Matthew Suriano
Biographic Data
| ID | 5082796 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Suriano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Suriano |
| SIGNATURE | SURIANO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rediscovering the Royal Steward Inscription: A Photographic Study
The Royal Steward Inscription is one of the more famous artifacts in biblical archaeology, but its original context and setting is less-known due to the circumstances following Charles Clermont-Ganneau’s discovery in 1870. The acquisition and removal of the inscriptions from Silwan resulted in the fragmentation of the once prominent monolithic sepulcher of an important official. Today, the inscriptions are in the British Museum separated from the…
Breaking Bread with the Dead: Katumuwa’s Stele, Hosea 9:4, and the Early History of the Soul
The discovery at Zincirli of an inscribed stele belonging to Katumuwa, servant of Panamuwa, touches upon several longstanding issues concerning the meaning of the word nbš (Hebrew נֶפֶשׁ). Although the inscription was dedicated during the lifetime of Katumuwa, the continued provision of his "nbš that is in this stele" raises questions regarding not only the term's nuance within a postmortem context, but also the nature of feeding the dead. These …
Tel Burna after a Decade of Work: The Late Bronze and Iron Ages
Tel Burna is located in the southern Shephelah in modern-day southern Israel. Work at the site has revealed remains dating to the Late Bronze II through the Persian period with peaks of activity during the Late Bronze and Iron Age IIA–B. Occupation reached its apex at the site during the Late Bronze Age, when both the summit and the lower plateau were inhabited. An impressive cultic enclosure, with numerous items related to ritual activities, dat…
Remembering Absalom's Death in 2 Samuel 18-19: History, Memory, and Inscription
The brief notice of Absalom's pillar in 2 Sam 18:18 provides an important yet unusual case of how memory is constructed in ancient Israel and the Hebrew Bible. Commemoration of the dead typically works from the perspective of the (living) descendent and is directed towards the (deceased) ancestor. Yet in this example Absalom commemorates himself, effectively circumventing cultural ideals of patrilineal succession, rupturing the symbolic power of …
Wine Shipments to Samaria from Royal Vineyards
The Samaria Ostraca contain a subset of receipts that record wine shipments from what were evidently royal vineyards. But this particular group of ostraca has been largely overlooked in the study of the Northern Kingdom, probably resulting from the fact that not all of the ostraca were published in the editio princeps. This article presents a new edition of these ostraca, accompanied by an analysis of their particular features. The results of the…
The Historicality of the King: An Exercise in Reading Royal Inscriptions from the Ancient Levant
The problem with using royal inscriptions as historical sources is their inherent bias. The interests of the king drive the narratives of royal inscriptions. Yet this essential feature reveals their underlying concept of history. In royal inscriptions, historical thought is defined by the life and experience of the king. This article will present a hermeneutic for reading royal inscriptions that focuses on the individual king. The article will fi…
Ruin Hills at the Threshold of the Netherworld: The Tell in the Conceptual Landscape of the Ba‘al Cycle and Ancient Near Eastern Mythology
In the Ba‘al Cycle’s description of the threshold separating the realms of the dead from that of the living, the key reference point is described as “the two tells (at) the boundary of the netherworld” (CAT 1.4 viii, 4). The specific word used to describe both topographical features is tl, the tell, an object well known in the archaeology of the Near East. The objects here are significant because they are literally ruin hills; specifically, they …
The Politics of Dead Kings: Dynastic Ancestors in the Book of Kings and Ancient Israel
In the narrative of Israel and Judah found in the Book of Kings, the end of a king's rule is summed up in a series of stock statements that begin with the poetic idiom for death: »and [the king] lay with his fathers.« The summary statements all revolve around the problem of royal death and succession, encapsulated in a brief epilogue that consisted typically of a notice of burial (in the royal tombs) and the introduction of the successor. As such…
A Fresh Reading for 'Aged Wine' in the Samaria Ostraca
Though the Samaria Ostraca are of limited use as witnesses to spoken Hebrew in the Iron Age, they hold a greater value when it is recognized that they are relics of an ancient writing system. Scholars typically classify the language of the ostraca as a northern dialect of Hebrew. However, the issue becomes one of semantics when the meaning of 'dialect' is considered. The Samaria Ostraca were products of royal scribes and represent a distinct form…
The Apology of Hazael: A Literary and Historical Analysis of the Tel Dan Inscription
Wine Shipments to Samaria from Royal Vineyards
The Samaria Ostraca contain a subset of receipts that record wine shipments from what were evidently royal vineyards. But this particular group of ostraca has been largely overlooked in the study of the Northern Kingdom, probably resulting from the fact that not all of the ostraca were published in the editio princeps. This article presents a new edition of these ostraca, accompanied by an analysis of their particular features. The results of the…
Ruin Hills at the Threshold of the Netherworld: The Tell in the Conceptual Landscape of the Ba‘al Cycle and Ancient Near Eastern Mythology
In the Ba‘al Cycle’s description of the threshold separating the realms of the dead from that of the living, the key reference point is described as “the two tells (at) the boundary of the netherworld” (CAT 1.4 viii, 4). The specific word used to describe both topographical features is tl, the tell, an object well known in the archaeology of the Near East. The objects here are significant because they are literally ruin hills; specifically, they …
A Fresh Reading for 'Aged Wine' in the Samaria Ostraca
