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Constructing the Human in the Hebrew Bible
Tanner E. Walker
Exploring the Composition of the Pentateuch, Volume 2
Edited by L. S. Baker Jr., Kenneth Bergland, Felipe A. Masotti, and A. Rahel Wells
Jehu’s Tribute
What Can Biblical Studies Offer Assyriology?
Edited by Jeffrey L. Cooley and Rannfrid I. Lasine Thelle
A Student’s Vocabulary of Akkadian in Assyrian Royal Inscriptions
T. E. Kelley and Raleigh Heth
The Excavations Beneath Wilson’s Arch, Volume 1
Edited by Joe Uziel, Avi Solomon, and Tehillah Lieberman
Wenamun’s Prophetic Mission
Theocratic Rhetoric in Egypt and the Hebrew Bible
Christopher B. Hays
Megiddo VII
The Shmunis Excavations of a Monumental Middle Bronze Tomb and Its Environs
Edited by Matthew J. Adams, Melissa S. Cradic, and Israel Finkelstein
A Glossary of Old Syrian
Volume 2: l – z
Joaquin Sanmartín
Boschwitz on Wellhausen
The Life, Work, and Letters of a Jewish Scholar in Nazi Germany
Paul Michael Kurtz and Friedemann Boschwitz
The Language of Trauma in the Psalms
Danilo Verde
The Queens of the Arabs During the Neo-Assyrian Period
Ellie Bennett
Royal Image and Political Thinking in the Letters of Assurbanipal
Sanae Ito
A Grammar of the Hittite Language
Part 2: Tutorial
Harry A. Hoffner Jr. and H. Craig Melchert
The Royal Inscriptions of Nabopolassar (625-605 BC) and Nebuchadnezzar II (604-562 BC), Kings of Babylon, Part 1
Jamie Novotny and Frauke Weiershäuser
Aramaic Loanwords in Neo-Assyrian 911–612 B.C.
Zack Cherry
Assyrian-English-Assyrian Dictionary
Cuneiform Edition
Edited by Simo Parpola
From Nomadism to Monarchy?
Revisiting the Early Iron Age Southern Levant
Edited by Ido Koch, Oded Lipschits, and Omer Sergi
Before There Were Kings
A Literary Analysis of the Book of Judges
Elie Assis
A Grammar of the Hittite Language
Part 1: Reference Grammar
Harry A. Hoffner Jr. and H. Craig Melchert
Israel’s Day of Light and Joy
The Origin, Development, and Enduring Meaning of the Jewish Sabbath
Jon D. Levenson
Letters from Home
The Creation of Diaspora in Jewish Antiquity
Malka Z. Simkovich
Ancient Egyptian and Afroasiatic
Rethinking the Origins
Edited by María Victoria Almansa-Villatoro and Silvia Štubňová Nigrelli
Ḥesed and the New Testament
An Intertextual Categorization Study
Karen Nelson
Motion, Voice, and Mood in the Semitic Verb
Henning Ambjörn Sjörs
Hesi after 50 Years and 130 Years
Beginning a New Generation of Hesi Research
Edited by John R. Spencer, James W. Hardin, and Jeffrey Blakely
Yotvata
The Ze'ev Meshel Excavations (1974–1980): The Iron I “Fortress” and the Early Islamic Settlement
Lily Singer-Avitz and Etan Ayalon
The Southern Wall of the Temple Mount and Its Corners
Past, Present and Future
Edited by Yuval Baruch, Ronny Reich, Moran Hagbi, and Joe Uziel
Understanding Abnormalities in Biblical Figures
Edited by Guido Baltes, Lukas Bormann, and Martin Meiser
Focus Construction with kî ʾim in Biblical Hebrew
Grace J. Park
Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea, Volume 5
Dossiers H–K: 485 Ostraca
Bezalel Porten and Ada Yardeni
The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BC), Aššur-etel-ilāni (630–627 BC), and Sîn-šarra-iškun (626–612 BC), Kings of Assyria, Part 3
Jamie Novotny, Joshua Jeffers, and Grant Frame
The Correspondence of Assurbanipal, Part II
Letters from Southern Babylonia
Edited by Grant Frame and Simo Parpola
The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BC), Aššur-etel-ilāni (630–627 BC), and Sîn-šarra-iškun (626–612 BC), Kings of Assyria, Part 2
Joshua Jeffers and Jamie Novotny
An Annotated Sumerian Dictionary
Mark E. Cohen
Biblical Hebrew Grammar Card
David Moster
Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary Card
David Moster
A Handbook of Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Near East
Three Thousand Deities of Anatolia, Syria, Israel, Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, and Elam
Douglas R. Frayne and Johanna H. Stuckey, and with illustrations by Stéphane D. Beaulieu
A New Workbook of Cuneiform Signs
Daniel C. Snell
Classical Ethiopic
A Grammar of Gəˁəz
Josef Tropper and Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee
Assyria
The Imperial Mission
Mario Liverani
The Royal Inscriptions of Sargon II, King of Assyria (721–705 BC)
Grant Frame
Identity in Persian Egypt
The Fate of the Yehudite Community of Elephantine
Bob Becking
The Correspondence of Assurbanipal, Part I
Letters from Assyria, Babylonia, and Vassal States
Simo Parpola
Ashkelon 9
The Hellenistic Period
Kathleen J. Birney
Perspectives on the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Edited by Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Lorenzo Verderame
Times of Transition
Judea in the Early Hellenistic Period
Edited by Sylvie Honigman, Christophe Nihan, and Oded Lipschits
Scribal Tools in Ancient Israel
A Study of Biblical Hebrew Terms for Writing Materials and Implements
Philip Zhakevich
Megiddo VI
The 2010–2014 Seasons
Edited by Israel Finkelstein and Mario A. S. Martin
First Isaiah and the Disappearance of the Gods
Matthew J. Lynch
Elephantine Revisited
New Insights into the Judean Community and Its Neighbors
Edited by Margaretha Folmer
The Landfill of Early Roman Jerusalem
The 2013‒2014 Excavations in Area D3
Yuval Gadot
Political Change and Material Culture in Middle to Late Bronze Age Canaan
Shlomit Bechar
The Abyss in Revelation
A View from Below
Edward Gudeman
Text and Ritual in the Pentateuch
A Systematic and Comparative Approach
Edited by Christophe Nihan and Julia Rhyder
Age of Empires
The History and Administration of Judah in the 8th–2nd Centuries BCE in Light of the Storage-Jar Stamp Impressions
Oded Lipschits
The Torah Unabridged
The Evolution of Intermarriage Law in the Hebrew Bible
William A. Tooman
A Voice Without End
The Role of David in Psalms 3–14
Andrew C. Witt
Classical Samaritan Poetry
Laura Suzanne Lieber
Ur in the Twenty-First Century CE
Proceedings of the 62nd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Philadelphia, July 11–15, 2016
Edited by Grant Frame, Joshua Jeffers, and Holly Pittman
From the Nile to the Tigris
African Individuals and Groups in Texts from the Neo-Assyrian Empire
Mattias Karlsson
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