TY  - BOOK
AU  - Melville,Sarah C.
AU  - Slotsky,Alice Louise
AU  - Foster,Benjamin R.
TI  - Opening the tablet box: Near Eastern studies in honor of Benjamin R. Foster 
T2  - Culture and history of the ancient Near East,
SN  - 9789004186569
AV  - PJ3601 .O64 2010
U1  - 892/.1 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Assyro-Babylonian literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Sumerian literature
KW  - Akkadian language
KW  - Egyptian language
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - African
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Religion
KW  - Akkadien (Langue)
KW  - Littérature assyro-babylonienne
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Égyptien (Langue)
KW  - Littérature sumérienne
KW  - Iraq
KW  - Literatures
KW  - Alter Orient
KW  - gnd
KW  - Irak
KW  - Littératures
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - "Bibliography of the works of Benjamin R. Foster": pages 5-13; Includes bibliographical references and index; Light in the Gagûm window: the Sippar Cloister in the Late Old Babylonian period; S. Richardson --; Sheep and cattle, cows and calves: the Sumero-Akkadian astral gods as livestock; F. Rochberg --; Coherence and fragments: reflections on the SKL and the Book fo Judges; J. Sasson --; Early non-cuneiform writing? Third-millenium BC clay cylinders from Umm el-Marra; G. Schwartz --; Myth, magic, and ritual; M. Sigrist --; Study in contrast: Sargon of Assyria and Rusa of Urartu; M. Van de Mieroop --; Career of Ur-Bagara as a chronological indicator of the documents of Girsu from Šarkališarri to Gudea; G. Visicato --; What's new in town?; A. Westenholz --; Drink to me only with thine eyes; J. Goodnick Westenholz
N2  - With topics ranging from social and economic history to literature, language, and to art history and arachaeology, the essays in his book reflect the broad spectrum of interests of its honoree, Benjamin R. Foster
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ER  -