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Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- BIBLICAL STUDIES -- ΈD in The Story of Creation -- The Rivers of Paradise -- YDWN, Gen 6:3 -- In Search of Nimrod -- Word Plays on the Creation Epic's Version of the Founding of Babylon -- The Wife-Sister Motif in the Patriarchal Narratives -- "Coming" and "Going" at the "City" Gate -- "I Know Not the Day of My Death" -- The Verb SHR in Genesis and Early Hebrew Movements -- An Angelic "Curse": Exodus 14:20 -- Background and Function of the Biblical Nasi' -- Leviticus and the Critics -- The Shibboleth Incident (Judges 12:6) -- Of Shoes and Shekels (I Samuel 12:3; 13:21) (1940) -- "People" and "Nation" of Israel -- Census and Ritual Expiation in Mari and Israel -- The Biblical Idea of History in its Common Near Eastern Setting (1957) -- ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN HISTORY AND CULTURE -- The Sumerian Problem Reviewed -- Some Factors in the Collapse of Akkad -- The Hurrian Participation in the Civilization of Mesopotamia, Syria and Palestine -- The Idea of History in Ancient Mesopotamia (1955) -- Authority and Law in Mesopotamia (1954 ) -- The Name Phoinikes (1936) -- The muskênum (1958) -- The Case of the Obliging Servant -- LINGUISTIC STUDIES -- Secondary Developments in Semitic Phonology: An Application of the Principle of Sonority -- Studies in Semitic Formatives -- The Pitfalls of Polarity -- A Note on the Derivation of summa -- The "Elative" in West-Semitic and Akkadian -- The Terminative-Adverbial in Canaanite-Ugaritic and Akkadian* -- The Durative Hithpa'el: A tan Form -- PERSPECTIVES -- Some Sources of Intellectual and Social Progress in the Ancient Near East1 -- Early Law and Civilization -- Religion and Government in the Ancient Near East -- Oriental Studies and Society -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- E. A. Speiser: An Appreciation*