From the Workshop of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary

Studies Presented to Robert D Biggs

by Martha T. Roth, Walter Farber and Matthew Stopler

Book cover: From the Workshop of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary

Extent: 288 pages

Publisher: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures

Subjects: Ancient Near East

Series: Assyriological Studies

Series volume number: 27

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(December 2007)

ISBN: 9781885923448

Price: $40.00

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Robert D Biggs retired from the University of Chicago as Professor of Assyriology in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations in 2004. To acknowledge and honour his extraordinary service as collaborator, associate editor, and editorial board member, contributions from some of his former and current colleagues are assembled here.


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.

  • By (author) Walter Farber
  • By (author) Martha T Roth
  • By (author) Matthew Stopler