Non-Semitic Loanwords in the Hebrew Bible

A Lexicon of Language Contact

$149.95 $89.97

“Provides much stimulating supplementary material for any Hebrew dictionary that has decided to ignore or been content to provide only out-of-date etymological data.”—Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

Judging the Judges

A Narrative Appraisal Analysis

$99.95 $59.97

The book of Judges is full of characters of ambivalent moral integrity and acts of dubious propriety, such as Jael’s murder of Sisera and the sacrifice of Jephthah’s daughter. And yet the terse narrative and the reticent narrator frequently leave the ethical character of these actions in doubt.

The Morphophonological Development of the Classical Aramaic Verb

$124.95 $74.97

This book offers a diachronic and synchronic account of the verb morphology and phonology of Aramaic from its initial appearance early in the first millennium B.C.E. until the second millennium C.E.

Advances in Biblical Hebrew Linguistics

$64.50 $41.70

The collection showcases Biblical Hebrew linguistics as a dynamic and innovative endeavor that is making important contributions to the study of the Bible, Hebrew language, and modern linguistics.

Ur in the Twenty-First Century CE

Proceedings of the 62nd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Philadelphia, July 11–15, 2016

Edited by Grant Frame, Joshua Jeffers, and Holly Pittman

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Tightly focused in theme, yet broad in scope, this collection will be of interest to Assyriologists and archaeologists working on Iraq.(read more)

A Handbook of Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Near East

Three Thousand Deities of Anatolia, Syria, Israel, Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, and Elam

Douglas R. Frayne and Johanna H. Stuckey, with illustrations by Stéphane D. Beaulieu

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“A must for every scholar of the ancient religions of western Asia.”—Gary Beckman, author of The babilili-Ritual from Hattusa

Bearing Yhwh’s Name at Sinai

A Reexamination of the Name Command of the Decalogue

Carmen Joy Imes

Patrick Madigan, writing in the Heythrop Journal, calls Bearing Yhwh’s Name at Sinai by Carmen Joy Imes “a superb and probably definitive explanation of what was at stake in the Second Commandment’s prohibition against ‘taking the name of the Lord in vain.’”

Fishers of Fish and Fishers of Men

Fishing Imagery in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East

Tyler R. Yoder

In the Journal of the American Oriental Society, Christopher B. Hays writes that Fishers of Fish and Fishers of Men by Tyler R. Yoder “rewards the patient reader with a full picture of the motif of fishing as it was used rhetorically in the Bible.”

The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua

Yael Halevi-Wise

“A useful, intelligent introduction to the fiction of arguably the most talented Israeli novelist.”—Dan Miron, author of From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking

Ivan Illich

An Intellectual Journey

David Cayley

“Cayley convincingly illuminates how Illic’s thought developed and how it revolves around certain central insights: complementarity, the vernacular, incarnation, and a reading of history that sees the West as a deviation from the Gospel. . . . This book is unique, much needed, and masterfully executed.”—William Cavanaugh, author of Field Hospital: The Church's Engagement with a Wounded World