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Inside Back Cover &JTFOCSBVOTBOE"TTPDJBUFE1VCMJTIFSTӚ 1 Eisenbrauns Forming God Standing in the Breach Divine Anthropomorphism in the Pentateuch Siphrut: Literature and Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures 12 An Old Testament Theology and Spirituality of Intercessory Prayer Anne K. Knafl Siphrut: Literature and Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures 13 This volume examines divine anthropomorphism in the Hebrew Bible, a study characterized by disagreement and contradiction. In this work, Knafl analyzes divine anthropomorphism as a literary-contextual phenomenon and seeks to build a typology from which secondary arguments regarding theology or history of religion may be built. ca. xiii + 313 pp. Cloth. 9781575063164. October 2014. $54.50 Michael Widmer At the heart of this study is a biblical-theological approach to central passages on intercessory prayers in the OT. Widmer closely reads prayers by Abraham, Moses, Samuel, David, Solomon, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Joel, and Amos with the aim of gaining a deeper understanding of the God whom the church worships and confesses to be the Father of Jesus Christ. ca. viii + 571 pp. Cloth. 9781575063256. Early 2015. $64.50 What Kind of God? The “Image of God” in Eden Collected Essays of Terence E. Fretheim The Creation of Mankind in Genesis 2:5-3:24 in Light of the mīs pî pīt pî and wpt-r Rituals of Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt Siphrut: Literature and Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures 14 Terence E. Fretheim Edited by Michael Chan and Brent A. Strawn Siphrut: Literature and Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures 15 Terence E. Fretheim has long been a leading voice in Old Testament theology. In this volume, thirty of his classic studies have been gathered together for the first time. Here readers can find a compelling answer to the question that has motivated Fretheim’s work for more than forty years—namely, what kind of God is the God of Scripture? The studies are introduced by a critical overview of Fretheim’s career and theology by the editors and a retrospective by Fretheim himself. ca. 480 pp. Cloth. 9781575063430. Early 2015. $59.50 2 Catherine McDowell When Gen 1–3 are read together, as the final redactor intended, these texts redefine the divine-human relationship using three significant and theologically laden categories: kinship, kingship, and cult. Thus, they provide an important lens through which to view the relationship between God and humanity as presented in the rest of the Bible. ca. 300 pp. Cloth. 9781575063485. Spring 2015. $49.50 &JTFOCSBVOTBOE"TTPDJBUFE1VCMJTIFSTӚ Eisenbrauns The Epic of Gilgamesh Male and Female Encounters and Other Issues Tzvi Abusch The studies gathered here all demonstrate Tzvi Abusch’s approach to ancient literature: to make use of the tools of literary, structural, and critical analysis in service of exploring the personal and psychological dimensions of the narration. The author focuses especially on the encounters between males and females in the story. The essays are not only instructive for understanding the Epic of Gilgamesh, they also serve as exemplary studies of ancient literature with a view to investigating streams of commonality between ancient times and ours. ca. 160 pp. Cloth. 9781575063492. Early 2015. The babilili-Ritual from Hattusa (CTH 718) Mesopotamian Civilizations 19 Gary M. Beckman Hittite culture of the second millennium B.C.E. was strongly influenced by Mesopotamian culture, in part through the mediation of the peripheral cuneiform civilizations of northern Syria, in part through direct contact with Babylonia and Assyria. The text edited here (CTH 718) presents an extreme example of this cultural impact, featuring incantations in the Akkadian language (Hittite babilili) embedded within a ceremony set forth in the Hittite tongue. xiv + 97 pp. Cloth. 9781575062808. October 2014. $49.50 $39.50 Lamaštu Babylonian Creation Myths An Edition of the Canonical Series of Lamaštu Incantations and Rituals and Related Texts from the Second and First Millennia B.C. Mesopotamian Civilizations 16 W. G. Lambert Mesopotamian Civilizations 17 Walter Farber Lamaštu was one of the most important Mesopotamian demons, playing a dominant role in the magico-religious and magico-medical beliefs and practices of ancient Mesopotamia for nearly two millennia. Walter Farber, who has studied Lamaštu materials for decades, presents a comprehensive collection of all of the known texts, the texts of the primary incantations in a score format, and transliteration and translation of a number of ancillary texts. xii + 482 pp. + 91 plates. Cloth. 9781575062587. 2014. For much of the last half of the twentieth century, W. G. Lambert devoted much of his research energy and effort to the study of Babylonian texts dealing with Mesopotamian ideas regarding creation, including especially Enuma Elish. This volume, which appears almost exactly 2 years after Lambert's death, distills a lifetime of learning by the world's foremost expert on these texts. The volume includes 70 plates (primarily hand-copies of the various exemplars of Enuma Elish) and extensive indexes. xvi + 640 pp. + 72 plates. Cloth. 9781575062471. 2014. $99.50 $99.50 &JTFOCSBVOTBOE"TTPDJBUFE1VCMJTIFSTӚ 3 Eisenbrauns The Sacrificial Economy Assessors, Contractors, and Thieves in the Management of Sacrificial Sheep at the Eanna Temple of Uruk (ca. 625–520 B.C.) Explorations in Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations 2 Michael Kozuh In the mid-first millennium B.C., the Eanna temple at Uruk sacrificed a minimum of nine lambs every day in its basic routine of offerings to its gods; in addition to these, special occasions and festivals demanded the sacrifice of as many as 90 lambs in a single day. All told, the Eanna sacrificed about 4,300 lambs per year. This book aims to analyze the economic organization of this entire system of sheep and goat maintenance and utilization, to explore the economic and social relationships between the Eanna and its herdsmen, and to integrate the study of the Eanna’s animal economy into the developing picture of the Neo-Babylonian temple economy as a whole. Kozuh's careful examination of the bookkeeping records, the management records, and legal documents connected with this substantial enterprise sheds new light on an arcane area of first-millennium Mesopotamian life that will be sure to enlighten our understanding of the daily life, economy, and social structure of this region. xii + 324 pp. + CD. Cloth. 9781575062785. October 2014. $69.50 Children in the Ancient Near Eastern Household Explorations in Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations 3 Kristine Henriksen Garroway This book begins to explore the multiple definitions of child and the way the child fits within a household. It examines what membership in the household looks like for children and what factors contribute to it. A study addressing what a child is and how a child's gender and social status affect her place in the household is vital to a proper understanding of the ancient Near Eastern household. Despite their importance, children have long been marginalized in discussions of ancient societies. Only recently has this trend begun to change within biblical and ancient Near Eastern scholarship. A recent wave of studies, especially in relation to the Hebrew Bible, has started to address children in their own right. In light of the current state of scholarship on children, the purpose of this book is threefold. First, Garroway continues to fill out the picture of the child in the ancient Near East by compiling child-centric texts and archaeological realia. In analyzing these materials, she surveys the relationship between children and ancient Near Eastern society by examining the extent to which structuring forces in a community, such as social status and gender, contribute to the process of a child's becoming a member of his household and society. Finally, this information provides a base for future research, for example, a cross-cultural study of children in the ancient Near East in Classical Antiquity. xviii + 372 pp. Cloth. 