"A Community of Peoples"

Studies on Society and Politics in the Bible and Ancient Near East in Honor of Daniel E. Fleming
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51152-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 69, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 864 g

Reihe: Harvard Semitic Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leonard-Fleckman, Mahri

A S Monroe, Lauren

Stahl, Michael J

R Johnson, Dylan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations

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 Qa?na

Jean-Marie Durand

7 tapariya- and tapariyalli-: Local Leaders and Local Agency in the Hittite Period and Its Aftermath

N. Ilgi Gerçek and Lorenzo d’Alfonso

8 A Man of Both Aššur and Kaneš: The Case of the Merchant ?abdu-malik

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 ?ammurabi? 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 ?am in the Psalms

Mark S. Smith

18 Pregnant with Meaning: The Politics of Gender Violence in the Mesha Stele’s ?erem-List (KAI 181:16–17)

Michael J. Stahl

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mahri Leonard-Fleckman, Ph.D. (2014), New York University, is Assistant Professor at the College of the Holy Cross. Her numerous publications include The House of David: Between Political Formation and Literary Revision (2016).

Lauren A.S. Monroe, Ph.D. (2004), New York University, is Professor of Hebrew Bible at Cornell University. In addition to her book, Josiah’s Reform and the Dynamics of Defilement (2011) she has two monographs in progress and has published numerous articles.

Michael J. Stahl, Ph.D. (2018), New York University, is Lecturer in Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism at NYU. Among his various publications, Dr. Stahl is most recently the author of the monograph, The “God of Israel” in History and Tradition (2021).

Dylan R. Johnson, Ph.D. (2018) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Theological Faculty of the University of Zurich. He is the author of numerous articles and one monograph, Sovereign Authority and the Elaboration of Law in the Bible and the Ancient Near East (2020).