Literature as Politics, Politics as Literature: Essays on the Ancient Near East in Honor of Peter Machinist

Published by Penn State University Press 2013

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

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781575068671

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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.

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“These contributions embody one and all a consummate scholarship.”
—Bibliotheca Orientalis

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Publisher’s Note Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Peter Machinist David S. Vanderhooft and Abraham Winitzer Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Bibliography of Peter Machinist Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Fearful Symmetry: The Poetics, Genre, and Form of Lines 109–118, Tablet I in the Poem of Erra Yoram Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Menahem’s Reign Before the Assyrian Invasion (2 Kings 15:14–16) Peter Dubovský Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Ethnicity in the Assyrian Empire: A View from the Nisbe, (I): Foreigners and “Special” Inner Communities Frederick Mario Fales Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
David and the Ark: A Jerusalem Festival Reflected in Royal Narrative Daniel E. Fleming Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Niṣirti bārûti: une autre approche Jean-Jacques Glassner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
NB Administrative Terminology and Its Influence in Biblical Literature: Hebrew ארח Ronnie Goldstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Literatures: A General Introduction William W. Hallo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Between Elective Autocracy and Democracy: Formalizing Biblical Constitutional Theory Baruch Halpern Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Prosperity and Kingship in Psalms and Inscriptions Mark W. Hamilton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Redactors, Rationalists, and (Bloodied) Rivers: Some Comments on the First Biblical Plague John R. Huddlestun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
“An Heir Created by Aššur”: Literary Observations on the Rassam Prism (A) of Ashurbanipal Victor Avigdor Hurowitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Literary-Political Motifs in the Assyrian Royal Inscriptions: Measuring Continuity versus Change Mario Liverani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Of Bears and Men: Thoughts on the End of Šulgi’s Reign and on the Ensuing Succession Piotr Michalowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
A Hidden Anti-David Polemic in 2 Samuel 6:2 Nadav Naʾaman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
The Prophet and the Augur at Tušḫan, 611 b.c. Martti Nissinen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
Assyria and Judean Identity: Beyond the Religionsgeschichtliche Schule Eckart Otto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Psalm 22:16 and Its Sumerian and Akkadian Analogues Shalom M. Paul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
Do Ideas Travel Lightly?: Early Greek Concepts of Justice in Their Mediterranean Context Kurt A. Raaflaub Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
The Rod that Smote Philistia: Isaiah 14:28–32 J. J. M. Roberts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	381
Errant Oxen Or: The Goring Ox Redux Martha T. Roth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	397
Jephthah: Chutzpah and Overreach in a Hebrew Judge Jack M. Sasson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405
The Remembrance of Kings Past: The Persona of King Ibbi-Sin T. M. Sharlach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	421
Hittite Gods in Egyptian Attire: A Case Study in Cultural Transmission Itamar Singer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	433
How Did Šulgi and Išbi-Erra Ascend to Heaven? Piotr Steinkeller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	459
“War Crimes” in Amos’s Oracles Against the Nations (Amos 1:3–2:3) Nili Wazana Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	479
Grammar and Context: Enki & Ninhursag ll. 1–3 and a Rare Sumerian Construction Christopher Woods Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	503
Towards a Biography of Kish: Notes on Urbanism and Comparison Norman Yoffee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	527
Index of Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	545
Index of Scripture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	557

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
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Published: October 25, 2013
ISBN: 9781575068671