The study of the ancient Near East in the twenty-first century : the William Foxwell Albright Centennial Conference / edited by Jerrold S. Cooper and Glenn M. Schwartz. [print]

From Ebla to Deir Alla: New Paradigms for the Early History of Semitic Languages and Scripts

Ideology, Propaganda, and National Consciousness in the Ancient Near East

Papers presented at a conference held at Johns Hopkins University in May, 1991.

Philology and the Study of Ancient Literature in the Postmodern Academy

The Contextualization of Near Eastern Art

The Integration of Archaeological and Textual Data

The Technological Revolution in Archaeology and Its Ramifications

Includes bibliographies and index.

2074: Ancient Propaganda and Historical Criticism (Mario Liverani) -- Sybil, or the Two Nations? Archaism, Kinship, Alienation, and the Elite Redefinition of Traditional Culture in Judah in the 9th-7th Centuries B.C.E. (Baruch Halpern) -- Contextualizing Egyptian Representations of Society and Ethnicity (John Baines).

Constructing Context: The Gebel el-Arak Knife--Greater Mesopotamian and Egyptian Interaction in the Late Fourth Millennium B.C.E. (Holly Pittman) -- Art, Empire, and the End of the Late Bronze Age (Betsy M. Bryan).

Sailing to Babylon, Reading the Dark Side of the Moon (Piotr Michalowski) -- A Search for a New Biblical Hermeneutics: Preliminary Observations (Adele Berlin) -- Defining Egyptian Literature: Ancient Texts and Modern Literary Theory (Antonio Loprieno).

The Linguistic Classification of Eblaite: Methods, Problems, and Results (Manfred Kreberink) -- New Directions in the Study of Semitic Languages (John Huehnergard) -- Semitics: Directions and Re-Directions (Stephen A. Kaufman).

Underwater Archaeology in the Near East: Past, Present, and Future (George F. Bass) -- Near Eastern Archaeometallurgy: Modern Research and Future Directions (Vincent C. Pigott).

William Foxwell Albright: The Man and His Work (Peter Machinist) -- Epilogue (Robert McC. Adams).

Written Documents as Excavated Artifacts and the Holistic Interpretation of the Mesopotamian Archaeological Record (Richard L. Zettler) -- Toward a New Periodization and Nomenclature of the Archaeology of the Southern Levant (Israel Finkelstein).

William Foxwell Albright was the dominant personality in the ancient Near Eastern studies in America in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. These sixteen essays, from a select group of scholars, were presented at the 1991 Johns Hopkins University conference held to commemorate Albright's birth. The presenters and the topics were carefully chosen and came together, not merely to celebrate Albright and his work, but rather, in the spirit of the man himself, to seek to chart the course of ancient Near Eastern studies in the century to come.

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