From the Workshop of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary: Studies Presented to Robert D Biggs (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781885923448)

Robert D Biggs joined the staff of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (CAD) in 1963 after receiving his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. In June 2004, he celebrated his 70th birthday and retired from the University of Chicago as Professor of Assyriology in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; his service to the CAD, however, will continue until the final volume appears. To acknowledge and honour his forty-one years of extraordinary service to the Assyrian Dictionary as collaborator, associate editor, and editorial board member, contributions from some of his former and current CAD colleagues are assembled into the volume. It is fitting to revive this series, as the first volume, From the Workshop of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary: Studies Presented to A Leo Oppenheim, appeared forty years ago, in June 1964, and Biggs's contribution there was his first published article.

Author: Walter Farber,Martha T. Roth,Matthew Stopler
ISBN-10: 1885923449
ISBN-13: 9781885923448
Publisher: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2007
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 10.15h x 7.02w x 0.48d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2008 pg. 59