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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

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

An Akkadian Handbook

Helps, Paradigms, Glossary, Logograms, and Sign List

Douglas B. Miller and R. Mark Shipp

Students of Akkadian will find this handy collection of basic information to be the ideal companion through their years of study. Though this handbook is not a replacement for the standard reference works, it summarizes all the basic resource materials needed for the study of Akkadian. Included are the following: miscellaneous helps, paradigms of nouns and verbs, a glossary of important proper nouns, an index of logograms, a sign list with complete sign values, and much more.

Beginning Biblical Hebrew

Mark D. Futato

Achieving the right balance of amount of information, style of presentation, and depth of instruction in first-year grammars is no easy task. But Mark Futato has produced a grammar that, after years of testing in a number of institutions, will please many, with its concise, clear, and well-thought-out presentation of Biblical Hebrew.

Introduction to Reading the Pentateuch

Jean-Louis Ska

For both students and scholars, many consider this book the best contemporary introduction to the Pentateuch. Among the book’s many strengths are its close attention to the ways in which modern cultural history has affected Pentateuchal interpretation, attention to providing the kinds of examples that are helpful to students, presentation of a good balance between the history of interpretation and the data of the text, and the clarity of Ska’s writing.