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The Exegetical Terminology of Akkadian Commentaries
In The Exegetical Terminology of Akkadian Commentaries Uri Gabbay offers the first detailed study of the well-developed set of technical terms found in ancient Mesopotamian commentaries. Understanding the hermeneutical function of these terms is essential for reconstructing the ancient Mesopotamian exegetical tradition. Using the exegetical terminology attested in the large corpus of Akkadian commentaries from the first millennium BCE, the book addresses the hermeneutics of the commentaries, investigates the scholastic environment in which they were composed, and considers the relationship between the terminology of commentaries and the divine authority of the texts they elucidate. The book concludes with a comparative study that traces links between the terminology used in Akkadian commentaries and that used in early Hebrew exegesis.
A woman of valor : Jerusalem Ancient near Eastern studies in honor of Joan Goodnick Westenholz
Este volumen es en honor a Joan Goodnick Westenholz, una mujer erudita que ha estado toda su vida involucrada en investigaciones centradas sobre todo en la cultura de Mesopotamia. Ha desarrollado sus estudios en importantes centros de American Assyriology en Filadelfia y en Chicago. También ha estado trabajando en la ciudad Santa de Jerusalén donde recientemente se retiró, como conservadora jefe del Museo de las Tierras Bíblicas durante dos décadas, ampliando sus conocimientos sobre diferentes culturas que se asentaron en la región en los tiempos bíblicos. En 2006 fue galardonada con el Premio de Conservadores, otorgado por el Ministerio Israelí de Cultura, por su contribución al conocimiento de la historia del pueblo de Israel en el contexto de las culturas del Antiguo Oriente Medio y del este del Mediterráneo.
Individuals and Institutions in the Ancient Near East
This volume honors Ran Zadok's work by focusing on his sustained interest in Mesopotamian social history. It brings together a rich array of scholarship on ancient names, deities, individuals, and institutions, from Persepolis to the Levant. Building on Zadok's intellectual concerns, this book includes contributions that expand our understanding of the diverse tapestry of the peoples who inhabited the Ancient Near East.
Pacifying the Hearts of the Gods
Pacifying the Hearts of the Gods investigates the corpus of Emesal prayers, i.e., prayers composed in the Emesal register of the Sumerian language that are known from cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of the second millennium BC up to the end of the first millennium BC. In the first millennium BC, these prayers, which are usually accompanied by interlinear Akkadian translations, were divided into four main genres, natively called Balag, Ersema, Ersahuga, and Suila. The content of the prayers is usually lamentful, mourning the destruction of various Mesopotamian cities and temples, but it is not restricted to the commemoration of past disasters. The book examines the role of these p...
Encounters by the Rivers of Babylon
This volume presents a group of articles that deal with connections between ancient Babylonian, Iranian and Jewish communities in Mesopotamia under Neo-Babylonian, Achaemenid, and Sasanian rule. The studies, written by leading scholars in the fields of Assyriology, Iranian studies and Jewish studies, examine various modes of cultural connections between these societies, such as historical, social, legal, and exegetical intersections. The various Mesopotamian connections, often neglected in the study of ancient Judaism, are the focus of this truly interdisciplinary collection. Reihe Texts and.
The Eršema Prayers of the First Millennium BC
The Ersema Prayers of the First Millennium BC contains philological editions of the Mesopotamian Ersema prayers, which were written in the Emesal register of Sumerian and often accompanied by interlinear Akkadian translations. The Ersema prayers are relatively short compositions belonging to the larger corpus of Emesal prayers, and they were part of the repertoire of a cultic functionary known as the gala/kalu. The content of these prayers, like that of the other genres of Emesal prayers, is usually lamentful, mourning the destruction of cities and temples. The book treats both types of Ersemas known from the first millenium BC: those appended to longer Emesal prayers known as Balag composit...
Jewish Cultural Encounters in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern World
The essays in this volume originate from the Third Qumran Institute Symposium held at the University of Groningen, December 2013. Taking the flexible concept of “cultural encounter” as a starting point, the essays in this volume bring together a panoply of approaches to the study of various cultural interactions between the people of ancient Israel, Judea, and Palestine and people from other parts of the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world. In order to study how cultural encounters shaped historical development, literary traditions, religious practice and political systems, the contributors employ a broad spectrum of theoretical positions (e.g., hybridity, métissage, frontier studies, postcolonialism, entangled histories and multilingualism), to interpret a diverse set of literary, documentary, archaeological, epigraphic, numismatic, and iconographic sources.
The First Ninety Years
This volume is dedicated to Miguel Civil in celebration of his 90th birthday. Civil has been one of the most influential scholars in the field of Sumerian studies over the course of his long career. This anniversary presents a welcome occasion to reflect on some aspects of the field in which he has been such a driving force.
