“Now It Happened in Those Days”

VOLUME 1



Preface

Abbreviations



Colleagues' Appreciation of Mordechai Cogan

Shmuel Aḥituv, Israel Ephʿal, and Jeffrey Tigay



"Make for yourself a mentor and acquire for yourself a friend" (Avot 1:6): Students' Appreciation for Professor Mordechai Cogan

Tova Forti and Amitai Baruchi-Unna



The Biblical Period in Jewish History as a Discipline: Personal Reflections

Mordechai Cogan



Bibliography of the Publications of Mordechai Cogan



Part 1: Biblical Studies



Biblical Historiosophy: A Response to Crisis in Leadership and Rule

Bezalel Porten



"To Place His Name There": Deuteronomy's Concept of God Placing His Name in the Temple

Jeffrey H. Tigay



Joshua and Moses in the Book of Joshua

Gershon Galil



Snippets from a Lost Joshua Cycle: The Prehistory of an Israelite Legendary Hero

Zev Farber



Text-Criticism with Awareness of the Contents of the Text: The Case of 1 Samuel 2:2

Alexander Rofé



At the Intersection of Intellect and Insolence: The Historiographic Significance of Solomon's and Jehoshaphat's "Tarshish Ships" in the Light of a Wisdom Motif

Tova Forti and David A. Glatt-Gilad



Solomon's Temple Building and Its Divine Approval in Ancient Israelite Historiography

Isaac Kalimi



Formulaic Creativity: The Structure of the Synchronic History of Israel and Judah (1 Kings 12–2 Kings 17)

Zipora Talshir ז״ל



An Update of the Hezekiah-Sennacherib Narrative during the Babylonian Siege? Some Further Thoughts

Danʾel Kahn



Depictions of כשד׳ם 'Chaldeans' in Judean Prophecy and Historiography

David S. Vanderhooft



"And I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam...": The Message and the Historical Context of Micah 6:1–5

Yair Hoffman



Torah Historiography in Psalms 135 and 136

Adele Berlin



Prophets and Prophecy in Ezra–Nehemiah

Sara Japhet



"And You Kept Your Word for You Are Righteous" (Nehemiah 9:8) in the Penitential Prayers Genre

Bustenay Oded



Part 2: Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies



Dethronement in Ancient Western Asia: Introductory Observations

Israel Ephʿal and Izabela Ephʿal-Jaruzelska



The Image of Pharaoh: Royal Ideology and Historical Reality in the Light of Egyptian Wisdom Literature

Nili Shupak



Temple Hymns in Early Sumerian Literature:A Literary-Historical Overview

Jacob Klein



A Cylinder Inscription of Aššur-ketta-lēšir II

Ran Zadok



Reporting the Content of Divine Positive Response (annu kēnu) in Assyrian Royal Inscriptions

Amitai Baruchi-Unna



Adad-nērārī II and the Aramean Temanites: The Beginnings of Neo-Assyrian Recovery

K. Lawson Younger Jr.



VOLUME 2



Shalmaneser V and His Era, Revisited

Keiko Yamada and Shigeo Yamada



Esarhaddon's Babylon E Once Again

Jamie Novotny



A Study of Assyrian Cultural Policy as Expressed in Esarhaddon's Succession Oath Documents

Kazuko  Watanabe



A Letter of Nebuchadnezzar I to the Babylonians: Literary and Historical Considerations

Yigal Bloch



The Formation of the Prayers in the Nabonidus Inscriptions Nbn 4 and Nbn 5: Between Lower and Higher Criticism

Noga Ayali-Darshan



Part 3: Comparative Studies



Heads or Tails? The Transmutations and Peregrinations of a Sapiential Theme

Yoram Cohen



Rituals on the Battlefield and Historiographical Accounts: Hittite and Biblical Texts

Ada Taggar-Cohen



אַ ב רֵ ך (Gen 41:43), מׇ לוֹן (Gen 41:27 + 7×), and the Law in Exodus 22:1–2: On the Use of Akkadian as Key Evidence in Biblical Hebrew Philology

Chaim (Harold R.) Cohen



David and Goliath: Toward a Dialogue between Archaeology and Biblical Studies

Shuichi Hasegawa



Isaiah 18–20: A Chronological Sequence of Oracles in Light of Akkadian and Egyptian Sources

Shalom M. Paul



Nebuchadnezzar's Madness (Daniel 4:30): Reminiscence of a Historical Event or a Legend?

T. M. Oshima



Indexes

Index of Authors

Index of Scripture

Index of Other Ancient Sources