Hallo, William W.

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HALLO, William W.

HALLO, William W. American (born Germany), b. 1928. Genres: Archaeology/Antiquities, History, Literary criticism and history, Theology/Religion. Career: Emeritus Laffan Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2002- (associate professor of Assyriology, 1962-65; curator, Babylonian Collection, 1963-2001; professor of Assyriology, 1965-75; ed., Yale Near Eastern Researches, 1968-2002; Laffan Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature, 1975-2002). Instructor, 1956-58, and assistant professor, 1958-62, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati. Publications: Early Mesopotamian Royal Titles, 1957; (with J.J.A. van Dijk) The Exaltation of Inanna, 1968; (trans.) F. Rosenzweig, The Star of Redemption, 1971; (with W.K. Simpson) The Ancient Near East, 1971; Sumerian Archival Texts, 1973; (with W.G. Plaut and B.T. Bamberger) The Torah, 1981; (with B. Buchanan) Early Near Eastern Seals in the Yale Babylonian Collection, 1981; (with S.G. Beld and P. Michalowski) The Tablets of Ebla, 1984; (with D.B. Ruderman and M. Stanislawski) Heritage: Civilization and the Jews, 2 vols., 1984; The Book of the People, 1991; Origins: The Ancient Near Eastern Background of Some Modern Western Institutions, 1996. EDITOR: Essays in Memory of E.A. Speiser, 1968; (with C.D. Evans and J.B. White) Scripture in Context, 1980; (with J.C. Moyer and L.G. Perdue) Scripture in Context II, 1983; (with B.W. Jones and G.L. Mattingly) The Bible in the Light of Cuneiform Literature: Scripture in Context III, 1990; (with K.L. Younger Jr. and B.F. Batto) The Biblical Canon in Comparative Perspective: Scripture in Context IV, 1991; (with K.L. Younger Jr.) The Context of Scripture, 3 vols., 1997-2002. Address: Babylonian Collection, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, U.S.A.

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