Literature as Politics, Politics as Literature: Essays on the Ancient Near East in Honor of Peter Machinist
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Publisher’s Note -- Peter Machinist -- Bibliography of Peter Machinist -- Fearful Symmetry: The Poetics, Genre, and Form of Lines 109–118, Tablet I in the Poem of Erra -- Menahem’s Reign Before the Assyrian Invasion (2 Kings 15:14–16) -- Ethnicity in the Assyrian Empire: A...
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Penn State University Press
[2021]
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
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| Summary: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Publisher’s Note -- Peter Machinist -- Bibliography of Peter Machinist -- Fearful Symmetry: The Poetics, Genre, and Form of Lines 109–118, Tablet I in the Poem of Erra -- Menahem’s Reign Before the Assyrian Invasion (2 Kings 15:14–16) -- Ethnicity in the Assyrian Empire: A View from the Nisbe, (I): Foreigners and “Special” Inner Communities -- David and the Ark: A Jerusalem Festival Reflected in Royal Narrative -- Creation and the Divine Spirit in Babel and Bible: Reflections on mummu in Enūma eliš I 4 and rûaḥ in Genesis 1:2 -- Niṣirti bārûti: une autre approche -- NB Administrative Terminology and Its Influence in Biblical Literature: Hebrew ארח -- Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Literatures: A General Introduction -- Between Elective Autocracy and Democracy: Formalizing Biblical Constitutional Theory -- Prosperity and Kingship in Psalms and Inscriptions -- Redactors, Rationalists, and (Bloodied) Rivers: Some Comments on the First Biblical Plague -- “An Heir Created by Aššur”: Literary Observations on the Rassam Prism (A) of Ashurbanipal -- Literary-Political Motifs in the Assyrian Royal Inscriptions: Measuring Continuity versus Change -- Of Bears and Men: Thoughts on the End of Šulgi’s Reign and on the Ensuing Succession -- A Hidden Anti-David Polemic in 2 Samuel 6:2 -- The Prophet and the Augur at Tušḫan, 611 b.c. -- Assyria and Judean Identity: Beyond the Religionsgeschichtliche Schule -- Psalm 22:16 and Its Sumerian and Akkadian Analogues -- Do Ideas Travel Lightly?: Early Greek Concepts of Justice in Their Mediterranean Context -- The Rod that Smote Philistia: Isaiah 14:28–32 -- Errant Oxen Or: The Goring Ox Redux -- Jephthah: Chutzpah and Overreach in a Hebrew Judge -- The Remembrance of Kings Past: The Persona of King Ibbi-Sin -- Hittite Gods in Egyptian Attire: A Case Study in Cultural Transmission -- How Did Šulgi and Išbi-Erra Ascend to Heaven? -- “War Crimes” in Amos’s Oracles Against the Nations (Amos 1:3–2:3) -- Grammar and Context: Enki & Ninhursag ll. 1–3 and a Rare Sumerian Construction -- Towards a Biography of Kish: Notes on Urbanism and Comparison -- Index of Authors -- Index of Scripture 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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| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 1575068672 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/9781575068671 |