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Riches Hidden in Secret Places Tzvi Abusch

Riches Hidden in Secret Places By Tzvi Abusch

Riches Hidden in Secret Places by Tzvi Abusch


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Offers a collection of 18 articles all which touch on Mesopotamia. This title covers areas of the Sumerians in their landscapes, archaic city seals, the lady of girsu, and a model court case.

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Riches Hidden in Secret Places: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Memory of Thorkild Jacobsen by Tzvi Abusch

Providing a scholar's salute to a teacher, colleague, and friend, the contributors of this new volume honor the memory of Thorkild Jacobsen with essays on Mesopotamian history, culture, literature, and religion. Contributors include: Tzvi Abusch, John Huehnergard, Bendt Alster, Jeremy Black, Miguel Civil, Jerrold S. Cooper, M. J. Geller, Stephen A. Geller, Samuel Greengus, William W. Hallo, Wolfgang Heimpel, Jacob Klein, W. G. Lambert, Jack M. Sasson, Ake W. Sjoberg, Piotr Steinkeller, H. L. J. Vanstiphout, and Claus Wilcke.

Riches Hidden in Secret Places Reviews

Reviewer Tammi Schneider Claremont University This volume was orginally a tribute to Jacobsen by JAOS. The result is volume more foused than a fetschrift.This book has a bibliography and beautiful preface and article on his danish background. Religious studies Review Jan 2003

Table of Contents

Bibliography of Thorkild Jacobsen - T. Abusch and J. Huehnergard

Thorkild Jacobsen: An Appreciation - Tzvi Abusch

Thorkild Jacobsen's Danish Academic Background - Bendt Alster

The Socio-Religious Framework of the Babylonian Witchcraft Ceremony Maqlu: Some Observations on the Introductory Section of the Text, Part I - Tzvi Abusch

ilu awilum: we-e i-la, 'Gods: Men' versus 'Man: God'. Punning and the Reversal of Patterns in the Atrahasis Epic - Bendt Alster

The Sumerians in their Landscape - Jeremy Black

The Forerunners of Maru and Hamtu in Old Babylonian - Miguel Civil

Buddies in Babylonia: Gilgamesh, Enkidu and Mesopotamian Homosexuality - Jerrold Cooper

The Free Library Inanna Prism Reconsidered - Mark J. Geller

Wisdom, Nature and Piety in Some Biblical Psalms - Stephen A. Geller

Redefining 'Inchoate Marriage' in Old Babylonian Contexts - Samuel Greengus

A Model Court Case Concerning Inheritance - William W. Hallo

The Lady of Girsu - Wolfgang Heimpel

izuzzum and itulum - John Huehnergard

A New Look at the 'Oppression of Uruk' Episode in the Gilgamesh Epic - Jacob Klein

A Rare Exorcistic Fragment - Wilfred G. Lambert

The Burden of the Scribes - Jack M. Sasson

In the Beginning - Ake W. Sjoberg

Archaic City Seals and the Question of Early Babylonian Unity - Piotr Steinkeller

Sanctus Lugalbanda - Herman L. J. Vanstiphout

Der Kodex Urnamma (CU): Versuch einer Rekonstruktion - Claus Wilcke

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CIN1575060612G
9781575060613
1575060612
Riches Hidden in Secret Places: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Memory of Thorkild Jacobsen by Tzvi Abusch
Used - Good
Hardback
Pennsylvania State University Press
20020630
362
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