The study of the ancient Near East in the twenty-first century : the William Foxwell Albright Centennial Conference /

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Corporate Author: William Foxwell Albright Centennial Conference

Other Authors: Cooper, Jerrold S., Schwartz, Glenn M.

Format: Conference Proceeding Book

Language: English

Published: Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 1996.

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Call Number: DS57 .S93 1996

Table of Contents:
  • Prologue / Jerrold S. Cooper and Glenn M. Schwartz Constructing Context: The Gebel el-Arak Knife - Greater Mesopotamian and Egyptian Interaction in the Late Fourth Millennium B.C.E. / Holly Pittman Art, Empire, and the End of the Late Bronze Age / Betsy M. Bryan Written Documents as Excavated Artifacts and the Holistic Interpretation of the Mesopotamian Archaeological Record / Richard L. Zettler Toward a New Periodization and Nomenclature of the Archaeology of the Southern Levant / Israel Finkelstein Underwater Archaeology in the Near East: Past, Present, and Future / George F. Bass Near Eastern Archaeometallurgy: Modern Research and Future Directions / Vincent C. Pigott Sailing to Babylon, Reading the Dark Side of the Moon / Piotr Michalowski A Search for a New Biblical Hermeneutics: Preliminary Observations / Adele Berlin Defining Egyptian Literature: Ancient Texts and Modern Literary Theory / Antonio Loprieno The Linguistic Classification of Eblaite: Methods, Problems, and Results / Manfred Krebernik New Directions in the Study of Semitic Languages / John Huehnergard Semitics: Directions and Re-Directions / Stephen A. Kaufman 2084: Ancient Propaganda and Historical Criticism / Mario Liverani Sybil, or the Two Nations? Archaism, Kinship, Alienation, and the Elite Redefinition of Traditional Culture in Judah in the 8th-7th Centuries B.C.E. / Baruch Halpern Contextualizing Egyptian Representations of Society and Ethnicity / John Baines William Foxwell Albright: The Man and His Work / Peter Machinist Epilogue / Robert McC. Adams.