Writing and Ancient Near East Society Essays in Honor of Alan Millard

by Slater, Elizabeth; Bienkowski, Piotr; Mee, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780567026910
• ISBN10: 0567026914
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-27
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T & T Clark

Summary

This book honors the significant and enduring work of Old Testament scholar Alan Millard. The contributors to this festschrift take up all of his concerns with the relationship between writing, the development of Israel, and ancient Near Eastern society.

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(9)
Abbreviations	9	(4)
List of Contributors	13	(2)
Migraines d'Epigraphiste	15	(14)
Pierre Bordreuil
Taima' and Nabonidus: It's a Small World	29	(12)
Alasdair Livingstone
Dresser le boeuf a Ougarit	41	(8)
Dennis Pardee
Literacy in an Oral Environment	49	(70)
M.C.A. Macdonald
Keilschrift versus Alphabetschrift: Uberlegungen zu den epigraphs auf Keilschrifttafeln	119	(8)
Wolfgang Rollig
The Writing on the Wall: Law in Aramaic Epigraphy	127	(16)
John F. Healey
`Misspellings' in Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit: Some Cases of Loss or Addition of Signs	143	(12)
David T. Tsumura
Some Uses of Writing in Ancient Israel in the Light of Recently Published Inscriptions	155	(20)
Graham Davies
Now You See It, Now You Don't! The Monumental Use and Non-use of Writing in the Ancient Near East	175	(14)
K.A. Kitchen
What has Delphi to do with Samaria? Ambiguity and Delusion in Israelite Prophecy	189	(28)
Daniel I. Block
Darius' Accession in (the) Media	217	(28)
Christopher Tuplin
`Hazael, Son of a Nobody': Some Reflections in Light of Recent Study	245	(26)
K. Lawson Younger
4Q341: An Exercise for Spelling and for Spells?	271	(12)
George J. Brooke
The Origins of the Inscribed Greek Stela	283	(18)
John Davies
Only Fragments from the Past: The Role of Accident in our Knowledge of the Ancient Near East	301
Alan Millard