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Specializing in the ancient Near East and biblical studies since 1975

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The Words of the Wise Are like GoadsEngaging Qohelet in the 21st Century

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Part 1: Early History of Interpretation

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Part 2: History, Form, and Rhetoric

Part 3: Key Concepts and Passages

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Of Courtiers and KingsThe Biblical Daniel Narratives and Ancient Story-Collections

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Abbreviations

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. The Story-Collection Genre: Survey and Prospect

2.1. Defining the Genre

2.2. Basic Characteristics of the Story-

Collection

2.3. Literary Processes: Composition

and History

2.4. Prospect for Daniel

Chapter 3. The Story-Collection and Related Material in Antiquity

3.1. Greece and Rome

3.2. India and Persia

3.3. The Near East and Egypt

3.4. Summary

Chapter 4. The Book of Daniel in Light of the Story-Collection Genre

4.1. The Story-Collection Definition

and Daniel 1–6

4.2. Literary Processes: The Book of

Daniel as Collections (Plural)

4.3. Summary

Chapter 5. The Book of Daniel in Light of Ancient Near Eastern Story-Collections and Related Material

5.1. Sources and Analogues to the

Daniel Legenda

5.2. Sources and Analogues to Daniel

Structure

5.3. Sources and Analogues to Specific

Daniel Stories

5.4. New Insights on the Composition

of the Book of Daniel

5.5. Summary

Chapter 6. Conclusions

6.1. Daniel Set against a Story-

Collection Typology

6.2. Daniel Set Against the Background

of Ancient Near Eastern

Story-Collections and Related

Material

6.3. Stages of the Book of Daniel

Bibliography

Indexes

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Linguistic Studies in PhoenicianIn Memory of J. Brian Peckham

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Linguistic Studies in Phoenician: In Memory of J. Brian Peckham

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Paul G. Mosca

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Philip C. Schmitz

Robert D. Holmstedt

Aaron Schade

Andrés Piquer Otero

Holger Gzella

Rebecca Hasselbach

Dennis Pardee

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Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew

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Table of ContentsPart 1: Introduction

Part 2: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives on Diachrony

Part 3: Examining Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew Orthographic Features

Morphological Features

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Syntactic Features

Lexical Features

Sociological and Dialectal Considerations

Part 4: Comparative Semitic Perspectives on Diachrony

Part 5: Afterword

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Time and the Biblical Hebrew VerbThe Expression of Tense, Aspect, and Modality in Biblical Hebrew

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Poetic Astronomy in the Ancient Near EastThe Reflexes of Celestial Science in Ancient Mesopotamian, Ugaritic, and Israelite Narrative

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The Study of Ancient Near Eastern Celestial Science and Literature

1.2. Pan-Babylonianism

1.4. The Problem in Assyriology1.5. The Problem in Biblical Studies1.6. The Problem in Ugaritology1.7. Bridging the Gap

Celestial Science in Mesopotamia2.1. Introduction2.2. Pre–Old Babylonian Celestial Sciences2.3. Celestial Divination Material2.4. Celestial Divination Supportive

Material: Didactic and Practical Tools2.5. Celestial Divination Interpretive

Material

2.6. Miscellaneous Celestial-Science Material

Celestial Science in Mesopotamian Literature

3.1. Introduction3.2. Divination3.3. Catasterisms and Other Celestial Aetia3.4. Miscellaneous3.5. Conclusion

Celestial Science at Ugarit and in Ugaritic Literature

4.1. The Celestial Sciences at Ugarit4.2. The Celestial Sciences in Ugaritic

Literature

Celestial Science in Ancient Israel5.1. Introduction5.2. Celestial Terminology in the

Hebrew Bible

5.3. Astral Religion5.4. Celestial Divination5.5. The Calendars of the Hebrew Bible

5.6. Celestial Science in Ancient Israel

Celestial Science in Ancient Israelite Literature

6.1. Introduction6.2. Celestial Agents, Astral Religion, and

Calendar6.3. Joshua 106.4. Judges 56.5. The Shadow on the Steps of Ahaz6.6. Genesis 1:14–18

6.7. The Stars in Job

Bibliography

Indexes

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Temples and Sanctuaries from the Early Iron Age LevantRecovery after Collapse

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In the Beginning: Essays on Creation Motifs in the Bible and the Ancient Near East

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1. The Ancient Near Eastern Context of the Hebrew Ideas of Creation

1. Introduction2. Egyptian Ideas of Creation3. Mesopotamian Ideas of Creation4. Canaanite Ideas of Creation5. Hebrew Ideas of Creation

2. Paradise Reexamined

2. Is There a Paradise Motif in Genesis?

3. The Institution of Marriage in Genesis 2 and in Atrahasis

1. The Institution of Marriage in Atrahasis

2. Implications for Genesis 2:23–24

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1. Divine Sovereignty in the Ancient Near East

2. Yahweh’s Kingship in the Hebrew Bible

3. The Image of the Deity in the Priestly Creation Story

5. The Sleeping God: An Ancient Near Eastern Motif of Divine Sovereignty

1. The Motif within Its Ancient Near Eastern Setting

2. Biblical Appropriations of the Motif of Sleeping Deity

6. Requiescat in Pace

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1. The Biblical Covenant of Peace2. Primeval Pattern A3. Primeval Pattern B4. The Motif of Planting Peace

8. The Malevolent Deity in Mesopotamian Myth

1. Introduction2. Gods Proper Who on Occasion Act

as Malevolent Deities3. The Chaos Monster Tradition4. Marduk: The Inscrutable Divine

Sovereign

Indexes Index of AuthorsIndex of Scripture

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Run, David, Run!An Investigation of the Theological Speech Acts of David’s Departure and Return (2 Samuel 14–20)

