Gazing on the deep : ancient Near Eastern and other studies in honor of Tsvi Abusch / edited by Jeffrey Stackert, Barbara Nevling Porter, David P. Wright.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, German, Sumerian, Akkadian, Hebrew Original language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Publication details: Bethesda, Md. : CDL Press, 2010.Description: xi, 674 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 978-1934309-261
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 935 St12g
Contents:
The afterlife of Assyrian scholarship in Hellenistic Babylonia / Paul-Alain Beaulieu -- An old Babylonian prism of early dynastic Lú A / Mark E. Cohen -- Uet 6/1 11, Dumuzzi and Geštinanna : a heuristic reappraisal / A.J. Ferrara -- Tasteless tablets / Anne Guinan, Erle Leichty -- They multiplied the sag by the uš in the sky / Wayne Horowitz -- Mesopotamian temple names : from cultic landscape to cosmic order / Victor A. Hurowitz -- At her speech the gods of the land rejoiced : some thoughts on the language of old Babylonian mythological narratives / Shlomo Izre'el -- The naked soul : deliberations on a popular theme / Dina Katz -- Tukulti-Ninurta I conquers Babylon : two versions / Kathryn F. Kravitz -- Šiptu ul yuttun : some reflections on a closing formula in Akkadian incantations / Alan Lenzi -- Materials of writing and materiality of knowledge / Laurie E. Pearce -- Notes on the role of kings of the sea in Esarhaddon's Nineveh inscription / Barbara N. Porter -- God-talk and star-talk in cuneiform and its legacy in later antiquity / Francesca Rochberg -- 'Forerunners' of maqlû : a new maqlû-related fragment from Assur / Daniel Schwemer -- Time designations and other recurrent themes in Aramaic incantation bowls / Shaul Shaked -- The variety of ritual applications for salt and the maqlû salt incantation / Jeffrey Stackert -- An unequal division of property in old Babylonian Sippar (CT 48,8) / Marten Sol -- Language, speech, and the death of Anzu / Benjamin Studevent-Hickman -- Heaven and earth : asexual monad and bisexual dyad / Joan Goodnick Westenholz -- The image of Dumuzi : a diachronic analysis / F.A.M. Wiggermann -- Eine Pflug-Zugtier-Inspektion aus Umma : Grenzen der Haftung für Anvertraues Öffentliches Eigentum / Claus Wilcke -- Before God and Men / Gernot Wilhelm -- Toward assessing twentieth-century ancient Near Eastern scholarship : the case of E. A. Speiser / Abraham Winitzer -- The ''coherence'' of ancient texts / Marc Zvi Brettler -- God, humanity, and nature in the Pentateuch / Stephen A. Geller -- The erotics of pilgrimage - a fresh look at psalms 84 and 63 / S. Tamar Kamionkowski -- Bearing guilt in Numbers 5:12-31 / Sarah Shectman -- A commentary on Psalm 24 / Benhamin D. Sommer -- Some texts on Enoch in the Armenian tradition / Michael E. Stone -- Assyria in the Septuagint / Emanuel Tov -- Miscarriage, talion, and slave injury in the Covenant Code and Hammurabi's laws / David P. Wright -- Inequality, stratification, and exclusion in the Mishnah : an exploratory social science analysis / Calvin Goldscheider -- Creating the Sugya in the Babylonian Talmud : objectives and methods / David M. Gordis -- Astrology, horoscopes, dream divination, amulets, alchemy, and free will in early modern Venice : the evidence from Leon Modena's Life of Judah / Benjamin Ravid -- Ibn Zabara's demon / Raymon P. Scheindlin -- The tranformation of Ṛśyaśṛnga : toward a comparative approach / Emily Blanchard West.
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Includes Sumerian and Akkadian texts in Latin transcription; Hebrew texts in Hebrew script; Greek texts in Greek script. Selected texts in modern translations.

Includes bibliographical references.

Publications of Tzvi Abusch: (p.663-670).

The afterlife of Assyrian scholarship in Hellenistic Babylonia / Paul-Alain Beaulieu -- An old Babylonian prism of early dynastic Lú A / Mark E. Cohen -- Uet 6/1 11, Dumuzzi and Geštinanna : a heuristic reappraisal / A.J. Ferrara -- Tasteless tablets / Anne Guinan, Erle Leichty -- They multiplied the sag by the uš in the sky / Wayne Horowitz -- Mesopotamian temple names : from cultic landscape to cosmic order / Victor A. Hurowitz -- At her speech the gods of the land rejoiced : some thoughts on the language of old Babylonian mythological narratives / Shlomo Izre'el -- The naked soul : deliberations on a popular theme / Dina Katz -- Tukulti-Ninurta I conquers Babylon : two versions / Kathryn F. Kravitz -- Šiptu ul yuttun : some reflections on a closing formula in Akkadian incantations / Alan Lenzi -- Materials of writing and materiality of knowledge / Laurie E. Pearce -- Notes on the role of kings of the sea in Esarhaddon's Nineveh inscription / Barbara N. Porter -- God-talk and star-talk in cuneiform and its legacy in later antiquity / Francesca Rochberg -- 'Forerunners' of maqlû : a new maqlû-related fragment from Assur / Daniel Schwemer -- Time designations and other recurrent themes in Aramaic incantation bowls / Shaul Shaked -- The variety of ritual applications for salt and the maqlû salt incantation / Jeffrey Stackert -- An unequal division of property in old Babylonian Sippar (CT 48,8) / Marten Sol -- Language, speech, and the death of Anzu / Benjamin Studevent-Hickman -- Heaven and earth : asexual monad and bisexual dyad / Joan Goodnick Westenholz -- The image of Dumuzi : a diachronic analysis / F.A.M. Wiggermann -- Eine Pflug-Zugtier-Inspektion aus Umma : Grenzen der Haftung für Anvertraues Öffentliches Eigentum / Claus Wilcke -- Before God and Men / Gernot Wilhelm -- Toward assessing twentieth-century ancient Near Eastern scholarship : the case of E. A. Speiser / Abraham Winitzer -- The ''coherence'' of ancient texts / Marc Zvi Brettler -- God, humanity, and nature in the Pentateuch / Stephen A. Geller -- The erotics of pilgrimage - a fresh look at psalms 84 and 63 / S. Tamar Kamionkowski -- Bearing guilt in Numbers 5:12-31 / Sarah Shectman -- A commentary on Psalm 24 / Benhamin D. Sommer -- Some texts on Enoch in the Armenian tradition / Michael E. Stone -- Assyria in the Septuagint / Emanuel Tov -- Miscarriage, talion, and slave injury in the Covenant Code and Hammurabi's laws / David P. Wright -- Inequality, stratification, and exclusion in the Mishnah : an exploratory social science analysis / Calvin Goldscheider -- Creating the Sugya in the Babylonian Talmud : objectives and methods / David M. Gordis -- Astrology, horoscopes, dream divination, amulets, alchemy, and free will in early modern Venice : the evidence from Leon Modena's Life of Judah / Benjamin Ravid -- Ibn Zabara's demon / Raymon P. Scheindlin -- The tranformation of Ṛśyaśṛnga : toward a comparative approach / Emily Blanchard West.

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