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Assyriological and Biblical Studies in Honor of Jack Murad Sasson
To honor Jack Murad Sasson,distinguished scholar of theancient Near East, thirty-fiveof his longtime colleagues andfriends have collaborated toproduce this volume.
From the pundits to the polls, nearly everyone seems to agree that US politics have rarely been more fractious, and calls for a return to “civil discourse” abound. Yet it is also true that the requirements of polite discourse effectively silence those who are not in power, gaming the system against the disenfranchised. What, then, ......
Popular Piety and the Manuscript Arts in Early Pennsylvania
Once a vibrant part of religious life for many Pennsylvania Germans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, fraktur manuscripts today are primarily studied for their decorative qualities. The Word in the Wilderness takes a different view, probing these documents for what they tell us about the lived religious ......
Djuna Barnes once said that there is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole object, and the statement is provocative when considering her own writing and art. Arriving as an accomplished writer and journalist in 1920s Paris, Barnes produced an eclectic body of work whose objects and surfaces continue to fascinate readers. In ......
Excavations at the Early Bronze Age Townsite in Jordan, 1977-1983
This volume presents the resultsof archeological research atthe Early Bronze Age sites ofNumayra and Ras an-Numayra,conducted to investigate therise of Early Bronze Age urbansociety with a distinctive focuson links between environmentaland social systems.
The Untold Story of Barbara Hackman Franklin and a Few Good Women
In August 1972, Newsweek proclaimed that “the person in Washington who has done the most for the women’s movement may be Richard Nixon.” Today, opinions of the Nixon administration are strongly colored by foreign policy successes and the Watergate debacle. Its accomplishments in advancing the role of women in government ......
Literary and Scholarly Texts from the Old Babylonian Period
English translations covering a variety of cuneiform tablets from the Old Babylonian period, belonging to the collection of the late Shlomo Moussaieff.
Modeled after previous seasonalreports, this ninth volumeof the Madaba Plains Project'sexcavations at Tall al-?Umayri,Jordan, gives a detailed accountingof the artifactual finds fromthe 2004 season of the excavations,accompanied by hundredsof photos and supplementedwith related research.
Since the early 1990s, about two thousand Idumean Aramaic ostraca have found their way onto the antiquities market and are now scattered across a number of museums, libraries, and private collections. The goal of this multivolume textbook has been to classify these ostraca according to subject matter and to bring them together into a single ......
