Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Introduction 5
3. Contents 9
4. List of Abbreviations 11
5. BIBLICAL STUDIES
6. ΈD in The Story of Creation 19
7. The Rivers of Paradise 23
8. YDWN, Gen 6:3 35
9. In Search of Nimrod 41
10. Word Plays on the Creation Epic's Version of the Founding of Babylon 53
11. The Wife-Sister Motif in the Patriarchal Narratives 62
12. "Coming" and "Going" at the "City" Gate 83
13. "I Know Not the Day of My Death" 89
14. The Verb SHR in Genesis and Early Hebrew Movements 97
15. An Angelic "Curse": Exodus 14:20 106
16. Background and Function of the Biblical Nasi' 113
17. Leviticus and the Critics 123
18. The Shibboleth Incident (Judges 12:6) 143
19. Of Shoes and Shekels (I Samuel 12:3; 13:21) (1940) 151
20. "People" and "Nation" of Israel 160
21. Census and Ritual Expiation in Mari and Israel 171
22. The Biblical Idea of History in its Common Near Eastern Setting (1957) 187
23. ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN HISTORY AND CULTURE
24. The Sumerian Problem Reviewed 213
25. Some Factors in the Collapse of Akkad 232
26. The Hurrian Participation in the Civilization of Mesopotamia, Syria and Palestine 244
27. The Idea of History in Ancient Mesopotamia (1955) 270
28. Authority and Law in Mesopotamia (1954 ) 313
29. The Name Phoinikes (1936) 324
30. The muskênum (1958) 332
31. The Case of the Obliging Servant 344
32. LINGUISTIC STUDIES
33. Secondary Developments in Semitic Phonology: An Application of the Principle of Sonority 369
34. Studies in Semitic Formatives 403
35. The Pitfalls of Polarity 433
36. A Note on the Derivation of summa 455
37. The "Elative" in West-Semitic and Akkadian 465
38. The Terminative-Adverbial in Canaanite-Ugaritic and Akkadian* 494
39. The Durative Hithpa'el: A tan Form 506
40. PERSPECTIVES
41. Some Sources of Intellectual and Social Progress in the Ancient Near East¹ 517
42. Early Law and Civilization 534
43. Religion and Government in the Ancient Near East 556
44. Oriental Studies and Society 573
45. BIBLIOGRAPHY 589
46. E. A. Speiser: An Appreciation* 605