Israel’s Day of Light and Joy

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

Jon D. Levenson

“A comprehensive and serious study of the sinuous history, dynamic cultural and political forces, and various religious ideologies surrounding the meaning and application of a Jewish Sabbath.”—Fred Reiss, San Diego Jewish World

Letters from Home

The Creation of Diaspora in Jewish Antiquity

Malka Z. Simkovich

“An excellent and thought-provoking analysis of Hellenistic period Jewish literature.”Daniel L. Smith-Christopher, —Catholic Books Review

From Nomadism to Monarchy?

Revisiting the Early Iron Age Southern Levant

Edited by Ido Koch, Oded Lipschits, and Omer Sergi

Archaeological exploration in the Central Highlands of the Southern Levant conducted during the 1970s and 1980s dramatically transformed the scholarly understanding of the early Iron Age and led to the publication of From Nomadism to Monarchy: Archaeological and Historical Aspects of Early Israel, by Israel Finkelstein and Nadav Na’aman. This volume explores and reassesses the legacy of that foundational text.

An Annotated Sumerian Dictionary

Mark E. Cohen

Sumerian was the first language to be put into writing (ca. 3200–3100 BCE), and it is the language for which the cuneiform script was originally developed. Even after it was supplanted by Akkadian as the primary spoken language in ancient Mesopotamia, Sumerian continued to be used as a scholarly written language until the end of the first millennium BCE. This volume presents the first comprehensive English-language scholarly lexicon of Sumerian.

Boschwitz on Wellhausen

The Life, Work, and Letters of a Jewish Scholar in Nazi Germany

Paul Michael Kurtz and Friedemann Boschwitz

“A major contribution to intellectual history for the fields of biblical studies, history of religions, and German Jewish studies. Paul Michael Kurtz brings a fascinating wealth of archival material together that sheds light on a crucial period of modern German research. This volume helps break Julius Wellhausen out of the boxes that he has generally been placed in and provides a much more integrated reading of his work and thought.”—Bernard M. Levinson, coeditor of Betrayal of the Humanities: The University During the Third Reich

The Language of Trauma in the Psalms

Danilo Verde

Over the last few decades, the field of trauma studies has shed new light on biblical texts that deal with individual and collective catastrophe. In The Language of Trauma in the Psalms, Danilo Verde advances the conversation, moving beyond the emphasis on healing that prevails in most literary trauma studies.

Royal Image and Political Thinking in the Letters of Assurbanipal

Sanae Ito

Assurbanipal, the last great king of the Assyrian Empire, ruled from 668 BC until at least 630 BC. Although he spent four years suppressing a revolt by Šamaš-šumu-ukīn, his older brother and the king of Babylon (667–648 BC), Assurbanipal’s reign was much longer than the reigns of his predecessors, and he controlled almost the entirety of the ancient Near East.

Supplement to SAA I–XXII

Letters, Treaties, Literary Texts, Legal and Administrative Documents, Astronomical Reports, Oracle Queries, and Rituals

Edited by Mikko Luukko and Greta van Buylaere

The State Archives of Assyria series was conceived in 1985 to make all texts from the royal archives of Nineveh available to both scholarly and lay audiences in the form of critical text editions. The present volume concludes the series and makes available about three hundred further texts from the royal archives discovered or identified after the publication of the appropriate SAA volumes or inadvertently omitted from them.

The most recent issue of Bulletin for Biblical Research, Volume 34, Issue 2, was published in October. Read it now on the Scholarly Publishing Collective.

We are very happy to welcome Elise Unterseher, our new Journals Production Coordinator! Elise relocated from Minnesota at the end of October and has hit the ground running ever since. Welcome, Elise!

Cartographies of Exclusion

Anti-Semitic Mapping in Medieval England

Asa Simon Mittman

“Cartographies of Exclusion is probably the most important book ever written about premodern European cartography.”—Surekha Davies, author ofRenaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps, and Monsters

Religion on the Margins

Embodied Moravian Pieties on the Edges of Atlantic World Empire

Benjamin M. Pietrenka

“This is a monumental study that has cohesively woven together the complexities of eighteenth-century Moravian evangelization to the missionized communities of enslaved Africans and Indigenous groups. . . . The work exposes the racial biases and prejudices that starkly contradict the valued spiritual equality of Moravianism and instead reveal a proto-racist mission.”—Winelle Kirton-Roberts, author of Created in Their Image: Evangelical Protestantism in Antigua and Barbados, 1834–1914