Literature as Politics, Politics as Literature

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Essays on the Ancient Near East in Honor of Peter Machinist

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Peter Machinist

David S. Vanderhooft and Abraham Winitzer

Bibliography of Peter Machinist

Fearful Symmetry: The Poetics, Genre, and Form of Lines 109–118, Tablet I in the Poem of Erra

Yoram Cohen

Menahem’s Reign Before the Assyrian Invasion (2 Kings 15:14–16)

Peter Dubovský

Ethnicity in the Assyrian Empire: A View from the Nisbe, (I): Foreigners and “Special” Inner Communities

Frederick Mario Fales

David and the Ark: A Jerusalem Festival Reflected in Royal Narrative

Daniel E. Fleming

Creation and the Divine Spirit in Babel and Bible: Reflections on mummu in Enūma eliš I 4 and rûaḥ in Genesis 1:2

Eckart Frahm

Niṣirti bārûti: une autre approche

Jean-Jacques Glassner

NB Administrative Terminology and Its Influence in Biblical Literature: Hebrew ארח;ה

Ronnie Goldstein

Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Literatures: A General Introduction

William W. Hallo

Between Elective Autocracy and Democracy: Formalizing Biblical Constitutional Theory

Baruch Halpern

Prosperity and Kingship in Psalms and Inscriptions

Mark W. Hamilton

Redactors, Rationalists, and (Bloodied) Rivers: Some Comments on the First Biblical Plague

John R. Huddlestun

“An Heir Created by Aššur”: Literary Observations on the Rassam Prism (A) of Ashurbanipal

Victor Avigdor Hurowitz*

Literary-Political Motifs in the Assyrian Royal Inscriptions: Measuring Continuity versus Change

Mario Liverani

Of Bears and Men: Thoughts on the End of Šulgi’s Reign and on the Ensuing Succession

Piotr Michalowski

A Hidden Anti-David Polemic in 2 Samuel 6:2

Nadav Naʾaman

The Prophet and the Augur at Tušḫan, 611 b.c.

Martti Nissinen

Assyria and Judean Identity: Beyond the Religionsgeschichtliche Schule

Eckart Otto

Psalm 22:16 and Its Sumerian and Akkadian Analogues

Shalom M. Paul

Do Ideas Travel Lightly?: Early Greek Concepts of Justice in Their Mediterranean Context

Kurt A. Raaflaub

The Rod that Smote Philistia: Isaiah 14:28–32

J. J. M. Roberts

Errant Oxen Or: The Goring Ox Redux

Martha T. Roth

Jephthah: Chutzpah and Overreach in a Hebrew Judge

Jack M. Sasson

The Remembrance of Kings Past: The Persona of King Ibbi-Sin

T. M. Sharlach

Hittite Gods in Egyptian Attire: A Case Study in Cultural Transmission

Itamar Singer*

How Did Šulgi and Išbi-Erra Ascend to Heaven?

Piotr Steinkeller

“War Crimes” in Amos’s Oracles Against the Nations (Amos 1:3–2:3)

Nili Wazana

Grammar and Context: Enki & Ninhursag ll–3 and a Rare Sumerian Construction

Christopher Woods

Towards a Biography of Kish: Notes on Urbanism and Comparison

Norman Yoffee

Index of Authors

Index of Scripture


“These contributions embody one and all a consummate scholarship.”

Bibliotheca Orientalis

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