Doubling and Duplicating in the Book of Genesis

Literary and Stylistic Approaches to the Text

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The style of the Hebrew Bible has long been of significant interest to scholars and exegetes alike. Early Jewish and later Christian commentaries point out the importance of the exact wording in interpreting the text, and many an article has been written on features such as repetition and inclusio. With the rise of literary and narrative criticism in. . . (more)

Sacred Killing

The Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East

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What is sacrifice? How can we identify it in the archaeological record? And what does it tell us about the societies that practice it? Sacred Killing: The Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East investigates these and other questions through the evidence for human and animal sacrifice in the Near East from the Neolithic to the Hellenistic periods. Drawing on sociocultural anthropology and history in addition to. . . (more)

A Syriac Lexicon

A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum

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The second edition of Carl Brockelmann’s Lexicon Syriacum, published in 1928, is rightly considered to be the best dictionary of Syriac ever written. In the 81 years that have passed since the book’s publication, there have been great advances in both Aramaic and Semitic studies. Moreover, Syriac studies—especially the publication of the. . . (more)

Reconstructing Jerusalem

Persian Period Prophetic Perspectives

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Jerusalem—one of the most contested sites in the world. Reconstructing Jerusalem takes readers back to a pivotal moment in its history when it lay ruined and abandoned and the glory of its ancient kings, David and Solomon, had faded. Why did this city not share the same fate as so many other conquered cities, destroyed and forever abandoned, never to be rebuilt? Why did Jerusalem, disgraced and. . . (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)

Son of God

Divine Sonship in Jewish and Christian Antiquity

Edited by Garrick V. Allen, Kai Akagi, Paul Sloan, and Madhavi Nevader

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In antiquity, “son of god”—meaning a ruler designated by the gods to carry out their will—was a title used by the Roman emperor Augustus and his successors as a way to reinforce their divinely appointed status. But this title was also used by early Christians to speak about Jesus, borrowing the idiom from Israelite and early Jewish discourses on monarchy. This interdisciplinary volume explores what it means to be. . . (more)

The Dragon, the Mountain, and the Nations

An Old Testament Myth, Its Origins, and Its Afterlives

The Shape of the Writings

The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Volume 4, Part 1

Neo-Assyrian Specialists: Crafts, Offices, and Other Professional Designations

Socoh of the Judean Shephelah

The 2010 Survey