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Divine Doppelgängers

YHWH’s Ancient Look-Alikes

Edited by Collin Cornell

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-744-5

280 pages
6" × 9"
8 b&w illustrations
2020

An Introduction to Akkadian Literature

Contexts and Content

Alan Lenzi

$39.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-729-2

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

The Southern Levant under Assyrian Domination

Edited by Shawn Zelig Aster and Avraham Faust

$64.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-797-1

272 pages
7" × 10"
27 b&w illustrations
2018

The Dragon, the Mountain, and the Nations

An Old Testament Myth, Its Origins, and Its Afterlives

Robert D. Miller II

$64.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-479-6

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

Explorations in Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations

Bearing Yhwh’s Name at Sinai

A Reexamination of the Name Command of the Decalogue

Carmen Joy Imes

$64.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-772-8

248 pages
6" × 9"
2018

Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplement

Available as an e-book

 

Son of God

Divine Sonship in Jewish and Christian Antiquity

Edited by Garrick V. Allen, Kai Akagi, Paul Sloan, and Madhavi Nevader

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296 pages
6" × 9"
2019

Tell el-Borg II

Excavations in North Sinai

Edited by James K. Hoffmeier

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

Life and Mortality in Ugaritic

A Lexical and Literary Study

Matthew McAffee

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392 pages
6" × 9"
2019

Explorations in Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations

Harlot or Holy Woman?

A Study of Hebrew Qedešah

Phyllis A. Bird

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512 pages
6" × 9"
2019

Signs of Continuity

The Function of Miracles in Jesus and Paul

Greg Rhodea

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192 pages
6" × 9"
2019

Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplement

“I Will Walk Among You”

The Rhetorical Function of Allusion to Genesis 1–3 in the Book of Leviticus

G. Geoffrey Harper

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312 pages
6" × 9"
2018

Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplement

Lahav VII: Ethnoarchaeology in the Tell Halif Environs

Excavations in Site 1, Complex A, 1976–1979

Joe D. Seger and Karen Seger

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232 pages
8.5" × 11"
174 b&w illustrations
2018

Lahav: Reports of the Lahav Research Project / Excavations at Tell Halif, Israel

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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

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

Exploring the Composition of the Pentateuch

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

304 pages
6" × 9"
3 b&w illustrations
2020

Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplement

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

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

“An Excellent Fortress for His Armies, a Refuge for the People”

Egyptological, Archaeological, and Biblical Studies in Honor of James K. Hoffmeier

Edited by Richard E. Averbeck and K. Lawson Younger Jr.

448 pages
7" × 10"
65 b&w illustrations
2020

A Theology of Justice in Exodus

Nathan Bills

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

Edited by Suzanne Richard

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

Identity in Persian Egypt

The Fate of the Yehudite Community of Elephantine

Bob Becking

224 pages
6" × 9"
2020

Scribal Tools in Ancient Israel

A Study of Biblical Hebrew Terms for Writing Materials and Implements

Philip Zhakevich

272 pages
6" × 9"
21 b&w illustrations
2020

History, Archaeology, and Culture of the Levant

Ramat Raḥel IV

The Renewed Excavations of the Tel Aviv–Heidelberg Expedition (2005–2010): Stratigraphy and Architecture

Oded Lipschits, Manfred Oeming, and Yuval Godot

536 pages
8.5" × 11"
503 b&w illustrations
2020
Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology of The Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University

Monograph Series of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology

Perspectives on the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies

Edited by Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Lorenzo Verderame

352 pages
7" × 10"
78 b&w illustrations
2020

Reconsidering Creation Ex Nihilo in Genesis 1

Nathan J. Chambers

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

A Corpus of Ammonite Inscriptions

Walter E. Aufrecht

648 pages
7" × 10"
2019
Second Edition

The Earth Is the Lord’s

Essays on Creation and the Bible in Honor of Ben C. Ollenburger

Edited by Ryan D. Harker and Heather Bunce

248 pages
6" × 9"
2019

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

You Shall Know that I Am Yahweh

An Inner-Biblical Interpretation of Ezekiel’s Recognition Formula

John F. Evans

A Glossary of Old Syrian

Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ

Joaquin Sanmartín

480 pages
7" × 10"
2019

Languages of the Ancient Near East

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

Enemies and Friends of the State

Ancient Prophecy in Context

Edited by Christopher A. Rollston

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

Trees and Kings

A Comparative Analysis of Tree Imagery in Israel’s Prophetic Tradition and the Ancient Near East

William R. Osborne

224 pages
6" × 9"
35 b&w illustrations
2018

Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplement

Cuneiform in Canaan

The Next Generation

Wayne Horowitz, Takayoshi Oshima, and Seth Sanders

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

"Like a Lone Bird on a Roof"

Animal Imagery and the Structure of Psalms

Tova L. Forti

“Lengthen Your Tent-Cords”

The Metaphorical World of Israel's Household in the Book of Isaiah

Brittany Kim

The Unfavored

Judah and Saul in the Narratives of Genesis and 1 Samuel

Josef Sykora

Poor and Rich in James

A Relevance Theory Approach to James's Use of the Old Testament

Nelson R. Morales

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

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

Coptic

A Grammar of Its Six Major Dialects

James P. Allen

Ashkelon 7

The Iron Age I

Lawrence E. Stager, Daniel M. Master, and Adam J. Aja

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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

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