@book{2022:hoffmeier:now_the,
title = {“Now These Records are Ancient”: Studies in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical History, Language and Culture in Honor of K. Lawson Younger, Jr.},
year = {2022},
note = {Die Festschrift versammelt 32 Beiträge, die K. Lawson Younger, Jr.
von seinen Kollegen und Studenten aus Nordamerika, Israel und Europa
gewidmet sind. Entsprechend bedeutenden Themen seines eigenen
wissenschaftlichen Schaffens konzentrieren sich die Beiträge auf
Forschungen zum Alten Testament und zur Altorientalistik. Unter vielen
anderen Themen werden die Beziehungen „Deuteronomy 13 and the
Succession Treaty of Esarhaddon“ sowie „Rituals in the Gideon
Narrative (Judges 6–8)“, „Deities in the Ammonite Personal
Names“ und „the textual evidence for “The ‘Priests’ of
Ugarit“ erörtert. Archäologische Beiträge konzentrieren sich auf
– um nur einige zu nennen – „The Carmel in the Bronze and Iron
Ages“, „Deer Antlers in Iron Age I Cultic Contexts at Tel Abel
Beth Maacah“ und „Archaeological Evidence of Priests and
Priesthood in Iron Age Israel and Juda“. Sprach- und
kulturwissenschaftliche Artikel werten neuere Studien zum Amoritischen
aus Amoriten aus und erörtern “East as Symbolic Space” und gehen
der Frage nach einer “Aramaean Identity” im eisenzeitlichen Syrien
nach.                                                     This
Festschrift assembles 32 contributions devoted to K. Lawson Younger,
Jr. by his colleagues and students from North America, Israel and
Europe. In accordance with significant topics of his own scholarly
oeuvre the articles focus on Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern
studies. Among many other topics the relations of “Deuteronomy 13
and the Succession Treaty of Esarhaddon” are explored as well as
“Rituals in the Gideon Narrative (Judges 6–8)”, “Deities in
the Ammonite Personal Names” and “the textual evidence for “The
‘Priests’ of Ugarit”. Archaeological contributions focus on—to
list just a few—“The Carmel in the Bronze and Iron Ages”,
“Deer Antlers in Iron Age I Cultic Contexts at Tel Abel Beth
Maacah” and the “Archaeological Evidence of Priests and Priesthood
in Iron Age Israel and Judah”. Linguistic and cultural studies
evaluate recent studies of Amorite and examine “East as Symbolic
Space” and raise the question of “Aramaean Identity” in Iron Age
Syria.                                                            
Reihe                                E009677000 - Band 114},
edition = {1},
publisher = {Zaphon},
address = {Münster},
series = {Ägypten und Altes Testament},
volume = {114},
editor = {Hoffmeier, James K. and Averbeck, Richard E. and Howard, J. Caleb and Zwickel, Wolfgang}
}