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Title Writing and Ancient Near Eastern Society : Papers in Honour of Alan R. Millard / Edited by Piotr Bienkowski, Christopher Mee, and Elizabeth Slater.

Publication Info. New York : T & T Clark, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (319 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 426
T & T Clark library of biblical studies
Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 426.
T & T Clark library of biblical studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Migraines d'Épigraphiste / Pierre Bordreuil -- Taimāʼ and Nabonidus : it's a small world / Alasdair Livingstone -- Dresser le bœuf à Ougarit / Dennis Pardee -- Literacy in an oral environment / M.C.A. Macdonald -- Keilschrift versus Alphabetschrift : Überlegungen zu den epigraphs auf Keilschrifttafeln / Wolfgang Röllig -- Writing on the wall : law in Aramaic epigraphy / John F. Healey -- "Misspellings" in cuneiform alphabetic texts from Ugarit : some cases of loss or addition of signs / David T. Tsumura -- Some uses of writing in ancient Israel in the light of recently published inscriptions / Graham Davies -- Now you see it, now you don't! : the monumental use and non-use of writing in the ancient Near East / K.A. Kitchen -- What has Delphi to do with Samaria? : ambiguity and delusion in Israelite prophecy / Daniel I. Block -- Darius' accession in (the) Media / Christopher Tuplin -- "Hazael, son of a nobody" : some reflections in light of recent study / K. Lawson Younger -- 4Q341 : an exercise for spelling and for spells? / George J. Brooke -- Origins of the inscribed Greek stela / John Davies -- Only fragments from the past : the role of accident in our knowledge of the ancient Near East / Alan Millard.
Summary This book honors the significant and enduringwork of Old Testament scholar Alan Millard. The contributors to thisfestschrift take up all of his concerns with the relationship betweenwriting, the development and Israel, and ancient Near Eastern society.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Subject Writing -- History.
Writing.
History.
Middle East -- Civilization -- To 622.
Middle East.
Civilization.
Chronological Term To 622
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Festschriften.
Festschriften.
Added Author Bienkowski, Piotr.
Mee, C. (Christopher)
Millard, A. R. (Alan Ralph)
Slater, E. A.
Other Form: Print version: Writing and ancient Near Eastern society. New York : T & T Clark, ©2005 (DLC) 2005014969
ISBN 9780567236128 (electronic book)
0567236129 (electronic book)
0567026914
9780567026910