Jehu's Tribute: What can Biblical studies offer Assyriology?

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Cooley, Jeffrey L.
Thelle, Rannfrid I.
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2025-06
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Ancient Near East Civilizations , Biblical studies , Old Testament , Assyriology
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Cooley, Jeffrey L., & Thelle, Rannfrid I. (Eds.). (2025). Jehu's Tribute: What can Biblical studies offer Assyriology? The Pennsylvania State University Press.
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"The findings of Assyriology have been applied to biblical studies ever since the former emerged as a scholarly discipline in the mid-nineteenth century. Today, the scholarly flow from Assyriology to biblical studies continues, yet rarely are the fruits of biblical scholarship brought to bear on the study of ancient Assyria and Babylon. The present volume aims to reverse this unidirectional trend. Considering that the literature preserved in the Hebrew Bible is the product of a people who had significant contact with both Assyria and Babylonia, then surely the study of the Hebrew Bible has something to offer Assyriology. But what? The contributors approach this question from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including intellectual history, museology, and religious and political history. The authors also offer broad methodological considerations and more focused, text-based case studies. Written by leading scholars in the fields of Assyriology and Hebrew Bible, Jehu's Tribute presents a fresh approach to the multifaceted relationship between Assyriology and biblical studies. In addition to the volume editors, the contributors include Céline Debourse, Jessie DeGrado, Eckart Frahm, Shalom E. Holtz, Gina Konstantopoulos, Alan Lenzi, Alice Mandell, Dustin Nash, Beate Pongratz-Leisten, Seth Sanders, Anthony P. SooHoo, SJ, and Abraham Winitzer." (Provided by publisher)

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Introduction : a Madattu for Mesopotamia / Jeffrey L. Cooley and Rannfrid I. Lasine Thelle -- Remodeling Albright's House in the twenty-first century : from a patrimonial household to an open-concept structure / Alice Mandell -- Museum models : Assyriology, the Bible, and avenues for public engagement / Gina Konstantopoulos -- An enlivening Biblical Geist for Assyriology / Abraham Winitzer -- Some thoughts on the applicability of comparative studies to the ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible / Beate Pongratz-Leisten -- Text in context : priestly writings in the Bible and Babylonia / Céline Debourse -- Aniconism as a local response to Assyrian godnapping / Jessie DeGrado -- Assyria through the looking-glass : the Hebrew Bible as opposition literature / Eckart Frahm -- Maṣṣartu, Mišmeret, and duties in temples : a contextual parallel / Shalom E. Holtz -- The prayer of Ashurnaṣirpal I to Ishtar : an exegetical reading / Alan Lenzi -- Does a magic still dwell in comparing the Tribes of Israel and Mari? / Dustin Nash -- Alphabetic scrolls in a cuneiform world : notes on the study of an invisible literature / Seth Sanders -- Impaling and corpse display in the Hebrew Bible and Assyrian sources / Anthony P. SooHoo.
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"A collection of essays exploring how the field of Assyriology can benefit from Biblical Studies through a variety of disciplinary perspectives." (Provided by publisher)
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
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