Jeffrey Kah-Jin Kuan is President and Professor of Hebrew Bible at Claremont School of Theology, Claremont, California. He holds the PhD from Emory University, MTS from Southern Methodist University, and BTh from Trinity Theological College, Singapore. He is an Old Testament editor of The New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (2006-9) and the coeditor of Ways of Being, Ways of Reading: Asian American Biblical Interpretation (2006).
The republication of Jeffrey Kah-Jin Kuan's Neo-Assyrian Historical
Inscriptions and Syria-Palestine is a most welcome event in the
fields of biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies. Employing a
careful philological and illuminating contextual analysis of the
relevant inscriptions, Kuan demonstrates how the Assyrian monarchy,
often employing local figures, developed an effective
administrative structure to rule the nations and peoples conquered
during the course of its imperial subjugation of Western Asia. A
must-read for scholars and students in the field.
--Marvin A. Sweeney, Claremont School of Theology and Academy for
Jewish Religion California
Jeffrey Kah-Jin Kuan's Neo-Assyrian Historical Inscriptions and
Syria-Palestine was immensely useful when it first appeared in 1995
and it has retained its utility and significance despite the fact
that it has long been out of print and hard to find. This reprinted
edition is a most welcome development, then, and scholars will find
themselves once again in Kuan's debt for his careful presentation
of the evidence pertaining to Israelite/Judean relations from the
reign of Shalmaneser III through Shalmaneser V.
--Brent A. Strawn, Professor of Old Testament, Emory University
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