9781575062952. October 2014. $57.50 4 &JTFOCSBVOTBOE"TTPDJBUFE1VCMJTIFSTӚ Eisenbrauns No Stone Unturned Greek Inscriptions and Septuagint Vocabulary Critical Studies in the Hebrew Bible 5 James K. Aitken For understanding biblical Greek in context, the importance of the discoveries of papyri was recognized early in the twentieth century, while inscriptions by comparison were left unexplored. Those scholars who had intended to turn their attention to the inscriptions were delayed by their work on the papyri and by the conviction that the greater results would come from these. As a result, undue focus has been placed on papyri, and biblical Greek words have been viewed only through their lens, leading to the inference that the Greek is specifically Egyptian and vernacular. This volume widens the focus on Septuagint words by demonstrating how the inscriptions, coming from a broader geographical region than papyri and containing a wider range of registers, are a source that should not remain untouched. This work explains the current state of the study of Septuagint vocabulary and outlines the competing roles of papyri and inscriptions in its interpretation, including the limitations of focussing solely on papyri. The practical issues for a biblical scholar in dealing with inscriptions are presented and some guidance is given for those wishing to explore the resources further. Finally, examples are drawn together of how inscriptions can illuminate our understanding of Septuagint vocabulary, and thereby inform the socio-historical position of the Septuagint. ca. xiii + 129 pp. Paper. 9781575063249. October 2014. $28.95 The Old Greek of the Book of Job Karl V. Kutz The earliest Greek translation of the book of Job, the Old Greek, is fascinating because it diverges significantly from our modern translations. The translator was willing to expand, condense, clarify, paraphrase, or harmonize in order to illuminate the Hebrew text of Job. The translator’s free style often discloses what he, and perhaps his religious community, considered to be implicit in the text—insights that would not be revealed in a more literal translation. As a result, the Old Greek represents the earliest articulated interpretation of the book of Job and shows us, on a broader scale, the process of exegesis and translation within Hellenistic Judaism. In this volume, Karl Kutz allows us to witness the translator’s exegesis on a small scale with the treatment of individual words and sentences, and on a larger scale with themes such as angels as the agents of God's wrath, Job’s hope in a future resurrection, and the portrayal of the characters in the book. Kutz elucidates the personal touch of the Old Greek translator of Job and reveals the his unique perception of Job and his world. Pp. ca. 250. Cloth. 9781575062891. Late 2014. $49.50 &JTFOCSBVOTBOE"TTPDJBUFE1VCMJTIFSTӚ 5 Eisenbrauns / Metropolitan Museum of Art Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume 4 The Ebabbar Temple Archive and Other Texts from the Fourth to the First Millennium B.C. Published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art Ira Spar and Michael Jursa, eds. This long-anticipated work is the final volume of the CTMMA series and completes the publication of all the cuneiform-inscribed tablets and inscriptions (excluding those on sculptures, reliefs, and seals) in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Published are 183 texts that include 154 cuneiform tablets and tablet fragments, one inscribed clay bulla, fourteen clay cylinders, five clay prisms, and four stone inscriptions. xcii + 343 pp. + 174 plates. Cloth. 9781575063270. 2014. $135.00 Mood and Modality in Hurrian Languages of the Ancient Near East 5 Dennis R. M. Campbell Campbell provides a formal and functional analysis of Hurrian modal morphemes. Unlike the better-known Semitic and Indo-European languages of the ancient Near East, Hurrian has a rich complement of modal endings. This sometimes bewildering variety in the form and function of modal morphemes in Hurrian has been touched on in a number of studies, but it has not received a detailed treatment until now. The present book will be seen by some as a potentially radical departure from standard understandings of how these endings work, but this was not the author’s intent. ca. xiii + 354 pp. Cloth. 9781575063225. Early 2015. $59.50 An Akkadian Handbook Paradigms, Helps, Logograms, and Sign List Completely revised and expanded edition Douglas B. Miller and R. Mark Shipp In this handy, brief summary of basic information, students of Akkadian will find the ideal companion to have at hand for basic work in the first years of study. While not a replacement for the standard reference tools, students and scholars at all levels will find this compendium a valuable tool. This is a completely reworked second edition of the beloved 1996 book. ca. vi + 326 pp. Paper. 9781575063065. November 2014. $2.95 6 &JTFOCSBVOTBOE"TTPDJBUFE1VCMJTIFSTӚ Eisenbrauns Phoenicia Episodes and Anecdotes from the Ancient Mediterranean J. Brian Peckham In this magnum opus, the late Brian Peckham examines all of the evidence currently available to paint as complete a portrait as is possible of the land, its history, its people, and its culture. This complicated history shows up in episodes and anecdotes along a frangible and fractured timeline. Individual men and women come forward in their artifacts, amulets, or seals. There are king lists and alliances, companies, and city assemblies. Years or centuries are skipped in the twinkling of any eye and only occasionally recovered. For this reason, the subtitle, Episodes and Anecdotes from the Ancient Mediterranean, is a particularly appropriate description of Peckham's masterful (posthumous) volume, the fruit of a lifetime of research into the history and culture of the Phoenicians. xxii + 586 pp. Cloth. 9781575061818. November 2014. $69.50 A Monetary and Political History of the Phoenician City of Byblos in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.E. History, Archaeology, and Culture of the Levant 6 J. Elayi and A. G. Elayi Arwad (now in Syria), Byblos (now Jbeil in Lebanon), Sidon (Saida in Lebanon), and Tyre (Sour in Lebanon)—the four major cites of Persian-period Phoenicia—all minted their own coins. Archaeologists and historians have found these coins to be a major resource for the reconstruction of Phoenician history. In A Monetary and Political History of the Phoenician City of Byblos, the Elayis examine this history from their numismatic vantage. The tour de force within this volume is the coin catalog, which introduces 1,662 silver Byblian coins, also published in 25 plates. xvi + 384 pp., including plates. Cloth. 9781575063041. 2014. $59.50 Drought, Death, and the Sun in Ugarit and Ancient Israel A Philological and Comparative Study Coniectanea Biblica Old Testament Series 61 Ola Wikander The goal of Wikander's study is to elucidate the interconnected motifs of drought and death in the Bronze Age cuneiform alphabetic texts from Ugarit in Syria and the survival of these motifs as they appear in the world and text of the Hebrew Bible. The Ugaritic texts portray the sun goddess, Shapshu, as the sender of terrible drought; she manifests the rule of the god of death through her burning rays. In the Hebrew Bible, the study traces terminology that refers to the ancient motifs of drought, death, and the sun in texts such as 1 Kings 17-18, Jeremiah 14, Hosea 13, and Malachi 3. xiv + 318 pp. Paper. 9781575068275. 