Ancient Near Eastern Studies

Sensing the Past Writing and Rewriting History in Detecting the Use of the Ancient Israel and Near Eastern Five Senses in Ancient Near Cultures Eastern Contexts edited by Isaac Kalimi edited by Davide Nadali Most of the papers collected in this volume were de- and Frances Pinnock livered at a conference held in June 2018 in Mainz. The Archaeology of Senses and They discuss recent developments in the analysis the Archaeology of Emotions of history and historiography in ancient Israel and are two most interesting recent its surrounding cultures. The scholars compare the trends in the modern stud- compositional and editorial approaches evident in ies about the past, aiming at biblical and post-biblical writings with those shown enlightening the human experience of the archaeological remains in other ancient literature, while concentrating on a specific theme. and artifacts. This volume presents the proceedings of a congress 250p (Harrassowitz Verlag, February 2020) hardcover, 9783447113632, $73.00. focusing mainly on the use of the five traditional senses, and trying Special Offer $59.00 to analyze how each of them might have played a role in specific ancient contexts: The use of sight was common in the rituals of king- Researching Metaphor ship at Ebla and in the choice of specific places for settlements in the in the southern Levant. The use of hearing was an important aspect in the edited by Marta Pallavidini rites taking place at Ebla or in the open air sanctuaries of Anatolia, and Ludovico Portuese and specific words for the definition of sounds are detectable in Sumerian and Akkadian texts. Special foods and beverages were Both as a figure of speech and as a cognitive phe- used during ceremonies involving taste and smell. Small every-day nomenon, this volume aims to research metaphor use objects might have had also tactile properties; senses convey from different perspectives by considering its pres- emotions and this aspect can be reconstructed from Mesopotamian ence in ancient Near Eastern written documents. The texts. A peculiar perspective is provided by the analysis of the rela- contributions focus on several ancient Near Eastern tion between the public and artifacts in museums. cultures, encompass more than two millennia, and 254p (Harrassowitz Verlag, March 2020) paperback, 9783447114110, examine various topics, from Sumerian literature to $92.00. Special Offer $74.00 Hittite written sources, to Neo-Assyrian art, and to the Biblical world. 212p (Harrassowitz Verlag, August 2020, Philippika 141) paperback, 9783447114370, $67.00. Special Offer $54.00

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70 Enterprise Drive, Suite 2 • Bristol, CT 06010, USA Distributor of phone: (+1) 860 584 6546 • fax: (+1) 860 516 4873 Scholarly Books www.isdistribution.com • [email protected] The Glyptic of Tell Chuēra Staatsrituale, Seals and Sealings of the 3rd Festbeschreibungen Millennium BC und weitere Texte zum by Anne-Birte Binder assyrischen Kult This volume publishes the seal impres- by Hanspeter Schaudig sions and seals excavated between 1955 This volume presents 55 clay tablets and and 2011. With a total of 605 items fragments with texts that were once and 313 different designs, the corpus intended to ensure the cultic correctness of forms a good basis to analyze the motif rituals and festivals in the temples of the repertoire of Tell Chuera, which is the city of Assur. The tablets were found at the only major site of the 3rd millennium BC beginning of the twentieth century during between the Balikh and Habur that has been excavated on a large scale. The the German excavations in Assur and are now kept in the Vorderasiatisches majority of finds comes from secondary contexts. Thus, a major part of this Museum zu Berlin. The texts presented date from the late second and first volume discusses the dating of almost the entire glyptic motives found within millennia BC, when the Middle and Neo-Assyrian empires dominated large the borders of modern Syria and aims create a chronological framework in parts of the Near East. As the highest priest, administrator, and representative which to integrate Tell Chuera’s glyptic. of the god Assur, the Assyrian king was of utmost importance in the religious 218p, 30 pls (Harrassowitz Verlag, June 2020, Vorderasiatische Forschungen and political life of his time. In these texts, he is usually the center of atten- der Max Freiherr von Oppenheim Stiftung 2.9) hardcover, 9783447113502, tion, which is why the group is called “state rituals.” Among the texts are, for $133.00. Special Offer $107.00 example, the famous Middle Assyrian coronation ritual, which is presented here in a fundamentally new edition, as well as a fragment of an early version Lexikalische Texte II of the Neo-Assyrian coronation hymn, a new manuscript of the Mesopota- Teil 1: Einleitung, Katalog, mian substitute king ritual, regulations for the ordination of priestesses, and Textbearbeitungen, numerous other texts such