A Handbook of Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Near East

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

$89.95 $53.97

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

The Dragon, the Mountain, and the Nations

An Old Testament Myth, Its Origins, and Its Afterlives

$81.95 $49.17

“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

Male and Female in the Epic of Gilgamesh

Encounters, Literary History, and Interpretation

$44.95 $26.17

“On a literary-critical level, Abusch has given us much to think about and has presented a plausible, if uncertain, reconstruction of the Epic’s long and complicated history.”—Gary Beckman, American Oriental Society

Baal, St. George, and Khidr

A Study of the Historical Geography of the Levant

$80.95 $48.57

In Western tradition, St. George is known as the dragon slayer. In the Middle East, he is called Khidr (“Green One”), and in addition to being a dragon slayer, he is also somehow the prophet Elijah. In this book, Robert D. Miller II untangles these complicated connections and reveals how, especially in his Middle Eastern guise, St. George is a reincarnation of the Canaanite storm god Baal, another “Green One” who in Ugaritic texts slays dragons.

The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BC), Aššur-etel-ilāni (630–627 BC), and Sîn-šarra-iškun (626–612 BC), Kings of Assyria, Part 3

Jamie Novotny, Joshua Jeffers, and Grant Frame

This is the final installment in a tripartite critical edition of the inscriptions of the last major Neo-Assyrian king, Ashurbanipal, and the members of his family.

Focus Construction with kî ʾim in Biblical Hebrew

Grace J. Park

In press!

This study uses modern linguistic theory to analyze a frequently recurring syntactic phenomenon in the Hebrew Bible that has thus far resisted explanation: כי אם.

Before There Were Kings

A Literary Analysis of the Book of Judges

Elie Assis

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“Assis utilizes a close reading of the book of Judges and interacts with the secondary literature while contributing to a reading of the text that explains how the parts produce the whole. Before There Were Kings makes an important contribution, not simply in the method of reading, but in the particular way in which Assis’s perspective contributes to an understanding of the book.”—K. Lawson Younger, Jr., Divinity School, Trinity International University

From Nomadism to Monarchy?

Revisiting the Early Iron Age Southern Levant

Edited by Ido Koch, Oded Lipschits, and Omer Sergi

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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.

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We are very excited to announce the launch of our newest open access journal title Palestine/Israel Review publishing in January 2024! The journal will be available on the Scholarly Publishing Collective platform when it publishes.

The Stolen Bones of St. John of Matha

Forgery, Theft, and Sainthood in the Seventeenth Century

A. Katie Harris

“A very well written and argued microhistory that tells us much about how useful saints were within the post-Tridentine period. It also does wider scholarship the service of reminding even scholars who should know better that the history of relics, true and false, did not end with the Middle Ages. Harris has a mastery of the relevant literature in several languages which is both impressive and used to telling effect.”—Simon Ditchfield, University of York

Cambodian Evangelicalism

Cosmological Hope and Diasporic Resilience

Briana L. Wong

“This is an insightful and invaluable resource for scholars of Christianity in Cambodia, in the diaspora, and more broadly in Southeast Asia. The contextualization of Christianity in Khmer language, history, and culture and the meticulous qualitative research are of particular benefit. Wong’s treatment of her subjects is probing but sympathetic, adding nuanced layers to this chapter in world Christianity.”—Robbie B. H. Goh, Singapore University of Social Sciences