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Providing 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.
Bibliography of Thorkild Jacobsen - T. Abusch and J. HuehnergardThorkild Jacobsen: An Appreciation - Tzvi AbuschThorkild Jacobsen’s Danish Academic Background - Bendt AlsterThe Socio-Religious Framework of the Babylonian Witchcraft Ceremony Maqlu: Some Observations on the Introductory Section of the Text, Part I - Tzvi Abuschilu awilum: we-e i-la, ‘Gods: Men’ versus ‘Man: God’. Punning and the Reversal of Patterns in the Atrahasis Epic - Bendt AlsterThe Sumerians in their Landscape - Jeremy BlackThe Forerunners of Maru and Hamtu in Old Babylonian - Miguel CivilBuddies in Babylonia: Gilgamesh, Enkidu and Mesopotamian Homosexuality - Jerrold CooperThe Free Library Inanna Prism Reconsidered - Mark J. GellerWisdom, Nature and Piety in Some Biblical Psalms - Stephen A. GellerRedefining ‘Inchoate Marriage’ in Old Babylonian Contexts - Samuel GreengusA Model Court Case Concerning Inheritance - William W. HalloThe Lady of Girsu - Wolfgang Heimpelizuzzum and itulum - John HuehnergardA New Look at the ‘Oppression of Uruk’ Episode in the Gilgamesh Epic - Jacob KleinA Rare Exorcistic Fragment - Wilfred G. LambertThe Burden of the Scribes - Jack M. SassonIn the Beginning - Ake W. SjobergArchaic City Seals and the Question of Early Babylonian Unity - Piotr SteinkellerSanctus Lugalbanda - Herman L. J. VanstiphoutDer Kodex Urnamma (CU): Versuch einer Rekonstruktion - Claus Wilcke
Reviewer 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