2014. $44.95 &JTFOCSBVOTBOE"TTPDJBUFE1VCMJTIFSTӚ 7 Eisenbrauns / Harvard Semitic Museum Transitivity and Object Marking in Biblical Hebrew An Investigation of the Object Preposition ʾet Harvard Semitic Studies 64 Published by the Harvard Semitic Museum Peter Bekins Hebrew grammarians have found it difficult to explain the variable use of the object preposition ʾet in Biblical Hebrew, which has typically been attributed to a weak emphatic sense or explained as stylistic variation. Drawing on the functional-typological literature on Differential Object Marking (DOM), this study takes a fresh approach to the problem by treating transitivity as a prototype category, which can be decomposed into a cluster of interrelated parameters. xxi + 234 pp. Cloth. 9781575069487. October 2014. $44.50 Dictionary of Qumran Aramaic Edward M. Cook The Aramaic texts among the Dead Sea Scrolls are among the most important discoveries for the history of Aramaic and for the background of early Judaism and Christianity. They constitute a “missing link” between Biblical Aramaic and the later Aramaic of the targums and midrashic literature. Among them are the oldest texts we have of the Book of Enoch and Tobit, the earliest Aramaic translation of a portion of Scripture (the Targum of Job), and many previously unknown texts. Now, for the first time, there is a comprehensive dictionary of all the Aramaic texts from the 11 Qumran caves, from a noted specialist in Qumran Aramaic. It is the first dictionary devoted solely to this Aramaic corpus and contains a wealth of detail, including definitions, extensive citations of the sources, discussions of difficult passages, and a bibliography. It will be an indispensable resource to anyone interested in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the literature of early Judaism and Christianity, and the Aramaic language. ca. viii + 264. Cloth. 9781575063416. Late 2014. $54.50 The Syntax of Volitives in Biblical Hebrew and Amarna Canaanite Prose Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic 9 Hélène Dallaire Dallaire attempts to answer the following questions: Do volitives function in a similar way in Biblical Hebrew and Amarna Canaanite? Where and why is there overlap in morphology and syntax between these two languages? What morphological and syntactical differences exist between the volitional expressions of the languages? In attempting to answer these questions, the author bears in mind the fact that, within each of these two languages, scribes from different areas used specific dialectal and scribal traditions (for example, northern versus southern, peripheral versus central). Pp. ca. xiv + 230. Cloth. 9781575063072. November 2014. $49.50 8 &JTFOCSBVOTBOE"TTPDJBUFE1VCMJTIFSTӚ Eisenbrauns / Harvard Semitic Museum The Land between the Two Rivers Early Israelite Identities in Transjordan Thomas Petter A survey of recent scholarship shows that historians who are skeptical about any real history of early Israel have disparaged the idea that Israel had an early presence in Transjordan. This skeptical stance, however, is by no means shared by everyone. By bringing together applicable anthropological research and relevant biblical, extrabiblical, and archaeological data, Petter explores this issue while outlining a context-driven interpretive framework within which to plot tribal ethnic expressions in the past. xx + 154pp. ; 6 color maps. Cloth. 9781575062914. 2014. $44.50 Excavations at the Early Bronze IV Sites of Jebel Qaʿaqir and Beʾer Resisim Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant 6 Published by the Harvard Semitic Museum William G. Dever This volume is the final report of excavations carried out in the Hebron hills and the Negev desert in 1967-1980 on behalf of Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem and the University of Arizona. They were pioneering projects that helped to illuminate what was then a poorly known “Dark Age” in the cultural history of ancient Palestine, a nonurban interlude of pastoral nomadic movements over several centuries (ca. 2400–2000 B.C.E.) in the early Bronze Ages. viii + 366 pp. Cloth. 9781575069470. 2014. $79.50 Tell el-Borg I Gezer VI Excavations in North Sinai The Objects from Phases I and II (1964–1974) James K. Hoffmeier Garth Gilmour Between 1999 and 2008, a team of experts and specialists worked together at Tell el-Borg, a site in north Sinai, in the delta region of Egypt. This volume comprises the first report on the site. Tell el-Borg, as it turned out, was composed of four significant areas: the military zone where two forts were found (Fields IV, V, and VIII), the public space (Field II), the domestic area (Field VI), and the cemeteries (Field III and VII). A second volume will appear in the next few years. xiv + 520 pp. + CD with color photographs. Cloth. 9781575063058. 2014. Publication of this volume continues the presentation of archaeological reports on the Hebrew Union College–Harvard Semitic Museum Excavations at Gezer between 1964 and 1974. With the exception of objects previously published in Gezer V, Gezer VI provides a comprehensive database with listings of all of the objects recovered during both the Phase I (1968–1971) and Phase II (1971–1974) HUC excavations at the site. The volume also offers a summary of the stratigraphic history of Tell Gezer and other studies. xv + 407 pp. Cloth. 9781575063126. 2014. $99.50 $99.50 &JTFOCSBVOTBOE"TTPDJBUFE1VCMJTIFSTӚ 9 Eisenbrauns Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea, Volume 1 Dossiers 1–10: 401 Commodity Chits Bezalel Porten and Ada Yardeni Some 340 Aramaic ostraca of the Persian and Hellenistic periods have been excavated at 32 sites in Israel, from Yokneam in the north to Eilat in the south, with Arad and Beersheba being the main contributory sites. By far, however, the largest cache of texts is what has come to be known as “the Idumean ostraca.” These did not come from formal excavations but began to appear on the antiquities market in 1991. Since then, some 2,000 ostraca have reached 9 museums and libraries and 21 private collections. Of these, the majority are still not formally published, and in this volume (and those to follow) Bezalel Porten undertakes to provide a comprehensive edition of all these texts, in many cases as an editio princeps. Porten, with the expert epigraphic assistance of Ada Yardeni and hand-copies by her as well, here provides the first volume of texts, organized by dossier based on the primary personage cited in the text. Color photographs (where available), ceramic descriptions, hand-copies, transcription, translation, and commentary are provided for each text, along with figures and tables, and introductions and summaries of each dossier. An included CD contains a catalogue of all the texts and three color key-wordin-context concordances, for words, personal names, and months for the entire corpus. This publication will become the primary resource for information on these texts. liv + 472 pp. + CD. Cloth. 9781575062778. 2014. $149.50 Family and Household Religion Toward a Synthesis of Old Testament Studies, Archaeology, Epigraphy, and Cultural Studies Rainer Albertz, Beth Alpert Nakhai, Saul M. Olyan, and Rüdiger Schmitt, eds. This volume is the most recent collective contribution of a group of biblical scholars and archaeologists who are engaged in an ongoing debate about the nature of family and household religion in ancient Israel and its environment. It is intended to complement the volume Household and Family Religion in Antiquity, edited by John Bodel and Saul M. Olyan, with an emphasis on cross-cultural comparison. This volume emphasizes theoretical and methodological challenges facing scholars of household and family religion (e.g., the conceptualization of family/household religion, the problem of identifying pertinent artifacts, and the difficulties inherent in using texts together with material evidence). The goal for this volume was to bring together a group of specialists in biblical studies, epigraphy, and archaeology who would utilize a variety of humanistic and social-scientific approaches to the data and would also be willing to engage in dialogue and debate. The essays published here reflect the energy of this vigorous debate and will contribute, both individually and collectively, to the advancement of our knowledge of Israelite family and household religion. viii + 324 pp. Cloth. 