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In the shadow of Bezalel : Aramaic, biblical, and ancient Near Eastern studies in honor of Bezalel Porten / edited by Alejandro F. Botta.

Contributor(s): Botta, Alejandro F, 1960-
Language: English, German, French Series: Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; v. 60Publisher: Leiden : Brill, 2013.Description: l, 429 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9789004240834ISSN: 1566-2055Subject(s): Porten, Bezalel | Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Manuscripts, Aramaic (Papyri) -- Egypt -- Elephantine | Inscriptions, Aramaic -- Egypt | Aramaic language | Hebrew poetry, Biblical -- History and criticism | Jews -- Civilization -- To 70 A.D | Jews -- History -- To 70 A.D | Judaism -- History | Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian | Iraq -- Civilization -- To 634DDC classification: 492/.2
Contents:
Women of Elephantine and Women in the Land of Israel / Annalisa Azzoni -- Der Wandel des Aramaischen veranschaulicht durch Transkriptionen alter aramaischer Texte / Klaus Beyer -- Three Additional Aramaic-Egyptian Parallel Legal Terms-Formulae / Alejandro F. Botta -- The Career of Some Elephantine and Murasu Scribes and Witnesses / Eleonora Cussini -- Phoenician and Aramaic Inscriptions from Abusir / Jan Dusek and Jana Mynarova -- On -I , rakkasu, and raksu / Frederick Mario Fales -- Rare Demonstrative Pronouns in Targum Onqelos / Margaretha Folmer -- Elephantine and the Torah / Lester L. Grabbe -- Gleanings from the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon II: Notes on the State of Modern Syriac Lexicography / Stephen Kaufman -- Le Dialecte Arameen de L'inscription De Kuttamuwa (Zencirli, Viiie S. Av. N. E.) / Andre Lemaire -- Clermont-Ganneau 253: une revisite et un reclassement obliges / Helene Lozachmeur -- Epistolographische Elemente in den neuveroffentlichten aramaischen Ostrakonbriefen aus Elephantine (Sammlung Clermont-Ganneau) / Dirk Schwiderski -- Le phenomene de mutation des interdentales en arameen, ou la Quete de "la langue parfaite". De la reforme orthographique a l'epoque perse a la differenciation maxima / Ursula Schattner-Rieser -- Die "Festung" von Elephantine in der Spatzeit -Anmerkungen zum archaologischen Befund / Cornelius von Pilgrim -- Twelve Published and Unpublished Jewish Aramaic Ostraca Written in the 'Jewish' Cursive Script / Ada Yardeni -- Metaphor in the Book of Psalms or the Book of Psalms as Metaphor? / Stephen A. Geller -- Revisiting the Date of King Josiah's Death / Dan'el Kahn -- "Wisdom is of the Gods;" An Aramaic Antecedent to Proverbs 8 (Or: The Case of the Vanishing Evidence!) / James M. Lindenberger -- Does the Enigmatic Phrase (Hab 3:9) Represent Liturgical Glosses? / David Marcus -- Philological Notes on the David-Bathsheba Story I / Takamitsu Muraoka -- The First Born/Eldest Son of Death/The Underworld, Job 18:13 / Shalom M. Paul -- A Poem within a Poem: Some Literary Aspects of the Lament for Saul and Jonathan / Jan-Wim Wesselius -- The Role of the Governor in Persian Imperial Administration / Lisbeth S. Fried -- Emar and the Elephantine Papyri / Andrew D. Gross -- Setting Another Tablet Right: the Ugaritic Text RS 2.[031] / Dennis Pardee -- Ad Nomen Argumenta: Personal Names as Pejorative Puns in Ancient Texts / Christopher A. Rollston -- The Archive of Samas-Sarra-Usur from Calah / Ran Zadok -- Der agyptische Name der Juden / Karl-Theodor Zauzich.
Subject: In the Shadow of Bezalel offers new insights and proposals in the areas of Aramaic language, paleography, onomastica and lexicography; ancient Near Eastern legal traditions, Hebrew Bible, and social history of the Persian period.
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Egypt and Sudan Upper Egypt RB.POR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 54063000244213
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Includes bibliography of Berzalel Porten (xix-xxxiii)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Women of Elephantine and Women in the Land of Israel / Annalisa Azzoni -- Der Wandel des Aramaischen veranschaulicht durch Transkriptionen alter aramaischer Texte / Klaus Beyer -- Three Additional Aramaic-Egyptian Parallel Legal Terms-Formulae / Alejandro F. Botta -- The Career of Some Elephantine and Murasu Scribes and Witnesses / Eleonora Cussini -- Phoenician and Aramaic Inscriptions from Abusir / Jan Dusek and Jana Mynarova -- On -I , rakkasu, and raksu / Frederick Mario Fales -- Rare Demonstrative Pronouns in Targum Onqelos / Margaretha Folmer -- Elephantine and the Torah / Lester L. Grabbe -- Gleanings from the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon II: Notes on the State of Modern Syriac Lexicography / Stephen Kaufman -- Le Dialecte Arameen de L'inscription De Kuttamuwa (Zencirli, Viiie S. Av. N. E.) / Andre Lemaire -- Clermont-Ganneau 253: une revisite et un reclassement obliges / Helene Lozachmeur -- Epistolographische Elemente in den neuveroffentlichten aramaischen Ostrakonbriefen aus Elephantine (Sammlung Clermont-Ganneau) / Dirk Schwiderski -- Le phenomene de mutation des interdentales en arameen, ou la Quete de "la langue parfaite". De la reforme orthographique a l'epoque perse a la differenciation maxima / Ursula Schattner-Rieser -- Die "Festung" von Elephantine in der Spatzeit -Anmerkungen zum archaologischen Befund / Cornelius von Pilgrim -- Twelve Published and Unpublished Jewish Aramaic Ostraca Written in the 'Jewish' Cursive Script / Ada Yardeni -- Metaphor in the Book of Psalms or the Book of Psalms as Metaphor? / Stephen A. Geller -- Revisiting the Date of King Josiah's Death / Dan'el Kahn -- "Wisdom is of the Gods;" An Aramaic Antecedent to Proverbs 8 (Or: The Case of the Vanishing Evidence!) / James M. Lindenberger -- Does the Enigmatic Phrase (Hab 3:9) Represent Liturgical Glosses? / David Marcus -- Philological Notes on the David-Bathsheba Story I / Takamitsu Muraoka -- The First Born/Eldest Son of Death/The Underworld, Job 18:13 / Shalom M. Paul -- A Poem within a Poem: Some Literary Aspects of the Lament for Saul and Jonathan / Jan-Wim Wesselius -- The Role of the Governor in Persian Imperial Administration / Lisbeth S. Fried -- Emar and the Elephantine Papyri / Andrew D. Gross -- Setting Another Tablet Right: the Ugaritic Text RS 2.[031] / Dennis Pardee -- Ad Nomen Argumenta: Personal Names as Pejorative Puns in Ancient Texts / Christopher A. Rollston -- The Archive of Samas-Sarra-Usur from Calah / Ran Zadok -- Der agyptische Name der Juden / Karl-Theodor Zauzich.

In the Shadow of Bezalel offers new insights and proposals in the areas of Aramaic language, paleography, onomastica and lexicography; ancient Near Eastern legal traditions, Hebrew Bible, and social history of the Persian period.

Contributions in English, German and French.

AESJF15, AES2015