Language, literature, and history : philological and historical studies presented to Erica Reiner /
edited by Francesca Rochberg-Halton.
- New Haven, Connecticut : American Oriental Society, (c)1987.
- xii, 439 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
English, French, and German.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction Foreword Editor's preface Babylonian prophecies, astrology, and a new source for "prophecy text B" / Robert D. Biggs -- Pazuzu Twenty minas of copper Feeding Dumuzi's sheep : the lexicon as a source of literary inspiration Zur ritualtafel der sog. "love lyrics" / Dietz Otto Edzard -- Literary structure in the laws of Eshnunna Tmarisken- Fibeln-Skolopender Une tablette de la couche I b de kanis Compound divine names in the Ur III period Paradigm pressure, verbal pathology, and lexical replacement : a note on the development of weak roots in Amharic Hittite liver models Fons Empfehlungen an den konig Na4 Kisib lugal sa sipreti Paul Garelli -- Janet Johnson -- Francesca Rochberg-Halton -- Rykle Borger -- J.A. Brinkman -- Miguel Civil -- B.L. Eichler -- Walter Farber -- Paul Garelli and Denyse Homes-Fredericq -- I.J. Gelb -- Gene Gragg -- Hans G. Guterbock -- Eric P. Hamp -- Hermann Hunger -- Burkhart Kienast -- The role of ethnic invasion and the chiefdom regime in dimorphic interaction : the post Kassite period (circa 1150-750 B.C.) / Michael B. Rowton -- A bead for Sennacherib Two old Babylonian literary texts Belsunu the satrap Ableitungen von zahlwortern in semitischen A forgotten lovesong Bibliography of the published works of Erica Reiner (through 31 December 1983) / Peter T. Daniels -- Index. Edmond Sollberger -- Marten Stol -- Matthew W. Stolper -- Wolfram von Soden -- Joan Goodnick Westenholz -- The symbolism of the flies in the Mesopotamian flood myth an some further implications Ein nerirrter ninive- text A further attempt at the Babylonian "man with his god" / W.G. Lambert -- The Babylonian lukewarm mind : reflections on science, divination and literacy A legal text from the reign of Tiglath-Pileser III An introduction to K.O. Muller's prolegomena Zu einer wissenschaftlichen mythologie Some considerations of form and interpretation in Atra-hasis The forlorn scholar On the origins of "Aquarius" / Edith Porada -- Venus omens in India and Babylon Zur funften tafel des gilgameschepos The assumed 29th Ahu tablet of Enuma anu enlil Homicide in the neo-Assyrian period Anne Draffkorn Kilmer -- F.R. Kraus -- Mogens Trolle Larsen -- Erle Leichty -- Arnaldo Momigliano -- William L. Moran -- Simo Parpola -- David Pingree -- Johannes Renger -- Francesca Rochberg-Halton -- Martha T. Roth --