9781575062884. 2014. $54.50 10 &JTFOCSBVOTBOE"TTPDJBUFE1VCMJTIFSTӚ Eisenbrauns Celebrate Her for the Fruit of Her Hands An Eye for Form Essays in Honor of Carol L. Meyers Epigraphic Essays in Honor of Frank Moore Cross Susan Ackerman, Charles E. Carter, and Beth Alpert Nakhai, eds. Jo Ann Hackett and Walter E. Aufrecht, eds. Carol Meyers is renowned for her expertise in many fields: the use of social-science methodologies to understand the Bible and the world of Iron Age Israel; the archaeology of ancient Israel, especially important sites of the Second Temple period; and the study of women in the Bible and in ancient Israel. In this volume, some of Meyers's foremost scholarly peers honor her by offering essays that build on her work and depend on her expertise. xx + 389 pp.. Cloth. 9781575063218. Late 2014. At the first meeting of his class in Northwest Semitic Epigraphy at Harvard, Frank Cross would inform students that one of the things each of them needed was an “eye for form.” By this, he meant the ability to recognize typological or evolutionary change in letters and scripts. Cross considered epigraphy his primary field, so in this volume Cross’s colleagues, friends, and former students present a collection of epigraphic essays in his honor. xl + 383 pp. Cloth. 9781575063034. 2014. $59.50 $59.50 Feasting in the Archaeology and Texts of the Bible and the Ancient Near East Memory and the City in Ancient Israel Peter Altmann and Janling Fu, eds. This volume contributes to the study of social memory in ancient Israel in the late Persian and early Hellenistic periods by exploring the city, both urban spaces and urban centers. It opens with a study that compares basic conceptualizing tendencies of cities in Mesopotamia with their counterparts in ancient Israel. Its essays then explore memories of gates, domestic spaces, threshing floors, palaces, city gardens and parks, natural and domesticated water in urban settings, cisterns, and wells. Finally, the studies turn to particular cities of memory in ancient Israel: Jerusalem, Samaria, Shechem, Mizpah, Tyre, Nineveh, and Babylon. vi + 362 pp. Paper. 9781575063157. October 2014. This volume brings together the work of scholars using various methodologies to investigate the prevalence, importance, and meanings of feasting and foodways in the texts and cultural-material environments of the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East. Thus, it serves as both an introduction to and explication of this emerging field. The offerings range from the third-millennium Early Dynastic period in Mesopotamia to the rise of a new cuisine in the Islamic period and transverse geographical locations such as southern Iraq, Syria, the Aegean, and especially the southern Levant. xii + ca. 300 pp. Cloth. 9781575063232. October 2014. $47.50 &JTFOCSBVOTBOE"TTPDJBUFE1VCMJTIFSTӚ Ehud Ben Zvi and Diana V. Edelman, eds. $54.50 11 Eisenbrauns State Archives of Assyria — Back in Print The acclaimed State Archives of Assyria series has had several titles out of print for the past few years. Eisenbrauns is reprinting all of these titles in high-quality paperback editions. Make sure your series is complete today. New titles will continue to be published by the Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project and distributed by Eisenbrauns. (Two additional titles, not pictured here, are in the process of being reprinted: Kataja and Whiting’s Grants, Decrees and Gifts of the Neo-Assyrian Period [State Archives of Assyria 12] and Alan Millard’s The Eponyms of the Neo-Assyrian Empire 910–612 B.C. [State Archives of Assyria Studies 2].) Neo-Assyrian Treaties and Loyalty Oaths Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea State Archives of Assyria 2 Simo Parpola and Kazuko Watanabe State Archives of Assyria 3 Alasdair Livingstone lxii + c. 130 pages + 10 plates. Paper. 9781575063324. First published 1988. xxxvii + 183 pages + 16 plates + 14 pages of scores. Paper. 9781575063348. First published 1989. $54.50 $44.50 The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part 2 Imperial Adminstrative Records, part 1 Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces Palace and Temple Administration State Archives of Assyria 5 G. B. Lanfranchi and Simo Parpola State Archives of Assyria 7 F. M. Fales and J. N. Postgate lxii + 261 pages + 13 plates. Paper. 9781575063355. xxxvii + 272 pages + 2 plates. Paper. 9781575063263. First published 1990. $54.50 $54.50 Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars State Archives of Assyria 8 Hermann Hunger State Archives of Assyria 10 Simo Parpola xxix + 384 pages + 15 plates. Paper. 9781575063317. First published 1992. $62.50 Imperial Administrative Records, part 2 xxxix + 421 pages. Paper. 9781575063379. First published 1993. $64.50 Letters from Priests to the Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal Provincial and Military Administration State Archives of Assyria 13 Steven W. Cole and Peter Machinist State Archives of Assyria 11 F. M. Fales and J. N. Postgate xxx + 221 pages. Paper. 9781575063294. First published 1998. xlii + 211 pp. including 54 illustrations. Cloth. 9789515702494. First published 1995. $47.50 $54.50 12 &JTFOCSBVOTBOE"TTPDJBUFE1VCMJTIFSTӚ Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project Selected Royal Inscriptions of Assurbanipal 3 Neo-Assyrian Specialists Crafts, Offices, and Other Professional Designations 4 L , L , LET, Prism I, Prism T, and Related Texts Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire 4/1 Heather D. Baker State Archives of Assyria Cuneiform Texts 10 Jamie Novotny This selection of Assurbanipal's inscriptions presents for the first time full editions of the prism inscriptions I and T and new editions of several important texts written on clay tablets from the library collections at Nineveh. These texts describe Assurbanipal's youth and education, military campaigns against Egypt and Elam, and more. xxvii + 137 pp. Paper. 9789521013447. 2014. This volume is a companion to The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (PNA), presenting a complete register of all individuals who are identified in the Neo-Assyrian sources by a personal name as well as by some additional designation, whether it be an office or professional title, or a status or ethnic designation. 416 pp. Paper. 9789521013485. Late 2014. $94.00 $44.00 The Anti-Witchcraft Series Maqlû A Student Edition and Selected Commentary Women and Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire State Archives of Assyria Cuneiform Texts 11 Tzvi Abusch State Archives of Assyria Studies 23 Saana Svärd The standard Babylonian series Maqlû, “Burning,” comprises eight tablets of incantations in which the text of almost one hundred Akkadian incantations is recorded, and a ritual tablet in which the incantations are cited by their incipit and ritual directions are prescribed. This edition includes a transliteration of the eclectic text, a computer-generated cuneiform text, a detailed commentary on selected sections, and computer-generated glossaries and indices. xli + 201 pp. Cloth. 9789521013478. Late 2014. This study, which focuses on women in the palaces of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (c. 930-610 BCE), draws attention to heterarchical power relations in which women were engaged in the Neo-Assyrian palace milieu. Heterarchical power relations include power relations such as reciprocal power, resistance, and persuasion. Although earlier research has certainly been aware of women’s influence in the palaces, this study makes explicit the power concepts employed in previous research and further develops them using the concept of heterarchy. ca. viii + 250 pp. Paper. 