World of the Aramaeans: Studies in History and Archaeology in Honour of Paul-Eugène Dion, Volume 2 (JSOT Supplement Series)

337 Pages·2001·16.35 MB·French

by  P.M. Michèle Daviau

JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
SUPPLEMENT SERIES
325
Editors
David J.A. Clines
Philip R. Davies
Executive Editor
Andrew Mein
Editorial Board
Richard J. Coggins, Alan Cooper, J. Cheryl Exum, John Goldingay,
Robert P. Gordon, Norman K. Gottwald, John Jarick,
Andrew D.H. Mayes, Carol Meyers, Patrick D. Miller
Sheffield Academic Press
Paul-Eugene Dion
The World of the
Aramaeans II
Studies in History and Archaeology
in Honour of Paul-Eugene Dion
Edited by
P.M. Michele Daviau, John W. Wevers
and Michael Weigl
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
Supplement Series 325
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CONTENTS
Preface 7
Abbreviations 9
List of Contributors 13
Paul-Eugene Dion: An Appreciation 15
BRIAN PECKHAM
Phoenicians and Aramaeans: The Literary and Epigraphic
Evidence 19
WOLFGANG ROLLIG
Aramaica Haburensia V: Limu-Datierungen in aramaischen
Urkunden des 7. Jh. v. Chr. 45
CARL S. EHRLICH
The bytdwd-Inscription and Israelite Historiography:
Taking Stock after Half a Decade of Research 57
GUY COUTURIER
Quelques observations sur le bytdwd de la stele
arameenne de Tel Dan 72
STEFANIA MAZZONI
Tell Afis and the Lu'ash in the Aramaean Period 99
TIMOTHY P. HARRISON
Tell Ta'yinat and the Kingdom of Unqi 115
MICHAEL HELTZER
A New Weight from Hamath and Trade Relations with
the South in the Ninth-Eighth Centuries BCE 133
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JOHN S. HOLLADAY, JR
Toward a New Paradigmatic Understanding of Long-
Distance Trade in the Ancient Near East: From
the Middle Bronze II to Early Iron II—A Sketch 13 6
P.M. MICHELE DAVIAU
Family Religion: Evidence for the Paraphernalia
of the Domestic Cult 199
PAOLO XELLA
Les plus anciens temoignages sur le dieu Eshmoun:
Une mise au point 230
EMILE PUECH
Un nouvel autel a encens de Palmyre 243
PIOTR BIENKOWSKI
Iron Age Settlement in Edom: A Revised Framework 257
BEZALEL PORTEN AND JOHN GEE
Aramaic Funerary Practices in Egypt 270
Bibliography of Paul-Eugene Dion 309
Index of Modern Authors 317
Index of Subjects 323
Index of Personal and Tribal Names 325
Index of Geographical Names 327
PREFACE
The languages and literature of the Bible have been of life-long interest
to Paul-Eugene Dion, in his teaching, research and public lectures. In
the course of his academic life, Paul took a broad view of the biblical
world, when he added the dialects, epigraphy and history of the Ara-
maeans of Syria to his research and teaching. In his research, he
investigated the political activities, social structures, religious beliefs
and culture of the Aramaeans and the ways in which these people
interacted with those of Mesopotamia in the east, Phoenicia in the west,
Israel, Judah and the states of Transjordan to the south. Their language
had an even greater influence than individual cultural characteristics,
extending in the Persian period as far south as Upper Egypt and con-
tinuing in later Syriac literature.
The papers presented here include biblical, historical and cultural
studies, most of which reveal the richness of the world of the Ara-
maeans and examples of the extent of Aramaean cultural influence.
These studies are presented in admiration and affection for the work of
Paul-Eugene Dion, and as a contribution to the study of the Aramaeans
of Syria and their neighbours.
The response to our call for contributors was overwhelming. So
many papers of quality, sometimes very detailed, were submitted, that
it proved necessary to divide the Festschrift into three volumes, each
containing several essays related to the Aramaean world, but reflecting
a different sphere of Paul Dion's interests and scholarship: biblical
studies; historical and archaeological research; language and literature.
Most of those who contributed to this second volume of the Fest-
schrift were not colleagues immediately associated with Professor
Dion's teaching career, but specialists of the history, archaeology and
indeed epigraphy of the Levant during the Iron Age: Phoenicia,
Philistia, Transjordan and Syria—the stage on which Israelites and
Aramaeans so long contended together, but where they could also fight
side by side to ward off conquest by the Mesopotamian powers. Some
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of the scholars who wrote these chapters, and especially Professors
Couturier and Peckham, were almost life-long friends and collabor-
ators, while many others began lively exchanges with Professor Dion
during the preparation of his comprehensive history of the Aramaeans
during the Iron Age (1997).
This work is the gift of all those who have contributed their scholar-
ship, friendship and respect for Paul Dion, including his colleagues and
former students in the Near Eastern Studies Department (now the
Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations) at the University
of Toronto, as well as colleagues in North America, Europe and the
Near East with whom he has maintained an active exchange of students
and offprints. Invaluable was the contribution of John W. Wevers, who
not only wrote an important article, but also reviewed all manuscripts
with his unfailing standards for precision and excellence. Other con-
tributors also deserve a word of thanks: original artwork on the cover
and before the index of each volume is the contribution of Isabelle
Crepeau (Montreal); Wilfrid Laurier University student assistants, Erin
Mitchell (funded by a WLU Book Preparation Grant) and Daniel
Lewis, prepared bibliographies in a standard format, and inserted
Hebrew and Greek characters where needed, and Kathryn Bahun pre-
pared inked drawings for the article by Daviau. Funding for this work
was provided by Wilfrid Laurier University through a book preparation
grant and by private gifts. A special thanks is due to resources of the
Archive of the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, the University of
Toronto online catalogue and the Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog; their
extraordinary collections made available complete publication infor-
mation for the preparation of bibliographies and footnotes. Finally,
M. Daviau is especially grateful to all the contributors and to her
students for their patience during the busy months needed to complete
this work.
ABBREVIATIONS
AAAS Annales Archeologiques Arabes Syriennes
AAR American Academy of Religion
AASOR Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research
ABD David Noel Freedman (ed.), The Anchor Bible Dictionary
(New York: Doubleday, 1992)
ADAJ Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan
AJA American Journal of Archaeology
AJBA Australian Journal of Biblical Archaeology
ANET James B. Pritchard (ed.), Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating
to the Old Testament (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
3rd edn, 1969)
AnSt Anatolian Studies
AOAT Alter Orient und Altes Testament
AoF Altorientalische Forschungen
ARES Archivi Reali di Ebla Studi
ARET Archivi Reali di Ebla Testi
AuOr Aula orientalis
AUSS Andrews University Seminary Studies
BA Biblical Archaeologist
BAR Biblical Archaeology Review
BAR British Archaeological Reports
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
Bib Biblica
BIN A. Clay, Letters and Transactions from Cappadocia
(Babylonian Inscriptions in the Collection of James B. Nies, 4;
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1927)
BiOr Bibliotheca Orientalis
BN Biblische Notizen
CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly
CCT S. Smith, Cuneiform Texts from Cappadocian Tablets in the
British Museum (London: British Museum, 1956)
CdE Chronique d'Egypte
CIS Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum
CIS II Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum. II. Inscriptiones
aramaicas continens