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The Babylonian flood story of Atra-hasis is of vital importance to ancient Near Eastern and biblical scholars, as well as students of history, anthropology, and comparative religion. Professors Lambert and Millard provide the reader with a detaile...

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"Twenty-five years after it first appeared, Jellicoe's classic work is still one of the most comprehensive introductions to the Septuagint and cognate studies. Its completeness makes it valuable not only as a textbook, but also as a reference...

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Professor Albright speaks to a new generation of scholars through this reprint of his classic work contrasting Israelite and Canaanite religions. The five chapters were originally presented as seven lectures and discuss Poetry and Prose, the Patri...

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In this extensive and eclectic reconsideration of classical Hebrew poetics, O'Connor evaluates the assumptions that have guided scholars for more than two hundred years. The result is "a great leap forward in the analysis and interpretation o...

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A collection of 18 of the more important shorter essays on Hebrew poetry by one of the most prolific writers on early Hebrew poetry. These articles appeared originally in journals and festschriften, for the most part during the 1970s.

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Fourteen studies contributed in honor of Frank Moore Cross, Hancock Professor of Biblical and Other Oriental Language at Harvard University. Contributors include: J. A. Miles, Jr., C. L'Heureux, B. Halpern, W. Janzen, R. B. Coote, R. J. Clifford, ...

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The proceedings of the international symposium commemorating the 50th anniversary of the discovery of Ras Shamra-Ugarit, held at Madison, Wisconsin, under the auspices of the Middle West Branch of the American Oriental Society, February, 1979.

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NATN contains copies of 988 tablets and seal inscriptions from the Third Dynasty of Ur, mostly from private archives. Loans, contracts, sales, court documents, letter-orders, agricultural texts, name lists, incantations, and other genres are repre...

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Gotthelf Bergstrasser (1886-1933) was one of the great Semitic linguists and philologists. This small volume encapsulates his learning, and every page yields concise statements of remarkable insight. He intended the book for elementary classes in ...

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Twenty-three essays by students and colleagues of Samuel Schultz, longtime Professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College, Illinois.

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Eleven essays explore the ways in which the contextual approach to the study of biblical literature provides both insightful and illuminating parallels between biblical and extrabiblical sources, as well as recognizing the implications of signific...

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This volume of essays is offered to George Mendenhall in appreciation of the light that he has found in the quest for that Kingdom of God, and shared in his classes, lectures and publications. The contributions come from his present and former col...

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Seventeen essays presented by an international group of scholars feature the social, economic, and political history of the period of Israel's united monarchy.

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This milestone study is a thorough examination of the various cultic and social phenomena connected with the temple-activities connected with the temple's inner sphere and belonging to the priestly circle. The book also seeks to demonstrate the an...

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This volume contains fifty-two essays composed in honor of David Noel Freedman and organized around the topics: Hebrew Poetry and Prophecy, The Prose of the Hebrew Bible, History and Institutions of Israel, Northwest Semitic Epigraphy, and Other P...

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Samuel Iwry has enjoyed a long and distinguished career as professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the Johns Hopkins University, and professor and dean of the Baltimore Hebrew College. It is an altogether fitting tribute to Prof. Iw...

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Essays on Semitics, Statistics and Linguistics, the Hebrew Bible, the Greek Bible, and Religion by an international group of scholars reflect the wide-ranging interests of Professor Andersen's research and writing. In addition, a number of poems b...

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Excavations in the Middle Euphrates Valley over the past fifty years have profoundly altered our understanding of the history of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine. The discovery of Mari (Tell Hariri), with its extensive cuneiform library, is at th...

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This study is the first detailed synthesis of the epigraphic and archaeological evidence for ancient Damascus in this generation. Pitard surveys the geographical setting of the area, its development as the land of Apum in the Middle Bronze Age, gr...

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A number of the essays in this volume were originally published as a part of a special issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review entitled "The Bible and Its Traditions." Added to these articles are new contributions by F. I. Andersen ("...

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Meeting the need for a textbook for classroom use after first year Hebrew grammar, Waltke and O'Connor integrate the results of modern linguistic study of Hebrew and years of experience teaching the subject in this book. In addition to functioning...

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In this expanded version of James Barr's classic work, three additional articles by the author are added. They are (1) "Philology and Exegesis: Some General Remarks, with Illustrations from Job," (2) "Ugaritic and Hebrew sbm?" ...

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The discovery of the great Early Bronze Age library at Tell Mardikh, the site of the ancient city of Ebla, has altered significantly our understanding of the history and culture of ancient Syria and the neighboring areas. This volume contains essa...

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The range and breadth of Thomas O. Lambdin's interests in Semitic linguistics are reflected in this collection of essays in his honor. Professor at Harvard University since 1969, Lambdin has vigorously scrutinized, analyzed, and written on many of...

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Essays by: Astour, Donbaz, Dosch, Foster, Friedman, Grosz, Khacikyan, Maidman, Morrison, Paradise, Scafa, Stein, Wegner, Wilhelm. Includes publication of significant new texts.

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This collection of studies had its origin in the Burdick-Vary Symposium of 1986, held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The symposium, sponsored jointly by the Institute for Research in the Humanities and the Hebrew Department of the Univers...

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The papers presented in this volume were originally presented at a conference entitled "Religion and Law: Middle Eastern Influences on the West," sponsored by the Middle East Center of the University of Utah and the J. Reuben Clark Law S...

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By means of a threefold approach-typological analysis of literary forms, investigation of religious ideology, and study of didactic aims and methods-Weinfeld shows that the deuteronomic composition was the creation of scribal circles who began the...

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That autobiography in ancient literature is fictional has long been recognized. The purpose of Longman's study is to delineate the genre of fictional autobiography in Akkadian texts with similar texts from other ancient Near Eastern cultures. Incl...

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This work presents for the first time in its entirety the long Sumerian poem describing the destruction and suffering in Babylonia during the final days of the Third Dynasty of Ur. The text is both an important work of native historiography and a ...

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