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An Introduction to Akkadian Literature

Contexts and Content

Alan Lenzi

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264 pages
6" × 9"
21 b&w illustrations
2019

Harlot or Holy Woman?

A Study of Hebrew Qedešah

Phyllis A. Bird

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Nook

512 pages
6" × 9"
2019

Non-Semitic Loanwords in the Hebrew Bible

A Lexicon of Language Contact

Benjamin J. Noonan

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Nook

548 pages
6" × 9"
2019

Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic

Sumerian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection

Volume 1: Literary Sources on Old Babylonian Religion

Christopher Metcalf

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Nook

168 pages
8.5" × 11"
54 b&w illustrations
2019

CUSAS: Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology

Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection, Part Two

School Letters, Model Contracts, and Related Texts

A. R. George and Gabriella Spada

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248 pages
8.5" × 11"
64 b&w illustrations
2019

CUSAS: Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology

Fault, Responsibility, and Administrative Law in Late Babylonian Legal Texts

F. Rachel Magdalene, Cornelia Wunsch, and Bruce Wells

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744 pages
7" × 10"
51 b&w illustrations
2019

Mesopotamian Civilizations

Life and Mortality in Ugaritic

A Lexical and Literary Study

Matthew McAffee

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Kobo
Nook

392 pages
6" × 9"
2019

Explorations in Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations

Tell el-Borg II

Excavations in North Sinai

Edited by James K. Hoffmeier

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Kobo
Nook

456 pages
8.5" × 11"
574 b&w illustrations
2019

Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea, volume 3

Bezalel Porten and Ada Yardeni

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Nook

720 pages
8.5" × 11"
488 color illustrations
2018

New & Forthcoming books

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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

Hardcover Edition | ISBN: 978-1-57506-741-4
Coming in April

536 pages
7" × 10"
25 b&w illustrations
2020

New Horizons in the Study of the Early Bronze III and Early Bronze IV of the Levant

Suzanne Richard

Hardcover Edition | ISBN: 978-1-57506-740-7
Coming in April

480 pages
8.5" × 11"
224 b&w illustrations
2020

From the Workshop of the Mesopotamian Scribe

Literary and Scholarly Texts from the Old Babylonian Period

Jacob Klein, and Yitschak Sefati

264 pages
8.5" × 11"
46 b&w illustrations
2020

Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea, volume 4

Bezalel Porten and Ada Yardeni

570 pages
8.5" × 11"
377 color illustrations
2020

The 2004 Season at Tall al ‘Umayri and Subsequent Studies

Edited by Larry G. Herr, Douglas R. Clark, and Lawrence T. Geraty

424 pages
8.5" × 11"
26 color/250 b&w illustrations
2020

Madaba Plains Project

Numayra

Excavations at the Early Bronze Age Townsite in Jordan, 1977–1983

Edited by Meredith S. Chesson, R. Thomas Schaub, and Walter E. Rast

972 pages
8.5" × 11"
11 color/558 b&w illustrations
2020

Reports of the Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain

The Monumental Reliefs of the Elamite Highlands

A Complete Inventory and Analysis (from the Seventeenth to the Sixth Century BC)

Javier Álvarez-Mon

224 pages
8.5" × 11"
287 color/110 b&w illustrations
2019

Mesopotamian Civilizations

Neo-Assyrian Sources in Context

Thematic Studies of Texts, History, and Culture

Shigeo Yamada

288 pages
6.93" × 9.85"
2019
Distributed by Penn State University Press for Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project

State Archives of Assyria Studies

Distant Impressions

The Senses in the Ancient Near East

Edited by Ainsley Hawthorn and Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel

224 pages
7" × 10"
59 b&w illustrations
2019

Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale

A Corpus of Ammonite Inscriptions

Walter E. Aufrecht

648 pages
7" × 10"
2019
Second Edition

Mythopoeïa

ou l’art de forger les « mythes » dans l’« aire culturelle » syro-mésopotamienne, méditerranéenne et indo-européenne

