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Spring into Summer Backlist Sale

Eisenbrauns turns 50 this year, and this month we’re celebrating all the books we’ve published since Eisenbrauns joined PSU Press in 2017. See the whole list here, and save 40% with promo code RBL25.

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Israel’s Day of Light and Joy

The Origin, Development, and Enduring Meaning of the Jewish Sabbath

Jon D. Levenson

“This is a masterful piece of scholarship. Levenson has somehow managed to combine a rigorous historical-critical analysis of the Sabbath with a theologically sensitive discussion of the meaning and value of the Sabbath as it has developed into the present day in a fresh, readable volume seasoned throughout with wit and good humor. I learned much reading this book. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to understand the historical development of the Sabbath and its continuing value in a modern culture characterized by individualism, burnout, exhaustion, and (often) the loss of a sense of purpose and meaning.”
—Jason Staples, author of Paul and the Resurrection of Israel: Jews, Former Gentiles, Israelites

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An Introduction to Akkadian Literature

Contexts and Content

Alan Lenzi

“A study that renders Akkadian literature accessible to a different readership.”
—Nathan Wasserman, Review of Biblical Literature

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Classical Ethiopic

A Grammar of Gəˁəz

Josef Tropper and Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee

“For almost two decades, Josef Tropper’s Altäthiopisch has been the standard grammar for Gəˁəz. This English translation by Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee is even more useful thanks to the addition of the Ethiopic script throughout. For students and scholars alike, Classical Ethiopic is the best grammar of Gəˁəz available in any language.”—Aaron M. Butts, author of Language Change in the Wake of Empire: Syriac in Its Greco-Roman Context

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Ramat Raḥel VI

The Renewed Excavations by the Tel Aviv–Heidelberg Expedition (2005–2010). The Babylonian-Persian Pit

Oded Lipschits, Liora Freud, Manfred Oeming, and Yuval Gadot

Honorable Mention, 2023 Hershel Shanks Award for Best Dig Report from the Biblical Archaeology Society

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A Concise History of Ancient Israel

From the Beginnings Through the Hellenistic Era

Bernd U. Schipper, Translated by Michael Lesley

“It is an incredibly useful work that can function as a primer for more in-depth discussions of Israel and Judah’s history.”
—David Schreiner, Review of Biblical Literature