9789521013461. Early 2015. $69.00 Price TBD &JTFOCSBVOTBOE"TTPDJBUFE1VCMJTIFSTӚ 13 Deo Publishing The Days of Creation Leviticus in Practice A History of Christian Interpretation of Genesis 1:1-2:3 Practice Interpretation 3 J. W. Rogerson (ed.) History of Biblical Interpretation 4 Andrew J. Brown Practice Interpretation takes the everyday social conditions of people as they are described in the Bible and looks at emerging issues that confront interpreters in daily life. The latest volume in the Practice Interpretation series deals with a much-neglected but fascinating part of the Bible, the book of Leviticus. 98 pp. Paper. 9781905679249. 2014. This book examines the history of Christian interpretation of the seven-day framework of Genesis 1:1-2:3 in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament from the post-apostolic era to the debates surrounding Essays and Reviews (1860). Included in the survey are patristic, medieval, Renaissance/Reformation, eighteenth-century Enlightenment, and finally early to mid-nineteenth-century interpretations of the days of creation. xii + 361 pp. Paper. 9781905679270. 2014. $26.95 $37.95 Paul's Charismatic Imperatives Journal of Pentecostal Theology Supplement 43 Robby J. Kagarise Do not quench the Spirit! Strive for spiritual gifts! Walk in the Spirit! In these imperatives, all from the hand of Paul, the apostle regards the success of the Spirit’s work as dependent on human cooperation. Does Paul's linking of divine power with human agency derive from the influences of his religious background, or is it a product of his own experience and thought? How does Paul think of the interrelation between Spirit and human agency? As the author answers these questions we are given an illuminating view both of the path along which Paul thinks the Spirit draws believers, and of the nature of the Spirit's activity that Paul expects believers to embrace. 244 pp. Paper. 9781905679324. 2014. $36.00 14 Interpretation of Tongues and Prophecy in 1 Corinthians 12–14 Journal of Pentecostal Theology Supplement 41 Yongnan Jeon Ahn Bringing spiritual experience into the domain of biblical hermeneutics, this book will certainly stimulate current debates within this field, among both Pentecostals and Christians of other traditions. The author also applies a Pentecostal hermeneutical methodology to Paul’s teaching on tongues and prophecy in 1 Corinthians 12–14, opening possibilities to a Pentecostal pneumatology that tends instead to focus on the Lukan narrative. Paul’s texts are reconsidered not as doctrinal or situational documents but as dynamic communication within a living community. xiv + 219 pp. Paper. 9781905679300. 2013. $35.95 &JTFOCSBVOTBOE"TTPDJBUFE1VCMJTIFSTӚ Carta Understanding Biblical Archaeology Jerusalem in the Time of Nehemiah An Introductory Atlas 2nd, revised edition (2014) Paul H. Wright Leen Ritmeyer and Kathleen Ritmeyer Many of the places mentioned in the Bible can be seen to this day. Cities like Jerusalem, Tiberias, Bethlehem, and Jericho have lasted through the ages. Others like Megiddo, Hazor, and Gezer are attested to by their ruins. Over one hundred years of scientific archaeology have provided us with greater insight into the lives and customs of the ancient peoples who inhabited the region. 48 pp., with maps, plans, photographs, and illustrations. Full color. Paper. 9789652208460. 2014. Nehemiah was the great reformer who rallied the people to repair the walls of Jerusalem that were broken down in the Babylonian destruction of 586 B.C. In this guide, one of the builders of the walls (a Tekoite) leads us around the city and shows us the great work accomplished in those stirring times. Profusely illustrated with photographs of a recently constructed model, the book also contains rare photographs of archaeological remains extant from the period. 72 pp., with original photographs, reconstructions, maps and plans. Full color. Paper. 9789652208538. 2014. $18.00 $15.95 The Sacred Bridge Jerusalem in the Year 30 A.D. Carta's Atlas of the Biblical World 2nd, revised edition (2014) 2nd, revised edition (2014) Anson F. Rainey and R. Steven Notley Open up the world of Jerusalem in the first century with Jerusalem in the year 30 A.D. The combination of artistic restorations and on-site photographs transports you back almost 2,000 years. See the remains from the period preserved in and around the present-day walls of Jerusalem. Then walk the streets of the city in the time of Jesus with the minutely detailed reconstruction drawings. 72 pp., with original photographs, reconstructions, maps and plans. Full color. Paper. 9789652208569. 2014. Leen Ritmeyer and Kathleen Ritmeyer This revised version of Carta’s acclaimed atlas provides 300 state-of-the-art maps to show as far as possible in terms of modern knowledge the changes and historical processes that affected the lands of the Bible. Included are all historical and biblical episodes that can be depicted cartographically—migrations and settlements, battles and conquests, the location and detailed movement of individual historical and biblical characters. Full color. Over 600 maps and illustrations, chronological tables, extensive excurses and indexes, bibliography. Cloth. 9789652208491. 2014. $15.95 $120.00 &JTFOCSBVOTBOE"TTPDJBUFE1VCMJTIFSTӚ 15 LoGisma Editore New Results and New Questions on the Reign of Suppiluliuma I Hurrian Personal Names in the Kingdom of Hatti Eothen: Collana di studi sulle Civilta dell'Oriente antico 19 Eothen: Collana di studi sulle Civilta dell’Oriente antico 18 Stetfano de Martino and Jared L. Miller, eds. Stefano de Martino Francis Breyer, Ägyptisches in den Mannestaten Suppiluliumas: Zur aktuellen Diskussion um Nib~ururiia und tekri-; Francis Breyer, Tawananna, die babylonische Queen des hethitischen Großkönigs Suppiluliuma; Violetta Cordani, Suppiluliuma in Syria after the First Syrian War: the (Non-)evidence of the Amarna Letters; Stefano de Martino, The Wives of Suppiluliuma I; Elena Devecchi, Suppiluliuma’s Syrian Campaigns in Light of the Documents from Ugarit; Daria Gromova, Syria in the Period before, during and after the First Syrian War of Suppiluliuma I; Jared L. Miller, The Placement of the Death of Tuthaliya III and the Kinza/Nuhhashe Rebellion within the Deeds of Suppiluliuma I; Boaz Stavi, The Last Years of the Reign of Tuthaliya III Reconsidered. Introduction; The Members of the Royal Family of Hatti (Early Empire–Imperial Age–Between Tradition and Innovation); Kings and Rulers of Subordinated Countries; Hurrian Personal Names in the Hittite Society (Old Kingdom–Early Empire–Imperial Age); Hurrian Personal Names: Sociological Distribution; State Officials and Dignitaries; Army; Royal Messengers; Palace Personnel and People Living at Court; Scribes and Chiefs of the Scribes; Cult; Experts of Medicine; Other or Unknown Professions.– Bibliographical References; Personal Names Examined 112 pages. Paper. 9788887621921. 2011. $45.00 163 pp. Paper. 9788897530107. 2013. $55.00 Empires after the Empire Mangiare Divinamente Anatolia, Syria and Assyria after Suppiluliuma II (ca. 1200-800/700 B.C.) Pratiche e simbologie alimentari nell'antico Oriente Eothen: Collana di studi sulle Civilta dell’Oriente antico 17 Eothen: Collana di studi sulle Civilta dell’Oriente antico 20 Karl Strobel, ed. Lucio Milano, ed. Mario Fales, Transition: The Assyrians at the Euphrates between the 13th and 12th century BC; Federico Manuelli, Malatya – Melid between the Late Bronze and the Iron Age. Continuity and Change at Arslantepe during the 2nd and 1st Millennium BC: Preliminary Observations on the Pottery Assemblages; Anacleto D’Agostino, The Upper Khabur and Upper Tigris Valleys between the End of the Late Bronze Age and the Beginning of the Iron Age: An Assessment of the Archaeological Evidence (Settlement Paterns and Pottery Assemblages); Fabrizio Venturi, The North Syrian Plateau Before and After the Fall of the Hittite Empire: New Evidence from Tell Afis; Karl Strobel, The Crucial 12th Century BC: The ‘Fall of Empires’ Revisited; and three more essays. 336 pages. Paper. 9788887621877. 2011. mitologici ittiti; Stefano de Martino, Il banchetto nell'Anatolia ittita; Stefania Ermidoro, Il banchetto nei testi letterari della Mesopotamia; Salvatore Gaspa, La cucina del dio e del re nell'alimentazione dell'impero assiro; Frederick Mario Fales, Sul ruolo delle sostanze alimentari nei testi medici, mesopotamici; Simonetta Graziani, I topi sono un cibo divino!; and five more essays. 