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Book SynopsisJames Hoffmeier is a giant in the field of Egyptology. Among his many publications are two volumes of archaeological reports from Tell el-Borg, where he led excavations from 1999 to 2008. He is also well known for his interest in how ancient Egypt and the biblical world intersected, having edited and written several books on the subject, including the recent “Did I Not Bring Israel Out of Egypt?” Biblical, Archaeological, and Egyptological Perspectives on the Exodus Narratives, published by Eisenbrauns.
Dedicated to Hoffmeier, this volume features essays written by more than thirty of his colleagues, former students, and friends. The contributions cover the second and first millennia BCE—from the Egyptian Old Kingdom through the Persian period—as well as New Testament times. The subjects covered include archaeology, biblical studies, Egyptology, and, of course, how these fields intersect with one another.
Among the many contributors are Aaron A. Burke, Deirdre Fulton, Rick Hess, Edmund Meltzer, Alan Millard, Steven Ortiz, Donald B. Redford, Gary A. Rendsburg, and Nili Shupak. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students who, following in the footsteps of Hoffmeier, are interested in how the biblical world interacted with ancient Egypt and the ancient Near East.
Table of ContentsPreface
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List of Contributors
Personal and Academic Biography of James K. Hoffmeier
Publications of James K. Hoffmeier
Chapter 1. The Tests of a Prophet
Richard E. Averbeck
Chapter 2. Fishing for Fissures: The Literary Unity of the Kadesh Poem of Ramesses II and Its Implications for the Diachronic Study of the Hebrew Bible
Joshua Berman
Chapter 3. Food for the Forces: An Investigation of Military Subsistence Strategies in New Kingdom Border Regions
Louise Bertini and Salima Ikram
Chapter 4. Left Behind: New Kingdom Specialists at the End of Egyptian Empire and the Emergence of Israelite Scribalism
Aaron A. Burke
Chapter 5. The Ficus Judaicus and the New Testament
Thomas W. Davis
Chapter 6. Gifts of the Nile: Materials That Shaped the Early Egyptian Burial Tradition
Joanna Dębowska- Ludwin and Karolina Rosińska- Balik
Chapter 7. Computer Analytics in Chronology Testing and Its Implications for the Date of the Exodus
David A. Falk
Chapter 8. Uniting the World: Achaemenid Empire Lists and the Construction of Royal Ideology
Deirdre N. Fulton and Kaz Hayashi
Chapter 9. Geophysical Research in Pelusium: On the Benefits of Using the Resistivity Profiling Method
Tomasz Herbich
Chapter 10. The Genealogies of Genesis 5 and 11 and Comparative Studies: Evidence for a Seam
Richard S. Hess
Chapter 11. Sety I’s Military Relief at Karnak and the Eastern Gate of Egypt: A Brief Reassessment
Hesham M. Hussein
Chapter 12. Maʿ at in the Amarna Period: Historiography, Egyptology, and the Reforms of Akhenaten
Mark D. Janzen
Chapter 13. “I Have Made Every Person Like His Fellow”
Jens Bruun Kofoed
Chapter 14. The Founding of the Temple in Ancient Egypt: Ritual and Symbolism
Ash Melika
Chapter 15. Goliath’s Head Wound and the Edwin Smith Papyrus
Edmund S. Meltzer
Chapter 16. Did the Patriarchs Meet Philistines?
Alan Millard
Chapter 17. Writing Trauma: Ipuwer and the Curation of Cultural Memory
Ellen Morris
Chapter 18. Old Kingdom Exotica at Pharaoh’s Court and Beyond: Dwarfs, Pygmies, Primates, Dogs, and Leopards
Gregory Mumford
Chapter 19. Judges 10:11: A Memory of Merenptah’s Campaign in Transjordan
Steven Ortiz and S. Cameron Coyle
Chapter 20. Digging for Data: A Practical Critique of Digital Archaeology
Miller C. Prosser
Chapter 21. Debriefing Enemy Combatants in Ancient Egypt
Donald B. Redford
Chapter 22. Israelite Origins
Gary A. Rendsburg
Chapter 23. The Egyptian Background of the Joseph Story: Selected Issues Revisited
Nili Shupak
Chapter 24. Mighty Bull Appearing in Napata: Memorialization and Adaptation of the Bronze Age into the Iron Age World of the Kushite, Twenty- fifth Dynasty of Egypt
Stuart Tyson Smith
Chapter 25. Hosea 1–3 as the Key to the Literary Structure and Message of the Book
Eric J. Tully
Chapter 26. The Egyptian Fortress Commander: A Career Check Based on Selected Middle and New Kingdom Examples
Carola Vogel
Chapter 27. Mud- bricks as a Dating Tool in Egyptian Archaeology
Kei Yamamoto and Pearce Paul Creasman
Chapter 28. The God ʾ El of Ramesses II’s Stela from Sheikh Saʿ d (the “Job Stone”)
K. Lawson Younger Jr.
