Veenhof anniversary volume : studies presented to Klaas R. Veenhof on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday / editor-in-charge W. H. van Soldt,... [et al].

Bibliographical references included in " Bibliography of publications by Klaas R. Veenhof (p. [553]-560) "

Includes bibliographical references.

The naditum of the stele / S. Bayram -- Houses as institutional property of the Neo-Babylonian temples / A. C. V. M. Bongenaar -- l'Archivage des tablettes dans le palais de Mari : nouvelles donnees / D. Charpin -- Un meurtre a Suse / L. De Meyer -- "When we met in Hattus" : Trade according to Old Assyrian texts from Alishar and Bogazkoy / J. G. Dercksen -- Babylonische Sklaven auf der Schreiberschule : Anspielungen auf tupsarrutu-Lehrvenrtrage in OIP 114,83 und YOS 19,110 / M. Dietrich -- Mahar patrim sa Assur : A new interpretation / V. Donbaz -- On villages / G. van Driel -- Une alliance matrimoniale entre un marchand assyrien de Kanesh et un marchand Mariote / J. M. Durand -- Silbenschliessendes im Altassyrischen? / D. O. Edzard -- "... but she refuses to take the silver!" The strange case of the assat rabi sisi' e / W. Farber -- Notes sur les eponymes de l'empire assyrien / P. Garelli -- The river ordeal in ancient Anatolia / C. Gunbatti -- Carcasses for the capital / W. W. Hallo -- Altassyrisch DA-TA-an "sie gibt" / K. Hecker -- "Ich schrieb mire doch" / H. Hirsch -- Description or categorical rule? Some remarks on Ex. 18:16 / J. Hoftijzer -- A case study: Lehun between "desert and sown" in Moab (central Jordan) / B. Homes-Fredericq -- Sweeping the court and locking the gate : The palace of Sippir-serim / F. van Koppen -- The interchange of e and a in Old Babylonian / N. J. C. Kouwenberg -- The Sumerian lexeme u r u m, a lexico-etymological approach / Th. J. H. Krispijn -- Beobachtungen zum Archiv des Iddi(n)-Istar / G. Kryszat -- Affect and emotion / M. T. Larsen -- Genesis 1,2 als Fragment eines amurritisch-kanaanaischen Schopfungsmythos / O. Loretz -- Late third millennium identifying marks / R. de Maaijer -- Long-distance trade : Some remarks on the ancient Syrian economy / D. J. W. Meijer -- Le lapis-lazuli des assyriens au debut du IIe millenaire av. J. C. / C. Michel -- Notes on the bronze vehicle from the Sarikaya palace at Acemhöyük / N. Özgüç -- Observations on the architectural peculiarities of the archive of an Assyrian trader of Karum Kanesh / T. Özgüç -- Assyrian uniforms / J. N. Postgate -- Who is afraid of Old Assyrian? / E. Reiner -- Zu einer ungewohnlichen Hauskaufurkunde aus Kültepe / W. H. Ph. Romer -- Rhetoric in the S. C. testament of Hattusilis I / J. de Roos -- The because clause : punishment rationalization in Mesopotamian laws / M. T. Roth -- Ancestors divine? / J. M. Sasson -- Nahis-salmu : an Assyrian scribe working in the 'Southern Palace' at Ugarit / W. H. van Soldt -- The theatre of Babylon in cuneiform / R. J. van der Spek -- A rescript of an Old Babylonian letter / M. Stol -- The testament of Mannu-ka-attar / M. W. Stolper -- Puzur-Anna--ein Schmied des Karum Kanis / Th. Sturm -- Echoes of Gilgamesh in the book of Qohelet? A reassessment of the intellectual sources of Qohelet / K. van der Toorn -- Shamshum aj-Jabbar: on the persistence of Mesopotamian literary motifs / H. L. J. Vanstiphout -- Ein kleines Archiv mit Schulerubungen, mit Anhang: Mineralzusammensetzung altbabylonischer insenformiger Tafeln (U. A. Glasmacher, G. A. Wagner und R. Altherr) / H. Waetzoldt -- see H. Waetzoldt / G. A. Wagner -- Hard times : CT 45 37 / R. Westbrook -- Bibliography of publications by Klaas R. Veenhof / J. G. Dercksen and Th. J. H. Krispijn.

During his career Klaas Veenhof has worked on numerous aspects of Mesopotamian society. This volume containing forty-four articles contributed by his colleagues pays tribute to his broadness. The subjects of the articles cover a period of more than two millennia, and deal with Ancient Mesopotamia, Anatolia and Israel.

Contributions in English, German and French.