With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of mountains
Historical and Literary Studies on Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel Author: Hayim Tadmor Price: $160.00 Special Price: $134.00 Format: Hard Cover ISBN 13: 9789652210838 Catalog Number: 8-221-083 Number of Pages: 978 Year Published: 2001
Description: PART I: HISTORIOGRAPHY AND ROYAL IDEOLOGY IN ASSYRIA 1 Propaganda, Literature, Historiography: Cracking the Code of the Assyrian Royal Inscriptions 2 History and Ideology in the Assyrian Royal Inscriptions 3 Observations on Assyrian Historiography 4 Sennacherib, King of Justice 5 Autobiographical Apology in the Royal Assyrian Literature 6 World Dominion: The Expanding Horizon of the Assyrian Empire PART II: SOCIETY AND INSTITUTIONS IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA 7 Temple City and Royal City in Babylonia and Assyria 8 Monarchy and the Elite in Assyria and Babylonia: The Question of Royal Accountability 9 The Role of the Chief Eunuch and the Place of Eunuchs in the Assyrian Empire 10 The Aramaization of Assyria: Aspects of Western Impact 11 Treaty and Oath in the Ancient Near East: A Historian’s Approach PART III: TEXTUAL AND PHILOLOGICAL STUDIES 12 The Campaigns of Sargon II of Assur: A Chronological-Historical Study 13 The Historical Inscriptions of Adad-nirari III 14 The urbi of Hezekiah 15 An Assyrian Victory Chant and Related Matters 16 Observations on Two Inscriptions of Esarhaddon: Prism Nineveh A and the Letter to the God 17 Gyges and Ashurbanipal — A Study in Literary Transmission 18 Nabopolassar and Sin-shum-lishir in a Literary Perspective 19 The Inscriptions of Nabunaid: Historical Arrangement 20 Heavenly Wisdom 21 Fragments of Clay Liver Models from Hazor 22 A Lawsuit from Hazor 23 A Lexicographical Text from Hazor 24 Fragments of an Assyrian Stela of Sargon II 25 The Seal of Bel-Asharedu — A Case of “Migration” PART IV: CHRONOLOGY 26 The Chronology of the Ancient Near East in the Second Millennium. 27 The Chronology of the First Temple Period. A Presentation and Evaluation of the Sources PART V: STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST 28 Hammurabi and His Age 29 The Decline of Empires in Western Asia ca. 1200 30 Philistia under Assyrian Rule 31 Sennacherib’s Campaign to Judah: Historical and Historiographical Considerations 32 The Sin of Sargon and Sennacherib’s Last Will 33 Darius I, Pseudo-Smerdis, and the Magi PART VI: THE WORLD OF ANCIENT ISRAEL 34 “The People” and the Kingship in Ancient Israel: e Role of Political Institutions in the Biblical Period 35 The Historical Background of the Prophecies of Hosea 36 The Meunites in the Book of Chronicles in the Light of an Assyrian Document 37 Ahaz and Tiglath-Pileser in the Book of Kings: Historiographic Considerations 38 Some Aspects of the History of Samaria during the Biblical Period 39 The Rise of Cyrus and the Historical Background of His Declaration 40 “The Appointed Time Has Not Yet Arrived”: e Historical Background of Haggai 1:2 41 The Origins of Israel as Seen in the Exilic and Post-Exilic Ages 42 “And if Given Strength — Eighty Years”: e Terms for Longevity in Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew and Mishnaic Hebrew PART VII: REFLECTIONS 43 Nineveh, Calah and Israel: On Assyriology and the Origins of Biblical Archaeology 44 Thoughts Concerning Assyriology and Its Relationship to the Study of the Bible and the History of the People of Israel during the Biblical Period 45 The Nascence and Development of the Department of Assyriology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem You may also like:
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