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Mesopotamia and the Bible : comparative explorations /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Chavalas, Mark W. (Mark William), 1954-, Younger, K. Lawson, Jr
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, [2002]
Subjects:
Iraq > History > To 634 > Congresses.
Bible. > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc. > Congresses.
Syria > History > To 333 B.C. > Congresses.
Bible. > Old Testament > Comparative studies > Congresses.
Table of Contents:
  • Assyriology and biblical studies : a century of tension / Mark W. Chavalas
  • The quest for Sargon, Pul, and Tiglath-Pileser in the nineteenth century / Steven W. Holloway
  • Sumer, the Bible, and comparative method : historiography and temple building / Richard E. Averbeck
  • Syria and Northern Mesopotamia to the end of the third millennium BCE / Mark W. Chavalas
  • Syro-Mesopotamia : the old Babylonian period / Ronald A. Veenker
  • Syria to the early second millennium / Victor H. Matthews
  • Apprehending kidnappers by correspondence at provincial Arrapḫa / David C. Deuel
  • The Bible and Alalakh / Richard S. Hess
  • Emar : on the road from Harran to Hebron / Daniel E. Fleming
  • Voices from the dust : the tablets from Ugarit and the Bible / Wayne T. Pitard
  • The rise of the Aramean states / William Schniedewind
  • Recent study on Sargon II, King of Assyria : implications for biblical studies / K. Lawson Younger, Jr.
  • What has Nebuchadnezzar to do with David? : on the neo-Babylonian period and early Israel / Bill T. Arnold
  • The Eastern Jewish Diaspora under the Babylonians / Edwin Yamauchi.