Writing and Ancient Near East Society Essays

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.

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

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

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