as hymns and prayers. German text. Verzeichnisse. Teil 2: Glossare 196p (Harrassowitz Verlag, November 2020, Keilschrifttexte aus Assur und Keilschriftautographien literarischen Inhalts 12) hardcover, 9783447115223, $79.00. Special Offer $64.00 by Ivan Hrůša and Frauke Weiershäuser Bannlösung This two-volume study offers the critical edition of 123 cuneiform so-called lexical (nam-érim-búr-ru-da) texts recovered from the urban area of Die Therapie eines auf eidliche Falsch- Assur, the former capital of the Assyrian aussage zurückgeführten Leidens Empire, and housed in the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin. Written down by Stefan M. Maul on clay tablets between the 12th and 7th centuries BC, these texts contain This volume presents a hitherto completely systematically constructed bilingual dictionaries in which Sumerian words unknown corpus of texts. The cuneiform tab- or expressions are explained by corresponding Akkadian terms. They bear lets document a therapeutic procedure called witness to the long lexicographical tradition of Mesopotamia, which closely “curse-breaking”. The aim of the therapy was accompanied the development of writing culture and scholarship there. For to free the patient from the symptoms and each tablet, the text edition provides the Latin transliteration, a German causes of a serious illness whose origin was translation, and a commentary focusing on problems of text reconstruction believed to be the guilt of a sworn false statement. German text. and translation. German text. 2 vols, 550p (Harrassowitz Verlag, January 2020, Keilschrifttexte aus Assur literarischen 2 vols, 626p (Harrassowitz Verlag, September 2020, Keilschrifttexte aus Assur Inhalts 10) hardcover, 9783447112093, $133.00. Special Offer $107.00 literarischen Inhalts 11) hardcover, 9783447114196, $173.00. Special Offer $139.00

2 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1807–21 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 The Reach of the Assyrian Cult, Temple, Sacred Spaces and Babylonian Empires Cult Practices and Cult Spaces in Case Studies in Eastern and Western Hittite Anatolia and Neighbouring Peripheries Cultures edited by Shuichi Hasegawa edited by Susanne Görke and Karen Radner and Charles Steitler This volume provides new data for the In June 2019, the project “Corpus der hethi- ways that enabled the Assyrian and Baby- tischen Festrituale” invited renowned inter- lonian empires to govern efficiently their national scholars to a symposium discuss- vast territories and diverse populations ing recent developments in ancient Near across the ancient Middle East. With both Eastern studies regarding the interpreta- states exerting and distributing power and authority from center to periph- tion of philological and archaeological sources from Anatolia and adjacent ery, the channels through which these were asserted are of key concern in areas in the 2nd mill. BCE. The symposium focused on questions concerning order to assess the imperial structures. Elucidating the mechanisms of control, the archaeology of temples and other sacred places, differentiation of sacred especially in view of the always fragile relations between the state center and spaces according to written sources, the organization of festivals with a focus remote peripheries, has long been a major subject in the study on ancient on spatial aspects, participation in festivals, and possibilities of interpretation empires. The volume covers the period from the 9th to the 6th century BCE thanks to insights into the cult practices of areas such as Northern Syria, the and draws on the rich archaeological and textual data that has come to light, Levant, Mesopotamia or Egypt. in particular at the Dinka Settlement Complex, the cemetery discovered at 376p (Harrassowitz Verlag, November 2020, Studien zu den Boğazköy-Texten Sanandaj, Tel Rekhesh, Tell Ali al-Hajj, Tell Mastuma, and Yasin Tepe. 66) hardcover, 9783447114868, $119.00. Special Offer $96.00 202p, 63 illus, 3 tbls (Harrassowitz Verlag, October 2020, Studia Chaburensia 8) paperback, 9783447114776, $65.00. Special Offer $52.00 Assur-Forschungen 2 edited by Stefan M. Maul Testi di Cancelleria. Contents: Die Erforschung der literarischen Il re e i funzionari, Vol. II Keilschrifttexte aus Assur: ein Zwischenb- ericht; Überlegungen zum „altakkadischen (L. 2875) Wohnhaus“ unter dem Sîn-Šamaš-Tempel by Amalia Catagnoti in Assur; Gedanken zu dem Drogen-Inventar and Pelio Fronzaroli aus Assur: KADP 36 (VAT 8903); Regere lege This volume concludes the publication of artis: mittelassyrische königliche Edikte und the chancery documents found in the Royal die Verschriftung staatlicher Rechtssetzung; Palace G of Ebla. The texts have been found Fragmente des Kompendiums MUL.APIN (with the exception of no. 21) in L.2875 und ein astrologisch-astronomischer Kommentar aus Assur; Dampfboot auf together with other tablets of different dem Tigris. Logistikprobleme bei den Ausgrabungen in Assur; Eine weiteres typology, all to be