References to Prophecy in Neo-Assyrian Sources

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SAAS 7 collects, analyzes, and discusses the references to prophecy in other genres of Neo-Assyrian texts: royal inscriptions, treaties, letters, and even an administrative text. Nissinen’s work is not a comparison of Assyrian prophecy with biblical prophecy, but rather. . . (more)

A Sketch of Neo-Assyrian Grammar

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The most recent monographic account of Neo-Assyrian grammar was published in 1912. Since that time a great deal of progress has been made in interpreting both texts written in Neo-Assyrian and their grammar, but as yet no. . . (more)

The God Ninurta in the Mythology and Royal Ideology of Ancient Mesopotamia

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The current investigation has been divided into three main chapters. In the first two chapters, the primary focus is the relationship between Ninurta and kingship. The first chapter gives a diachronic overview of the cult of Ninurta during all historical periods of ancient Mesopotamia. This chapter shows that the conception of Ninurta’s identity with the king was present in Mesopotamian religion already in the third millennium BC. Ninurta was the god of Nippur, the religious centre of Sumerian cities, and his most important attribute was. . . (more)

The Sumerian Sacred Marriage in the Light of Comparative Evidence

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The primary purpose of this study is to increase understanding of Sumerian sacred marriage by approaching it from a comparative perspective. More generally, it is hoped that the study will illustrate the fruitfulness of the comparative approach for the study of Sumerian religion and royal ideology and that it will prove useful to the other fields of study whose sources were used as the comparative evidence.

The comparative evidence includes sources from six different. . . (more)

Sumerian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection

Volume 1: Literary Sources on Old Babylonian Religion

Christopher Metcalf

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The first in a series of volumes publishing the Sumerian literary texts in the Schøyen Collection, this book makes available, for the first time, editions of seventeen cuneiform tablets, dating to ca. 2000 BCE and containing works of Sumerian religious poetry. Edited, translated, and annotated by Christopher Metcalf, these poems shed light on the interaction between cult, scholarship, and scribal culture in. . . (more)

Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection, Part Two

School Letters, Model Contracts, and Related Texts

A. R. George and Gabriella Spada

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In ancient Mesopotamia, men training to be scribes copied model letters in order to practice writing and familiarize themselves with epistolary forms and expressions. Similarly, model contracts were used to teach them how to draw up agreements for the transactions typical of everyday economic life. This volume makes available a trove of previously unknown. . . (more)

Signs of Continuity

The Function of Miracles in Jesus and Paul

Greg Rhodea

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For more than a century, scholars have debated whether Paul the apostle was a faithful follower of Jesus or a corruptor of Jesus’s message and the true founder of Christianity. Signs of Continuity intervenes in this debate by exploring a largely overlooked element of similarity between the two men: the place of miracles in their ministries.

In his close analysis of the miracles performed by Jesus and Paul, Greg Rhodea points to signs of continuity between. . . (more)

The 2002 Season at Tall al ʿUmayri and Subsequent Studies

Edited by Larry G. Herr, Douglas R. Clark, and Lawrence T. Geraty

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This eighth volume of the Madaba Plains Project’s excavations at Tall al ʿUmayri covers the important finds of the 2002 season, updating and synthesizing the work that has been done to date.

Accompanied by more than two hundred illustrations, it includes a summary of the cumulative results of all excavation seasons from 1984 through 2002, with a detailed description of the various levels that have. . . (more)

Distant Impressions

The Senses in the Ancient Near East

Edited by Ainsley Hawthorn and Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel

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The essays in this book approach the question of sensory experience in ancient Near Eastern societies from philological, literary, art historical, and archaeological perspectives. They address the means of sense perception (such as vision, hearing, and smell) and the objects of perception (such as light, noise, and odor), examining the senses within religious, political, and social frameworks. The first part of this volume looks at. . . (more)

A Corpus of Ammonite Inscriptions

Walter E. Aufrecht

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This second edition of A Corpus of Ammonite Inscriptions presents all of the published inscriptions that have been identified as Ammonite in one volume. Each entry is accompanied by a complete bibliography, a physical description and details about its location, a photograph and/or drawing, relevant linguistic information, and a history of the inscription’s interpretation. This updated edition includes 254 additional inscriptions, four new appendixes, and in many cases, new and improved images. . . (more)

The Imago Dei as Human Identity

A Theological Interpretation

“Lengthen Your Tent-Cords”

Paul and His Mortality

Imitating Christ in the Face of Death

The Unfavored

Judah and Saul in the Narratives of Genesis and 1 Samuel