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In the shadow of Bezalel [electronic resource]

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Twenty nine scholars from Israel, Europe and the Americas came together to honor and celebrate Prof. Bezalel Porten's (Emeritus, Dept. of History of the Jewish People, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) academic career. Covering a wide variety of topics within Aramaic, Biblical, and ancient Near Eastern Studies, In the Shadow of Bezalel offers new insights and proposals in the areas of Aramaic language, paleography, onomastica and lexicography; ancient Near Eastern legal traditions, Hebrew Bible, and social history of the Persian period.

Title In the shadow of Bezalel [electronic resource] : Aramaic, biblical, and ancient Near Eastern studies in honor of Bezalel Porten / edited by Alejandro F. Botta.
Publisher Leiden
Boston : Brill
Creation Date 2013
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Preliminary Material -- Women of Elephantine and Women in the Land of Israel / Annalisa Azzoni -- Der Wandel des Aramäischen veranschaulicht durch Transkriptionen alter aramäischer Texte / Klaus Beyer -- Three Additional Aramaic-Egyptian Parallel Legal Terms/Formulae / Alejandro F. Botta -- The Career of Some Elephantine and Murašû Scribes and Witnesses / Eleonora Cussini -- Phoenician and Aramaic Inscriptions from Abusir / Jan Dušek and Jana Mynářová -- On רכשׁ , rakkasu, and raksu / Frederick Mario Fales -- Rare Demonstrative Pronouns in Targum Onqelos: דנן and דיכי / Margaretha Folmer -- Elephantine and the Torah / Lester L. Grabbe -- Gleanings from the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon II: Notes on the State of Modern Syriac Lexicography / Stephen A. Kaufman -- Le Dialecte Araméen de L’inscription De Kuttamuwa (Zencirli, Viiie S. Av. N. È.) / André Lemaire -- Clermont-Ganneau 253: Une revisite et un reclassement obligés / Hélène Lozachmeur -- Epistolographische Elemente in den neuveröffentlichten aramäischen Ostrakonbriefen aus Elephantine (Sammlung Clermont-Ganneau) / Dirk Schwiderski -- Le phénomène de mutation des interdentales en araméen, ou la Quête de « la langue parfaite ». De la réforme orthographique à l’époque perse à la différenciation maxima / Ursula Schattner-Rieser -- Die „Festung“ von Elephantine in der Spätzeit – Anmerkungen zum archäologischen Befund / Cornelius von Pilgrim -- Twelve Published and Unpublished Jewish Aramaic Ostraca Written in the “Jewish” Cursive Script / Ada Yardeni -- Metaphor in the Book of Psalms or the Book of Psalms as Metaphor? / Stephen A. Geller -- Revisiting the Date of King Josiah’s Death / Dan’el Kahn -- “Wisdom is of the Gods” An Aramaic Antecedent to Proverbs 8 (Or: “The Case of the Vanishing Evidence!”) / James M. Lindenberger -- Does the Enigmatic Phrase שְׁבֻעוֹת מַטּוֹת אֹמֶר (Hab 3:9) Represent Liturgical Glosses? / David Marcus -- Philological Notes on the David-Bathsheba Story I / Takamitsu Muraoka -- The First Born/Eldest Son of Death/The Underworld, Job 18:13 / Shalom M. Paul -- A Poem within a Poem: Some Literary Aspects of the Lament for Saul and Jonathan / Jan-Wim Wesselius -- The Role of the Governor in Persian Imperial Administration / Lisbeth S. Fried -- Emar and the Elephantine Papyri / Andrew D. Gross -- Setting Another Tablet Right: The Ugaritic Text RS 2.[031] / Dennis Pardee -- Ad Nomen Argumenta: Personal Names as Pejorative Puns in Ancient Texts / Christopher A. Rollston -- The Archive of Šamaš-Šarra-Usụ r from Calah / Ran Zadok -- Der ägyptische Name der Juden / Karl-Theodor Zauzich -- Index.
Series Culture and history of the ancient Near East
v. 60
Extent 1 online resource (481 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010720662705171
MARC RECORDS
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