Full Description
A "Community of Peoples": Studies on Society and Politics in the Bible and Ancient Near East in Honor of Daniel E. Fleming draws together a diverse community of scholars to honor the career of Daniel E. Fleming as a historian of the Bible and ancient Near East.
Together, these scholars participate in a dynamic historical enterprise, each one positioning themself along a Middle Eastern spatial-temporal continuum stretching from the Old Babylonian to the Persian periods. Each contributor attempts to touch a sliver of ancient history, whether a particular person or community, a text or visual image or scribal process. They do so through a diversity of methods and disciplines, which together reflect the possibilities and promises for history writing.
The Harvard Semitic Studies series publishes volumes from the Harvard Semitic Museum. Other series offered by Brill that publish volumes from the Museum include Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant and Harvard Semitic Monographs, https://semiticmuseum.fas.harvard.edu/publications.
Contents
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1 Introduction: 'A Community of Peoples' (Gen 28:3)
Mahri Leonard-Fleckman, Lauren A.S. Monroe, and Michael J. Stahl
2 La gestuelle de l' alliance à l' époque paléo-babylonienne: Textes et images
Dominique Charpin
3 Commensality and Kinship: Exodus 24 and the Emar Zukru Festival
Jessie DeGrado
4 'Do You Hear the People Sing?' At the Interface of Prophecy and Music in Chronicles
Julie B. Deluty
5 L' aînesse au Proche-Orient ancien: Droit du premier-né ou choix du père?
Sophie Démare-Lafont
6 The Southwest of the Near East According to Mari: The Example of Qaṭna
Jean-Marie Durand
7 tapariya- and tapariyalli-: Local Leaders and Local Agency in the Hittite Period and Its Aftermath
N. İlgi Gerçek and Lorenzo d'Alfonso
8 A Man of Both Aššur and Kaneš: The Case of the Merchant Ḫabdu-mālik
Nancy Highcock
9 City Dwellers and Backcountry Folk: Ritual Interactions between Mobile Peoples and Urban Centers in Late Bronze Age Syria
Dylan R. Johnson
10 A Head of Ḫammurabi? Thoughts on the Legacies of Kings and the Goals of Royal Representations
Elizabeth Knott
11 La conclusion des alliances diplomatiques
Bertrand Lafont
12 Kings, Peoples and Their Gods: Bar Rakib's Political Portrayal of Divinity
Theodore J. Lewis
13 Teaching with a Dose of Humor in the Mesopotamian Unica
Sara J. Milstein
14 The Sociomorphic Structure of the Polytheistic Pantheon in Mesopotamia and Its Meaning for Divine Agency and Mentalization
Beate Pongratz-Leisten
15 Unpopulated and Under-politicized: Reconsidering Exterior Spaces in the Practice of Politics in Northern Mesopotamia
Anne Porter
16 From Babylon to Jerusalem: Water Ordeals in the Ancient World
Jack Sasson
17 "People" between Liturgical Experience and Political Imagination: Preliminary Observations on ʿām in the Psalms
Mark S. Smith
18 Pregnant with Meaning: The Politics of Gender Violence in the Mesha Stele's Ḥērem-List (KAI 181:16-17)
Michael J. Stahl
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