dated to the very last Tontafelbruchstück aus Assur mit einem in altbabylonischer Monumen- period of Ebla. Texts 1–20 are letters, written by king Yitġar-Damu, the vizier talschrift geschriebenen Abschnitt aus dem „Kodex Hammurapi“; Sexuelle Yibbi’-Dikir, and others. One text includes regulations of cult obligations, Belästigungen und ihre Folgen in Assyrien. Zu Inhalt und Stellung der §§ 7–9 specifying the procedures for oracular interrogation. Text 21, from L.2769, is a der mittelassyrischen Gesetze Tafel A aus Assur; Die mittelassyrischen Bestat- very peculiar document, reconstructed from 25 fragments. It collects several tungen in Assur; tuppa amāru – Die Tafel verstehen, ohne sie zu lesen. Zur legal procedures relating to the management of properties, to the journeys Gestaltung des „mittelassyrischen Krönungsrituals“; Verfallen und vergessen. made by itinerant judges and superintendents of merchants, and to the fulfil- Überlegungen zum Umgang mit dem Andenken Tukultī-Ninurtas I. anhand ment of obligations following the death of a man. Italian text. der Bauwerke des Herrschers in Aššur und Kār-Tukultī-Ninurta. German text. 196p, 38 pls (Harrassowitz Verlag, September 2020, Archivi Reali di Ebla. Testi 290p, 65 illus, 2 tbls (Harrassowitz Verlag, October 2020) hardcover, 18) hardcover, 9783447114752, $133.00. Special Offer $107.00 9783447114745, $52.00. Special Offer $42.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1807–21 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 3 The Flood: The Akkadian Sources A New Edition, Commentary, and a Literary Discussion by Nathan Wasserman The story of the primeval cataclysmic flood which wiped out all life on earth, save for one family, is found in different ancient Mesopotamian texts whence it reached the Biblical and Classical literary traditions. The present book systematically collects the earliest attestations of the myth of the Flood, namely all the cuneiform-written Akkadian sources—from the Old Babylonian to the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods, including Tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh—presenting them in a new synoptic edition and English translation which are accompanied by a detailed philological commentary and an extensive literary discus- sion. The book also includes a complete glossary of the Akkadian sources. 197p (Peeters Publishers, March 2020, Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 290) hardcover, 9789042941731, $90.00. Special Offer $72.00 PDF e-book, 9789042941748, $113.00

Scribes d’Ougarit Des polythéismes et paléographie akkadienne aux monothéismes Les textes juridiques signés Mélanges d’assyriologie offerts by Françoise Ernst-Pradal à Marcel Sigrist This volume presents the results of research edited by Uri Gabbay on the palaeography of signed legal texts and Jean Jacques Pérennès discovered at Ugarit and written in ideo- Marcel Sigrist is known in the world of syllabic cuneiform. The study focuses on assyriologists for his major contribution to the question of the hands of scribes. The the knowledge of the III period, owing in vast majority of the written documents dis- particular to the transcription of thousands covered at this site are anonymous, but the of tablets that he published in various books. method used, based on digital photographs of the original tablets, preserved This volume is a token of esteem and gratitude. English and French text. in the national museums of Damascus and Aleppo and at the Louvre, reveals Contents include: The God List 24 50 as Theological Postscript to Enūma Eliš; characteristics specific to the writing of each of the scribes and shows that the Une Famille Divine au Panthéon de Gudea; Un clergé en exil: le transfert scribes’ hands present a complex reality. The results obtained for the twenty- de dieux de Nippur à Dur-Abi-ešuh; Teaching Liturgical Lamentations in seven scribes who signed eighty-three texts are discussed after being tested Hellenistic Uruk; A Thanksgiving Hymn of Bēl-rēmanni to Nergal; On the Two by cross-referencing their spelling with those of the anonymous tablets. They Principal Meanings of the Sumerian Term lugal; Reflections on the Epic of confirm some of the hypotheses put forward by researchers and invalidate Gilgamesh; The Bilingual Syncretistic Hymn to Nanāya; Fragments of Royalty: others that are sometimes commonly accepted. Unsigned tablet writers Two Old Babylonian Texts in Praise of Unknown Kings; On the Beginnings were identified, opening new perspectives for research on issues of dating, of Mesopotamian “theology”; Innovation in Religion in the Third Dynasty of training, and organization of scribes and their links to religious and economic Ur; Mesopotamian Gods “of Heaven”; The Economic Activities of the Zū-Ba’la domains, as well as to the powers in place in the kingdom of Ugarit during Family and the Archival Practices in Building M1 at Emar; New Documents the Late Bronze Age. French text. about Uruk, and its Countryside. 644p (Peeters Publishers, October 2019, Ras Shamra - Ougarit 27) paperback, 549p (Peeters Publishers, May 2020, Etudes Bibliques 82) paperback, 9789042941205, $119.00. Special Offer $96.00 9789042941939, $115.00. Special Offer $92.00 PDF e-book, 9789042941212, $149.00 PDF e-book, 9789042941946, $144.00

