"This book investigates the issue of the singularity versus the multiplicity of ancient Near Eastern deities who are known by a common first name but differentiated by their last names, or geographic epithets. It focuses primarily on the Ishtar divine names in Mesopotamia, Baal …
Models in applied linguistics can operate at four major levels - language processing, language learning, linguistic analysis and language testing. Each of these levels is the focus of at least one paper in this collection.
This dissertation provides a new interpretation of the Bronze Age Ugaritic myth of Baal. The poem is read within its political context of the thirteenth and twelfth centuries B.C. Building off of previous scholarship that has recognized a political focus in the poem, I situate t…
This dissertation examines ancient conceptions of Near Eastern deities whose names consistently included geographic epithets, which functioned like last names. In Neo-Assyrian (ca. 900-630 B.C.E.) texts, Ištar-of-Nineveh and Ištar-of-Arbela are often included as divine witnesses…