The Dragon, the Mountain, and the Nations

An Old Testament Myth, Its Origins, and Its Afterlives

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The dragon-slaying myth has a hoary ancestry, extending back long before its appearance in the Hebrew Bible, and a vast range, spanning as far as India and perhaps even Japan. This book is a chronicle of its trajectories and permutations. The target of this study is. . . (more)

Cuneiform in Canaan

The Next Generation

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One of the earliest surviving manifestations of the cultural heritage of the Land of Israel in ancient times is the use of the cuneiform script from the Middle Bronze Age to the Iron Age. Cuneiform in Canaan: The Next Generation presents an updated version, presenting all ninety-seven of the known texts, including new tablets and fragments from Hazor,. . . (more)

The Correspondence of Assurbanipal, Part I

Letters from Assyria, Babylonia, and Vassal States

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The present volume presents a critical edition of all currently known letters authored by Assurbanipal as king of Assyria as well as 61 letters sent to him or his agents during his reign. Most of these texts pertain to the Šamaš-šumu-ukin revolt and the conflict with Elam, and provide a fascinating. . . (more)

The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668-631 BC), Assur-etal-ilani (630-627 BC), and Sin-sarra-iskun (626-612 BC), Kings of Assyria

Part 1

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In this book, Jamie Novotny and Joshua Jeffers provide updated, reliable editions of seventy-one historical inscriptions of Ashurbanipal, including all historical inscriptions on clay prisms, clay cylinders, wall slabs, and other stone objects from Nineveh, Assur, and Kalhu. Each text edition is accompanied by an English. . . (more)

The Earth Is the Lord’s

Essays on Creation and the Bible in Honor of Ben C. Ollenburger

Edited by Ryan D. Harker and Heather Bunce

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Compiled in honor of esteemed teacher and scholar Ben. C. Ollenburger, The Earth Is the Lord’s brings together a diverse group of scholars with specializations across the Christian canon to address creation in the Bible, God as Creator, and God’s relationship with creation.

The essays in this volume cover topics ranging from. . . (more)

The Monumental Reliefs of the Elamite Highlands

A Complete Inventory and Analysis (from the Seventeenth to the Sixth Century BC)

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The Monumental Reliefs of the Elamite Highlands documents and analyzes for the first time a corpus of eighteen monumental highland reliefs from the Elamite civilization in ancient Iran, which—hitherto preserved by their remote location and anonymous existence—have recently become imperiled by an influx of tourists and the development of the surrounding landscapes. With this book, Javier Álvarez-Mon aims to. . . (more)

The Cultural and Religious Creativity of Ancient Israel

The Collected Essays of George E. Mendenhall

Edited by Gary Herion and H. B. Huffmon

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Throughout his long and influential career, George E. Mendenhall published groundbreaking, provocative studies on the history of the biblical tradition, law, and covenant and the Hebrew conquest of Palestine. This volume collects thirty-four of his hardest-to-find essays, many of which originally appeared. . . (more)

Sepphoris III

The Architecture, Stratigraphy, and Artifacts of the Western Summit of Sepphoris

Eric M. Meyers, Carol L. Meyers, and Benjamin Gordon

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Sepphoris was a major settlement in the Roman and Byzantine periods, with its earliest inhabitants stretching back to at least the Persian period. It has been intensively excavated by a several teams, including Duke University in the 1980s and 1990s. The present report brings to a close a series of. . . (more)

"I Will Walk Among You"

The Rhetorical Function of Allusion to Genesis 1–3 in the Book of Leviticus

G. Geoffrey Harper

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The face of Pentateuch scholarship has shifted dramatically in the last forty years, resulting in a host of new, renewed, and often competing methodologies. The present study sits at the intersection of these recent interpretive trends. G. Geoffrey Harper uses insights from the fields of intertextuality, rhetorical criticism, and speech act theory to create a. . . (more)

Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea, Volume 3

Bezalel Porten, and Ada Yardeni

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This multivolume work classifies the ostraca according to subject matter and brings them together in a single publication. Volumes 1 and 2 covered fifty personal name dossiers (TAO A1–50). Volume 3 contains more than two hundred more such dossiers (TAO A51–255a) and numerous fragments. Each text is accompanied by a color photograph and hand-copy, a facing transcription and translation, and a ceramic description and. . . (more)

Doubling and Duplicating in the Book of Genesis

Literary and Stylistic Approaches to the Text

The Economy of Ancient Judah in Its Historical Context