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At the Heart of an Empire Women at the The Royal Household in the Neo- Dawn of History Assyrian Period edited by Agnete W. Lassen by Melanie M. Gross and Klaus Wagensonner This study is devoted to the Neo-Assyrian In the patriarchal world of ancient royal household as it emerges from the Mesopotamia, women were often available cuneiform sources. It addresses represented in their relation to the functions as well as the conditions of life men—as mothers, daughters, or and work of the royal household personnel. wives—giving the impression that a It clarifies which types of officials, profes- woman’s place was in the home. But, sionals and other employees were active as this volume explores, they were within or on behalf of the royal household. What were their tasks, and what also authors and scholars, astute businesswomen, sources of expressions of was their position within the royal household and in relation to the king and eroticism, priestesses with access to major gods and goddesses, and regents his family? What departments were in place, and who were the managers? who exercised power on behalf of kingdoms, states, and empires. What was the role of lower-ranking personnel within this system? The study Contents: Introduction; Women’s Lives in the Ancient Near East and Facets also investigates the social and cultural background of the personnel as well of Ancient Near Eastern Womanhood; Women and Seals in the Ancient Near as their professional life, including their financial means, the quantity and East; Between History and Fiction - Enheduana, the First Poet in World Litera- type of their remuneration, and their career progression. Envisaged also as ture; From Sammu-ramat to Semiramis and Beyond: Metamorphoses of an reference book, the book provides a prosopographical catalogue of the wide Assyrian Queen; “... and in a woman, almost unique”; Catalogue of Objects. range of personnel discussed. As the personal household of the sovereign and 112p, col illus (Yale Babylonian Collection, February 2020) paperback, the administrative and political center of the empire, this study of the royal 9781734342000, $19.95. Special Offer $16.00 household opens up the immediate environment of the king and his family, but also to the governmental apparatus of the empire as a whole. The Art of Empire 1116p (Peeters Publishers, October 2020, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 292) hardcover, 9789042940734, $175.00. Special Offer $140.00 in Achaemenid Persia PDF e-book, 9789042940741, $219.00 Studies in Honour of Margaret Cool Root edited by Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre, The Ikun-pisa Letter Archive from Tell ed-Der Mark B. Garrison and Wouter F. M. IPLA Henkelman by R. de Boer This volume in honor of Margaret Cool This volume publishes fifty-six early Old Babylonian letters from ca. 1880 Root gathers seventeen contributions on BCE. They were found by legendary Iraqi archaeologist Taha Baqir in 1941 at Achaemenid Persian art, ranging from the the site of Tell ed-Der, ancient Sippar-Amnanum, in central Iraq. The letters European rediscovery of Persepolis—via are written in an early dialect of Akkadian and are part of the archives of an Achaemenid glyphic art, evidence of ancient firm. This firm consisted of a number of families engaged in local polychrome sculpture, and Achaemenid impact in the satrapies—to pos- agriculture, the manufacturing of textiles, crediting, and international trade. sible reflections of Persepolitan art in Classical Greece. The contributors are As such it was part of the same larger trade networks as those already known colleagues and, in a number of cases, former students of Margaret Root. As a from the contemporary Old Assyrian archives found in central Turkey. The firm whole, the volume reflects the wide range of Root’s interests and her impact strived to have good relations with local Amorite rulers, such as Sumu-la-El, on the field of Achaemenid studies. the first king of Babylon, and they used their own trading agents to represent 662p (Peeters Publishers, May 2020, Achaemenid History 16) hardcover, them in far-away cities such as Mari. For these reasons, the letters are also an 9789042939219, $118.00. Special Offer $95.00 important source for ’s political and socio-economic history. 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The combination of a quantitative approach to the distribution of variables and a micro-level study of the documents demonstrates that a number of orthographic and linguistic features associ- ate significantly to regional or temporal coordinates, sometimes revealing an intertwined multicausality of factors. 412p (Ugarit-Verlag, March 2020, Alter Orient und Altes Testament 465) hardcover, 9783868353099, $164.00. Special Offer $132.00 PDF e-book, 9783868353105, $132.00

