====== Finkelstein, Jacob Joel ======

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== Name ==
Finkelstein, Jacob Joel	

== Dates ==
22 March 1922 - 28 November 1974

== Birthplace ==
Brooklyn, N.Y.

== Specialization ==
Assyriology

== Major works ==
Cuneiform Texts from Tell Billa: JCS 7 (1953) 111-176 The Sultantepe Tablets I, London 1957 (with O.R. Gurney) Old-Babylonian Legal Documents (CT 48), London 1968 Late Old Babylonian Documents and Letters, New Haven 1972 The Ox That Gored, Philadelphia 1981

== Remarks ==
Research Assistant in Near Eastern Languages, Yale University (1953-1955) Professor of Assyriology, University of California, Berkeley, 1955-1965 Professor of Assyriology, Yale University, 1965-1974

== Obituaries ==
JAOS 95 (1975) 589-591 (H.A. Hoffner); Assur 1/4 (1975) 1-2 (W.W. Hallo)

== Festschrift ==
Ellis, Maria de Jong (Ed.), Essays on the Ancient Near East in Memory of Jacob Joel Finkelstein, Hamden, Connecticut 1977 (pp. 227-229: Bibliography)