A Grammar of the Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts is designed as a six-volume study of the earliest...

In this book, Jamie Novotny and Joshua Jeffers provide updated, reliable editions of seventy-one ...

A collection of seventeen previously unpublished Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets, dating to ca. 20...

Ancient Palestine served as a land bridge between the continents of Asia, Africa, and Europe, and...

A collection of essays on possible methodological and theoretical approaches to gender within the...

This book on the Yahwist comes at the end of a long career of research on the Pentateuch in gener...

?Meaningless, meaningless, everything is meaningless.? The word ?meaningless? (hebel) appears mor...

Until recently, biblical studies and studies of the written and material culture of the ancient N...

Originally begun in collaboration with Professor W. L. Moran, this work collects all of the extan...

Thirteen essays from an ASOR symposium on the relationship among archaeology, text and our unders...

More than 80 years have passed since Bauer and Leander's historical grammar of Biblical Hebrew wa...

Holm's book is an innovative approach to the biblical Book of Daniel. It places Daniel against th...

Examines myths concerning dragons and dragon-slaying throughout proto-Indo-European cultures, anc...

The goal of this book is to present a revised edition of the Sumerian Lamentation over the Destru...

The system that any language uses to express evaluations, judgments, estimations, and non-real si...

The Old Testament prophets did not hesitate to use the rhetorical conventions accessible to them ...

Examines the construction of the speaking voice in Psalms 3?14. Demonstrates how the Psalter intr...

Using narrative devices such as allusions and free associations, multivalent expressions, and iro...

Examines the technology of writing as it existed in ancient Israel. Utilizes the Hebrew Bible as ...

This classic work on literary criticism by Professor Adele Berlin introduces the reader to the co...

Hoffner and Melchert's long-awaited work is sure to become both the standard reference grammar an...

The biblical-theological approach Boda takes in this work is canonical-thematic, tracing the pres...

In this volume, Kenneth Way explores the role of donkeys in the symbolism and ceremonies of the b...

For decades, the prophetic book of Joel has been the focus of scrutiny that belies its brevity. I...

A collection of essays that encompass the two principal approaches to the history of ancient Near...

Provides a comprehensive overview of Middle Egyptian and systematically illustrates its grammatic...

In the last several decades, interest in the Exilic and Postexilic periods of ancient Israel's hi...

In Biblical Hebrew Grammar Visualized, Andersen and Forbes approach the grammar of Biblical Hebre...

This volume brings together the work of scholars using various methodologies to investigate the p...

Lama?tu was one of the most important Mesopotamian demons, playing a dominant role in the magico-...

In a book marked by unusually readable yet academic style, Mettinger transforms our knowledge of ...

This collection gathers together Professor Shemaryahu Talmon's contributions to the literary stud...

This pioneering work that first appeared in 1972 in German was the first to compare the conceptua...

A reconsideration of the doctrine of creation from nothing, arguing that it emerges from the earl...

This handbook provides a practical guide for the student and scholar alike who wishes to use the ...

Linguistic Studies in Phoenician: In Memory of J. Brian Peckham honors the late Professor J. Bria...

For many years, the historical-critical quest for a reconstruction of the origin(s) and developme...

As the title indicates, this unique resource is a manual on comparative linguistics, with the exa...

From the ancient rabbis to medieval Ashkenaz, from North Africa to Syria, from the United States ...

This is the first exhaustive study of the Urim and Thummim since 1824, and in this book Van Dam s...

The book of Genesis portrays the character Jacob as a brazen trickster who deceives members of hi...

Isaiah 1-39 uses the unique term ¿¿¿¿¿¿-usually translated as 'idols'- more than anywhere else in...

The Babylonian tamitu texts are a corpus of questions addressed to the sun-god Shamash and the st...

Konrad Schmid is a Swiss biblical scholar who belongs to a larger group of Continental researcher...

A collection of essays investigating how Mesopotamian technical specialists interacted with their...

A collection of 26 essays delivered at the 2013 yearly meeting of the Rencontre Assyriologique In...

Theologians and Old Testament scholars have been at odds with respect to the best interpretation ...

This volume is the first in a planned series of reports on the investigations of the Lahav Resear...