Lundberg M.J., Fine S., Pitard W.T. (eds.) Puzzling Out the Past: Studies in Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures in Honor of Bruce Zuckerman

Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2012. — xvi, 334 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 55). — ISBN 978 90 04 22715 6; ISBN 978 90 04 22716 3.Bruce Zuckerman has transformed the way we look at ancient Semitic inscriptions. Through his efforts, the most important inscriptions of biblical times have been reread and the history of the biblical and Second Temple periods reimagined. He has made contributions to the fields of biblical studies and modern Judaism, and, in founding Maarav: A Journal for the Study of the Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures, has made the research of many scholars available to the scholarly community. The series of articles included here honor his many contributions through discussions of a wide variety of inscriptional materials, Biblical texts, archaeology, lexicography and teaching methodology. Included in the volume is a republication of his path breaking exhibition catalogue, Puzzling Out the Past.Preface
Bruce Zuckerman Publications
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List of Contributors
Annalisa Azzoni, “Where Will Yehoyišma' Go?”: A Reconsideration of TAD B3.8
Jacob Bitton, Nathan Dweck and Steven Fine, Yet Another Jewish Tombstone from Late Antique Zoar/Zoora: The Funerary Marker of Hannah Daughter of Levi
Edward M. Cook, 4Q541, Fragment 24 Reconsidered
F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp, Space, Line, and the Written Biblical Poem in Texts from the Judean Desert
Avraham Faust and Esther Eshel, An Inscribed Bulla with Grazing Doe from Tel 'Eton
Zev Garber, Torah and Testament: Teaching and Learning Scripture in Dialogue and in Hermeneutics
Edward L. Greenstein, Methodological Principles in Determining that the So-Called Jehoash Inscription is Inauthentic
Stephen A. Kaufman, Gleanings from the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon I: Previously Unknown Syriac Words
Theodore J. Lewis, Job 19 in the Light of the Ketef Hinnom Inscriptions and Amulets
Marilyn J. Lundberg, New Drawings and Photographs of Four Cypriot Inscriptions
P. Kyle McCarter, Jr., An Inscribed Arrowhead of a Crown Prince of Babylon
Shalom M. Paul, Jonah 2:7—The Descent to the Netherworld and Its Mesopotamian Congeners
Wayne T. Pitard, Nodding Scribe and Heavy Thumb: The Scribal Errors in CAT 1.14 III 52–V 8
Anson F. Rainey ז"ל, New Lighting on the Amarna Letters: Mainly London, Berlin and Paris
Christopher A. Rollston, An Old Hebrew Stone Inscription from the City of David: A Trained Hand and a Remedial Hand on the Same Inscription
Mark S. Smith, Why was “Old Poetry” Used in Hebrew Narrative? Historical and Cultural Considerations about Judges 5
Lynn Swartz Dodd, Squeezing Blood from a Stone: The Archaeological Context of the Incirli Inscription
Ziony Zevit, Mesha’s Ryt in the Context of Moabite and Israelite Bloodletting
Index of Scripture
Index of Texts and Inscriptions
Index of Names
Appendix — Exhibition Catalogue
Plates