Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern studies in honor of P. Kyle McCarter Jr
By: Edited by Christopher Rollston, Susanna Garfein, and Neal H. Walls
Publisher: SBL Press
Published: 2022
Place of publication: Atlanta, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 684
ISBN-13: 9781628374056; 9780884145158
Subjects: Antiquities; Aramaic Inscriptions; Phoenician Inscriptions; Bible; Dead Sea scrolls
Description: This collection of thirty-one essays by colleagues, students, and friends of P. Kyle McCarter Jr. covers a range of topics of interest to McCarter. Essays approach the Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Septuagint using various methods, including philology, narrative criticism, and political theory. Contributions on epigraphy cover a range of inscriptions, including Phoenician, Aramaic, and Ugaritic. A final section on archaeology covers sites, architecture, and artifacts. --back
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: P. Kyle McCarter Jr. as teacher: musings from grateful students / Christopher A. Rollston, Susanna Garfein, and Neal Walls; title: Brilliance fulfilled: P. Kyle McCarter Jr. and his contribution to Near Eastern scholarship and scholars / Jonathan Rosenbaum; title: Introduction / Christopher A. Rollston; title: Part 1. Bible and Scrolls; title: Yahweh the destroyer: on the meaning of [Yahweh] / Heath D. Dewrell; title: For the love of words in the(ir) world(s): theorizing Biblical philology / F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp; title: Joseph and his allies in Genesis 29-30 / Daniel E. Fleming; title: Lovesickness, love poetry, and sexual violence: intertextuality and inversion in 2 Sam. 13:1-22 / Erin E. Fleming; title: Exodus, conquest, and the alchemy of memory / Ronald Hendel; title: The etymology of Hebrew bāḥûr / John Huehnergard; title: First-person reference by name in Biblical Hebrew / Yoo-ki Kim; title: [Prince]: The political theory behind David's rise / Andrew Knapp; title: The priority of MT chronology in Kings / Steven L. McKenzie; title: The Hebrew Bible: a critical edition and a sample edition of Daniel 1 / Eugene Ulrich; title: Early development in Levi traditions: Malachi and Jubilees / James C. VanderKam; title: Biblical Qin ' â as a social phenomenon: a case study of Genesis 26 and Ezekiel / Erin Guinn-Villareal; title: Part 2. Epigraphy; title: Hypothesis on the suffixed pronouns used in the Phoenician text of Pyrgi / Maria Giulia amadasi Guzzo; title: A curse of the division of land: a new reading of the Bukān Aramaic inscription, lines 9-10 / Adam L. Bean; title: The persistence of El in Iron Age Israel and Ammon / Joel S. Burnett; title: The first Arslan Tash incantation and The Sphinx / Aaron Demsky; title: The Carthaginian Deity Tinit / Jo Ann Hackett; title: The A9 Aramaic manuscript from Ancient Bactria revisited / André Lemaire; title: A holy warrior at Kuntillet ' Ajrud? Kuntillet ' Ajrud plaster inscription 4.2 / Theodore J. Lewis; title: The Yes̆a'yah[û] ("Isaiah") Bulla and the putative connection with the Biblical prophet: a case study in propospography and the necessity of methodological caution / Christopher A. Rollston; title: Traces of Canaanite letters in LB Strata at Tell Halif / Joe D. Seger; title: Heroes of lost memory: the times and places of the rpu 'm in the Ugaritic texts / Mark S. Smith; title: Dagan and the ritualization of first fruits at Emar / John Tracy Thames Jr.; title: Arameans in the Zagros: the cuneiform and Aramaic evidence / K. Lawson Younger Jr.; title: Part 3. Archaeology; title: Lachish in the context of Ancient Near Eastern Studies / Yosef Garfinkel; title: Proto-Aeolic capitols and the queen of heaven / Pamela Gaber; title: Touch of Ebal: tesselated identity in the historical frontier of Iron I / Baruch Halpern; title: Turning hippos into ducks: avian artifacts in ivory / Ron E. Tappy; title: Afterword: reflections on provenance and authenticity / Hershel Shanks.