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Festschrifts are undoubtedly a much more common publishing genre than they deserve to be. In the case of I. M. Diakonoff, one can have only praise for those who organized this important collection of studies. Diakonoff is a scholar who is equally at home discussing the intricacies of the third-millennium cuneiform writing system, the Nisa Aramaic ostraca, or problems of Iranian linguistics; far from being only a philologist, Diakonoff has distinguished himself for wide-ranging studies and syntheses of ancient society. We have here a major collection of essays by a truly international range of scholars honoring one of the great scholars of the ancient Near East in our time. There are contributions from 41 scholars, ranging alphabetically from R. McC. Adams (Chicago) to Y. B. Yusifov (Baku). Space-as well as the limits of competency of the reviewer -precludes mentioning or even listing the many articles. J. Bott6ro, in discussing a crux in the Old Babylonian version of the creation of mankind in the Atrahasis Epic, presents a possible solution (too complicated to summarize here), which he modestly calls "une opinion de plus." M. A. Dandamayev, writing on the Neo-Babylonian elders, gi

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Author

Robert D. Biggs

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

1985

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)