Die Deportationspraxis in neuassyrischer Zeit Dealing with Antiquity by Katsuji Sano Past, Present & Future The first part of this volume deals with the state of research, the topic of edited by Walter Sommerfeld deportation as a means of domination, and aspects of the deportation These proceedings deal with the role of practice that require special consideration. The second part is devoted to the the past in the cultures of the Ancient Near basics, sources, and detailed information on which the study of deportation East; the heritage of the Ancient Near practices is based. The source situation is described and the different types East, its reception history and contribution of sources are presented. The third part treats all surviving deportations of to global heritage; and the tasks and chal- the Neo-Assyrian period as separate case studies, not least with the aim of lenges for the protection of cultural assets showing the different applications and weightings of deportation as a means and the enhancement of the possibilities of rule. German text. offered by the digital humanities. 478p (Ugarit-Verlag, December 2020, Alter Orient und Altes Testament 466) 486p (Ugarit-Verlag, June 202, Alter Orient und Altes Testament 460) hardcover, hardcover, 9783868353112, $173.00. Special Offer $139.00 9783868352856, $209.00. Special Offer $168.00

Ugarit-Forschungen 49 (2018) Ugarit-Forschungen 50 (2019) edited by Manfried Dietrich, Valérie Contents include: The Literary Develop- Matoïan, Giovanni Mazzini, Wilfred ment of the Myth of the Moon-God and His G. E. Watson and Nicolas Wyatt Cow; Biblical Hebrew Parallels to Phrases Contents include: LKA 64: A possible royal and Expressions in the El Amarna Letters; song (zamar šarri) celebrating the Trans- Die Verwendung von Horn in Komposit- Euphratian victories of Aššurnasipal II’s 9th bögen nach ägyptischen und vordera- campaign; Trade contacts, economy and siatischen Textstellen; René Dussaud, administration in Iron Age Jerusalem; Zu premier mentor des études ougaritiques; einer möglichen demotisch-babylonischen Ugaritic and the Book of Micah; Oaths and Parallele im ägyptischen pBerlin 13640, 11; their Risks in Canaanite-Hebrew Proverbial The stele of Ramesses II from Sheikh Sa‘ad, Syria; Bibliografía de los estudios Wisdom; Zur Datierung des Generals-Briefes (RS 20.033); The Meaning of de Emar (8); Pig frequencies in Iron Age sites and the biblical pig taboo; The mảt in KTU 1.14 1:38; On ia-pa-aq-ti in the Amarna Tablet 64, 23; A propos de Formation of the Book of Judges; Beelzebul or Beelzebub? Ugaritic monsters I: l’étymologie de sikkānum; A New Appraisal of the Samaria Ostraca; Ritual und The ’atūku “Bound One” and its Sumerian parallels; On ideology and lions. Magie im Kirta-Epos. English, French, and German text. 484p (Ugarit-Verlag, March 2020) hardcover, 9783868353037, $212.00. 525p (Ugarit-Verlag, November 2020) hardcover, 9783868352801, $244.00. Special Offer $170.00; PDF e-book, 9783868353044, $170.00 Special Offer $196.00

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Receptions of the Ancient Near East in Popular Culture and Beyond edited by Lorenzo Verderame and Agnès Garcia-Ventura This book is an enthusiastic celebration of the ways in which popular culture has consumed aspects of the ancient Near East to construct new realities. The editors have brought together an impressive line-up of scholars—archaeologists, philologists, historians, and art historians—to reflect on how objects, ideas, and interpretations of the ancient Near East have been remem- bered, constructed, reimagined, mythologized, or indeed forgotten within our shared cultural memories. The exploration of cultural memories has revealed how they inform the values, structures, and daily life of societies over time. This is therefore not a collection of essays about the deep past but rather about the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves. 332p, illus (Lockwood Press, March 2020) paperback, 9781948488242, $32.95. Special Offer $27.00; PDF e-book, 9781948488259, $27.00 Studies in Ancient Persia Babylonian Ceremonial Script and the Achaemenid Period in Its Scholarly Context edited by John Curtis by Carole Roche-Hawley An important collection of eight essays on Ancient Persia (Iran) in the periods of the Two distinct scripts were used in ancient Achaemenid Empire (539-330 BC), when the Mesopotamian inscriptions and documents. Persians established control over the whole of One was a deliberately archaizing script the Ancient Near East, and later the Sasanian reserved for ceremonial use. This ceremonial Empire. Paul Collins writes about stone relief script, of Babylonian origin, contained both carvings from Persepolis; John Curtis and archaic and archaizing signs, and was in Christopher Walker illuminate the Achaeme- productive use for over two millennia. Yet to nid period in Babylon; Terence Mitchell, Alan Millard and Shahrokh Razmjou date there has been no systematic study de- draw attention to neglected aspects of and the books of voted specifically to this ceremonial script, nor any published syllabary of the Daniel and Isaiah; and Mahnaz Moazami and Prudence Harper explore the archaic and archaizing signs it employs. This volume attempts to rectify this. Sasanian period in Iran when Zoroastrianism became the state religion. (Lockwood Press, December 2021, Critical Editions of Ancient Texts 1) hardcover, 232p (James Clarke & Co., January 2020) paperback, 9780227177068, $38.00. 