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Book SynopsisProviding a scholar’s salute to a teacher, colleague, and friend, the contributors of this new volume honor the memory of Thorkild Jacobsen with essays on Mesopotamian history, culture, literature, and religion. Contributors include: Tzvi Abusch, John Huehnergard, Bendt Alster, Jeremy Black, Miguel Civil, Jerrold S. Cooper, M. J. Geller, Stephen A. Geller, Samuel Greengus, William W. Hallo, Wolfgang Heimpel, Jacob Klein, W. G. Lambert, Jack M. Sasson, Ake W. Sjoberg, Piotr Steinkeller, H. L. J. Vanstiphout, and Claus Wilcke.
Trade ReviewReviewer Tammi Schneider Claremont University This volume was orginally a tribute to Jacobsen by JAOS. The result is volume more foused than a fetschrift.This book has a bibliography and beautiful preface and article on his danish background. Religious studies Review Jan 2003
Table of ContentsBibliography of Thorkild Jacobsen - T. Abusch and J. Huehnergard
Thorkild Jacobsen: An Appreciation - Tzvi Abusch
Thorkild Jacobsen’s Danish Academic Background - Bendt Alster
The Socio-Religious Framework of the Babylonian Witchcraft Ceremony Maqlu: Some Observations on the Introductory Section of the Text, Part I - Tzvi Abusch
ilu awilum: we-e i-la, ‘Gods: Men’ versus ‘Man: God’. Punning and the Reversal of Patterns in the Atrahasis Epic - Bendt Alster
The Sumerians in their Landscape - Jeremy Black
The Forerunners of Maru and Hamtu in Old Babylonian - Miguel Civil
Buddies in Babylonia: Gilgamesh, Enkidu and Mesopotamian Homosexuality - Jerrold Cooper
The Free Library Inanna Prism Reconsidered - Mark J. Geller
Wisdom, Nature and Piety in Some Biblical Psalms - Stephen A. Geller
Redefining ‘Inchoate Marriage’ in Old Babylonian Contexts - Samuel Greengus
A Model Court Case Concerning Inheritance - William W. Hallo
The Lady of Girsu - Wolfgang Heimpel
izuzzum and itulum - John Huehnergard
A New Look at the ‘Oppression of Uruk’ Episode in the Gilgamesh Epic - Jacob Klein
A Rare Exorcistic Fragment - Wilfred G. Lambert
The Burden of the Scribes - Jack M. Sasson
In the Beginning - Ake W. Sjoberg
Archaic City Seals and the Question of Early Babylonian Unity - Piotr Steinkeller
Sanctus Lugalbanda - Herman L. J. Vanstiphout
Der Kodex Urnamma (CU): Versuch einer Rekonstruktion - Claus Wilcke
