The Context of Scripture, Volume 2 Monumental Inscriptions from the Biblical World Tapa dura - 2001

William W. Hallo is the William M. Laffan Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature and Curator of the Babylonian Collection at Yale University. He holds degrees from Harvard, Leiden, and Chicago. He is author or co-author of "The Ancient Near East: a History" (1998, 1971), "Origins" (1997), "The Book of the People" (1991), "Scripture in Context" (4 vols. 1980-1991), "Heritage: Civilization and the Jews" (2 vols. 1984), "The Tablets of Ebla" (1984), "Sumerian Archival Texts" (1973), "The Exaltation of Inanna" (1968), and "Early Mesopotamian Royal Titles" (1957). K. Lawson Younger, Jr. is Professor of Old Testament, Semitic Languages and Ancient Near Eastern History at Trinity International University - Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield in 1988. He is the author of "Ancient Conquest Accounts: A Study of Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical History Writing" (1990), as well as numerous scholarly articles and reviews.