9781948488396, $64.95. Special Offer $52.00 Special Offer $31.00; hardcover, 9780227177051, $98.00. Special Offer $79.00 PDF e-book, 9781948488402, $52.00 PDF e-book, 9780227907061, $31.00; EPUB e-book, 9780227907078, $30.99 Purifying a House from Blood Sargonic and Pre-Sargonic A Hittite Ritual for the Ancient Gods Cuneiform Texts in the Yale (CTH 446) Babylonian Collection by Andrea Trameri by Benjamin R. Foster This study provides an updated philological This volume publishes hand copies of 292 edition of the Hittite ritual for the ancient cuneiform texts in the Yale Babylonian gods (CTH 446) with transliteration, Collection dating to the Sargonic and transcription, and English translation, as Pre-Sargonic periods. It continues publica- well as a comprehensive study of the text. tion of the Pre-Ur III texts in the series It includes a paleographic analysis and a Babylonian lnscriptions in the Collection of brief overview of the content and the main J. B. Nies, volume 8. The tablet copies pre- topics of interest, offers a detailed philological commentary, and discusses sented here include accounts and records from Isin, Nippur, Shuruppak, Umma, some distinctive aspects in the broader context of the Hittite ritual corpus. Zabala, Girsu, Umma, Lagash, Eshnunna, and Kish, as well as the Mesag archive. 232p (Lockwood Press, December 2021) hardcover, 9781948488754, $65.00. 220p (Lockwood Press, March 2020) hardcover, 9781948488266, $85.00. Special Offer $52.00; PDF e-book, 9781948488761, $56.00 Special Offer $68.00; PDF e-book, 9781948488273, $68.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1807–21 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 7 Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers — Universitätsverlag Winter

Magic in the A Study in the Syntax Ancient Eastern Mediterranean of the Luwian Language Cognitive, Historical, by Federico Giusfredi and Material Perspectives The Ancient Anatolian corpora represent the on the and Its Contexts earliest documented examples of the Indo-Eu- edited by Nina Nikki and Kirsi Valkama ropean languages. In this book, an analysis of This volume joins current scholarship in re- the syntactic structure of the Luwian phrases, fraining from using the concept of magic as clauses, and sentences is attempted, basing an othering device and in arguing that it can on a phrase-structural approach that entails a serve as a helpful analytical tool. In addition mild application of the theoretical framework to analyzing the discourse on magic in both of generative grammar. While obvious limits ancient literature and modern scholarship, the articles provide individual ex- exist as regards the use of theory-driven models to the study and description amples of how literary and material culture attest to the existence of magical of ancient corpus-languages, this books aims at demonstrating and illustrat- beliefs and practices in sources from the Ancient Near East to the Byzantine ing the main configurational features of the Luwian syntax. Period. The book is divided into three parts. The contributions in the first part 227p (Universitätsverlag Winter, August 2020, Texte der Hethiter 30) approach magic from the theoretical perspective of cognitive studies, ritual paperback, 9783825347253, $60.00. Special Offer $48.00 studies, and cultural evolution, while the rest of the book focuses on how magic and magicians are understood in ancient sources. The second part dis- Zeit in den Kulturen cusses a specific set of textual material dealing with blessings and curses. The des Altertums third part of the volume discusses the world of various destructive celestial Antike Chronologie beings, from which one and one’s loved ones had to be defended, as well as the multitude of protective beings such as angels. im Spiegel der Quellen 331p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, December 2020, Mundus Orientis 3) edited by Roland Färber hardcover, 9783525522189, $188.00. Special Offer $151.00 and Rita Gautschy This volume sheds light on the under- Totenkult und Ahnenverehrung im hethitischen Anatolien standing and handling of time in ancient cultures. If time is viewed as a social con- Vorstellungen, Rituale und Institutionen struct and not just as a physical fact, chron- by Chiara Cognetti ological concepts, systems, and practices The cult of the dead and ancestor worship among the Hittites has so far not can