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Literary Cocktail: An Anthology by Nicole Eisenbraun 9781609621018
RRP: £12.72Booksplease Price: £12.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609621018Author Nicole EisenbraunFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Pubcrawl... -
A Compendious Syriac Dictionary: Founded upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith by R. Payne-Smith
RRP: £74.99Booksplease Price: £60.14This standard lexicon of Syriac has long been the choice of students of Syriac, both for its comprehensiveness and also because of its handy size. It originated as an abridgement of Payne Smith's... -
Private and State in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the 58th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Leiden, 16-20 July 2012 by R. de Boer
RRP: £82.99Booksplease Price: £74.20In the 5 days from July 16 through July 20, 2012, more than three hundred Assyriologists from all over the world gathered in Leiden, the Netherlands, to read more than 130 papers and to contribute to... -
Before There Were Kings: A Literary Analysis of the Book of Judges by Elie Assis 9781646022274
RRP: £108.99Booksplease Price: £84.34Following the great periods of national leadership by Moses and Joshua, the book of Judges depicts the stewardship of various judges that rose to power to solve local religious and military... -
Reconstructing Jerusalem: Persian-Period Prophetic Perspectives by Kenneth A. Ristau 9781575064086
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £50.06Jerusalem-one of the most contested sites in the world. Reconstructing Jerusalem takes readers back to a pivotal moment in its history when it lay ruined and abandoned and the glory of its ancient... -
Legends of the Kings of Akkade: The Texts by Joan Goodnick Westenholz 9781575063119
RRP: £42.95Booksplease Price: £37.14The most impressive legacy of the Dynasty of Akkade (ca. 2310-2160 B.C.E.) was the widespread, popular legends of its kings. Dr. Westenholz offers an annotated edition of all the known legends of the... -
Ashkelon 5: The Land behind Ashkelon by Yaakov Hustler 9781575069524
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £46.64Combining old surveys with new material from salvage excavations, The Land behind Ashkelon provides a wide regional context for the excavations at Tel Ashkelon. This volume is a distillation of... -
Apollonia-Arsuf: Final Report of the Excavations: Volume II: Excavations Outside the Medieval Town Walls by Oren Tal 9781575067476
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.36The second in a series of final publications of the Apollonia-Arsuf excavations, this volume reports the finds from the 1996, 2002, 2006, 2012, 2013, and 2017 seasons. The main topics are the... -
The Correspondence of Assurbanipal, Part II: Letters from Southern Babylonia by Grant Frame 9789521095085
RRP: £85.99Booksplease Price: £76.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789521095085Author Grant FrameFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint EisenbraunsPublisher... -
Beginning Biblical Hebrew by Mark D. Futato 9781575060224
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £36.84Achieving the right balance of amount of information, style of presentation, and depth of instruction in first-year grammars is no easy task. But Mark Futato has produced a grammar that, after years... -
Phoenicia: Episodes and Anecdotes from the Ancient Mediterranean by Brian Peckham 9781575061818
Booksplease Price: £68.11Phoenicia has long been known as the homeland of the Mediterranean seafarers who gave the Greeks their alphabet. But along with this fairly well-known reality, many mysteries remain, in part because... -
The Scribes and Scholars of the City of Emar in the Late Bronze Age by Yoram Cohen 9781575069319
Booksplease Price: £53.18The city of Emar, modern Tell Meskene in Syria, is one of the most important sites of the western ancient Near East during the Late Bronze Age that have yielded cuneiform tablets. The discovery of... -
Akkadian Loanwords in Biblical Hebrew by P.V. Mankowski 9781575069005
Booksplease Price: £42.16Akkadian Loanwords in Biblical Hebrew is an in-depth examination of Hebrew words that are of Akkadian origin or transmitted via Akkadian into the Hebrew lexicon. The first book-length treatment of... -
Imprecation as Divine Discourse: Speech Act Theory, Dual Authorship, and Theological Interpretation by Kit Barker 9781575064444
