Author(s): Mark W. Chavalas
Edition: Supplement
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 320
Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Abbreviations......Page 10
List of Contributors......Page 20
Assyriology and Biblical Studies: A Century and a Half of Tension / Mark W. Chavalas......Page 22
The Quest for Sargon, Pul and Tiglath-Pileser in the Nineteenth Century / Steven W. Holloway......Page 69
Sumer, the Bible, and Comparative Method: Historiography and Temple Building / Richard E. Averbeck......Page 89
Syria and Northern Mesopotamia to the End of the Third Millennium BCE / Mark W. Chavalas......Page 127
Syro-Mesopotamia: The Old Babylonian Period / Ronald A. Veenker......Page 150
Syria to the Early Second Millennium / Victor H. Matthews......Page 169
Apprehending Kidnappers by Correspondence at Provincial Arrapha / David C. Deuel......Page 192
The Bible and Alalakh / Richard S. Hess......Page 210
Emar: On the Road from Harran to Hebron / Daniel E. Fleming......Page 223
Voices from the Dust: The Tablets from Ugarit and the Bible / Wayne T. Pitard......Page 252
The Rise of the Aramean States / William M. Schniedewind......Page 277
Recent Study on Sargon II, King of Assyria: Implications for Biblical Studies / K. Lawson Younger, Jr.......Page 289
Whata has Nebuchadnezzar to do with David? On the Neo-Babylonian Period and Early Israel / Bill T. Arnold......Page 331
The Eastern Jewish Diaspora under the Babylonians / Edwin Yamauchi......Page 357
Index of References......Page 379
Index of Authors......Page 387