provide important insights into the self-understanding and functioning found a summarizing treatment, and the ideas of the continued existence of societies. The focus is on sources from ancient Egypt, the Near East, and the of the deceased, as attested to in the Hittite texts, have not been collated Greek and Roman worlds, dating from the 3rd millennium BC to Christian Late into a uniform picture. This book is the first comprehensive study to bring Antiquity. The spectrum ranges from paintings and reliefs, literary texts and together all the information found in the textual evidence from Bogazköy documents, to instruments and buildings. In all contributions, related sources and examines it in detail in order to work out the basic structures of this are recorded, technical aspects explained and the testimonies evaluated from theme complex. Based on philological research of the text sources and the a socio-cultural perspective. German text. lexicographic analysis of the terms to be examined, the book examines 688p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, March 2020) hardcover, the presence of the dead in the everyday life of the living, in particular the 9783412518158, $100.00. Special Offer $80.00 significance of ancestors and royal predecessors for their descendants, as well as the resulting forms of ancestor and death cult and their significance for the community. German text. 464p (Universitätsverlag Winter, October 2021, Texte der Hethiter 32) hardcover, 9783825346980, $92.00. Special Offer $74.00

8 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1807–21 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 The Storm-God and the Sea New Perspectives on Aramaic The Origin, Versions, and Diffusion of a Epigraphy in Mesopotamia, Myth throughout the Ancient Near East Qumran, Egypt and Idumea by Noga Ayali-Darshan edited by Aren M. Maeir, The tale of the combat between the Storm- Angelika Berlejung, Esther Eshel god and the Sea that began circulating in and Takayoshi M. Oshima the early second millennium BCE was one of This volume contains the proceedings of two the most well-known ancient Near Eastern international meetings held by the Minerva myths. Its widespread dissemination in Center for the Relations between Israel and distinct versions across disparate locations Aram in Biblical Times (RIAB) in Ramat-Gan/ and time periods—Syria, Egypt, Anatolia, Jerusalem (March 2017) and Leipzig (May Ugarit, Mesopotamia, and Israel—calls for analysis of all the textual variants 2018). Most of the papers relate to various aspects of the Aramaic epigraphy in order to determine its earliest form, geo-cultural origin, and transmission in different contexts with a second part of the volume dealing with Idumean history. In undertaking this task, Noga Ayali-Darshan examines works such as ostraca. The papers will be of interest to ancient historians, archaeologists of the Astarte Papyrus, the Pisaisa Myth, the Songs of Hedammu and Ullikummi, the ancient Near East, scholars of Semitic and Biblical studies and the ancient the Baal Cycle, Enuma eliš, and pertinent biblical texts. She interprets these Near East. and other related writings philologically according to their provenance and 354p (Mohr Siebeck, January 2021, Orientalische Religionen in der Antike 40) comparatively in the light of parallel texts. The examination of this story hardcover, 9783161598944, $174.00. Special Offer $140.00 appearing in all the ancient Near Eastern cultures also calls for a discussion of the theology, literature, and history of these societies and the way they shaped the local versions of the myth. The Dismembered Bible 303p (Mohr Siebeck, May 2020, Orientalische Religionen in der Antike 37) Cutting and Pasting Scripture hardcover, 9783161559549, $153.00. Special Offer $123.00 in Antiquity by Idan Dershowitz Stones, Tablets, and Scrolls It is often presumed that biblical redaction Periods of the Formation of the Bible was invariably done using scribal methods, edited by Federico Giuntoli meaning that when editors sought to and Peter Dubovsk modify or compile existing texts, they would do so in the process of rewriting them upon A constant reevaluation of new archaeo- new scrolls. There is, however, substantial logical and textual material unearthed and evidence pointing to an alternative scenario: edited in recent decades is a recurrent duty Various sections of the Hebrew Bible appear to have been created through a of scholars. Since the overwhelming amount process of material redaction. In some cases, ancient editors simply appended of available data and the complexity of new new sheets to existing scrolls. Other times, they literally cut and pasted their methodologies can be competently handled sources, carving out patches of text from multiple manuscripts and then glu- only by specialized scholars, such a reevalu- ing them together like a collage. Idan Dershowitz shows how this surprising ation is no longer possible for a single scholar. For this reason, archaeolo- technique left behind telltale traces in the biblical text—especially when the gists, cuneiform and biblical scholars as well as classicists joined forces at an editors made mistakes—allowing us to reconstruct their modus operandi. international conference in May 2017 to share their accumulated knowledge. Material evidence from the ancient Near East and elsewhere further supports 592p (Mohr Siebeck, July 2020, Archaeology and Bible 3) paperback, his hypothesis. 9783161582998, $223.00. Special Offer $179.00 188p (Mohr Siebeck, January 2021, Forschungen zum Alten Testament 143) hardcover, 9783161598609, $139.00. Special Offer $112.00

