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Oriental and Biblical studies

Title: Oriental and Biblical studies / collected writings of E.A. Speiser ; edited and with an introduction by J.J. Finkelstein and Moshe Greenberg.
Author: Speiser, E. A. (Ephraim Avigdor), 1902-1965.
Publication: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1967]

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616 pages : portrait; 22 cm

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Commemorative publications (form)
Bibliographies of persons (form)

Bibliography (note)

"Bibliography of the writings of Ephraim Avigdor Speiser": p. 587-603. Bibliographical footnotes.

Contents

Biblical studies -- ʼED in the story of creation (1955) -- The rivers of paradise (1959) -- YDWN, Gen 6:3 (1956) -- In search of Nimrod (1958) -- Word plays on the creation epic's version of the founding of Babylon (1956) -- The wife-sister motif in the patriarchal narratives (1963) -- "Coming" and "going" at the "city" gate (1956) -- "I know not the day of my death" (1955) -- The verb SHR in Genesis and early Hebrew movements (1961) -- An angelic "curse" : Exodus 14:20 (1960) -- Background and function of the biblical Nāśīʼ (1963) -- Leviticus and the critics (1960) -- The shibboleth incident (Judges 12:6) (1942) -- Of shoes and shekels (I Samuel 12:3; 13:21) (1940) -- Census and ritual expiation in Mari and Israel "people" and "nation" of Israel (1960)(1958) -- The biblical idea of history in its common Near Eastern setting (1957) -- Ancient Near Eastern history and culture -- The Sumerian problem reviewed (1952) -- Some factors in the collapse of Akkad (1952) -- The Hurrian participation in the civilizations of Mesopotamia, Syria and Palestine (1953) -- The idea of history in ancient Mesopotamia (1955) -- Authority and law in Mesopotamia (1954) -- The name Phoinikes (1936) -- The muškênum (1958) -- The case of the obliging servant (1954) -- Linguistic studies -- Secondary development in Semitic phonology : an application of the principle of sonority (1926) -- Studies in Semitic formatives (1936) -- The pitfalls of polarity (1938) -- A note on the derivation of šumma (1947) -- The "elative" in West-Semitic and Akkadian (1952) -- The terminiative-adverbial in Canaanite-Ugaritic and Akkadian (1954) -- The durative Hithpaʻel : a tan form (1955) -- Perspectives -- Some sources of intellectual and social progress in the ancient Near East (1942) -- Early law and civilization (1953) -- Religion and government in the ancient Near East (1956) -- Oriental studies and society (1946) -- E.A. Speiser : an appreciation / J.J. Finkelstein.

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65021779

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ocm00304581
304581
SCSB-115795

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Princeton University Library