Malamat, Abraham (1922 - 2010)

Personal:

Born 1922, Vienna; Ph.D. 1951, Hebrew Univ.; Lect. 1954; Sen. Lect. 1957; Assoc. Prof. 1964; Prof. 1970; Emeritus 1991.
(Visiting Professor, Univ. of Heidelberg, 1990; New York Univ., 1991; Univ. of Frankfurt, 1992; Visiting Fellow, St. John's College, Cambridge, 1994).

Research Interests:

Biblical Israel from its origins until the destruction of the First Temple.

Research Projects:

The discoveries of Mari and Early Israel. Funding: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Abstracts of Current Research:

Israel in the biblical period:

Research focuses on the emergence of Israel as a people, the proto-history, David and Solomon, the last days of Judah, and the destruction of the First Temple.

Mari, the Bible and Israel:

The discoveries at Mari, both archaeological and epigraphic, are presented. The various documents found (1933-1989) can be utilized for a comparative study of the Bible. Among topics examined are divination and prophecy, historical setting, and sociological aspects, especially tribalism, as well as geographic issues (the "West," i.e., Palestine-Syria).

Recent Publications:

Malamat, A. (1991) Mari and Israel - Two West Semitic Cultures. Jerusalem, Magnes Press, 233 pp. (Hebrew).

Malamat, A. (1991) A series of articles on Mari and Biblical Prophecy. In: Jubilee Volumes of J.A. Soggin (Rome 1991), S. Herrmann (Stuttgart 1991), G.W. Anderson (Sheffield 1993).

Malamat, A. and Artzi, P. (1993) The Great King - A royal title in Cuneiform sources and in the Bible. In: The Tablet and the Scroll; Festschrift for W.W. Hallo, ed. M.E. Cohen, Bethseda, MD, CDL Press, pp.28-38.

Malamat, A. (1993) Mari and Hazor. Proc. 2nd International Congress on Biblical Archaeology, Jerusalem, Israel Exploration Society, pp.66-70.

Malamat, A. (1994) Das heilige Meer. In: Wer ist wie Du, Herr, unter den G?ttern? Studien zur Theologie und Religionspeschichte Israels fr Otto Kaiser zum 70. Geburtstag, eds. I. Kottsieper, J. van Oorschoot, D. R?mheld and H.M. Wahl, G?ttingen, Vendenhoeck & Ruprecht, pp.65-74.

Malamat, A. (1996) The Exodus - Egyptian analogies. Eretz Israel, 25: 231-235 (Hebrew).

Malamat, A. (1995) A word for "Clan" in Mari and its Hebrew Cognate. In: Solving Riddles and Untying Knots: Biblical Studies in Honor of Jonas C. Greenfield, eds. Z. Zevit et al., Winona Lake, Eisenbrauns, pp.177-179.

Malamat, A. (1995) Is there a word for the royal harem in the Bible? In: Pomegranates and Golden Bells, Studies in Biblical, Jewish and Near Eastern Ritual, Law and Literature in Honor of Jacob Milgrom, eds. D.P. Wright et al., Winona Lake, Eisenbrauns, pp.785-787.

Malamat, A. (1996) The Exodus - Egyptian analogies (Lecture at Brown University Colloquy on the Exodus, 1992) Proceedings forthcoming);