ismail : Mariette, Al-Tahtawi, and Brugsch, 1850-82 / Donald Malcolm Reid -- Mari and the Holy Grail / Jack M. Sasson -- The production of Ancient Near Eastern text anthologies from the earliest to the latest / K. Lawson Younger, Jr. -- Inventing Assyria : exoticism and reception in nineteenth-century England and France / Frederick N. Bohrer -- Dalziels' Bible Gallery (1881) : Assyria and the Biblical illustration in nineteenth-century Britain / Donato Esposito -- Picturing Biblical pasts / Burke O. Long -- From 'semiramis of Babylon' to 'semiramis of Hammersmith' / Julia M. Asher-Greve -- Another look 'inside' : harems and the interpretation of women / Elna K. Solvang -- Biblical historiography in the Persian period : of how the Jews took over the empire / Lester L. Grabbe -- Josiah in a new light : Assyriology touches the reforming king / Lowell K. Handy -- Babylon in Bethel - new light on Jacob's dream / Victor Avigdor Hurowitz -- Whose truth and whose justice? the Uruk and other late Akkadian prophecies re-revisited / JoAnn Scurlock.

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