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American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature Virtual Booth

Welcome to the virtual book exhibit for the Annual Meeting of the AAR/SBL. Use the coupon code SBL20 for 30% off.

Meet the acquisitions editor for Eisenbrauns, Dr. Jen Singletary. She welcomes the opportunity to meet prospective authors and hear about their work. If you are working on a manuscript, developing a book project, or just have an idea for a book in ancient Near Eastern or biblical studies, please inquire with Jen by sending her an email message with a brief description of the idea (no more than 300 words, please). Jen will review the submissions and, if the project looks like a good fit for the list, will be in touch about setting up a Zoom meeting.

Browse the PSU Press AAR/SBL offerings here.

 

First Isaiah and the Disappearance of the Gods

Matthew J. Lynch

$39.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-839-8
Coming in June

144 pages
6" × 9"
2021

Critical Studies in the Hebrew Bible

Coptic

A Grammar of Its Six Major Dialects

James P. Allen

$59.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-64602-064-5

144 pages
7" × 10"
1 map
2020

Languages of the Ancient Near East Didactica

“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.

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-994-4

448 pages
7" × 10"
65 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

$109.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-731-5

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

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

Middle Babylonian Texts in the Cornell Collections, Part 2

The Earlier Kings

Elena Devecchi

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-749-0

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

CUSAS: Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology

Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea, volume 4

Bezalel Porten and Ada Yardeni

$149.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-734-6

570 pages
8.5" × 11"
377 color illustrations
2020

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

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-741-4

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

Reconsidering Creation Ex Nihilo in Genesis 1

Nathan J. Chambers

$49.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-1-64602-065-2

290 pages
6" × 9"
2020

Journal of Theological Interpretation Supplements

Identity in Persian Egypt

The Fate of the Yehudite Community of Elephantine

Bob Becking

$79.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-745-2

224 pages
6" × 9"
2020

Ur III Texts in the Schøyen Collection

Jacob L. Dahl

$150.00 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-738-4

432 pages
8.5" × 11"
2020

CUSAS: Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology

A Theology of Justice in Exodus

Nathan Bills

$125.00 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-838-1

294 pages
6" × 9"
2020

Siphrut: Literature and Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures

Untersuchungen Zur Transtextuellen Poetik

Assyrischer Herrschaftlich-Narrativen Texte

Johannes Bach

$75.00 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-952-10-9503-0

552 pages
6.93" × 9.85"
2020
Distributed by Penn State University Press for Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project

State Archives of Assyria Studies

Ramat Raḥel IV

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

Oded Lipschits, Manfred Oeming, and Yuval Godot

$124.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-748-3

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

Exploring the Composition of the Pentateuch

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

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-985-2

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

Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplement

Scribal Tools in Ancient Israel

A Study of Biblical Hebrew Terms for Writing Materials and Implements

Philip Zhakevich

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-64602-062-1
Coming in November

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

History, Archaeology, and Culture of the Levant

Perspectives on the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies

Edited by Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Lorenzo Verderame

$129.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-836-7

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

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

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-64602-107-9
Coming in

296 pages
8.5" × 11"
23 b&w illustrations/1 map
2020

Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Babylonian Empire

Ashkelon 7

The Iron Age I

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

$159.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-64602-090-4
Coming in November

1000 pages
8.5" × 11"
2020

Final Reports of The Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon

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 Monumental Reliefs of the Elamite Highlands

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

Javier Álvarez-Mon

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-799-5

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

Mesopotamian Civilizations

Non-Semitic Loanwords in the Hebrew Bible

A Lexicon of Language Contact

Benjamin J. Noonan

$149.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-774-2

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548 pages
6" × 9"
2019

Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic

A Concise History of Ancient Israel

From the Beginnings Through the Hellenistic Era

Bernd U. Schipper, Translated by Michael Lesley

$39.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-732-2

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

Critical Studies in the Hebrew Bible

Neo-Assyrian Sources in Context

Thematic Studies of Texts, History, and Culture

Shigeo Yamada

$69.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-952-10-9501-6

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

State Archives of Assyria Studies

Sumerian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection

Volume 1: Literary Sources on Old Babylonian Religion

Christopher Metcalf

Available as an e-book
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168 pages
8.5" × 11"
54 b&w illustrations
2019

CUSAS: Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology

Distant Impressions

The Senses in the Ancient Near East

Edited by Ainsley Hawthorn and Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-967-8

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

Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale

Son of God

Divine Sonship in Jewish and Christian Antiquity

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

$94.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-992-0

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296 pages
6" × 9"
2019

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

F. Rachel Magdalene, Cornelia Wunsch, and Bruce Wells

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-990-6

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

Mesopotamian Civilizations

Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection, Part Two

School Letters, Model Contracts, and Related Texts

A. R. George and Gabriella Spada

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-725-4

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

CUSAS: Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology

Mythopoeïa

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

Jérôme Pace

$69.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-952-10-9500-9

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

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

$44.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-993-7

248 pages
6" × 9"
2019

The Law’s Universal Condemning and Enslaving Power

Reading Paul, the Old Testament, and Second Temple Jewish Literature

Bryan Blazosky

$74.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-979-1

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248 pages
6" × 9"
2019

Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplement

A New Look at Atonement in Leviticus

The Meaning and Purpose of Kipper Revisited

James A. Greenberg

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-976-0

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224 pages
6" × 9"
15 b&w illustrations
2019

Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplement

Death and Divine Judgment in Ecclesiastes

Kumiko Takeuchi

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-991-3

256 pages
6" × 9"
2 b&w illustrations
2019

Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplement

A Glossary of Old Syrian

Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ

Joaquin Sanmartín

$109.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-969-2

480 pages
7" × 10"
2019

Languages of the Ancient Near East

You Shall Know that I Am Yahweh

An Inner-Biblical Interpretation of Ezekiel’s Recognition Formula

John F. Evans

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-986-9

312 pages
6" × 9"
2019

Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplement

Ruled Reading and Biblical Criticism

Matthew T. Bell

$34.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-995-1

224 pages
6" × 9"
2019

Journal of Theological Interpretation Supplements

Tell el-Borg II

Excavations in North Sinai

Edited by James K. Hoffmeier

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-988-3

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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

$119.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-663-9

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392 pages
6" × 9"
2019

Explorations in Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations

Judging the Judges

A Narrative Appraisal Analysis

Mary L. Conway

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-724-7

392 pages
6" × 9"
2019

Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic

Harlot or Holy Woman?

A Study of Hebrew Qedešah

Phyllis A. Bird

$199.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-981-4

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512 pages
6" × 9"
2019

The Morphophonological Development of the Classical Aramaic Verb

Joseph L. Malone

$124.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-975-3

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688 pages
6" × 9"
2019

Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic

Tablets from the Irisaĝrig Archive

Marcel Sigrist and Tohru Ozaki

$149.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-726-1

744 pages
8.5" × 11"
2019

CUSAS: Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology

Signs of Continuity

The Function of Miracles in Jesus and Paul

Greg Rhodea

$79.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-978-4

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192 pages
6" × 9"
2019

Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplement

Baal, St. George, and Khidr

A Study of the Historical Geography of the Levant

Robert D. Miller II

$74.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-989-0

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

History, Archaeology, and Culture of the Levant

Life of Adam and Eve

Using Jewish Traditions and Confronting Gnostic Reversed Exegesis

Edited by Antti Laato, and Lotta Valve

$49.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-952-12-3708-9

196 pages
5.83"" × 8.27""
2019
Distributed by Penn State University Press for Åbo Akademi University

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

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-997-5

488 pages
8.5" × 11"
2018

Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period

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

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

Enemies and Friends of the State

Ancient Prophecy in Context

Edited by Christopher A. Rollston

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-764-3

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

Cuneiform in Canaan

The Next Generation

Wayne Horowitz, Takayoshi Oshima, and Seth Sanders

$59.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-791-9

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

Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East

Edited by Saana Svärd and Agnès Garcia-Ventura

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-770-4

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

Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale

Middle Egyptian

Peter Beylage

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-977-7

864 pages
7" × 10"
2018

Languages of the Ancient Near East

"Like a Lone Bird on a Roof"

Animal Imagery and the Structure of Psalms

Tova L. Forti

$29.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-965-4

128 pages
6" × 9"
2018

Critical Studies in the Hebrew Bible

The Unfavored

Judah and Saul in the Narratives of Genesis and 1 Samuel

Josef Sykora

$74.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-958-6

264 pages
6" × 9"
2018

Siphrut: Literature and Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures

“Lengthen Your Tent-Cords”

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

Brittany Kim

$64.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-778-0

264 pages
6" × 9"
2018

Siphrut: Literature and Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures

The Cultural and Religious Creativity of Ancient Israel

The Collected Essays of George E. Mendenhall

Edited by Gary Herion and H. B. Huffmon

$59.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-709-4

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

Poor and Rich in James

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

Nelson R. Morales

$59.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-782-7

304 pages
6" × 9"
2018

Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplement

History and Hope

The Agrarian Wisdom of Isaiah 28-35

Daniel J. Stulac

$64.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-789-6

344 pages
6" × 9"
2018

Siphrut: Literature and Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures

The Unfolding of Your Words Gives Light

Studies on Biblical Hebrew in Honor of George L. Klein

Edited by Ethan C. Jones

$59.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-974-6

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

“I Will Walk Among You”

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

G. Geoffrey Harper

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-973-9

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312 pages
6" × 9"
2018

Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplement

The Usefulness of Scripture

Essays in Honor of Robert W. Wall

Edited by Daniel Castelo, Sara M. Koenig, and David R. Nienhuis

$49.50 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-960-9

288 pages
6" × 9"
2018

Sepphoris III

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

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

$159.50 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-962-3

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

$149.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-964-7

584 pages
8.25"" × 10.44""
2018

Monograph Series of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology

“Did I Not Bring Israel Out of Egypt?”

Biblical, Archaeological, and Egyptological Perspectives on the Exodus Narratives

Edited by James K. Hoffmeier, Alan R. Millard, and Gary A. Rendsburg

$59.50 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-429-1

352 pages
6" × 9"
2016

Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplement

CUSAS 28

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

Laurie E. Pearce, and Cornelia Wunsch

$69.00 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-934309-57-5

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

CUSAS: Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology

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