Table of Contents

VOLUME 1

Preface

Abbreviations

Colleagues' Appreciation of Mordechai Cogan

Shmuel Aḥituv, Israel Ephʿal, and Jeffrey Tigay

"Make for yourself a mentor and acquire for yourself a friend" (Avot 1:6): Students' Appreciation for Professor Mordechai Cogan

Tova Forti and Amitai Baruchi-Unna

The Biblical Period in Jewish History as a Discipline: Personal Reflections

Mordechai Cogan

Bibliography of the Publications of Mordechai Cogan

Part 1: Biblical Studies

Biblical Historiosophy: A Response to Crisis in Leadership and Rule

Bezalel Porten

"To Place His Name There": Deuteronomy's Concept of God Placing His Name in the Temple

Jeffrey H. Tigay

Joshua and Moses in the Book of Joshua

Gershon Galil

Snippets from a Lost Joshua Cycle: The Prehistory of an Israelite Legendary Hero

Zev Farber

Text-Criticism with Awareness of the Contents of the Text: The Case of 1 Samuel 2:2

Alexander Rofé

At the Intersection of Intellect and Insolence: The Historiographic Significance of Solomon's and Jehoshaphat's "Tarshish Ships" in the Light of a Wisdom Motif

Tova Forti and David A. Glatt-Gilad

Solomon's Temple Building and Its Divine Approval in Ancient Israelite Historiography

Isaac Kalimi

Formulaic Creativity: The Structure of the Synchronic History of Israel and Judah (1 Kings 12–2 Kings 17)

Zipora Talshir ז״ל

An Update of the Hezekiah-Sennacherib Narrative during the Babylonian Siege? Some Further Thoughts

Danʾel Kahn

Depictions of כשד׳ם 'Chaldeans' in Judean Prophecy and Historiography

David S. Vanderhooft

"And I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam...": The Message and the Historical Context of Micah 6:1–5

Yair Hoffman

Torah Historiography in Psalms 135 and 136

Adele Berlin

Prophets and Prophecy in Ezra–Nehemiah

Sara Japhet

"And You Kept Your Word for You Are Righteous" (Nehemiah 9:8) in the Penitential Prayers Genre

Bustenay Oded

Part 2: Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies

Dethronement in Ancient Western Asia: Introductory Observations

Israel Ephʿal and Izabela Ephʿal-Jaruzelska

The Image of Pharaoh: Royal Ideology and Historical Reality in the Light of Egyptian Wisdom Literature

Nili Shupak

Temple Hymns in Early Sumerian Literature:A Literary-Historical Overview

Jacob Klein

A Cylinder Inscription of Aššur-ketta-lēšir II

Ran Zadok

Reporting the Content of Divine Positive Response (annu kēnu) in Assyrian Royal Inscriptions

Amitai Baruchi-Unna

Adad-nērārī II and the Aramean Temanites: The Beginnings of Neo-Assyrian Recovery

K. Lawson Younger Jr.

VOLUME 2

Shalmaneser V and His Era, Revisited

Keiko Yamada and Shigeo Yamada

Esarhaddon's Babylon E Once Again

Jamie Novotny

A Study of Assyrian Cultural Policy as Expressed in Esarhaddon's Succession Oath Documents

Kazuko  Watanabe

A Letter of Nebuchadnezzar I to the Babylonians: Literary and Historical Considerations

Yigal Bloch

The Formation of the Prayers in the Nabonidus Inscriptions Nbn 4 and Nbn 5: Between Lower and Higher Criticism

Noga Ayali-Darshan

Part 3: Comparative Studies

Heads or Tails? The Transmutations and Peregrinations of a Sapiential Theme

Yoram Cohen

Rituals on the Battlefield and Historiographical Accounts: Hittite and Biblical Texts

Ada Taggar-Cohen

אַ ב רֵ ך (Gen 41:43), מׇ לוֹן (Gen 41:27 + 7×), and the Law in Exodus 22:1–2: On the Use of Akkadian as Key Evidence in Biblical Hebrew Philology

Chaim (Harold R.) Cohen

David and Goliath: Toward a Dialogue between Archaeology and Biblical Studies

Shuichi Hasegawa

Isaiah 18–20: A Chronological Sequence of Oracles in Light of Akkadian and Egyptian Sources

Shalom M. Paul

Nebuchadnezzar's Madness (Daniel 4:30): Reminiscence of a Historical Event or a Legend?

T. M. Oshima

Indexes

Index of Authors

Index of Scripture

Index of Other Ancient Sources