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An Introduction to Akkadian Literature
Contexts and Content
Alan Lenzi
Harlot or Holy Woman?
A Study of Hebrew Qedešah
Phyllis A. Bird
Non-Semitic Loanwords in the Hebrew Bible
A Lexicon of Language Contact
Benjamin J. Noonan
Sumerian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection
Volume 1: Literary Sources on Old Babylonian Religion
Christopher Metcalf
Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection, Part Two
School Letters, Model Contracts, and Related Texts
A. R. George and Gabriella Spada
Fault, Responsibility, and Administrative Law in Late Babylonian Legal Texts
F. Rachel Magdalene, Cornelia Wunsch, and Bruce Wells
Life and Mortality in Ugaritic
A Lexical and Literary Study
Matthew McAffee
Tell el-Borg II
Excavations in North Sinai
Edited by James K. Hoffmeier
Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea, volume 3
Bezalel Porten and Ada Yardeni
New & Forthcoming books
Sorry, not yet available as e-books.
From Mari to Jerusalem and Back
Assyriological and Biblical Studies in Honor of Jack Murad Sasson
Edited by Annalisa Azzoni, Alexandra Kleinerman, Douglas A. Knight, and David I. Owen
New Horizons in the Study of the Early Bronze III and Early Bronze IV of the Levant
Suzanne Richard
From the Workshop of the Mesopotamian Scribe
Literary and Scholarly Texts from the Old Babylonian Period
Jacob Klein, and Yitschak Sefati
Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea, volume 4
Bezalel Porten and Ada Yardeni
The 2004 Season at Tall al ‘Umayri and Subsequent Studies
Edited by Larry G. Herr, Douglas R. Clark, and Lawrence T. Geraty
Numayra
Excavations at the Early Bronze Age Townsite in Jordan, 1977–1983
Edited by Meredith S. Chesson, R. Thomas Schaub, and Walter E. Rast
The Monumental Reliefs of the Elamite Highlands
A Complete Inventory and Analysis (from the Seventeenth to the Sixth Century BC)
Javier Álvarez-Mon
Neo-Assyrian Sources in Context
Thematic Studies of Texts, History, and Culture
Shigeo Yamada
Distant Impressions
The Senses in the Ancient Near East
Edited by Ainsley Hawthorn and Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel
A Corpus of Ammonite Inscriptions
Walter E. Aufrecht
Mythopoeïa
ou l’art de forger les « mythes » dans l’« aire culturelle » syro-mésopotamienne, méditerranéenne et indo-européenne
Jérôme Pace
Writing Neo-Assyrian History
Sources, Problems, and Approaches
Edited by Giovanni Battista Lanfranchi, Raija Mattila, and Robert Rollinger
A Glossary of Old Syrian
Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ
Joaquin Sanmartín
Cuneiform Texts from the Folios of W. G. Lambert, Part One
Edited by A. R. George, and Junko Taniguchi
The Morphophonological Development of the Classical Aramaic Verb
Joseph L. Malone
A Concise History of Ancient Israel
From the Beginnings Through the Hellenistic Era
Bernd U. Schipper, Translated by Michael Lesley
The 2002 Season at Tall al ‘Umayri and Subsequent Studies
Edited by Larry G. Herr, Douglas R. Clark, and Lawrence T. Geraty
Baal, St. George, and Khidr
A Study of the Historical Geography of the Levant
Robert D. Miller II
Judging the Judges
A Narrative Appraisal Analysis
Mary L. Conway
Tablets from the Irisaĝrig Archive
Marcel Sigrist and Tohru Ozaki
Ashkelon 8
The Islamic and Crusader Periods
Tracy Hoffman
The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668-631 BC), Assur-etal-ilani (630-627 BC), and Sin-sarra-iskun (626-612 BC), Kings of Assyria
Part I
Jamie Novotny and Joshua Jeffers
The Correspondence of Assurbanipal, Part I
Letters from Assyria, Babylonia, and Vassal States
Simo Parpola
The Dragon, the Mountain, and the Nations
An Old Testament Myth, Its Origins, and Its Afterlives
Robert D. Miller II
Enemies and Friends of the State
Ancient Prophecy in Context
Edited by Christopher A. Rollston
Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East
Edited by Saana Svärd and Agnès Garcia-Ventura
Cuneiform in Canaan
The Next Generation
Wayne Horowitz, Takayoshi Oshima, and Seth Sanders
Middle Egyptian
Peter Beylage
CUSAS 36
Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection Part One: Selected Letters
Andrew R. George
The Cultural and Religious Creativity of Ancient Israel
The Collected Essays of George E. Mendenhall
Edited by Gary Herion and H. B. Huffmon
Sepphoris III
The Architecture, Stratigraphy, and Artifacts of the Western Summit of Sepphoris
Eric M. Meyers, Carol L. Meyers, and Benjamin D. Gordon
Mining for Ancient Copper
Essays in Memory of Beno Rothenberg
Edited by Erez Ben-Yosef
Ashkelon 6
The Middle Bronze Age Ramparts and Gates of the North Slope and Later Fortifications
Edited by Lawrence E. Stager, J. David Schloen, and Ross J. Voss
Lahav VII: Ethnoarchaeology in the Tell Halif Environs
Excavations in Site 1, Complex A, 1976–1979
Joe D. Seger and Karen Seger
Assyria
The Imperial Mission
Mario Liverani
A Grammar of the Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, Vol. I: Unis
James P. Allen
Babylonia, the Gulf Region, and the Indus
Archaeological and Textual Evidence for Contact in the Third and Early Second Millennia B.C.
Steffen Laursen and Piotr Steinkeller
Private and State in the Ancient Near East
Proceedings of the 58th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Leiden, 16–20 July 2012
Edited by R. De Boer and J. G. Dercksen
Alterity in Ancient Assyrian Propaganda
Matthias Karlsson
Fortune and Misfortune in the Ancient Near East
Proceedings of the 60th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale Warsaw, 21–25 July 2014
Edited by Olga Drewnowska and Małgorzata Sandowicz
The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Volume 4, Part 1
Neo-Assyrian Specialists: Crafts, Offices, and Other Professional Designations
Heather Baker
From the Mari Archives
An Anthology of Old Babylonian Letters
Jack M. Sasson
CUSAS 28
Documents of Judean Exiles and West Semites in Babylonia in the Collection of David Sofer
Laurie E. Pearce, and Cornelia Wunsch
Before the Muses
An Anthology of Akkadian Literature
Benjamin R. Foster
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