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Homeland and exile : biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies in honour of Bustenay Oded / edited by Gershon Galil, Mark Geller and Alan Millard.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Supplements to Vetus Testamentum ; v. 130.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.Description: xxiv, 643 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9004178899
  • 9789004178892
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 221.95 22
LOC classification:
  • BS410 .V452 vol. 130
  • BS1197 .H585 2009
Contents:
Exile and forced labour in Bêt Har'oš: remarks on a recently discovered Moabite inscription -- Literary-critical issues in the Hebrew Bible from an Assyriological perspective: literary-ideological alterations -- Ardiya, an Eanna temple prebendary -- Trumpets snails as an indication of the transfer of religion and technology in the eastern-mediterranean region -- An Elamite deportee -- The Assyrian words for "(Foot) Soldier" -- Appropriation of land officials in the new-Assyrian period -- A monumnet to imperial control - literary observations on the Thompson Prism of Easrhaddon (Nineveh A) -- Tribute or looting in Samaria and Jeruslaem: Shosenq in Jerusalem? -- A new look at the end of the Assyrian Empire -- Assyria, Aramaeans and Aramaic -- Sîn-šarru-iškun and Ezida in Calah -- Positive and negative human types in the Egyptian wisdom literature -- A "Dinner at the Palace" during Nebuchadnezzar's reign -- A possible 'Terminus ad quem" for the Deuternomistic legislation. A fresh look at Det. 17:16 -- The Book of Judges - dating and meaning -- Did the Jews worship idols in Babylonia? -- Cain and the Kenites -- Tobit in Galilee -- To stop Nehemiah from building the Jerusalem wall - Jewsih aristocrats triggered an economic crisis -- The Valley of Elah battle and Duel of David with Goliath: between history and artistic theological historiography -- David and Abishag: the purpose of I Kings 1:1-4 -- The historical setting of Zephaniah's oracles against the nations (Zeph. 2:4-15) -- Biblical narrative and historical method -- The road not taken: Wellhausen and Assyriology -- Rameses II and the exodus: a case of mistaken identity -- Anti-Achaemenid proganda in Deutronomy -- The Book of Joshua and the existence of a hexateuch -- Ethically cultured interpretations: the case of Eglon's murder (Judges 3) --The prayer for the restoration of the Israelite Kindom in the Book of Micah - literary analysis and the historical background.
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Includes a chronological bibliography of the works of Bustenay Oded (p. [xi]-xvi).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Exile and forced labour in Bêt Har'oš: remarks on a recently discovered Moabite inscription -- Literary-critical issues in the Hebrew Bible from an Assyriological perspective: literary-ideological alterations -- Ardiya, an Eanna temple prebendary -- Trumpets snails as an indication of the transfer of religion and technology in the eastern-mediterranean region -- An Elamite deportee -- The Assyrian words for "(Foot) Soldier" -- Appropriation of land officials in the new-Assyrian period -- A monumnet to imperial control - literary observations on the Thompson Prism of Easrhaddon (Nineveh A) -- Tribute or looting in Samaria and Jeruslaem: Shosenq in Jerusalem? -- A new look at the end of the Assyrian Empire -- Assyria, Aramaeans and Aramaic -- Sîn-šarru-iškun and Ezida in Calah -- Positive and negative human types in the Egyptian wisdom literature -- A "Dinner at the Palace" during Nebuchadnezzar's reign -- A possible 'Terminus ad quem" for the Deuternomistic legislation. A fresh look at Det. 17:16 -- The Book of Judges - dating and meaning -- Did the Jews worship idols in Babylonia? -- Cain and the Kenites -- Tobit in Galilee -- To stop Nehemiah from building the Jerusalem wall - Jewsih aristocrats triggered an economic crisis -- The Valley of Elah battle and Duel of David with Goliath: between history and artistic theological historiography -- David and Abishag: the purpose of I Kings 1:1-4 -- The historical setting of Zephaniah's oracles against the nations (Zeph. 2:4-15) -- Biblical narrative and historical method -- The road not taken: Wellhausen and Assyriology -- Rameses II and the exodus: a case of mistaken identity -- Anti-Achaemenid proganda in Deutronomy -- The Book of Joshua and the existence of a hexateuch -- Ethically cultured interpretations: the case of Eglon's murder (Judges 3) --The prayer for the restoration of the Israelite Kindom in the Book of Micah - literary analysis and the historical background.