Coherence & Fragments: Reflections on the SKL and the Book of Judges
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Brill Academic Publishers
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Nearly 4,000 years ago, the Mesopotamian scribe ,N¯ur-Ilabrat, created a list which mentioned many kings. The list was designed to promote the argument that kingship
was "brought down to earth as a gift from heaven so that human beings
might conduct their affairs in a purposeful fashion." Professor Sasson assesses what meaning N¯ur-Ilabrat derives from his list and how his assumptions play out in the Hebrew book of Judges.
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Sasson, Jack. “Coherence & Fragments: Reflections on the SKL and the Book of Judges,” in Opening the Tablet Box: Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Benjamin R. Foster (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East), 42. Eds. Sarah C. Melville and Alice L. Slotsky. Leiden: E.J.
Brill, 2010, 361-373.