Babel&Bibel3.FM Page i Thursday, May 31, 2007 11:23 AM Babel und Bibel 3 Volume XIV i Российский государственный гуманитарный университет Выпуск XIV Вавилон и Библия 3 Древнеближневосточные, библейские и семитологические исследования Babel&Bibel3.FM Page iii Thursday, May 31, 2007 11:23 AM Papers of the Institute of Oriental and Classical Studies Volume XIV Babel und Bibel 3 Annual of Ancient Near Eastern, Old Testament, and Semitic Studies Edited by L. Kogan, N. Koslova, S. Loesov, and S. Tishchenko Published for the Russian State University for the Humanities by EISENBRAUNS Winona Lake, Indiana 2006 Babel&Bibel3.FM Page iv Thursday, May 31, 2007 11:23 AM ISBN 978-1-57506-134-4 ISSN 1938-5668 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.†‰ Contents Contents 1 I. Articles Ancient Near Eastern Studies J. Keetman. Gab es ein h im Sumerischen? 9 M. Khachikyan. Towards the Aspect System in Sumerian 31 N. Koslova. Barley Rations in Umma during the Third Dynasty of Ur 41 M. Krebernik. Philologische Aspekte elamisch- mesopotamischer Beziehungen im Überblick 59 S. Loesov. Marginalia on the Akkadian Ventive 101 S. Loesov. Akkadian Sentences about the Present Time (II/1) 133 W. Sommerfeld. Eine Sammeltafel der Akkade-Zeit aus der St. Petersburger Eremitage über die Ausgabe von Waffen 149 I. Schrakamp. Kommentar zu der altakkadischen “Rüstkammerurkunde” Erm. 14380 161 Old Testament Studies M. Bulakh. Basic Color Terms of Biblical Hebrew 181 in Diachronic Aspect Y. Eidelkind. Two Notes on Song 4:12 217 L. Kogan. The Etymology of Israel (with an Appendix on Non-Hebrew Semitic Names among Hebrews in the Old Testament) 237 L. Kogan. Animal Names of Biblical Hebrew: An Etymological Survey 257 S. Ruzer. Son of God as Son of David: Luke’s Attempt to Biblicize a Problematic Notion 321 M. Seleznev. Syntactic Parsing behind the Masoretic Accentuation (I) 353 M. Seleznev. A Greek Rhetorician and the LXX (What does στερKωMα mean?) 371 2 Babel und Bibel 3 Semitic and Afroasiatic Studies V. Blažek. Natural Phenomena, Time and Geographical Terminology in Beja Lexicon. Fragment of a Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of Beja (II) 383 L. Kogan. Lexical Evidence and the Genealogical Position of Ugaritic (I) 429 A. Militarev. Towards the Genetic Affiliation of Ongota, a Nearly-extinct Language of Ethiopia (II) 489 II. Short Notes Ancient Near Eastern Studies M. A. Dandamaev. A Babylonian Trader from Uruk 517 I. T. Kaneva. Sumerian Comparative Clauses 523 I. Khait, R. Nurullin. Observations on an Old Babylonian Gilgamesh Tablet from the Schøyen Collection 529 F. Rahman. “A city does not approach a city, a man approaches a man”: Interpretation of one Old Babylonian Proverb in the Light of a Neo-Aramaic Proverb 535 Old Testament Studies S. Tishchenko. To Curse God? Some Remarks on Jacob Milgrom’s Interpretation of Lev 24:10–16, 23 543 III. Reviews Ancient Near Eastern Studies R. Hasselbach. Sargonic Akkadian. A Historical and Comparative Study of the Syllabic Texts (L. Kogan, K. Markina) 555 Assyria and Beyond. Studies Presented to Mogens Trolle Larsen (L. Kogan, N. Koslova) 589 Old Testament Studies E. Gaß. Die Ortsnamen des Richterbuchs in historischer und redaktioneller Perspektive (M. Seleznev) 615 Contents 3 Semitic Studies H. Gzella. Tempus, Aspekt und Modalität im Reichsaramäischen (S. Loesov) 627 Abbreviations of Periodicals, Reference Works, Series, and Sources 635 I. Articles