Crossing Boundaries and Linking Horizons : Studies in Honour of Michael C. Astour

by: Young, G.D. Chavalas, M.W. Averbeck, R.E.

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Crossing boundaries and linking horizons : studies in honor of Michael C. Astour on his 80th birthday
Authors:Michael C. Astour, Gordon Douglas Young, Mark W. Chavalas, Richard E. Averbeck, Kevin L. Danti

xxiii, 689 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Table of Contents
Introduction xi
GORDON. D. YOUNG
Purdue University
Publications of Michael C. Astour xv
An Interview with Michael C. Astour 1
DAVID I. OWEN / GORDON D. YOUNG
Cornell University / Purdue University
Ritual Formula, Textual Frame, and
Thematic Echo in the Cylinders of Gudea 37
RICHARD E. AVERBECK
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Real Property Sales at Emar 95
GARY BECKMAN
University of Michigan
Did Zimri-Lim Play a Role in Developing
the Use of Tin-Bronze in Palestine? 121
BARRY J. BEITZEL
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Black from the Oases 145
MARTIN BERNAL
Cornell University
àulgi in Simurrum 169
ROBERT D. BIGGS
The Oriental Institut
Nafbum in the Khana Contracts from Terqa 179
MARK W. CHAVALAS
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Achilles in Anatolia:
Myth, History, and the Assuwa Rebellion 189
ERIC H. CUNE
Xavier University
Der Vertrag zwischen Ir-Addu von Tunip
und Niqmepa von MukiS 211
M. DIETRICH - O. LORETZ
Münster
On the Location of Simurrum 243
DOUGLAS R. FRAYNE
University of Toronto
Father's Sons and Mother's Daughters:
The Problem of Indo-EuropeanSemitic Relationships 271
CYRUS H. GORDON
The Form and Structure of the Solomonic
District List in 1 KINGS 4: 7-19 279
RICHARD S. HESS
Roehampton Institute, London
On Homicide in Hittite Law 293
HARRY A. HOFFNER, JR.
The Oriental Institute
Le fonctionnement de la poste et le métier
de facteur d'après les textes de Mari 315
BERTRAND LAFONT
CNRS, Paris
A New Tehip-tilla Text Fragment 335
M. P. MAIDMAN
York University
Amnon and Tamar:
A Matter of Honor (2 Samuel 13:1-38) 339
VICTOR H. MATTHEWS / DON C. BENJAMIN
Southwest Missouri State University / Rice University
Ur III Geographical and
Prosopographical Notes 367
DAVID I. OWEN
Cornell University
The Meaning of EN at Ebla 399
WAYNE T. PITARD
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Some Shared Traditions between
Hana and the Kassites 417
AMANDA H. PODANY
California State Polytechnic University
The Early History of Israel 433
GARY A. RENDSBURG
Cornell University
Nabonidus of Babylon 455
RONALD H. SACK
North Carolina State University
The Vow of Mutiya, King of Shekhna 475
JACK M. SASSON
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Neo-Assyrian Battle Tactics 491
JOANN SCURLOCK
Elmhurst College
Two Old Babylonian Contracts 519
RONALD A. VEENKER
Western Kentucky University
After Drinking (1 Sam 1:9) 527
STANLEY D. WALTERS
Toronto
Polytheism and Politics: Some Comments
on Nabonidus' Foreign Policy 547
DAVID B. WEISBERG
Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion
The History of the Lake of Antioch
A Preliminary Note 557
T. J. WILKINSON
The Oriental Institute
The Play of Ritual in the
DAqhat Narrative 577
DAVID P. WRIGHT
Brandeis University
Herodotus—Historian or Liar? 599
EDWIN M. YAMAUCHI
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
Persia and Dhofar: Aspects of Iron Age
International Politics and Trade 615
JURIS ZARINS
Southwest Missouri State University

Subjects:
15.51 Antiquity
Alter Orient
Astour, Michael C
Astour, Michael C. 1916-2004
Astour, Michael C. Anniversaries, etc
Astour, Michael Czernichow, 1916-2004
Aufsatzsammlung
Civilization
Congresses (form)
Festschrifts (form)
Middle East
Middle East Antiquities
Middle East Civilization
Middle East Civilization To 622
Middle East Religion To 622
Moyen-Orient Civilisation
Moyen-Orient Civilisation Jusqu'à 622
Religion
Religion Moyen-Orient
religion (discipline) 

Essays on the ancient history, culture, and economies of the ancient world of the Sumerians, Babylonian, Assyrians, Hittites, and Greeks.

Crossing Boundaries and Linking Horizons : Studies in Honour of Michael C. Astour

by: Young, G.D. Chavalas, M.W. Averbeck, R.E.

• ISBN-13: 9781883053321 / 978-1-883053-32-1
• ISBN-03: 1883053323 / 1-883053-32-3
• CDL Press, Bethesda, Maryland, 1997

Price: 195,00 EURO

1 copy in stock