Exploring the Composition of the Pentateuch, Volume 2

Edited by L. S. Baker Jr., Kenneth Bergland, Felipe A. Masotti, and A. Rahel Wells

“This diverse collection of essays challenges both the status quo and cutting-edge theories in today’s Pentateuchal historical critical research. Its essays challenge oft unchallenged presuppositions related to the dating and literary coherence of the Pentateuch, offering a wide assortment of effective arguments engaging its non-Western literary coherence, literary reuse and dependence, ancient scribal and editorial practices, dialectical variation in diachronic linguistics, among other important topics.”—Neal A. Huddleston, Trinity International University

Constructing the Human in the Hebrew Bible

Tanner E. Walker

“Walker challenges scholars of the Hebrew Bible to take seriously the multiple ways these texts construct and deconstruct categories like human/animal. In the process, he provides compelling new readings of well-known biblical narratives in light of this larger question about constructed humanness.”— Phillip Michael Sherman, author of Babel’s Tower Translated: Genesis 11 and Ancient Jewish Interpretation

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Objects and Material Culture Studies: Middle Bronze Age II Through Iron Age II

Edited by Seymour (Sy) Gitin

This is the first of two volumes presenting the results of the analyses of objects and material culture excavated in fourteen seasons from 1981 to 1996, covering a wide range of finds from the Middle Bronze II through the Iron Age II. Chapters include studies on flaked stone assemblages; stone tools and vessels; vessel plugs, covers, and reworked sherds; weights, scale pans, and miscellaneous small stones/objects; and zoomorphic terracottas. Technical studies involve microwear analysis of flint artifacts, archaeobotanical remains, forensic analysis of last-use living surface samples, geoarchaeological analysis of the landscape, geological provenancing of grindstones and other stone artifacts, and provenancing of asphalt.

A Student’s Vocabulary of Akkadian in Assyrian Royal Inscriptions

T. E. Kelley and Raleigh Heth

“This Student’s Vocabulary offers a well-structured approach to learning and memorizing the vocabulary used in Assyrian royal inscriptions. Since it is organized according the frequency of attestations for each word, students will quickly make progress in their ability to read and understand texts from this fascinating corpus—and therefore will soon start enjoying their reading. And since the most frequently used words are also frequent in other corpora, this Student’s Vocabulary also facilitates the approach to other Akkadian corpora as well and consequently will prove helpful for any student of Akkadian.”—Frauke Weiershäuser, coauthor of The Royal Inscriptions of Nabopolassar (625–605 BC) and Nebuchadnezzar II (604–562 BC), Kings of Babylon, Part 1

Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies (13:3) includes two open access articles!

Read “Reconstructing Historical Soundscapes: Famagusta and Its Bells,” by Michael J. K. Walsh and “The Pharmacopeia of Ancient Egyptian Alabaster Vessels: A Transdisciplinary Approach with Legacy Artifacts,” by Andrew J. Koh, Agnete W. Lassen, and Alison M. Crandall.

Bustan: The Middle East Book Review flipped to an open access format with volume 16, 2025!

Access the issue for free through Scholarly Publishing Collective.

Decolonizing Christianities in Contemporary Nigerian Literature

Adriaan van Klinken

“Adriaan van Klinken”s book breaks new critical ground. He brings a keen, probing intellect to the task of dissecting the provocative and fascinating ways in which Nigerian literature is shaped by, and reshapes, traditions of Christianity. Van Klinken”s is a consistently absorbing and indispensable critical account.”—Okey Ndibe, author of Foreign Gods, Inc.

The Woman’s Messenger

Evangelical Literature and the Missionary Movement in Republican China

Yun Zhou

“This book deftly uses the Christian women’s journal Nü duo to discuss Chinese Christian women’s construction of female subjectivity, gender roles, and social responsibility amid rapid political changes in the first half of the twentieth century. It makes critical contributions to the study of how Chinese Christian women participated in the global discourse of female domesticity, the ideal family, and modernity.”—Kwok Pui-Lan, editor of Transpacific Political Theology: Perspectives, Paradigms, Proposals