Milestones: William W. Hallo (1928‒2015)

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A true Renaissance man, William W. Hallo—the William M. Laffan Professor Emeritus of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature at Yale University—passed away Sunday, March 29, 2015, at age 87. In addition to being a leading Assyriologist, Hallo also made significant contributions to Biblical studies. He even pioneered a new contextual approach that combined the two disciplines. Hallo and K. Lawson Younger, Jr., of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School edited the impressive three-volume series The Context of Scripture that used ancient Near Eastern literature as background and comparative materials for the Biblical texts. Hallo was born in Kassel, Germany, in 1928 to […]

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Footnotes

William W. Hallo, “The Origin of Israelite Sacrifice,” BAR 37:06; William W. Hallo, Ronald S. Hendel and Kenneth A. Kitchen, “The Kitchen Debate,” BAR 31:04; William W. Hallo, “Before Tea Leaves: Divination in Ancient Babylonia,” BAR 31:02; “Origins: Let the Games Begin!” Archaeology Odyssey 02:01; “Origins: In One Era and Out the Other,” Archaeology Odyssey 01:01; “The Oldest Cookbooks in the World,” Bible Review 09:04; “Sumerian Literature,” Bible Review 04:03; “As the Seal upon Thy Heart,” Bible Review 04:03.