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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.

Contributor(s): Vanderhooft, David Stephen [editor.] | Winitzer, Abraham [editor.] | Machinist, Peter [honouree.]
Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, French Publisher: Winona Lake, Indiana : Eisenbrauns, 2013Description: xxii, 562 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781575062723; 1575062720Subject(s): Middle East -- Civilization -- To 622 | Middle Eastern literature -- History and criticism | Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Bible -- History of Biblical events | Bible -- History of contemporary events | Machinist, PeterDDC classification: 939.4 LOC classification: DS57 | .L547 2013Bibliography, Etc. Note: "Bibliography of Peter Machinist": pages xvii-xxii.; Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Fearful symmetry : the poetics, genre, and form of lines 109-118, tablet I in the Poem of Erra / Yoram Cohen -- Menahem's reign before the Assyrian invasion (2 Kings 15:14-16) / Peter Dubovský -- 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 Enūma eliš I 4 and rûaḥ in Genesis 1:2 / Eckart Frahm -- Niṣirti bārûti : une autre approche / Jean-Jacques Glassner -- NB administrative terminology and its influence in biblical literature : Hebrew [He] [Heth] [Resh] [Alef] / Ronnie Goldstein -- Biblical and ancient Near Eastern literatures : 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 Aššur" : literary observations on the Rassam Prism (A) of Ashurbanipal / Victor Avigdor Hurowitz -- Literary-political motifs in the Assyrian royal inscriptions : measuring continuity versus change / Mario Liverani -- Of bears and men : thoughts on the end of Šulgi's reign and on the ensuing succession / Piotr Michalowski -- A hidden anti-David polemic in 2 Samuel 6:2 / Nadav Naʼaman -- The prophet and the augur at Tušḫan, 611 B.C. / Martti Nissinen -- Assyria and Judean identity : beyond the Religionsgeschichtliche Schule / Eckart 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 -- The rod that smote Philistia : Isaiah 14:28-32 / J.J.M. Roberts -- 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 Šulgi and Išbi-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.

"Bibliography of Peter Machinist": pages xvii-xxii.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Fearful symmetry : the poetics, genre, and form of lines 109-118, tablet I in the Poem of Erra / Yoram Cohen -- Menahem's reign before the Assyrian invasion (2 Kings 15:14-16) / Peter Dubovský -- 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 Enūma eliš I 4 and rûaḥ in Genesis 1:2 / Eckart Frahm -- Niṣirti bārûti : une autre approche / Jean-Jacques Glassner -- NB administrative terminology and its influence in biblical literature : Hebrew [He] [Heth] [Resh] [Alef] / Ronnie Goldstein -- Biblical and ancient Near Eastern literatures : 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 Aššur" : literary observations on the Rassam Prism (A) of Ashurbanipal / Victor Avigdor Hurowitz -- Literary-political motifs in the Assyrian royal inscriptions : measuring continuity versus change / Mario Liverani -- Of bears and men : thoughts on the end of Šulgi's reign and on the ensuing succession / Piotr Michalowski -- A hidden anti-David polemic in 2 Samuel 6:2 / Nadav Naʼaman -- The prophet and the augur at Tušḫan, 611 B.C. / Martti Nissinen -- Assyria and Judean identity : beyond the Religionsgeschichtliche Schule / Eckart 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 -- The rod that smote Philistia : Isaiah 14:28-32 / J.J.M. Roberts -- 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 Šulgi and Išbi-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.

In English; one contribution in French.

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