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A Conference in Honor of Jacob Klein on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday.
Contents: Walther Sallaberger, ‘Updating Primeval Wisdom: The Instructions of Šuruppak in Its Early Dynastic and Old Babylonian Contexts’; Nathan Wasserman, ‘A Forgotten Hymn in Praise of Gungunum, King of Larsa: TIM 9, 41 and Its Historical Context’.
HEBREW SECTION: Uri Gabbay, ‘On Drums and Dead Gods: Music, Cult and Myth in Ancient Mesopotamia’; Gershon Galil, ‘The Kingdom of Palistin/Patin and the Kingdom of David and Solomon in Light of New Epigraphic and Archaeological Data’; Chaim Cohen ז"ל, ‘The Terms בַּלְשָׁן, מַכֹּלֶת, עָרוֹב, עֶרֶשׂ, תֵּבֵל: Five Additional “False Friends” in Modern Hebrew in Light of Akkadian’; Yoram Cohen, ‘”Enlil and Namzitara”: The Evolution of a Mesopotamian Wisdom Composition’; Nili Samet, ‘Gilgamesh and Qohelet: A New Look’.