TY - BOOK AU - Amit,Yaira AU - Naʼaman,Nadav TI - Essays on ancient Israel in its Near Eastern context: a tribute to Nadav Naʼaman SN - 9781575061283 AV - BS1171.3 .E87 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - Winona Lake, Ind. PB - Eisenbrauns KW - Bible KW - Old Testament KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Historiography KW - Jews KW - History KW - To 586 B.C KW - Middle East KW - Antiquities N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Looking at history through literary glasses too; Yairah Amit --; To put one's neck under the yoke; Moshe Anbar --; Sic dicit dominus: Mari prophetic texts and the Hebrew Bible; Hans M. Barstad --; The return of the deity: iconic or aniconic?; Bob Becking --; Do the execration texts reflect an accurate picture of the contemporary settlement map of Palestine?; Amnon Ben-Tor --; Observations on Josiah's account in Chronicles and implications for reconstructing the worldview of the Chronicler; Ehud Ben Zvi --; Hezekiah and the Babylonian delegation: a critical reading of Isaiah 39:1-8; J. Blenkinsopp --; A late synchronism between Ugarit and Emar; Yoram Cohen; Itamar Singer --; The origin of biblical Israel; Philip R. Davies --; The iconography of wisdom; Diana Edelman --; Observations on two inscriptions of Esarhaddon: Prism Nineveh A and the Letter to the God; I. Ephʻal; H. Tadmor --; The last Labayu: King Saul and the expansion of the first north Israelite territorial entity; Israel Finkelstein --; "The lying pen of the scribes"? Jeremiah and history; Lester L. Grabbe --; The wall of Jerusalem from a double perspective: Kings versus Chronicles; Sara Japhet --; Yhwh's rejection of the house built for his name: on the significance of anti-temple rhetoric in the Deuteronomistic History; Gary N. Knoppers --; On cash-boxes and finding or not finding books: Jehoash's and Josiah's decisions to repair the temple; Oded Lipschits --; Jerusalem in the 10th Century b.c.e.: the glass half full; Amihai Mazar --; A conversation with my critics: cultic image or aniconism in the First Temple?; Tryggve N. D. Mettinger --; The lady and the bull: remarks on the bronze plaque from Tel Dan; Tallay Ornan --; Three Hebrew seals from the Iron Age Tombs at Mamillah, Jerusalem; Ronny Reich; Benjamin Sass --; Realism and convention in the depiction of ancient drummers; Miriam Tadmor --; Sennacherib's campaign to Philistia and Judah: Ekron, Lachish, and Jerusalem; David Ussishkin --; The Deuteronomist: historian or redactor? from Simon to the present; John Van Seters --; A productive textual error in Isaiah 2:18-19; H. G. M. Williamson --; The geography of the Borsippa Region; Ran Zadok ER -