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The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies
The Joseph and
Rebecca
Meyerhoff Center
for Jewish Studies
And
the Department
of Classics
And the Department
Present of Classics
Present
Current Research on the Relationship of Esarhaddon’s
Succession Treat“to Deuteronomy:
An Assyriologist’s Perspective
Professor Jacob Lauinger
Assistant Professor of Assyriology at Johns Hopkins University
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
12:00 – 2:00 PM
1120 Susquehanna Hall
Since shortly after the publication of the cuneiform tablets of the Assyrian king
.
Esarhaddon’s
Succession Treaty (EST) in 1958, the text’s status as literary model for
the biblical book of Deuteronomy has been the subject of much scholarly debate. For
the most part, this debate has been concerned with the similarity and dissimilarity of
the two texts. The archaeological discovery in 2009 of a new tablet of EST, found in
situ at the provincial capital of Tell Tayinat, however, provides new material for the
comparison of Deuteronomy with Assyrian treaties.
Jacob Lauinger, Assistant Professor of Assyriology at Johns Hopkins University,
will lecture on the implications of this discovery and the insight it provides for
understanding ancient Near Eastern literature.