The First Inauguration

George Washington and the Invention of the Republic

Stephen Howard Browne

“Browne’s analysis of Washington’s address is superb. He succeeds admirably in showing how Americans performed and instantiated a dynamic, protean conception of nationhood.”—Peter S. Onuf, author of The Mind of Thomas Jefferson

The Objects That Remain

Laura Levitt

“[An] aching, concentric rumination on loss, in which writing through the aftermath leads to insights on letting go and holding on.”—Foreword Reviews

Objects of Vision

Making Sense of What We See

A. Joan Saab

“Objects of Vision is an engaging and well-written book that adroitly guides readers to understand the complex mechanisms by which meaning is made in visual texts.”—Martin A. Berger, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Drawing on Religion

Reading and the Moral Imagination in Comics and Graphic Novels

Ken Koltun-Fromm

“This project takes a compelling place within the hermeneutics of religion and literature as a way of studying religion. Most impressive is Koltun-Fromm’s subtle interpretation of the material, showing that it sustains very careful analysis, proving itself worthy of close reading and moral probing. Drawing on Religion models a productive integration of textual and visual materials and does so with clear prose and no jargon or excessive theorizing.”—David Morgan, author of Images at Work: The Material Culture of Enchantment

Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain by Nicholas R. Jones has been awarded the Outstanding First Book Prize by the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora.

Central PA Creative Professionals names Menopause: A Comic Treatment Best in Show in this year’s Bracket Awards.

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Scribal Tools in Ancient Israel

A Study of Biblical Hebrew Terms for Writing Materials and Implements

Philip Zhakevich

In this book, Philip Zhakevich examines the technology of writing as it existed in the southern Levant during the Iron Age II period, after the alphabetic writing system had fully taken root in the region. Using the Hebrew Bible as its corpus and focusing on a set of Hebrew terms that designated writing surfaces and instruments, this study synthesizes the semantic data of the.  . . (more)

The Royal Inscriptions of Amēl-Marduk (561–560 BC), Neriglissar (559–556 BC), and Nabonidus (555–539 BC), Kings of Babylon

Frauke Weiershäuser and Jamie Novotny

The kings of the Neo-Babylonian Empire left hundreds of official inscriptions on objects such as clay cylinders, bricks, paving stones, vases, and stelae. These writings, ranging from lengthy narratives enumerating the deeds of a monarch to labels identifying a ruler as the. . . (more)