Peter Machinist
Biographic Data
| ID | 1441595 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Machinist |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Machinist |
| SIGNATURE | MACHINIST P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Philology: Past, Present, and Prospects (Presidential Address)
Presidential Address
Ve-’Ed Ya‘aleh (Gen 2: (6)
"Sixty-six colleagues, friends, and former students of Edward L. Greenstein present essays honoring him upon his retirement. Throughout Greenstein's half-century career he demonstrated expertise in a host of areas astonishing in its breadth and depth, and each of the essays in these two volumes focuses on an area of particular interest to him. Volume 1 includes essays on ancient Near Eastern studies, Biblical Hebrew and Northwest Semitic language…
“An Eye for Form”: Epigraphic Essays in Honor of Frank Moore Cross
Frank Moore Cross (1921–2012)
On Self-Consciousness in Mesopotamia
Symbiosis, Symbolism, and the Power of the Past: Canaan, Ancient Israel, and Their Neighbors, from the Late Bronze Age through Roman Palaestina
Symbiosis, Symbolism, and the Power of the Past: Canaan, Ancient Israel, and Their Neighbors, from the Late Bronze Age through Roman Palaestina
Letters from Priests to the Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal
Prophecy in Cross-Cultural Perspective: A Sourcebook for Biblical Researchers . Thomas W. Overholt
Death in Mesopotamia
Rest and Violence in the Poem of Erra
THE POEM ABOUT THE GOD ERRA MUST CLEARLY BE RECKONED ONE OF THE MAJOR TEXTS of Mesopotamian religious literature, whether gauged by its content and literary artistry or by the evidence of its ancient popularity. Not less than thirty-six copies were recovered from at least five sites of the first millennium wac.-a larger number, as L. Cagni points out, than even the copies known to the Gilgameg Epic from the same period.2 Despite its importance, t…
Assyria and Its Image in the First Isaiah
voluminous that scholars, quite naturally, have concentrated on them to describe the history and character of the empire. But how did that empire appear to its contemporaries from their sources? What contributions can such perspectives make to our understanding of the ways in which the empire functioned? This study will initiate an answer to these questions by examining one principal outside source for the Neo-Assyrian empire, the Hebrew Bible. A…
The Poem of Erra
Assyria and Its Image in the First Isaiah
voluminous that scholars, quite naturally, have concentrated on them to describe the history and character of the empire. But how did that empire appear to its contemporaries from their sources? What contributions can such perspectives make to our understanding of the ways in which the empire functioned? This study will initiate an answer to these questions by examining one principal outside source for the Neo-Assyrian empire, the Hebrew Bible. A…
The Poem of Erra
Rest and Violence in the Poem of Erra
THE POEM ABOUT THE GOD ERRA MUST CLEARLY BE RECKONED ONE OF THE MAJOR TEXTS of Mesopotamian religious literature, whether gauged by its content and literary artistry or by the evidence of its ancient popularity. Not less than thirty-six copies were recovered from at least five sites of the first millennium wac.-a larger number, as L. Cagni points out, than even the copies known to the Gilgameg Epic from the same period.2 Despite its importance, t…
Assyria and Its Image in the First Isaiah
voluminous that scholars, quite naturally, have concentrated on them to describe the history and character of the empire. But how did that empire appear to its contemporaries from their sources? What contributions can such perspectives make to our understanding of the ways in which the empire functioned? This study will initiate an answer to these questions by examining one principal outside source for the Neo-Assyrian empire, the Hebrew Bible. A…
Death in Mesopotamia
Prophecy in Cross-Cultural Perspective: A Sourcebook for Biblical Researchers . Thomas W. Overholt
Letters from Priests to the Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal
Symbiosis, Symbolism, and the Power of the Past: Canaan, Ancient Israel, and Their Neighbors, from the Late Bronze Age through Roman Palaestina
Symbiosis, Symbolism, and the Power of the Past: Canaan, Ancient Israel, and Their Neighbors, from the Late Bronze Age through Roman Palaestina
On Self-Consciousness in Mesopotamia
Frank Moore Cross (1921–2012)
“An Eye for Form”: Epigraphic Essays in Honor of Frank Moore Cross
Ve-’Ed Ya‘aleh (Gen 2: (6)
"Sixty-six colleagues, friends, and former students of Edward L. Greenstein present essays honoring him upon his retirement. Throughout Greenstein's half-century career he demonstrated expertise in a host of areas astonishing in its breadth and depth, and each of the essays in these two volumes focuses on an area of particular interest to him. Volume 1 includes essays on ancient Near Eastern studies, Biblical Hebrew and Northwest Semitic language…
Philology: Past, Present, and Prospects (Presidential Address)
Presidential Address
History (10 works) · Ancient Near East History (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (2 works)