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Riches Hidden in Secret Places: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Memory of Thorkild Jacobsen. Edited by TZVI ABUSCH. Winona Lake, Ind.: EISENBRAUNS, 2002. Pp. xvii + 333.
A memorial volume for a scholar such as Thorkild Jacobsen, who published so many original works on so many different topics, is an ambitious and risky undertaking. At a time when anniversary and memorial volumes threaten to overwhelm us, the quality suffers, and one would hardly want to end up with a volume unworthy of the recipient. In this case, however, all such fears can be readily dissipated, for the papers collected in this volume are uniformly of the highest order.
In addition to eighteen essays, the book includes a bibliography of Jacobsen's writings, and a welcome note on his Danish intellectual background by Bendt Alster, as well as an "appreciation" by the...