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2016 by Bill T. Arnold and Brent A. Strawn
Published by Baker Academic
a division of Baker Publishing Group
P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287
www.bakeracademic.com
Ebook edition created 2016
Ebook corrections 10.27.2016, 05.17.2017.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meansfor example, electronic, photocopy, recordingwithout the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
ISBN 978-1-4934-0574-9
Unless indicated otherwise, Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1989, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture translations labeled AT are those of the author.
Walter Burkert (19312015)
in memoriam
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Bill T. Arnold and Brent A. Strawn
List of Contributors
Abbreviations
1. The Amorites
Daniel E. Fleming
2. Assyria and the Assyrians
Christopher B. Hays with Peter Machinist
3. Babylonia and the Babylonians
David S. Vanderhooft
4. Ugarit and the Ugaritians
Mark S. Smith
5. Egypt and the Egyptians
Joel M. LeMon
6. The Hittites and the Hurrians
Billie Jean Collins
7. Aram and the Arameans
K. Lawson Younger Jr.
Christopher A. Rollston
9. Transjordan: The Ammonites, Moabites, and Edomites
Joel S. Burnett
10. Philistia and the Philistines
Carl S. Ehrlich
11. Persia and the Persians
Pierre Briant
12. Arabia and the Arabians
David F. Graf
13. Greece and the Greeks
Walter Burkert
Index of Authors
Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Sources
Index of Subjects
Back Cover
Map: The Ancient Near East
2.1 Map: The Assyrian Empire
2.2 Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III
2.3 Statue of Assurnasirpal II
2.4 Relief of a dying lion
2.5 The Balawat Gates
2.6 Judean archer on black stone seal
2.7 Assyrian archers on Lachish relief
3.1 Map: Babylonia
3.2 Shitti-Marduk kudurru image
3.3 Sun-God Tablet
3.4 Mushhushu dragon on the Ishtar Gate
3.5 Site map of Babylon
4.1 Site map of Ugarit
4.2 Merenptah Stela
4.3 Ruins of ancient Ugarit
4.4 Bronze figurine of Baal found at Ras Shamra
5.1 Map: Egypt
5.2 Table: Periods of Egyptian History
5.3 Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and three daughters beneath the Aten
5.4 Relief from the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III
5.5 Bronze statuette of Taharqo
5.6 Ivory plaque from Megiddo
5.7 Ivory inlay of Isis and Nephthys
5.8 Tomb painting from Abd el-Qurna
5.9 Judean lmlk seals
6.1 Map: Anatolia
6.2 Plan of the Hittite capital at Hattusa
6.3 Table: The Kings of the Hittites
6.4 Relief of Tudhaliya IV
6.5 Section of Suppiluliuma IIs Sdburg inscription
6.6 Reliefs on the rock outcropping at Yazlkaya
7.1 Map: The Aramean kingdoms
7.2 Relief of Assurnasirpal II
7.3 Tell Dan Stela
7.4 Katumuwa Inscription
7.5 Hadad Statue
8.1 Map: Phoenicia
8.2 Table: Correspondence of West Semitic Consonants
8.3 Table: Qal Perfect and Imperfect
8.4 Azarbaal Inscription
8.5 Ahiram Sarcophagus Inscription
8.6 Yehimilk Inscription
8.8 Nora Inscription
8.9 The Kition Bowl
9.1 Map: Transjordan
9.2 Excavation of Iron I compound at Tall Abu Kharaz
9.3 Table: Kings of Iron Age Transjordan Appearing in Epigraphic Texts
9.4 Remains of Iron II fortress at Lahun
9.5 Fortification wall of copper-processing center at Khirbat en-Nahas
9.6 Iron II remains at Umm al-Biyara
9.7 Karak Inscription fragment
9.8 Basalt statue of an Ammonite king
9.9 Terra-cotta bull statue from Khirbat Ataruz
10.1 Map: The Philistine plain
10.2 Ekron Inscription
10.3 Tell e-afi
11.1 Map: The Achaemenid Empire
11.2 Audience relief at Persepolis
11.3 Behistun relief
11.4 Cyruss tomb
11.5 Irrigation canal in the gardens of Pasargadae
11.6 Plan of Susa
11.7 Plan of Persepolis
11.8 Elamite delegation on the tribute reliefs at Persepolis
11.9 Ostracon of the hunt
11.10 Two subject peoples on the statue of Darius
11.11 Saqqara stela
11.13 Persian king on painted beam from Tatarl
11.14 Meydanckkale reliefs
11.15 Taym rider
12.1 Map: Arabia
12.2 Al-Jawf, the fortress of Qasr Mrid at Dumah
12.3 Palace of Qasr al-Hamra at Taym
12.4 Taymanite text from the Mahaijah region
12.5 Mantar Bani Atiya
12.6 Close-up of Mantar Bani Atiya
12.7 Dedan
12.8 The necropolis at Khurayba in Dedan
13.1 Map: Greece
13.2 Bronze tympanon from Ida
13.3 Piraeus Apollo bronze
13.4 Alexander the Great
We wish to express our gratitude to our academic institutions, Asbury Theological Seminary and the Candler School of Theology of Emory University, for being places that make time for scholarly work, including the important but often behind-the-scenes work of editing. We lift up for special recognition the gifted assistance of Henry Huberty, who did preliminary screening of each essay and offered invaluable comments, and also thank T. Collin Cornell, who was instrumental in getting the project finished.
Jim Kinney and the good people of Baker Academic have been helpful throughout the project. As anyone who has edited knows, editorial work, especially on a complicated project like this one, can be a protracted affair, and not without its fair share of difficulties. Our labors have been gratifying nevertheless, not least because we have long schemed about a joint project that would allow us to work together more regularly. Jim and his team at Baker provided us with exactly such a project and eased our labor in key ways, making the entire venture that much better. Among many other things, we thank Baker for funding the work of Stephen Germany, who translated Professor Briants essay on Persia and the Persians.
Our deepest gratitude goes to our stellar roster of contributors. It is not always easy to get a project like this off the ground; it is even harder to bring it to completion. We thank the contributors who were on time with their contributions for their punctuality and for their extreme patience while we waited for those that arrived later. We are also thankful to colleagues who stepped in at later stages to fill in some missing pieces or even to pen essays that were originally assigned to someone else but, for whatever reason, could not be completed. We thank each of our contributors for their patience (often strained), good humor, and most of all for their excellent work. The volumes delays are no doubt due in part to the fact that the contributors are world-class scholars, each with multiple projects and very busy professional lives. Despite a few unfortunate interruptions in the production schedule, we believe the volume is much better for the waitwe hope that the authors themselves and all who read their work will agree.
A final word: one of our contributors, the eminent classicist Walter Burkert, died as the volume was about to go to press. It seemed only right to dedicate the volume to his memory given all that he did to help us better understand the ancient world, including that around the Old Testament.
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