377 pp. Paper. 9788897530176. 2012. $109.00 16 Massimo Maiocchi, Il dolce sapore della morte: simbologia delle offerte rituali nella Mesopotamia protodinastica; Lucio Milano ? Maria Vittoria Tonietti, Cerimonialità alimentare ad Ebla: offerte, pasti, sacrifici; Simonetta Ponchia, Cerimonialità e gestione delle risorse alimentari negli archivi di alta Mesopotamia; Sabina Crippa, Magici alimenti o alimenti del magico?; Annamaria Polvani, Il banchetto nei testi $115.00 &JTFOCSBVOTBOE"TTPDJBUFE1VCMJTIFSTӚ Mohr Siebeck History, Ideology and Bible Interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls Lebenskunst und Gotteslob in Israel Collected Studies Anregungen aus Psalter und Weisheit fur die Theologie Forschungen zum Alten Testament 90 Devorah Dimant Forschungen zum Alten Testament 91 Hermann Spieckermann In this volume Devorah Dimant assembles twentyseven thoroughly updated and partly rewritten articles discussing various aspects of the Dead Sea Scrolls that she published over the past three decades. The volume contains various articles by Hermann Spieckermann covering wisdom literature, the Psalms and Old Testament theology. Some of the articles have not yet been published, most of them were published in the previous decade and have been thoroughly revised. xv + 610 pp. Cloth. 9783161510212. 2014. $271.00 Yahweh's Council Its Structure and Membership Forschungen zum Alten Testament 2. 65 Ellen White How does God's government function and how is it structured? Ellen White helps one gain a better understanding of Yahweh’s position and relationship to the other divine beings and contributes to the academic discussion surrounding monotheism and polytheism in the Hebrew Bible. xv + 223 pp. Paper. 9783161532931. 2014. $102.40 x + 500 pp. Cloth. 9783161519154. 2014. $191.00 Stämmevolk–Staatsvolk– Gottesvolk? Studien zur Verwendung des Israel -Namens im Alten Testament Forschungen zum Alten Testament 2. 68 Kristin Weingart Kristin Weingart investigates the use of the name Israel in the Old Testament as well as the underlying concepts of Israel. She shows that the social construction of a common descent forms the base of Israelite collective identity in the pre- as well as post-exilic periods and stands behind the various usages of the name “Israel.” xvii + 439 pp. Paper. 9783161532368. 2014. $151.00 Language and Identity in Ancient Narratives The Relationships between Speech Patterns and Social Contact in the Acts of the Apostles, Acts of John, and Acts of Philip Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 370 Julia A. Snyder Julia A. Snyder argues that methodological improvements are needed in how lexical significance in ancient Greek texts is determined xvi + 329 pp. Paper. 9783161532641. 2014. Literature or Liturgy? Early Christian Hymns and Prayers in Their Literary and Liturgical Context in Antiquity Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 363 Clemens Leonhard and Hermut Lohr, eds. The essays in this volume elaborate on the question of how ancient pieces of liturgy might be found in the extant literature. It also asks how readers of these literary texts can avert the risk of anachronistic reconstructions of ancient liturgies. vii + 222 pp. Paper. 9783161532184. 2014. $110.40 $134.50 The Reception of Septuagint Words in Jewish-Hellenistic and Christian Literature Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 367 Eberhard Bons, Ralph Brucker , and Jan Joosten, eds. Some of the best specialists of Jewish-Hellenistic and early Christian texts make an effort to improve Septuagint lexicography in this volume. Reconsidering the Relationship between Biblical and Systematic Theology in the New Testament Essays by Theologians and New Testament Scholars Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 369 Benjamin E. Reynolds, Brian Lugioyo, and Kevin J. Vanhoozer, eds. viii + 213 pp. Paper. 9783161529535. 2014. $110.40 The essays in this volume engage specific New Testament texts and theological doctrines by viewing them through a number of different lenses xiv + 308 pp. Paper. 9783161527197 &JTFOCSBVOTBOE"TTPDJBUFE1VCMJTIFSTӚ $134.40 17 Mohr Siebeck Crucifixion in the Mediterranean World Conceptions of Gospel and Legitimacy in Early Christianity Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 327 John Granger Cook Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 367 James A. Kelhoffer John Granger Cook seeks better to understand the phenomenon of Roman crucifixion by investigating evidence from Latin texts and inscriptions, supplemented by what may be learned from the surviving archaeological material, and other sources. Commencing with James A. Kelhoffer's inaugural lecture at Uppsala University, this volume makes available sixteen revised and updated articles, originally published between 1998 and 2013, focusing on method, gospel, and legitimacy. xxiv + 522 pp. Cloth. 9783161531248. 2014. xxiii + 400 pp. Cloth. 9783161526367. 2014. $222.40 From the Sayings to the Gospels Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 328 Christopher M. Tuckett The 28 essays by Christopher Tuckett collected in this volume represent a number of studies, originally published over a period of 30 years, seeking to throw light on the way in which Jesus traditions were developed and used in early Christianity. xxi + 642 pp. Cloth. 9783161532887. 2014. $287.00 $223.00 Synoptic Problems Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 329 John S. Kloppenborg This volume contains a collection of twenty-one essays of John S. Kloppenborg, with four foci: conceptual and methodological issues in the Synoptic Problem; the Sayings Gospel Q; the Gospel of Mark; and the Parables of Jesus. Kloppenborg, a major contributor to the Synoptic Problem, is especially interested in how one constructs synoptic hypotheses. xiii + 737 pp. Cloth. 9783161526176. 2014. $287.00 Codex apocryphus gnosticus Novi Testamenti Christ Absent and Present Band 1: Evangelien und Apostelgeschichten aus den Schriften von Nag Hammadi und verwandten Kodizes Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. 354 Peter Orr Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 326 Peter Nagel This volume contains the Coptic texts and parallel German translations of nine Coptic-Gnostic and Coptic-Manichaean Gospels and a few others texts. A Study in Pauline Christology In his letters, the Apostle Paul can express both the confidence that Christ dwells in the believer (Rom. 8:10) and the longing for Christ to return so that believers can finally be united with him (1 Thess. 4:17). Peter Orr develops the case that this under-explored relationship between the presence and absence of Christ sheds important light on Paul’s Christology. x + 259 pp. Paper. 9783161528835. 2014. $126.50 xvii + 397 pp. Cloth. 9783161533433. 2014. $199.00 Luke-Acts and Jewish Historiography Soldiers in Luke-Acts A Study on the Theology, Literature, and Ideology of Luke-Acts Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. 366 Samson Uytanlet In this book, Samson Uytanlet observes that there is an unnecessary disjunction between Luke's theology and literature in previous studies on Luke-Acts: Luke’s theology is studied in light of Jewish writings whilehis literature is studied in relation with Greco-Roman works. xviii + 327 pp. Paper. 9783161530906. 2014. Engaging, Contradicting, and Transcending the Stereotypes Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. 362 Laurie Brink Laurie Brink demonstrates that the author of LukeActs employs a vareity of literary stereotypes to characterize Roman soldiers. He then upsets these stereotypes; the soldiers do not wholly live up to their bad reputations. xii + 222 pp. Paper. 9783161531637. 