A Continuing Adventure: Cyrus Gordon and Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia figures prominently from the beginning of Gordon's career. His observations as a field archaeologist and epigrapher from Ur to Tell el-Amarna brought philological and cultural issues in the Nuzi tablets to his attention. The parallels he drew between Nuzi and the Hebrew Bible were t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Scholars Press
1996
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The Biblical archaeologist
Year: 1996, Volume: 59, Issue: 1, Pages: 31-35 |
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| Summary: | Mesopotamia figures prominently from the beginning of Gordon's career. His observations as a field archaeologist and epigrapher from Ur to Tell el-Amarna brought philological and cultural issues in the Nuzi tablets to his attention. The parallels he drew between Nuzi and the Hebrew Bible were to resonate through succeeding generations of scholarship. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Biblical archaeologist
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3210533 |