Booksplease Price: £38.49Christian readers of the Hebrew Bible are often faced with a troubling tension. On the one hand, they are convinced that this ancient text is relevant today, yet on the other, they remain perplexed... -
Redaction of Genesis by Gary A. Rendsburg 9781575062402
Booksplease Price: £36.28Paperback reprint, with new foreword, of the original 1986 hardback.Focusing his research on his own previous studies as well as studies by Cassuto, Sarna, Fishbane, and Sasson, Rendsburg clearly... -
The Kingdom of Mycenae: A Great Kingdom in the Late Bronze Aegean by Jorrit M. Kelder 9781934309278
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £25.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934309278Author Jorrit M. KelderFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint EisenbraunsPublisher... -
The Edited Bible: The Curious History of the Editor in Biblical Criticism by John van Seters 9781575061122
Booksplease Price: £55.44There is a generally accepted notion in biblical scholarship that the Bible as we know it today is the product of editing from its earliest stages of composition through to its final, definitive and... -
Reading Joshua as Christian Scripture by Douglas S. Earl 9781575067018
Booksplease Price: £39.60The book of Joshua has been received and used as Christian Scripture throughout Christian history. The challenge today, however, is how Christians should appropriately continue to read Joshua as... -
Babylonian Wisdom Literature by Wilfred G. Lambert 9780931464942
Booksplease Price: £81.09This classic work has served students of Akkadian literature as a useful sourcebook and as a model publication for the study of a specific corpus of cuneiform literature. These timeless proverbs,... -
Representations of Political Power: Case Histories from Times of Change and Dissolving Order in the Ancient Near East by Marian H. Feldman 9781575064079
Booksplease Price: £40.71Representation of political power seems to have been necessary at all times in all complex urban societies. To secure order-to construct a certain social, ideological, religious, economic, and... -
Near Eastern Archaeology: A Reader by Suzanne Richar 9781575060835
Booksplease Price: £112.05Filling 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... -
Fictional Akkadian Autobiography: A Generic and Comparative Study by Tremper Longman III 9780931464416
Booksplease Price: £51.01That 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... -
Patients and Performative Identities: At the Intersection of the Mesopotamian Technical Disciplines and Their Clients by J. Cale Johnson 9781575067438
RRP: £105.99Booksplease Price: £81.79The missing piece in so many histories of Mesopotamian technical disciplines is the client, who often goes unnoticed by present-day scholars seeking to reconstruct ancient disciplines in the Near... -
A Canonical Exegesis of the Eighth Psalm: YHWH's Maintenance of the Created Order through Divine Reversal by Hubert James Keener 9781575067087
Booksplease Price: £39.60Since Brevard Childs first introduced it as a "fresh approach" in the late 1960s, canonical exegesis has grown into a widely discussed and developed program-virtually a "school" of biblical... -
Babel und Bibel 8: Studies in Sumerian Language and Literature: Festschrift Joachim Krecher by Natalia V. Koslova 9781575063546
Booksplease Price: £90.25This is the eighth volume of Babel und Bibel, an annual of ancient Near Eastern, Old Testament, and Semitic studies. The principal goal of the annual is to reveal the inherent relationship between... -
Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology by John H. Walton 9781575062167
Booksplease Price: £51.82The ancient Near Eastern mode of thought is not at all intuitive to us moderns, but our understanding of ancient perspectives can only approach accuracy when we begin to penetrate ancient texts on... -
Sacred Marriages: The Divine-Human Sexual Metaphor from Sumer to Early Christianity by Risto Uro 9781575061184
RRP: £61.99Booksplease Price: £46.59The title of this volume, Sacred Marriages, consciously plays with the traditional concept of sacred marriage, but the plural form, "sacred marriages," gives the reader an idea that something more is... -
From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire by Pierre Briant 9781575060316
RRP: £105.99Booksplease Price: £83.39Around 550 B.C.E. the Persian people-who were previously practically unknown in the annals of history-emerged from their base in southern Iran (Fars) and engaged in a monumental adventure that, under... -
