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UNINA9910453915003321 |
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Titolo |
Mesopotamia and the Bible [[electronic resource] ] : comparative explorations / / edited by Mark W. Chavalas and K. Lawson Younger, Jr |
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Grand Rapids, Mich., : Baker Academic, c2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-80277-8 |
9786611802776 |
0-567-56900-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (401 p.) |
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Collana |
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The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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ChavalasMark W <1954-> (Mark William) |
YoungerK. Lawson |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Electronic books. |
Iraq History To 634 Congresses |
Syria History To 333 B.C Congresses |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Based on a conference held Nov. 17, 1995 in Philadelphia, PA. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Assyriology and Biblical Studies: A Century of Tension; The Quest for Sargon, Pul, and Tiglath-Pileser in the Nineteenth Century; Sumer, the Bible, and Comparative Method: Historiography and Temple Building; Syria and Northern Mesopotamia to the End of the Third Millennium BCE; Syro-Mesopotamia: The Old Babylonian Period; Syria to the Early Second Millennium; Apprehending Kidnappers by Correspondence at Provincial Arrapha; The Bible and Alalakh; Emar: On the Road from Harran to Hebron |
Voices from the Dust: The Tablets from Ugarit and the BibleThe Rise of the Aramean States; Recent Study on Sargon II, King of Assyria: Implications for Biblical Studies; What has Nebuchadnezzar to do with David? On the Neo-Babylonian Period and Early Israel; The Eastern Jewish Diaspora under the Babylonians; Index of References; Index of Authors |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The study of Syro-Mesopotamian civilization has greatly advanced in the past twenty-five years. In particular the renewed interest in Eastern (or 'Mesopotamian') Syria has radically altered our understanding of not |
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