2014. $110.50 $134.40 18 &JTFOCSBVOTBOE"TTPDJBUFE1VCMJTIFSTӚ Mohr Siebeck The Fate of the Dead in Early Third Century North African Christianity Scriptural Incipits on Amulets from Late Antique Egypt The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas and Tertullian Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum 84 Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum 83 Eliezer Gonzalez Eliezer Gonzalez analyzes how the Passion of Perpetua provides us with early literary evidence of an environment in which the Graeco-Roman and Christian cults of the dead, including the cults of the martyrs and saints, appear to be very much aligned. Text, Typology, and Theory Joseph E. Sanzo In the present volume, Joseph E. Sanzo addresses a scholarly need by offering the first sustained study of the scriptural incipits on Greek and Coptic amulets and other apotropaic objects from late antique Egypt. xiv + 219 pp. Paper. 9783161529658. 2014. $102.50 xii + 253 pp. Paper. 9783161529443. 2014. $102.50 Hippolyts Schrift In Danielem Kommunikative Strategien eines fruhchristlichen Kommentars Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum 85 Katharina Bracht Katharina Bracht analyzes Hippolytus’ In Danielem, perhaps the earliest preserved book written by a Christian author (c. 204 AD), focusing in particular on its communication strategies in the communication triangle of pretext, commentary, and readership. xx + 448 pp. Paper. 9783161520341. 2014. $142.50 Anthropologie und Ethik im Fruhjudentum und im Neuen Testament Wechselseitige Wahrnehmungen. Internationales Symposium in Verbindung mit dem Projekt Corpus Judaeo-Hellenisticum Novi Testamenti (CJHNT) 17.-20. Mai 2012, Heidelberg Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 322 Matthias Konradt and Esther Schlapfer, eds. Tod und Sterben im Krieg bei Josephus Die Intentionen von Bellum und Antiquitates im Kontext griechisch-romischer Historiographie Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaims 158 Soren Swoboda Sören Swoboda deals with the lack of attention to Bellum and Antiquitates, basing his work on five subjects which are associated with the description of death and dying in war. xvi + 601 pp. Cloth. 9783161528286. 2014. $279.00 Der Hochste Studien zur hellenistischen Religionsgeschichte und zum biblichen Gottesglauben Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 330 Reinhard Feldmeier This collection of Reinhard Feldmeier's essays is linked by a common theme: the question about God, posed repeatedly by Jews, Christians and Gentiles. xiii + 561 pp. Cloth. 9783161527180. 2014. $255.00 xix + 587 pp. Cloth. 9783161527272. 2014. Das Geheimnis der Gegenwart Gottes $247.00 Zur Schechina-Vortstellung in Judentum und Christentum Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 318 Bernd Janowski and Enno Edzard Popkes, eds. In this collection of essays, the authors depict the biblical-theological dimensions of the concepts of Shekinah and demonstrate their potential for current reflective processes in Christian and Jewish religious beliefs. viii + 405 pp. Cloth. 9783161529917. 2014. $215.00 &JTFOCSBVOTBOE"TTPDJBUFE1VCMJTIFSTӚ Die Septuaginta– Text, Wirkung, Rezeption 4. Internationale Fachtagung veranstaltet von Septuaginta Deutsch (LXX.D), Wuppertal 19.-22. Juli 2012 Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 325 Wolfgang Kraus and Siegfried Kreuzer, eds. This volume contains studies of the text and the textual history of the Septuagint, its philology and geography as well as its theology and reception history. xiv + 928 pp. Cloth. 9783161526534. 2014. $303.00 19 Ugarit-Verlag Introduction to the Grammar of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Lehrbücher orientalischer sprachen III/3 Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal The dialect spoken and written by the Jews of Babylonia from the third century CE onwards is known as Jewish Babylonian Aramaic. This is the first comprehensive description of this dialect since Levias’ Grammar of Babylonian Aramaic of 1930. The current book offers a thorough reexamination of the grammar on the basis of a large corpus in its manuscript witnesses. It not only synthesizes the results of recent scholarship but introduces original insights on many important questions. 359 pp. Paper. 9783868350845. 2013. $56.00 Samaritan Aramaic Lehrbücher orientalischer sprachen III/2 Abraham Tal This book is a compendious grammar of the Aramaic dialect in which the ancient Samaritan literature is written. In a large measure this dialect is still used in the synagogal service of the community. As a Lehrbuch it is aimed at students interested in learning this dialect which flourished, along with the Talmudic Aramaic of Palestinian Judaism and Christian Palestinian Aramaic, during the Roman and Byzantine period. The material that forms the basis of this grammar is drawn from Z. Ben-Hayyim's publications, mainly from his edition of the liturgy, as recited in the synagogue (LOT IIIb), and from his translated and annotated edition of the Samaritan Midrash. 180 pp. Paper. 9783868350814. 2013. $40.00 Ugarit-Forschungen 44 (2012) Studia Mesopotamica 1 (2014) Manfried Dietrich and Oswald Loretz, eds. Jahrbuch für altorientalische Geschichte und Kultur Providing a wealth of scholarly articles of the highest quality in the fields of history, archaeology, and linguistics, Ugarit-Forschungen is a vital resource for every ancient Near Eastern and biblical research library. Scholars from several countries contribute dozens of articles and numerous reviews to the 44rd volume of Ugarit-Forschungen, which is dedicated to the memory of the eminent Semiticist, Pierre Bordreuil. x + 400 pp. Cloth. 9783868350906. 2014. $161.00 Manfried Dietrich, Kai A. Metzler, and Hans Neumann, eds. Studia Mesopotamica (StMes) will be published once a year and is dedicated to academic studies on the history, culture, languages, and art of the ancient Near East from the 3rd millennium B.C.E. until the beginning of the Common Era. The geographic scope of Studia Mesopotamica encompasses Sumer and Akkade, Babylonia and Assyria, Syria, Elam, and Iran. Additionally, Studia Mesopotamica will be open to studies on the impact of ancient Near Eastern cultures on contemporaneous and subsequent cultures through to the Sassanid Empire. Studies on the history of science in the ancient Near East are also welcome. vi + 433 pp. Cloth. 9783868350760. 2014. $133.00 20 &JTFOCSBVOTBOE"TTPDJBUFE1VCMJTIFSTӚ Ugarit-Verlag The Other Face of the Battle The Impact of War on Civilians in the Ancient Near East Alter Orient und Altest Testament 413 Davide Nadali and Jordi Vidal, eds. This volume is the result of a project supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, the aim of which was to study the impact of war on the non-combatant population of the ancient Near East. The book presents seven contributions that analyse violence against non-combatants across a broad chronological spectrum, stretching from the end of the third millennium BCE to the middle of the first millennium. v + 136 pp. Cloth. 9783868351026. 2014. $90.00 Die babylonischen Kudurru-Inschriften von der kassitischen bis zur frühneubabylonischen Zeit Untersucht unter besonderer Berücksichtigung gesellschafts- und rechtshistorischer Fragestellungen Alter Orient und Altest Testament 51 Susanne Paulus This book is a study of Babylonian kudurru inscriptions from 1550 to 625 BCE. These stone monuments primarily record royal land grants and were set up in temples as guarantees. Thorough annotated editions of more than 120 inscriptions form the basis of the research presented here. xiv + 954 pp. + 96 illustrations. Cloth. 9783868350708. 2014. $277.00 Götter, Tempel und Kult der JudäoAramäer von Elephantine Archäologische und schriftliche Zeugnisse aus dem perserzeitlichen Ägypten Alter Orient und Altest Testament 396 Angela Rohrmoser The present work focuses on the topics of gods, temples, and the cult of the Judeo-Aramaeans of Elephantine and in doing so applies exegetical, historical-critical, and archaeological methods. Primary and secondary sources are attributed their intrinsic values without attempting to harmonize extra-biblical evidence with biblical texts in order to provide as varied a perspective as possible on emerging Judaism. xvii + 495 pp., including many illustrations. Cloth. 