The Dragon, the Mountain, and the Nations

An Old Testament Myth, Its Origins, and Its Afterlives

$64.95 $25.98

“Readers will find useful tools throughout Miller’s work, whether it is the careful development of the background of the dragon-slaying myth in ancient cultures or the myriad observations about biblical texts when examined through this lens. This is a subject that has needed sustained attention. Even where readers may not be convinced by Miller’s arguments, they will find ample material to develop and strengthen their own.”—Mark McEntire, Review of Biblical Literature

Tel Beth-Shemesh: A Border Community in Judah

Renewed Excavations 1990–2000: The Iron Age

$189.50 $113.70

“Located in the Judahite lowlands (Shephelah), Tel Beth-Shemesh offers an intriguing story of a border town that had to adjust to the changing geopolitical situation of the region. Accordingly, the guiding theme of the publication is the phenomenon of being located on a political and cultural border.”—Biblical Archaeology Review

Sepphoris III

The Architecture, Stratigraphy, and Artifacts of the Western Summit of Sepphoris

$159.50 $79.75

“A major settlement in the Roman and Byzantine periods, with its earliest inhabitants stretching back to at least the Persian period, Sepphoris has been intensively excavated by several teams, including Duke University in the 1980s and 1990s. This volume brings to a close a series of three reports detailing the findings of these excavations.

The Completion of Judges

Strategies of Ending in Judges 17–21

$39.50 $15.80

The last five chapters of the book of Judges contain some shocking and bizarre stories, and precisely how these stories relate to the rest of the book is a major question in scholarship on the book. Leveraging work from literary studies and hermeneutics, Beldman reexamines Judges 17–21 with the aim of discerning the “strategies of ending” that are at work in these chapters.

Camels in the Biblical World

Martin Heide and Joris Peters

Given the limited extrabiblical evidence for camels before circa 1000 BCE, a thorough investigation of the spatio-temporal history of the camel in the ancient Near and Middle East is necessary to understand their early appearance in the Hebrew Bible. Camels in the Biblical World is a two-part study that charts the cultural trajectories of the two-humped or Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) and the one-humped or Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius) from the fourth through first millennium BCE and up to the first century CE.

Excavations in the City of David, Jerusalem (1995–2010)

Ronny Reich and Eli Shukron

“To put things simply, there is no way to decipher the history of Ancient Israel without the archaeology of Jerusalem, with no access to the Temple Mount, there is no way to understand the archaeology and history of Jerusalem without the City of David ridge, and there is no way to study the City of David without the results of the Reich/Shukron excavations. This volume is therefore a landmark in the archaeology of Jerusalem and the Land of Israel.”—Israel Finkelstein, Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University

The Abyss in Revelation

A View from Below

Edward Gudeman

It is generally accepted that Revelation’s heavenly scenes were intended to demonstrate that God continued to exercise his control even when the audience’s experience might suggest otherwise. In The Abyss in Revelation, Edward Gudeman argues that even though the scenes of the underworld and its inhabitants are describing reality from the opposite perspective, they declare God’s sovereignty and power in an equally powerful way.

Bēl Lišāni

Current Research in Akkadian Linguistics

Edited by Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee and Na’ama

Akkadian, a Semitic language attested in writing from 2600 BCE until the first century CE, was the language of Mesopotamia for nearly three millennia. This volume examines the language from a comparative and historical linguistic perspective.

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A Jewish Bestiary

Fabulous Creatures from Hebraic Legend and Lore

Mark Podwal

From the ant to the ziz, herein are the creatures that exert a special force on the Jewish fancy.

Originally published in 1984 and called “broad in learning and deep in subtle humor” by the New York Times, this updated edition of A Jewish Bestiary features new full-color renderings of thirty-five creatures from Hebraic legend and lore. The illustrations are accompanied by entertaining and instructive tales drawn from biblical, talmudic, midrashic, and kabbalistic sources. The resulting juxtaposition of art with history results in a delightful and enlightening bestiary for the twenty-first century.

Kabbalah and Sex Magic

A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy

Marla Segol

In this provocative book, Marla Segol explores the development of the kabbalistic cosmology underlying Western sex magic. Drawing extensively on Jewish myth and ritual, Segol tells the powerful story of the relationship between the divine and the human body in late antique Jewish esotericism, in medieval kabbalah, and in New Age ritual practice.