"An excellent fortress for his armies, a refuge for the people" : Egyptological, archaeological, and biblical studies in honor of James K. Hoffmeier /

A collection of Egyptological, archaeological and biblical studies papers dealing with the history, religion and culture of the ancient Near East, assembled in honor of James K. Hoffmeier.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hoffmeier, James Karl, 1951- (honouree.), Averbeck, Richard E. (Editor), Younger, K. Lawson, Jr (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : Eisenbrauns, [2020]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The tests of a prophet / Richard E. Averbeck
  • Fishing for fissures: the literary unity of the Kadesh poem of Ramesses II and its implications for the diachronic study of the Hebrew bible / Joshua Berman
  • Food for the forces: an investigation of military subsistence strategies in the New Kingdom border regions / Louise Bertini and Salima Ikram
  • Left behind: New Kingdom specialists at the end of Egyptian empire and the emergence of Israelite scribalism / Aaron A. Burke
  • The Ficus Judaicus and the New Testament / Thomas W. Davis
  • Gifts of the Nile: materials that shaped the early Egyptian burial traditions / Joanna Debowska-Ludwin and Karolina Rosinska-Balik
  • Computer analytics in chronology testing and its implications for the date of the Exodus / David A. Falk
  • Uniting the world: Achaemendi Empire lists and the contruction of royal ideology / Deirdre N. Fulton and Kaz Hayashi
  • Geophysical research in Pelusium: on the benefits of using the resistivity profiling method / Tomasz Herbich
  • The genealogies of Genesis 5 and 11 and comparative studies: evidence for a seam / Richard S. Hess
  • Sety I's military relief at Karnak and the Eastern Gate of Egypt: a brief reassessment
  • Ma'at in the Amarna period: historiography, Egyptology, and the reforms of Akhenaten
  • "I have made every person like his fellow" / Jens Bruun Kofoed
  • The founding of the temple in ancient Egypt: ritual and symbolism / Ash Melika
  • Goliath's head wound and the Edwin Smith Papyrus / Edumund S. Meltzer
  • Did the Patriarchs meet Philistines? / Alan Millard
  • Writing trauma: Ipuwer and the curation of cultural memory / Ellen Morris
  • Old Kingdom exotica at Pharaoh's court and beyond: dwarfs, Pygmies, primates, dogs, and leopards / Gregory Mumford
  • Judges 10:11 a memory of Merenptah's campaign in transjordan / Steven Ortiz and S. Cameron Coyle
  • Digging for data: a practical critique of digital archaeology / Miller C. Prosser
  • Debriefing enemy combatants in Ancient Egypt / Donald B. Redord
  • Israelite origins / Gary A. Rendsburg
  • The Egyptian background of the Joseph story: selected issues revisited
  • Mighty bull appearing in Napata: memorilization and adaptation of the Bronze Age into the Iron Age World of the Kushite, twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt / Stuart Tyson Smith
  • Hosea 1-3 as the key to the literary structure and message of the book / Eric J. Tully-- The Egyptian fortress commander: acareer check basked on selected Middle and New Kingdom examples / Carola Vogel
  • Mud-bricks as a dating tool in Egyptian archaeology / Kei Yamamoto and Pearce Paul Creasman
  • The God "El of Ramesses II's Stela from Sheikh Sa'd (The "Job Stone") / K. Lawson Younger, Jr.