Divine doppelgängers

YHWH's ancient look-alikes

The Bible says that YHWH alone is God and that there is none like him-but texts and artwork from antiquity show that many gods looked very similar. In this volume, scholars of the Hebrew Bible and its historical contexts address the problem of YHWH's ...

Perspectives on the history of ancient Near Eastern studies

The present volume collects eighteen essays exploring the history of ancient Near Eastern studies. Combining diverse approaches-synthetic and analytic, diachronic and transnational-this collection offers critical reflections on the who, why, and how of this cluster of fields. How have political contexts determined the conduct of ...

Cuneiform Texts from the Folios of W. G. Lambert

Part One

W. G. Lambert's line drawings of cuneiform tablets from the British Museum, together with his meticulous editions of their contents, form a contribution to Assyriology unrivaled in his generation. Upon his death in 2011, Lambert bequeathed his academic legacy to A. R. George, who ...

Assyria

the imperial mission

In ancient traditions, Assyria was the first world empire in a series that continued with Persia, Macedonia, and Rome. After Rome, we imagine the series bifurcating into a Western trajectory (from Charlemagne to Napoleon and the Third Reich) and an Oriental trajectory (from the Parthians ...

Babylonian creation myths

For much of the last half of the twentieth century, W. G. Lambert devoted much of his research energy and effort to the study of Babylonian texts dealing with Mesopotamian ideas regarding creation, including especially Enuma Elish. This volume, which appears almost exactly 2 years ...

Mesopotamian cosmic geography

In this comprehensive study, Horowitz examines all of the extant Mesopotamian texts (both Sumerian and Akkadian) relating to the ideas of the physical universe and its constituent parts (Heaven, Earth, subterranean waters, underworld). The author shows that the Mesopotamian view of the universe was at ...

Phoenicia

episodes and anecdotes from the Ancient Mediterranean

In this magnum opus, the late Brian Peckham examines all of the evidence currently available to paint as complete a portrait as is possible of Phoenicia: its history, its people, and its culture. In fact, it was not the Phoenicians but the Canaanites who invented ...

The reshaping of Ancient Israelite history in chronicles

In a series of essays, Kalimi catalogues and categorizes the techniques by which the Israelite history in Samuel - Kings is reshaped in the biblical books of Chronicles. The chapters of this study reflect the various recurrences of historiographical and literary changes found in these parallel ...

Hittite studies in honor of Harry A. Hoffner Jr.on the occasion of his 65th birthday

A tribute to America's preeminent scholar of Hittite language and culture, Professor Harry A. Hoffner, Jr., of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. The thirty-four contributors, students, and colleagues treat topics as diverse as Hittite contacts with the Mycenaean Greeks, the topography ...

Letters to the king of Mari

a new translation, with historical introduction, notes, and commentary

In this new Mesopotamian Civilizations volume, Professor Heimpel collects the corpus of the Mari correspondence and provides an introduction, a reconstruction of events during Zimri-Lim's reign, and English translations of these Mari texts (26/1, 26/2, 27, and additional texts). This volume includes ...

Near Eastern archaeology

a reader

Filling a gap in classroom texts, more than 60 essays by major scholars in the field have been gathered to create the most up-to-date and complete book available on Levantine and Near Eastern archaeology.

The anatomy of a Mesopotamian city

survey and soundings at mashkan-shapir

This volume describes and analyzes the survey work at the site of the ancient Mesopotamian city, Mashkan-shapir. A general description of the site and its environs is folowed by the ratinale for identifying the site as Mashkan-shapir. Specific details of the archeological data are folowed ...

David and Zion

biblical studies in honor of J.J.M. Roberts