Jérôme Pace

376 pages
6.93" × 9.85 in"
2019
Distributed by Penn State University Press for Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project

State Archives of Assyria Studies

Writing Neo-Assyrian History

Sources, Problems, and Approaches

Edited by Giovanni Battista Lanfranchi, Raija Mattila, and Robert Rollinger

568 pages
6.93" × 9.85"
36 b&w illustrations/4 maps
2019
Distributed by Penn State University Press for Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project

State Archives of Assyria Studies

A Glossary of Old Syrian

Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ

Joaquin Sanmartín

480 pages
7" × 10"
2019

Languages of the Ancient Near East

Cuneiform Texts from the Folios of W. G. Lambert, Part One

Edited by A. R. George, and Junko Taniguchi

232 pages
8.5" × 11"
187 b&w illustrations
2019

Mesopotamian Civilizations

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

184 pages
6" × 9"
11 b&w illustrations
2019

Critical Studies in the Hebrew Bible

The 2002 Season at Tall al ‘Umayri and Subsequent Studies

Edited by Larry G. Herr, Douglas R. Clark, and Lawrence T. Geraty

408 pages
8.5" × 11"
90 color/250 b&w illustrations
2019

Madaba Plains Project

Baal, St. George, and Khidr

A Study of the Historical Geography of the Levant

Robert D. Miller II

104 pages
6" × 9"
17 b&w illustrations/3 maps
2019

History, Archaeology, and Culture of the Levant

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

800 pages
8.5" × 11"
1110 color/191 b&w illustrations
2019

Final Reports of The Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon

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

240 pages
6.9" × 9.65"
21 b&w illustrations
2018
Distributed by Penn State University Press for Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project

State Archives of Assyria

The Dragon, the Mountain, and the Nations

An Old Testament Myth, Its Origins, and Its Afterlives

Robert D. Miller II

408 pages
6" × 9"
12 b&w illustrations
2018

Explorations in Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations

Enemies and Friends of the State

Ancient Prophecy in Context

Edited by Christopher A. Rollston

624 pages
6" × 9"
6 b&w illustrations
2018

Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East

Edited by Saana Svärd and Agnès Garcia-Ventura

520 pages
7" × 10"
68 b&w illustrations
2018

Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale

Cuneiform in Canaan

The Next Generation

Wayne Horowitz, Takayoshi Oshima, and Seth Sanders

264 pages
7" × 10"
180 b&w illustrations
2018
Second Edition

Middle Egyptian

Peter Beylage

864 pages
7" × 10"
2018

Languages of the Ancient Near East

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

656 pages
6" × 9"
3 b&w illustrations
2018

Sepphoris III

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

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

1016 pages
8.5" × 11"
41 color/440 b&w illustrations
2018

Sepphoris Excavation Reports

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

344 pages
7" × 10"
2017

Mesopotamian Civilizations

A Grammar of the Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, Vol. I: Unis

James P. Allen

472 pages
7" × 10"
2017

Languages of the Ancient Near East

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

152 pages
8.5" × 11"
2017

Mesopotamian Civilizations

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

143 pages
6.9" × 9.65"
2017
Distributed by Penn State University Press for Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project

State Archives of Assyria Studies

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

416 pages
2016
Distributed by Penn State University Press for Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project

Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire

From the Mari Archives

An Anthology of Old Babylonian Letters

Jack M. Sasson

478 pages
7" × 10"
2015

CUSAS 28

Documents of Judean Exiles and West Semites in Babylonia in the Collection of David Sofer

Laurie E. Pearce, and Cornelia Wunsch

480 pages
8.5" × 11"
108 b&w illustrations
2014

CUSAS: Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology

Before the Muses

An Anthology of Akkadian Literature

Benjamin R. Foster

1044 pages
6" × 9"
2005
Third Edition

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