Visions of Life in Biblical Times: Essays in Honor of Meir Lubetski
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This important volume is in honour of the distinguished Semitist and epigrapher Meir Lubetski, of Baruch College, City University of New York. Lubetski has made the chief focus of his research the contribution of the East Mediterranean legacy —languages, literature and archaeological artifacts —to our understanding of the biblical world.
This important volume is in honour of the distinguished Semitist and epigrapher Meir Lubetski, of Baruch College, City University of New York. Lubetski has made the chief focus of his research the contribution of the East Mediterranean legacy —languages, literature and archaeological artifacts —to our understanding of the biblical world.
The wide-ranging collection of essays gathered here include, after a personal appreciation of the honoree by his children, papers by Paula Berggren on Shakespeare’s Cains, Chaim Cohen on the ‘third-man’ charioteers, John Day on Noah’s ark as made of reeds, Robert Deutsch on six new Hebrew seals, Joseph Fleishman on the law of the defamer (Deut. 22), Moshe Garsiel on the rivalry between Adonijah and Solomon, Claire Gottlieb on Genesis 1 in the twenty-first century, Martin Heide on a new ostracon, Richard Hess on the strange absence of Egyptian names from the book of Joshua, Regine Hunziker-Rodewald on a new Ammonite seal, Isaac Kalimi on the key methods of Targum Chronicles, André Lemaire on the place of Qumran in Jewish history, David Marcus on the Aramaic versions of the burning bush narrative, Robert Stieglitz on divine kingship at Ugarit, Peter van der Veen on a two-headed bronze bull figurine, and Ada Yardeni on legal texts from various locations in the Judean desert.
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| Table of Contents | Saul Lubetski, Uriel Lubetski and Leah Lubetski Feldman Paula S. Berggren Chaim Cohen John Day Robert Deutsch Joseph Fleishman Moshe Garsiel Claire Gottlieb Martin Heide Richard S. Hess Regine Hunziker-Rodewald Isaac Kalimi Andre Lemaire David Marcus Robert R. Stieglitz Peter van der Veen Ada Yardeni |
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