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Treasures on camels' humps : historical and literary studies from the ancient Near East presented to Israel Ephʻal

Title
Treasures on camels' humps : historical and literary studies from the ancient Near East presented to Israel Ephʻal / edited by Mordechai Cogan and Dan'el Kahn.
Publication
Jerusalem : Hebrew University Magnes Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Ephʻal, Israel.
  • Cogan, Mordechai.
  • Kahn, Dan'el.
Description
xiii, 338 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Ephʻal, Israel
  • Assyro-Babylonian literature
  • Middle East > Civilization > To 622
  • Assyria > History
Note
  • Includes bibliography of the works of Israel Ephʻal.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Hunting in the epic of Gilgamesh: speculations on the education of a prince / Tsvi Abusch -- Ezekiel and Egypt / Shmuel Aḥituv -- What kind of treaty tradition do the Sefire inscriptions represent? / Amnon Altman -- "All the nations and many people": the answer of Isaiah and Micah to Assyrian Imperial policies / Pinḥas Artzi -- Crossing the boundaries: literary allusions to the epic of Gilgamesh in the account of Esarhaddon's Egyptian campaign / Amitai Baruchi-Unna -- The Assyrian Stela fragment from Ben-Shemhen / Mordechai Cogan -- A pugnacious strike from Uruk / M.A. Damdamayev -- A new look at a Neo-Assyrian sale of "land and people" / Gershon Galil -- The wandering lament: Micah 1:10-16 / Yair Hoffman -- New light on an old find from Hazor / Wayne Horowitz and Takayoshi Oshima -- "Shutting up" the enemy - literary gleanings from Sargon's eighth campaign / Victor Avigdor Hurowitz -- Piankhy's instructions to his army in Kush and their execution / Danʼel Kahn -- Recruitment of foreign soldiers into the Neo-Assyrian Army during the reign of Tiglath-pileser III / Yehuda Kaplan-- Four early Mesopotamian 'building' inscriptions from the Moussaieff collection / Jacob Klein -- Esarhaddon's eastern campaign / Erle Leichty -- The hosts of the mountain / Edward Lipiński -- Peace and war at Nuzi: a prosopographical foray / M.P. Maidman -- The Suhu governors' inscriptions in the context of Mesopotamian royal inscriptions / Nadav Naʼaman -- The chronology of the Idumean Ostraca in the decade or so after the death of Alexander the Great and its relevance for historical events / Bezalel Porten and Ada Yardeni -- On siege warfare in Hittite texts / Itamar Singer -- Assyria at the gates of Tushpa / Hayim Tadmor -- Are trees of the field human? A Biblical war law (Deuteronomy 20:19-20) and Neo-Assyrian propaganda / Nili Wazana -- Qurdi-Assur-lamur: his letters and career / Shigeo Yamada -- Neo-Assyrian notes / Ron Zadok -- Nebuchadnezzar's campaign in the 30th year (575 B.C.): a conflict with Tyre? / Stefan Zawadski.
Call Number
*PEP 09-3511
ISBN
  • 9789654933117
  • 965493311X
LCCN
2008439084
OCLC
227211048
Title
Treasures on camels' humps : historical and literary studies from the ancient Near East presented to Israel Ephʻal / edited by Mordechai Cogan and Dan'el Kahn.
Imprint
Jerusalem : Hebrew University Magnes Press, c2008.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Ephʻal, Israel.
Cogan, Mordechai.
Kahn, Dan'el.
Research Call Number
*PEP 09-3511
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