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Finkelstein, Jacob Joel
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)
