LEADER 05252oam 22005894a 450 001 9910819843503321 005 20211203130248.0 010 $a1-57506-688-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781575066882 035 $a(CKB)2670000000333532 035 $a(EBL)3155662 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000819999 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12355129 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000819999 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10857296 035 $a(PQKB)11743306 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3155662 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10653003 035 $a(OCoLC)922991866 035 $a(OCoLC)1287098540 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_79445 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3155662 035 $a(DE-B1597)583836 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781575066882 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000333532 100 $a20151210d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLeaders and Legacies in Assyriology and Bible$eThe Collected Essays of David B. Weisberg 210 1$cEisenbrauns,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (434 p.) 300 $aBook. 311 $a1-57506-230-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aLoyalty and death : some ancient near eastern metaphors -- Zabaya, an early king of the Larsa dynasty -- Rib-Hadda's urgent tone : a note on EA 74:50 -- The length of the reign of Hallusu-Insusinak -- Esarhaddon and Egypt : a preliminary investigation -- A sale of property from the time of Esarhaddon, "king of lands" -- The neo-Babylonian empire -- The "antiquarian" interests of the neo-Babylonian kings -- Royal women of the neo-Babylonian period -- A "dinner at the palace" during Nebuchadnezzar's reign -- Notes on Nebuchadnezzar's 37th year -- Polytheism and politics : some comments on Nabonidus' foreign policy -- The impact of Assyriology on Biblical studies -- An old Babylonian forerunner to Summa Alu -- The R. Campbell Thompson tablets published by Ivan Lee Holt -- A guided tour through Babylonian history : cuneiform inscriptions in the Cincinnati Art Museum. 327 $aJacob Wards off endangerment -- Wool and linen material in texts from the time of Nebuchadnezzar -- Character development in the Book of Ruth -- The rare accents of the twenty-one books -- Break in the middle of a verse : some observations on a Massoretic feature -- I.O. Lehman, HUC mss 951-981 from Kai Feng, and a purported link between China and Yemen -- Some observations on late Babylonian texts and rabbinic literature -- Visibility of the new moon in cuneiform and rabbinic sources -- "Feet of iron" in the Babylonian Talmud? -- Everyday life in the neo-Babylonian period : the integration of material and non-material culture -- A neo-Babylonian dialogue document -- A Mar Banutu text from the town of Hubat -- A neo-Babylonian temple report -- Pirquti or Sirkuti? : was Istar-ab-Ussur's freedom affirmed or was he re-enslaved? -- "Splendid truths" or "prodigious commotion"? : ancient near eastern texts and the study of the Bible -- A centennial review of Friedrich Delitzsch's "Babel und Bibel" lectures -- Delitzsch in context -- Babel und Bibel und Bias : how anti-Semitism distorted Friedrich Delitzsch's scholarship -- On reading archival texts : M. Jursa's comments to OIP 122 and the limits of criticism. 330 $aDavid Weisberg became fascinated by Assyriology as an undergraduate at Columbia University. Already endowed with a strong background in Hebraica, he soon came to know that he needed the deeper immersion of a graduate program, and he enrolled at Yale to pursue it. David's interests soon focused on the Chaldean Dynasty of Nebuchadnezzar and the Achaemenid Dynasty of Cyrus the Great. Weisberg's thesis succeeded in illuminating the wider significance of some previously unpublished cuneiform texts from this period?as well as earning him the doctorate. The thesis appeared in the recently established Yale Near Eastern Researches (1967) under the somewhat daunting title Guild Structure and Political Allegiance in Early Achaemenid Mesopotamia, and David's career was launched.Weisberg's oeuvre, as exemplified by the nearly three dozen essays conveniently assembled in this volume, attest both to his prodigious industriousness and to the loss that the field of Assyriology has suffered in his untimely demise. As is clear from the Table of Contents, he continued to make major contributions to the study of the Neo-Babylonian period (especially regarding political and military history and the doings of ancient royals) but he also offered seminal insights in other areas, including Masoretic studies, rabbinics, social and economic life of the ancient Near East, as well as the interface between modern culture and study of the ancient world.-Based on W. W. Hallo's "Introduction" 606 $aHISTORY$xCivilization 607 $aIraq$xCivilization$yTo 634 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHISTORY$xCivilization. 676 $a935/.03072 700 $aWeisberg$b David B$0638949 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819843503321 996 $aLeaders and Legacies in Assyriology and Bible$94018747 997 $aUNINA