Though the Samaria Ostraca are of limited use as witnesses to spoken Hebrew in the Iron Age, they hold a greater value when it is recognized that they are relics of an ancient writing system. Scholars typically classify the language of the ostraca as a northern dialect of Hebrew. However, the issue becomes one of semantics when the meaning of 'dialect' is considered. The Samaria Ostraca were products of royal scribes and represent a distinct form…
Breaking Bread with the Dead: Katumuwa’s Stele, Hosea 9:4, and the Early History of the Soul
The discovery at Zincirli of an inscribed stele belonging to Katumuwa, servant of Panamuwa, touches upon several longstanding issues concerning the meaning of the word nbš (Hebrew נֶפֶשׁ). Although the inscription was dedicated during the lifetime of Katumuwa, the continued provision of his "nbš that is in this stele" raises questions regarding not only the term's nuance within a postmortem context, but also the nature of feeding the dead. These …
Tel Burna after a Decade of Work: The Late Bronze and Iron Ages
Tel Burna is located in the southern Shephelah in modern-day southern Israel. Work at the site has revealed remains dating to the Late Bronze II through the Persian period with peaks of activity during the Late Bronze and Iron Age IIA–B. Occupation reached its apex at the site during the Late Bronze Age, when both the summit and the lower plateau were inhabited. An impressive cultic enclosure, with numerous items related to ritual activities, dat…
A Fresh Reading for 'Aged Wine' in the Samaria Ostraca
Though the Samaria Ostraca are of limited use as witnesses to spoken Hebrew in the Iron Age, they hold a greater value when it is recognized that they are relics of an ancient writing system. Scholars typically classify the language of the ostraca as a northern dialect of Hebrew. However, the issue becomes one of semantics when the meaning of 'dialect' is considered. The Samaria Ostraca were products of royal scribes and represent a distinct form…
The Apology of Hazael: A Literary and Historical Analysis of the Tel Dan Inscription
The Politics of Dead Kings: Dynastic Ancestors in the Book of Kings and Ancient Israel
In the narrative of Israel and Judah found in the Book of Kings, the end of a king's rule is summed up in a series of stock statements that begin with the poetic idiom for death: »and [the king] lay with his fathers.« The summary statements all revolve around the problem of royal death and succession, encapsulated in a brief epilogue that consisted typically of a notice of burial (in the royal tombs) and the introduction of the successor. As such…
Ruin Hills at the Threshold of the Netherworld: The Tell in the Conceptual Landscape of the Ba‘al Cycle and Ancient Near Eastern Mythology
In the Ba‘al Cycle’s description of the threshold separating the realms of the dead from that of the living, the key reference point is described as “the two tells (at) the boundary of the netherworld” (CAT 1.4 viii, 4). The specific word used to describe both topographical features is tl, the tell, an object well known in the archaeology of the Near East. The objects here are significant because they are literally ruin hills; specifically, they …
The Historicality of the King: An Exercise in Reading Royal Inscriptions from the Ancient Levant
The problem with using royal inscriptions as historical sources is their inherent bias. The interests of the king drive the narratives of royal inscriptions. Yet this essential feature reveals their underlying concept of history. In royal inscriptions, historical thought is defined by the life and experience of the king. This article will present a hermeneutic for reading royal inscriptions that focuses on the individual king. The article will fi…
Wine Shipments to Samaria from Royal Vineyards
The Samaria Ostraca contain a subset of receipts that record wine shipments from what were evidently royal vineyards. But this particular group of ostraca has been largely overlooked in the study of the Northern Kingdom, probably resulting from the fact that not all of the ostraca were published in the editio princeps. This article presents a new edition of these ostraca, accompanied by an analysis of their particular features. The results of the…
Remembering Absalom's Death in 2 Samuel 18-19: History, Memory, and Inscription
The brief notice of Absalom's pillar in 2 Sam 18:18 provides an important yet unusual case of how memory is constructed in ancient Israel and the Hebrew Bible. Commemoration of the dead typically works from the perspective of the (living) descendent and is directed towards the (deceased) ancestor. Yet in this example Absalom commemorates himself, effectively circumventing cultural ideals of patrilineal succession, rupturing the symbolic power of …
Tel Burna after a Decade of Work: The Late Bronze and Iron Ages
Tel Burna is located in the southern Shephelah in modern-day southern Israel. Work at the site has revealed remains dating to the Late Bronze II through the Persian period with peaks of activity during the Late Bronze and Iron Age IIA–B. Occupation reached its apex at the site during the Late Bronze Age, when both the summit and the lower plateau were inhabited. An impressive cultic enclosure, with numerous items related to ritual activities, dat…
Breaking Bread with the Dead: Katumuwa’s Stele, Hosea 9:4, and the Early History of the Soul
The discovery at Zincirli of an inscribed stele belonging to Katumuwa, servant of Panamuwa, touches upon several longstanding issues concerning the meaning of the word nbš (Hebrew נֶפֶשׁ). Although the inscription was dedicated during the lifetime of Katumuwa, the continued provision of his "nbš that is in this stele" raises questions regarding not only the term's nuance within a postmortem context, but also the nature of feeding the dead. These …
Rediscovering the Royal Steward Inscription: A Photographic Study
The Royal Steward Inscription is one of the more famous artifacts in biblical archaeology, but its original context and setting is less-known due to the circumstances following Charles Clermont-Ganneau’s discovery in 1870. The acquisition and removal of the inscriptions from Silwan resulted in the fragmentation of the once prominent monolithic sepulcher of an important official. Today, the inscriptions are in the British Museum separated from the…
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