TY - BOOK AU - Chavalas,Mark W. AU - Younger,K.Lawson TI - Mesopotamia and the Bible: comparative explorations SN - 080102420X (paper) AV - DS 67.4 .M47 2002 PY - 2002/// CY - Grand Rapids, Mich. PB - Baker Academic KW - Bible KW - Old Testament KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Congresses KW - O.T KW - Comparative studies KW - A.T KW - Critique, interpre� tation, etc KW - Congre� s KW - E� tudes comparatives KW - Iraq KW - History KW - To 634 KW - Syria KW - To 333 B.C KW - Histoire KW - Jusqu'a� 634 KW - Jusqu'a� 333 av. J.-C N1 - Based on a conference held Nov. 17, 1995 in Philadelphia, Pa; Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Assyriology and biblical studies : a century of tension; Mark W. Chavalas --; The quest for Sargon, Pul, and Tiglath-Pileser in the nineteenth century; Steven W. Holloway --; Sumer, the Bible, and comparative method : historiography and temple building; Richard E. Averbeck --; Syria and Northern Mesopotamia to the end of the third millennium BCE; Mark W. Chavalas --; Syro-Mesopotamia : the old Babylonian period; Ronald A. Veenker --; Syria to the early second millennium; Victor H. Matthews --; Apprehending kidnappers by correspondence at provincial Arraph���?a; David C. Deuel --; The Bible and Alalakh; Richard S. Hess --; Emar : on the road from Harran to Hebron; Daniel E. Fleming --; Voices from the dust : the tablets from Ugarit and the Bible; Wayne T. Pitard --; The rise of the Aramean states; William Schniedewind --; Recent study on Sargon II, King of Assyria : implications for biblical studies; K. Lawson Younger, Jr. --; What has Nebuchadnezzar to do with David? : on the neo-Babylonian period and early Israel; Bill T. Arnold --; The Eastern Jewish Diaspora under the Babylonians; Edwin Yamauchi ER -