Michael Czernichow Astour (December 17, 1916 Kharkov – October 7, 2004 St. Louis) was professor of Yiddish and Russian literature at Brandeis University...

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(also rendered as yhw) or Yahu, is a toponym. Regarding the name yhwꜣ, Michael Astour observed that the "hieroglyphic rendering corresponds very precisely...

” in Crossing Boundaries and Linking Horizons: Studies in Honor of Michael Astour on His 80th Birthday, Gordon D. Young, Mark W. Chavalas, and Richard...

their names. One modern interpretation of Genesis 14 is summed up by Michael Astour in The Anchor Bible Dictionary (s.v. "Amraphel", "Arioch" and "Chedorlaomer")...

"Duhulabum") which is most probably located at Idlib as suggested by Michael Astour and Douglas Frayne; a similarity exists between the sounds of the ancient...

direction was strengthened by his discovery of the work of Cyrus Gordon and Michael Astour. In due course he wrote Black Athena. Bernal also wrote the book Cadmean...

untenable. One modern interpretation of Genesis 14 is summed up by Michael Astour in The Anchor Bible Dictionary (s.v. "Amraphel", "Arioch" and "Chedorlaomer")...

shown by one of his year names ("Year in which Mari was destroyed"). Michael Astour proposed the date as c. 2265 BC (short chronology). Ishqi-Mari was probably...

identified with Qatna by some scholars, such as Giovanni Pettinato and Michael Astour, but this is debated. Aside from an obscure passage in the 20th-century...

veil his head from Ḫattušili. May he who is his enemy be banished! Michael Astour, who devised an extreme compression of the generations of Hittite monarchs...

researchers to locate Lubdu at modern Daquq is rejected by the historian Michael Astour, who argues that the name of Daquq is attested as Diquqina in the Neo-Assyrian...

Mediterranean from Greece to Palestine during the Minoan era. Gordon's student, Michael Astour, published the most comprehensive treatment of this controversial thesis...

city of Tukad, in Mount Lebanon. The name of his queen was Pizallum. Michael Astour suggested identifying Adad-Nirari with Adad-Nirari of Nuhašše; a hypothesis...

to have been introduced until the reign of Ishpuini. According to Michael C. Astour, Haldi could be etymologically related to the Hurrian word "heldi"...

latter of which could also be at the site of Tall Buldağ. The historian Michael Astour also identified Diquqina with modern Daquq in 1987, calling it an attested...

reinstated. The inventories of Qatna mentions a king named Adad-Nirari; Michael Astour suggested identifying the Qatanite king with the Nuhaššite monarch and...

 260. ISBN 9781899142880. Michael C. Astour. Hittite History and Absolute Chronology of the Bronze Age. p. 92. Michael C. Astour (1989). Hittite history...

forms of the name are used in modern publications, Dadmiš and Tadmiš. Michael C. Astour argued that the syllabic spelling reflected Hurrian phonetics. The...

15–42, doi:10.1353/asi.2002.0006, hdl:10125/17161, S2CID 67818363. Michael C. Astour (1971). "841 B. C.: The First Assyrian Invasion of Israel". Journal...

probably located along the Euphrates river east of Ebla. According to Michael Astour, those three cities belonged to the region named Gasur-Nuzi in the northern...

rebels 'attacked' religious sites. Al Jazeera English. 2013-01-24. Astour, Michael C. (1965). Hellenosemitica: An Ethnic and Cultural Study in West Semitic...

Orientalia. 63 (3). Pontificium Institutum Biblicum. OCLC 557711946. Astour, Michael.C (1969). "The Partition of the Confederacy of Mukiš-Nuḫiašše-Nii by...

(2000). The Aramaeans Their Ancient History, Culture, Religion. p. 218. Astour, Michael C. (1979). "The arena of Tiglath-pileser III's campaign against Sarduri...

Alalakh. This indicates the royal status of Sarra-El, which led prof. Michael C. Astour to believe that Sarra-EL is the probable son of Yarim-Lim III. Idrimi's...

in the cemetery of Minet el-Beida Cities of the ancient Near East Astour, Michael C. (1970). "Maʾḫadu, the Harbor of Ugarit". Journal of the Economic...

monarchs, eliminated the need for Archi's identification. According to Michael Astour, the name is Anusu (Ansud) and must be correlated with king Hanusum...

ISBN 9781134159079. Michael C. Astour (1989). Hittite history and absolute chronology of the Bronze Age. p. 19. ISBN 9789186098865. Michael C. Astour. Hittite History...

latter also at Carchemish: 7-9. Simon 2009: 262-264. Freu 2010-2011. Astour, Michael, "New Evidence on the Last Days of Ugarit," American Journal of Archaeology...

restored by Abba-El's father Sarra-Ee; however, other Historians such as Michael C. Astour consider Abba-El II to be the king who restored the kingdom. Aleppo...