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In the Shadow of Bezalel. Aramaic, Biblical, and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Bezalel Porten
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Edited by:
Alejandro F. Botta
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2013
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About this book
Twenty nine scholars from Israel, Europe and the Americas came together to honor and celebrate Prof. Bezalel Porten's (Emeritus, Dept. of History of the Jewish People, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) academic career. Covering a wide variety of topics within Aramaic, Biblical, and ancient Near Eastern Studies, In the Shadow of Bezalel offers new insights and proposals in the areas of Aramaic language, paleography, onomastica and lexicography; ancient Near Eastern legal traditions, Hebrew Bible, and social history of the Persian period.
Author / Editor information
Alejandro F. Botta, Ph.D. summa cum laude, Dept. of History of the Jewish People, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2002) is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at Boston University School of Theology. His most recent publication is The Aramaic and Egyptian Legal Traditions at Elephantine: An Egyptological Approach (2009).
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eBook published on:
December 3, 2012
eBook ISBN:
9789004240841
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Main content:
429
eBook ISBN:
9789004240841
Keywords for this book
Ancient Near Eastern Legal Formulae; Onomastica; Aramaic Ostraca; Ugarit; Elephantine; Demotic; Persian Period; Second Temple Judaism; Aramaic language; Hebrew bible
Audience(s) for this book
All interested in ancient Near Eastern Studies, Aramaic language, Biblical Studies, Egyptology, North West Semitic, Elephantine papyri, and ancient Near Eastern law.
