Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>]

Irene wrote:

> Dear List People
> 
> Jonathan Safren wrote (an excerpt)
> 
> > Weinfeld and Hillers, I am
> > sure, and perhaps Mc Carthy -I'm not sure - relate the form of the
> > blessing-curse formulae in Deut. to the later Neo-Assyrian vassal
> > treaties, and not those of the earlier 14th cent. BCE Hittite vassal
> > treaties.
> >
> 
> I agree and just want to add that Weinfeld in his ABD commentary on
> Deut. 1-11 wrote that Deuteronomy is dependent on two, loyalty oath
> models:  The 2nd mill. Hittite loyalty oaths to the king, and the 1st
> mill. neo-Assyrian loyalty oaths of Essarhaddon.  The 2nd mill. Hittite
> oaths have an historical prologue and a blessing section that is longer
> than the curse section;   the 1st mill., neo-Assyrian treaties of
> Essarhaddon lack the historical prologue but have an expanded list of
> cusrses with few blessings.

What kinds of examples do we have of Assyrian/Akkadian/What-
ever treaties of the same general period as the Hittite ones, and 
how sharply do they differ (assuming we have examples of such 
things)?


Dave Washburn
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