Kiriath-jearim: The Shmunis Family Excavations by Israel Finkelstein 9781646023295
RRP: £77.99Booksplease Price: £60.79This volume reports the results of the Tel Aviv University and the Collège de France’s excavations at Kiriath-jearim. The site, located on a strategic peak west of Jerusalem, is of crucial importance... -
I Studied Inscriptions from Before the Flood: Ancient Near Eastern, Literary, and Linguistic Approaches to Genesis 1-11 by David Toshio Tsumura
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £41.45This volume collects the best of recent research and classic essays on the Primeval History, including several articles that have not appeared heretofore in English. The articles provide students and... -
!["Too Much to Grasp": Exodus 3:13-15 and the Reality of God by Andrea Saner](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/473180/472896/9781575063973__04491.1687199132.jpg?c=1 ""Too Much to Grasp": Exodus 3:13-15 and the Reality of God by Andrea Saner")
"Too Much to Grasp": Exodus 3:13-15 and the Reality of God by Andrea Saner
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £29.07Few phrases in Scripture have occasioned as much discussion as has the "I am who I am" of Exodus 3:14. What does this phrase mean? How does it relate to the divine name, YHWH? Is it an answer to... -
Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography by Wayne Horowitz
RRP: £46.95Booksplease Price: £43.17In 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,... -
The Royal Inscriptions of Tiglath-Pileser III (744-727 BC) and Shalmaneser V (726-722 BC), Kings of Assyria by Hayim Tadmor
Booksplease Price: £65.90The Royal Inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III (744-727 BC) and Shalmaneser V (726-722 BC), Kings of Assyria (Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period 1) carries on where the Assyrian Periods... -
Focus Construction with kî ʾim in Biblical Hebrew by Grace J. Park 9781646022465
RRP: £85.99Booksplease Price: £66.79This study uses modern linguistic theory to analyze a frequently recurring syntactic phenomenon in the Hebrew Bible that has thus far resisted explanation: כי אם.The combination of the two particles... -
A (S)Word against Babylon: An Examination of the Multiple Speech Act Layers within Jeremiah 50-51 by Kristofer Holroyd 9781575064925
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.86How are we to study complex speech acts such as the text of Jeremiah? How can understanding these complex speech acts both shed light on the larger text and the smaller text portions and reveal how a... -
A Handbook of Biblical Hebrew by Steven E. Fassberg 9781575063713
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £46.84Volume 1: Periods, Corpora, and Reading Traditions; Volume 2: Selected TextsBiblical Hebrew is studied worldwide by university students, seminarians, and the educated public. It is also studied,... -
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"Lengthen Your Tent-Cords": The Metaphorical World of Israel's Household in the Book of Isaiah by Brittany Kim 9781575067780
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £50.06The last few decades have seen a gradual shift in Isaianic studies as scholars have begun to give greater attention to the book's literary features rather than focusing predominantly on the question... -
Standing in the Breach: An Old Testament Theology and Spirituality of Intercessory Prayer by Michael Widmer 9781575063256
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £50.56At the heart of this study is a biblical-theological approach to central passages on intercessory prayers in the OT. After examining these largely prophetic prayer dialogues, Widmer argues that they... -
Ur III Texts in the Schoyen Collection by Jacob L. Dahl 9781575067384
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £41.34Judging from the sheer amount of textual material left to us, the rulers of ancient Ur were above all else concerned with keeping track of their poorest subjects, who made up the majority of the... -
The Earth Is the Lord's: Essays on Creation and the Bible in Honor of Ben C. Ollenburger by Ryan D. Harker 9781575069937
Booksplease Price: £44.07Compiled in honor of esteemed teacher and scholar Ben C. Ollenburger, The Earth Is the Lord's brings together a diverse group of scholars with specializations across the Christian canon to address...