9783868350821. 2014. Mantik im Alten Testament Alter Orient und Altest Testament 411 Rüdiger Schmitt The book argues that Ancient Israel constituted part of a specifically West-Semitic culture of divination in the first millennium BCE, in which intuitive forms of divination (vision, audition, sometimes in a trance or in a state of ecstasy) and simple forms of inductive divination, such as oracles, predominated. The divinatory practices of the first millennium are examined on the basis of the textual record of the Old Testament and the relevant archaeological and epigraphic evidence. xii + 212 pp. Cloth. 9783868351002. 2014. $96.00 $148.00 &JTFOCSBVOTBOE"TTPDJBUFE1VCMJTIFSTӚ 21 Academic Press Fribourg A Religious Revolution in Yehûd? Anfänge der ägyptischen Kunst The Material Culture of the Persian Period as a Test Case Eine problemgeschichtliche Einführung in ägyptologische Bild-Anthropologie Orbis Biblicus Orientalis 267 Christian Frevel, Katharina Pyschny , and Izak Cornelius, eds. Orbis Biblicus Orientalis 264 Ludwig Morenz The present volume discusses the material culture of Persian Period Palestine/Israel against the background of Ephraim Stern’s hypothesis that Judah witnessed a religious revolution during the transition between the (Neo)Babylonian and the Persian period, resulting in an imageless monotheism. x + 450 pp. Cloth. 9783727817533. 2014. This introduction to ancient Egyptian image production connects millennia-old materials with contemporary enquiry, applying a cluster of analytical methods. Several case studies—partly on well-known objects—address new questions to images materialised in painting, rock engraving, or relief, thus opening up new avenues of understanding. xviii + 272 pp. Cloth. 9783727817496. 2014. $142.00 $94.00 Comment devient-on prophète? Actes du colloque organisé par le Collège de France, Paris, les 4-5 avril 2011 Orbis Biblicus Orientalis 265 Jean-Marie Durand, Thomas Romer, and Micael Burki, eds. The contributions presented in this volume aim to shed new light on various different aspects of prophetism and define the socio-historical context not only of prophetic phenomena as such, but also of the texts documenting them. xii + 224 pp. Cloth. 9783727817502. 2014. $78.00 22 Le culte des pierres à Emar à l'époque hittite Orbis Biblicus Orientalis 320 Patrick M. Michel The purpose of this book is to shed new light on the aniconic cults of the ancient Near East, where previously standing stone cults of Semitic and Anatolian populations were invariably studied separately. The study offers a synthetic view of all the information currently available and then proceeds to a renewed interpretation of cultic standing stones in Late Bronze Age Emar. viii + 320 pp. Cloth. 9783727817588. 2014. $99.50 &JTFOCSBVOTBOE"TTPDJBUFE1VCMJTIFSTӚ Yad Ben-Zvi Press Portraying the Land Hebrew Maps of the Land of Israel from Rashi to the Early 20th Century Rehav Rubin The earliest known Hebrew map of the Land of Israel is that drawn by Rashi in the 11th century CE. In its wake, many maps were published by Jews. These maps depicted the Land of Israel and its borders, the route of the Israelites in the desert, the tribal allotments, and other biblical topics. This volume, which includes many reproductions—mostly in color—presents the maps in two categories. The first, following Rashi, were schematic maps, rectangular or square, without any artistic decoration. The second category includes maps influenced by or copied from Christian cartographers, though their Jewish artists attempted to bring them in line with Jewish tradition. 291 pp.; large format; reproductions, mostly colored. Cloth. 9789652173669. 2014. Hebrew. $45.00 Eretz Israel in Medieval Arabic Sources (634-1517) Selected [Hebrew] Translations Uri Tal, ed. The earliest Arabic sources including information about Eretz Israel date from the second half of the 9th century CE. These were written by geographers, travelers, and historians, as well as encyclopaedists (the latter especially relevant for the Mamluk period). Uri Tal provides selected translations into Hebrew with extensive annotations, in four parts: Part One: The Early Muslim Period (634-1099); Part Two: The Crusader and Ayyubid Periods (1099-1260); Part Three: The Mamluk Period (1260-1517); Part Four: many selections from the monumental work by Mujir al-Din. The volume’s importance, in addition to making the sources available to readers of Hebrew, lies in the extensive annotation to the texts and in the appendixes: detailed information about terms, persons, and places, as well as a chronological listing of caliphs and sultans. 571 pp. Cloth. 9789652173621. 2014. Hebrew $30.00 The Yotserot of R. Samuel the Third: A Leading Figure in Jerusalem in the 10th Century Volume 1: Introduction and Yotserot for Genesis, Exodus, and Leviticus Joseph Yahalom and Naoya Katsumata, eds. As attested by his designation as the Third, R. Samuel b. Hosha'ana filled the third most important role in the Yeshiva of Eretz Israel in 10th-century Jerusalem, preceded by the Gaon of Eretz Israel and the head of the yeshiva’s court. Samuel was a prolific author of liturgical poems known as yotserot, writing one for each Sabbath of the year. About 500 of his works were preserved in the Cairo Genizah, but ony a few have been published to date. This annotated edition is a first effort to publish this great treasure, together with an extensive introduction (pp. 15-122). 530 pp. Cloth. 9789652173645. 2014. $74.00 &JTFOCSBVOTBOE"TTPDJBUFE1VCMJTIFSTӚ 23 Other Publishing Partners The Earlier Egyptian Passive Karim Emami on Modern Iranian Culture, Literature, & Art Voice and Perspective Lingua Aegyptia Studia Monographica 14 Widmaier Verlag Andreas Stauder Modern Persian Studies Series 1 Persian Heritage Foundation The study concerns passive voice in Earlier Egyptian (Old and Middle Egyptian combined), providing a text-based description of the relevant forms and constructions, and of their functions in discourse. It is argued that the passive is not merely a symmetrical pendant to the active, but a complex domain of its own, morphologically, semantically, and in terms of its discourse functions. xviii + 454 pp. Cloth. 9783943955149. 2014. Compiled and edited Houra Yavari Karim Emami $99.00 La serie teratomantica Shumma izbu Testo, traditizone, orizzonti culturali History of the Ancient Near East / Monograph 15 SARGON Editrice Nicla De Zorzi This two-volume work provides a comprehensive analysis of one of the most important divinatory compositions from ancient Mesopotamia, the series known in the field as Shumma izbu “If a malformed birth,” which deals mostly with malformed human and animal births. The first volume contains analysis; the second volume contains a full edition, score, and commentary. 1: xi + 334 pp.; 2: xviii + 620 pp.; + 1 dvd containing photos taken by the author of tablets in the British Museum. Paper. 9788895672359. 2014. Italian. The present volume of the Modern Persian Studies Series is a collection of articles by the noted critic and translator, Karim Emami, on art, cinema, theatre, and literature in Iran in the dynamic 1960s, when culture and society were in the throes of transformation. His work played a significant role in the development of modern criticism in Iran. xviii + 277 pp. Cloth. 9781934283417. 2014. $30.00 Paleonutrition and Food Practices in the Ancient Near East Towards a Multidisciplinary Approach History of the Ancient Near East / Monograph 14 SARGON Editrice Lucio Milano and Francesca Bertoldi, eds. This volume presents a number of articles exploring different aspects of foodways and nutritions in the ancient Near East. Articles range in scope from diseases caused by malnutrition to the economy of food production and consumption. iv + 450 pp., including 249 illustrations. Paper. 9788895672113. 2014. $99.00 $110.00 24 &JTFOCSBVOTBOE"TTPDJBUFE1VCMJTIFSTӚ Customer # (if known) &JTFOCSBVOT Name P.O. 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