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1. How to Do Things with Theological Words

2. An Overview of Perspectives on the Function of 2 Sam 14–20

To Record Historical EventsTo Answer the Question

of the Succession to David’s Throne

To Serve a Political AgendaTo Provide a Work of ArtTo Portray DavidTo TeachA Proposal: To Portray David’s

Faith in Yhwh

3. Speech Act Theory and David’s Departure and Return

Speech Act TheoryThe Application of SAT to

Narrative DiscourseStorytelling as Speech ActRecent Applications of SAT to

Stories of King DavidAn Application of SAT to the

Story of David’s Departure and Return

4. Theological Words from the Wise2 Samuel 14:1–23Storyteller Level

5. Theological Words from the Banished2 Samuel 15:1–22Words from Absalom:

2 Samuel 15:1–12Words from Ittai the Gittite:

2 Samuel 15:13–22

6. Theological Words from a Banished King

2 Samuel 15:23–37Words to Zadok: 2 Samuel

15:23–29Words to Yhwh: 2 Samuel

15:30–37

7. Theological Words from Opponents2 Samuel 16:1–19Words from Ziba:

Opponent of Mephibosheth (2 Sam 16:1–4)

Words from Shimei: An Opponent of David (16:5–15)

Words from Hushai: Opponent to Absalom (16:16–19)

8. Words from a Storyteller: 2 Samuel 16:20–17:24

9. Words for the Return of a King: 2 Samuel 17:25–20:25

10. David’s Departure and Return as Illocutionary and Perlocutionary Act

Telling a Story that Portrays David’s Faith: An Illocutionary Act

Running with David: A Perlocutionary Act

Select Bibliography

Indexes

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Toward a Poetics of Genesis 1–11Reading Genesis 4:17–22 in Its Ancient Near Eastern Background

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Who am I? Where did I come from? What is my place in this world?

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Bibliography

Index of Authors

Index of Scripture

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Poetic Imagination in ProverbsVariant Repetitions and the Nature of Poetry

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Table of ContentsPart 1

Part 2 Part 3

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Prophets, Prophecy, and Ancient Israelite Historiographyedited by

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Prophets, Prophecy, and Ancient Israelite Historiography

Table of Contents

Part 1: Prophets and Prophecy in Israelite Historiographic Books

Deus ex Machina

Part 2: Historiography in Israelite Prophetic Books

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Leaders and Legacies in Assyriology and BibleThe Collected Essays of David B. Weisberg

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Guild Structure and Political Alle-giance in Early Achaemenid Mesopotamia

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Table of ContentsPart 1: Political and Military History and Ancient Royals

Part 2:Texts and Legacies

Assyriology Šumma Ālu

Bible, Masorah, and Rabbinics

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Part 3: Social and Economic History

A Mār Banūtu

Pirqūti Širkūti

Part 4: Critical Self-Reflection

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Sacred KillingThe Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East

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Sacred Killing: The Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East

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New Perspectives on Household Archaeologyedited by

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Section 1. Household in Theoretical Perspective

Section 2. Methodological Advancements in Household Studies

Section 3. Food and Subsistence at the Household Level

Section 4. Urban Households

Section 5. Synthetic Household Studies

Section 6. Afterword

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Sepphoris I: The Pottery from Ancient Sepphoris

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Gezer VIIThe Middle Bronze and Later Fortifications in Fields II, IV, and VIII

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Gezer VII: The Middle Bronze and Later Fortifications in Fields II, IV, and VIII

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The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King of Assyria (704–681 bc), Part 1

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Previously Published in the series:

The Royal Inscriptions of Esarhaddon, King of Assyria (680–669 bc)

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The Royal Inscriptions of Tiglath-Pileser III (744–727 bc) and Shalmaneser V (726–722 bc), Kings of Assyria

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The Correspondence of Tiglath-pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud

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Transliterations and Translations

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Glossary and Indices

Collations, Copies and Plates

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Reading with the FaithfulInterpretation of True and False Prophecy in the Book of Jeremiah from Ancient to Modern Times

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“According to the Law”Reading Ezra 9–10 as Christian Scripture

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The Limits of a Text Luke 23:34a as a Case Study in Theological Interpretation

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The Making of Christianity: Conflicts, Contacts, and Constructions

Essays in Honor of Bengt Holmberg

edited by

Paul and Power

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Sociology and the New Testament

Exploring Christian Identity.

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Archaeology, Bible, Politics, and the MediaProceedings of the Duke University Conference, April 23–24, 2009

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A More Perfect TorahAt the Intersection of Philology and Hermeneutics in Deuteronomy and the Temple Scroll

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Torah-

Sipre Deuteronomy

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The Sumerian Poem Enmerkar and En-Suḫkeš-Ana: Epic, Play, Or?

Stage Craft at the Turn from the Third to the Second Millennium b.c.

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Conditional Structures in Mesopotamian Old Babylonian

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The Private Lives of Women in Persian Egyptby

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La famille dans le Proche-Orient ancien: Réalités, symbolismes et images

Proceedings of the 55th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Paris, July 6–9, 2009Edited by

Time and History in the Ancient Near EastProceedings of the 56th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Barcelona, July 26–30, 2010

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Babylonian Creation Myths

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Other Forthcoming Titles

Royal Rituals and Cultic Texts

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Subscribers to the series will receive this publication automatically at 20% discount. Orders must be placed with Eisenbrauns.

The Standard Babylonian Myth of Nergal and Ereškigal

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The Babylonian Theodicy

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Megiddo V: The 2004–2008 Seasons

Esther, Queen of the Jews: The Status and Position of Esther in the Old Testament

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