Table of Contents

Contents INTRODUCTION Holloway, Steven W. Orientalism, Assyriology and the Bible INTELLECTUAL AND DISCIPLINARY HISTORIES 1. Foster, Benjamin R. The Beginnings of Assyriology in the United States 2. Frahm, Eckart. Images of Assyria in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Western Scholarship 3. Holloway, Steven W. The Smithsonian Institution's Religious Ceremonial Objects and Biblical Antiquities Exhibits at the World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago, 1893) and the Cotton States and International Exposition (Atlanta, 1895) 4. Reid, Donald Malcolm. Egyptology under Khedive Ismail: Mariette, al-Tahtawi, and Brugsch, 1850-82 5. Sasson, Jack M. Mari and the Holy Grail 6. Younger, K. Lawson, Jr. The Production of Ancient Near Eastern Text Anthologies from the Earliest to the Latest VISUAL PERSPECTIVES 7. Bohrer, Frederick N. Inventing Assyria: Exoticism and Reception in Nineteenth-Century England and France 8. Esposito, Donato. Dalziels' Bible Gallery (1881): Assyria and the Biblical Illustration in Nineteenth-Century Britain 9. Long, Burke O. Picturing Biblical Pasts OF HAREMS AND HEROINES 10. Asher-Greve, Julia M. From "Semiramis of Babylon" to "Semiramis of Hammersmith" 11. Solvang, Elna K. Another Look "Inside": Harems and the Interpretation of Women ASSYRIOLOGY AND THE BIBLE 12. Grabbe, Lester L. Biblical Historiography in the Persian Period:. or How the Jews Took Over the Empire 13. Handy, Lowell K. Josiah in a New Light: Assyriology Touches the Reforming King 14. Hurowitz, Victor Avigdor. Babylon in Bethel - New Light on Jacob's Dream 15. Scurlock, JoAnn. Whose Truth and Whose Justice? The Uruk and Other Late Akkadian Prophecies re-Revisited

About the Author

Steven Holloway is Indexer-Analyst, American Theological Library Association (ATLA), Chicago.