Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations Introduction 1: Deuteronomy 28 and Ancient Near Eastern Curses 2: The Comparative Method in Scripture and Inscription 3: The Futility Curse as a Northwest Semitic Trope: The Old Aramaic Inscriptions 4: Futility Curses in the Hebrew Bible 5: The Composition of the Tell Fakhariyah Inscription and Deuteronomy 28 6: Writing and Ritual in Deuteronomy 28 Conclusion Bibliography Index of Authors Index of Primary Texts

About the Author

Laura Quick completed her doctorate in Hebrew Bible at the University of Oxford. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion and the Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University. Her broad research interests include the composition and transmission of biblical literature through the scribal culture of ancient Israel, and the on-going interaction of this tradition with the literatures of the surrounding nations of the ancient Near East.