Before the Muses

An Anthology of Akkadian Literature

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A comprehensive collection of ancient Akkadian literature spanning three millennia. This larger, completely new, 3rd edition contains many compositions not in the previous editions; new translations of previously included compositions; incorporation of new text fragments identified or excavated since the last publication; all new footnotes; references and commentary brought up to date to reflect scholarly work of the last 10 years; and 100 more pages than the old two-volume edition. . . (more)

Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax

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Meeting the need for a textbook for classroom use after first year Hebrew grammar, Waltke and O’Connor integrate the results of modern linguistic study of Hebrew and years of experience teaching the subject in this book. In addition to functioning as a teaching grammar, this work will also be widely used for reference and self-guided instruction in Hebrew beyond the first formal year. Extensive discussion and explanation of grammatical points help to sort out points blurred in introductory books. More than 3,500 Biblical Hebrew examples illustrate. . . (more)

From Cyrus to Alexander

A History of the Persian Empire

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The evidence that this book assembles is voluminous and diverse: the citations of ancient documents and of the archaeological evidence permit the reader to follow the author in his role as a historian who, across space and time, attempts to understand how such an Empire emerged, developed, and faded. Though firmly grounded in the evidence, the author’s discussions do not avoid persistent questions and regularly engages divergent interpretations and alternative hypotheses. This book is without precedent or equivalent, and also offers an exhaustive. . . (more)

The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King of Assyria (704-681 BC), Part 2

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The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King of Assyria (704–681 BC), Part 2 (Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period 3/2) provides reliable, up-to-date editions of 195 texts of Sennacherib, as well as 26 other late Neo-Assyrian inscriptions that might belong to this king and 2 inscriptions of his family (including one of his wives, Tashmetu-sharrat). The volume contains historical inscriptions on bull and lion colossi from Nineveh, rock reliefs, stone horizontal prisms, and clay cylinders and prisms from other cities under Sennacherib’s authority (especially Ashur and Tarbisu); epigraphs on reliefs; and inscriptions on. . . (more)

Middle Egyptian Grammar

Peter Beylage

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This grammar provides a comprehensive overview of Middle Egyptian and illustrates its grammatical features with extensive examples from various sources. Exercises at the end of each chapter, along with a sign list and a hieroglyphic word list, provide the reader with the means to apply and practice the content, enabling this book to be used as both a. . . (more)

Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea, Volume 3

Bezalel Porten, and Ada Yardeni

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Containing the final 488 commodity chits, this third volume of Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea brings to a close the first comprehensive edition of the Idumean ostraca. Since the early 1990s, about two thousand Idumean Aramaic ostraca have found their way into museums, libraries, and private collections. Four major publications covering some of these texts have appeared, three of which. . . (more)

The Unfavored

Judah and Saul in the Narratives of Genesis and 1 Samuel

Josef Sykora

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Following the work of scholars who have attempted to rehabilitate the notion of “chosenness” in the Hebrew Bible and others who have focused more narrowly on the fate of non-Israelites in the Old Testament, The Unfavored centers on the role of two “unfavored” characters within Israel—Judah and. . . (more)

The Unfolding of Your Words Gives Light

Studies on Biblical Hebrew in Honor of George L. Klein

Edited by Ethan C. Jones

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This collection of essays, covering nearly every aspect of Biblical Hebrew studies, testifies to the invigorating joy of studying that language—a joy that is richly exemplified in the life of the volume’s honoree, George Klein.

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The Cultural and Religious Creativity of Ancient Israel

The Collected Essays of George E. Mendenhall

Edited by Gary Herion and H. B. Huffmon

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Throughout his long and influential career, George E. Mendenhall published groundbreaking, provocative studies on the history of the biblical tradition, law, and covenant and the Hebrew conquest of Palestine. This volume collects thirty-four of his hardest-to-find essays, many of which originally appeared. . . (more)

"I Will Walk Among You"

The Rhetorical Function of Allusion to Genesis 1–3 in the Book of Leviticus

G. Geoffrey Harper

The face of Pentateuch scholarship has shifted dramatically in the last forty years, resulting in a host of new, renewed, and often competing methodologies. The present study sits at the intersection of these recent interpretive trends. G. Geoffrey Harper uses insights from the fields of intertextuality, rhetorical criticism, and speech act theory to create a. . . (more)

Lahav VII: Ethnoarchaeology in the Tell Halif Environs

Excavations in Site 1, Complex A, 1976–1979

Joe D. Seger and Karen Seger

This seventh volume of final reports of the Lahav Research Project’s efforts at Tell Halif in Southern Israel focuses on the team’s excavations and related regional ethnographic research at adjacent Khirbet Khuweilifeh, an early twentieth-century settlement of Bedouin and Arab fellahin clients. These efforts illustrate the. . . (more)

Sepphoris III

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

Eric M. Meyers, Carol L. Meyers, and Benjamin Gordon

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Sepphoris was a major settlement in the Roman and Byzantine periods, with its earliest inhabitants stretching back to at least the Persian period. It has been intensively excavated by a several teams, including Duke University in the 1980s and 1990s. The present report brings to a close a series of. . . (more)

Marbeh Ḥokmah

Studies in the Bible and the Ancient Near East in Loving Memory of Victor Avigdor Hurowitz

History, Memory, Hebrew Scriptures