The Standard Babylonian Etana Epic

Cuneiform Text, Transliteration, Score, Glossary, Indices and Sign List

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This important piece of Mesopotamian literature is presented both in cuneiform and in transliteration and includes complete glossaries, name indexes, and sign lists. As a readable and up-to-date text edition of the Epic, this volume will be adopted by many as the choice tool for. . . (more)

The Standard Babylonian Epic of Anzu

Introduction, Cuneiform Text, Transliteration, Score, Glossary, Indices and Sign List

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This third volume in the SAACT series presents both the cuneiform text and transliteration of the Anzu epic, which describes the battle between the god Ninurta and monster Anzu. Complete glossaries, name indices and sign lists make this a choice resource for. . . (more)

The Babylonian Theodicy

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The Babylonian Theodicy is a lengthy dialogue between two learned men, the “Sufferer” and the “Friend,” taking the form of an acrostic poem divided into 27 stanzas. Each stanza is exactly 11 lines long and represents a speech by one of the two speakers mainly on social injustice and piety, those of the Sufferer alternating with counterarguments of the Friend. The text unquestionably is a. . . (more)

The Tale of the Poor Man of Nippur

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The Poor Man of Nippur is a short tale of 160 lines, telling how a poor man wronged by the governor of his city, Nippur, cunningly takes revenge on his abuser and wrongdoer. The story is told in a sympathetic and humorous way, making it captivating and entertaining reading even by modern standards, and it is of exceptional literary value in the context of Ancient Mesopotamia, where similar. . . (more)

Tell el-Borg II

Excavations in North Sinai

Edited by James K. Hoffmeier

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This is the second and final volume of scientific and interdisciplinary reports on the excavations and research conducted at Tell el-Borg, north Sinai, between 1998 and 2008, written by the scholars and specialists who worked on the site under the direction of Professor James K. Hoffmeier.

This volume focuses on the cemetery areas, which yield more than a dozen tombs, typically made of mud brick, some of which were constructed for a single occupant and some of which were. . . (more)

Neo-Assyrian Sources in Context

Thematic Studies of Texts, History, and Culture

Edited by Shigeo Yamada

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Since the 1980s, projects such as the State Archives of Assyria have made great strides in the philological study of Neo-Assyrian inscriptional sources, producing text editions and hand-copies of administrative and legal texts, letters, religious and literary works, and royal and private commemorative inscriptions with a high standard of accuracy. And yet, nearly thirty years later, we are only beginning to scratch the surface of what these texts have to offer. This volume. . . (more)

A Glossary of Old Syrian

ʔ – ḳ

Joaquin Sanmartín

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A Glossary of Old Syrian: ʔ – ḳ is the first of two volumes aimed at the completion of a lexicographical index of the Old Syrian linguistical continuum. This glossary gives a picture, or map, of the Old Syrian lexicon as it can be extracted and reconstructed from the available sources, from the (Old Akkadian-)Eblatic through the Old and Middle Babylonian corpora.

Old Syrian can be defined most appropriately as a diachronically. . . (more)

Mythopoeïa

Jérôme Pace

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Religious and historical myths defined the worldviews and identities of ancient societies and form a fascinating, but difficult, object of study. In presenting a comparative analysis of several interrelated ancient mythical themes, such as the storm god, the young hero, chaos, combat with monsters, kingship, final judgment, organization of the cosmos, and the foundation of kingship, this thorough and groundbreaking study explores the possibility of a mythological—or. . . (more)

Bearing Yhwh’s Name at Sinai

A Reexamination of the Name Command of the Decalogue

Male and Female in the Epic of Gilgamesh

From the Mari Archives

An Anthology of Old Babylonian Letters

The babilili-Ritual from Hattusa (CTH 718)