This Festschrift assembles 32 contributions devoted to K. Lawson Younger, Jr. by his colleagues and students from North America, Israel and Europe. In accordance with significant topics of his own scholarly oeuvre the articles focus on Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern studies. Among many other topics the relations of “Deuteronomy 13 and the Succession Treaty of Esarhaddon” are explored as well as “Rituals in the Gideon Narrative (Judges 6–8)”, “Deities in the Ammonite Personal Names” and “the textual evidence for “The ‘Priests’ of Ugarit”. Archaeological contributions focus on—to list just a few—“The Carmel in the Bronze and Iron Ages”, “Deer Antlers in Iron Age I Cultic Contexts at Tel Abel Beth Maacah” and the “Archaeological Evidence of Priests and Priesthood in Iron Age Israel and Judah”. Linguistic and cultural studies evaluate recent studies of Amorite and examine “East as Symbolic Space” and raise the question of “Aramaean Identity” in Iron Age Syria.

K. Lawson Younger, Jr.

Publications of K. Lawson Younger, Jr.

Bill T. Arnold and Brian T. Shockey: Deuteronomy 13 and the Succession Treaty of Esarhaddon: A Fresh Investigation

Richard E. Averbeck: The Meaning and Importance of “subdue” (kābaš) in Genesis 1:28

Barry J. Beitzel: An Inquiry into the Rendering of Hebrew sûf and yam sûf in the Early History of Translation

Koert van Bekkum: Moses Wilhelm Shapira’s “Deuteronomy” between Epigraphy and Literary Criticism

Daniel I. Block: Giving Nebuchadrezzar and Ezekiel Their Due: Rethinking the Exiled Prophet’s Final Word in Ezekiel 29:17–21

Scott Booth, Ariel Shatil, Nava Panitz-Cohen, Naama Yahalom-Mack, Carroll Kobs and Robert A. Mullins: The Buck Stops Here: Deer Antlers in Iron Age I Cultic Contexts at Tel Abel Beth Maacah and Their Implications

Caleb T. Chow: “Attribution Displacement” and its Implications for Biblical Historiography: A Methodological Discussion

Daniel E. Fleming: Why Did Emar’s Diviner Hold Documents for the Sale of City-Owned Land?

Walter E. Foster: Mari’s ARM 1 6: A New Translation and Commentary

Seymour Gitin: Ekron of the Philistines: A Response to Issues Raised in the Literature (3)

Holger Gzella: On the Origin and Meaning of ḥānīḵ in Genesis 14:14

Oliver A. Hersey: Genesis 1:6–8 and Ancient Near Eastern Celestial Perspectives

Richard S. Hess: Deities in the Ammonite Personal Names

John W. Hilber: The Contextual Method through the Lens of Relevance Theory

James K. Hoffmeier and Mark Janzen: Towards a Diplomatic, Contextual Reading of the Encounter Between Jacob and Esau in Genesis 33

J. Caleb Howard: Some of What’s New in the Study of Amorite

Neal A. Huddleston: Deposit and Read! A Discursive Explanation of Peripheral Akkadian Treaty Traditions and their Implications for Deuteronomy

Sara Kipfer and Wolfgang Zwickel: The Carmel in the Bronze and Iron Ages: A Multiperspective Approach

Michelle Knight: Geometry and Psalmody: Characterization and the Role of Deborah’s Song (Judges 5)

Jens Bruun Kofoed: East as Symbolic Space

Jacob Lauinger: The Supposed Recycling of a Silver Statue of a God from Middle Bronze Age / Old Babylonian Alalah (AlT 366 [40.05])

André Lemaire: Sabaic Inscription B-L Nashq? Revisited Within its Ancient Near Eastern Context

Theodore J. Lewis: A Magical Aramaic Curse in Jeremiah 10:11: A Performative Sociolinguistic Solution

Aren M. Maeir: “The priests, the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel” (Deut 18:1): Is there Archaeological Evidence of Priests and Priesthood in Iron Age Israel and Judah?

Alan Millard: Celebrating Victory in Poetry and Prose

Dennis Pardee: The “Priests” of Ugarit: The Textual Evidence

Jillian L. Ross: Rituals in the Gideon Narrative (Judges 6–8)

Hélène Sader: On Aramaean Identity or What is Aramaean in the Culture of Iron Age Syria?

Jack M. Sasson: Sightless in Gaza: On the Fate of Samson

JoAnn Scurlock: Northern Kingdom Voices in the Hebrew Bible? Jeroboam ben Nebat and Jehu ben Nimshi in the Tale of Elijah and the Prophets of Baʿal

Karel van der Toorn: Northern Prophets and Nazirites

David S. Vanderhooft and Luiz Gustavo Assis: The Successful Divinatory Procedure of Abraham’s Servant for Singling out Rebekah (Genesis 24:21)

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