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Atlas historique du Proche-Orient ancien edited by Martin Sauvage This atlas offers a complete panorama of the ancient Near East, from the beginnings of settlement more than 20,000 years ago to the turn of our era. It brings together both synthetic maps allowing the cultural and political evolution of the Near East to be followed over time, as well as maps that focus on a specific region or that are more thematic. All the maps, which are entirely new, take into account the latest advances in research and offer the most up-to-date status of the lines of study explored in the region. A number of maps of cities, major capitals and smaller towns have been added to the char- acteristic morphology of a region or period. Each map is accompanied by a short text that sets out the cultural or political context and explains the cartographic choices and advances in research over the last twenty years. French text. 218p (Les Belles Lettres, November 2020) hardcover, 9782251451138, $69.00. Special Offer $56.00

talugaeš witteš The Ancient South Arabian Royal Ancient Near Eastern Studies Edicts from the Southern Gate Presented to Stefano de Martino of Timna’ and the Ğabal Labah ˘ on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday A New Edition with Philological edited by Michele Cammarosano, and Historical Commentary Elena Devecchi and Maurizio Viano by Giovanni Mazzini Thirty-four studies are devoted to the The kingdom of Qataban flourished in Ancient Near Eastern scholar Stefano South Arabia during the second half of the de Martino. In accordance with his own first millennium BC. The present book is a research area studies on Ancient Anatolia new edition with philological and historical and North-Syria as well as on Hittite and commentary of some of the most important Akkadian texts are in the focus of the festschrift. Newly discovered texts and royal edicts belonging to the Qatabanic corpus. These edicts give us a unique archaeological finds are presented, and new aspects of well-known literary insight into the functioning and the institutions of the Qatabanian legal system. compositions and excavation sites of the region are taken into consideration. 504p (Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, July 2020, Epigraphische Forschungen auf der English, German, and Italian text. Arabischen Halbinsel 8) hardcover, 9783954904662, $165.00. Special Offer $132.00 500p (Zaphon, May 2020, Kasion 2) hardcover, 9783963271106, $166.00. Special Offer $133.00 Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der neuassyrischen Zeit Societies at War Teil 3: Babylonien, Urartu edited by Kai Ruffing, und die östlichen Gebiete Kerstin Dross-Krüpe, Sebastian Fink by Ariel M. Bagg and Robert Rollinger This third and final part of the Neo-Assyr- War and war-related issues have attracted an ian toponyms is a two-volume set which increasing attention within current historical comprises approximately 1400 toponyms and archaeological research, not least in and further 500 fragmentary place names response to recent global political events. from Babylonia, Urartu, and the eastern The present volume is committed to a broad regions of the Assyrian Empire, as well as approach by examining and comparing corrections and additions to the previous parts. German text. phenomena related to ancient warfare from 2 vols, 1104p, 1 map (Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, May 2020, Tübinger Atlas the perspective of Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Classical Studies. des Vorderen Orients – Beihefte 7.7.3) paperback, 9783954904303, $222.00. 667p (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, August 2020, Melammu Symposia Special Offer $178.00 10) hardcover, 9783700185727, $194.00. Special Offer $156.00

10 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1807–21 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 The Sumerian Zame Hymns Life at Court from Tell Abū S.alābīh Ideology and Audience With an Appendix on the in the Late Assyrian Palace Early Dynastic Colophons by Ludovico Portuese edited by Manfred Krebernik Portuese’s study examines architecture, re- and Jan J. W. Lisman liefs and inscriptions of Neo-Assyrian royal This volume offers the first comprehensive palaces, and their interdependences guided score edition of and the first attempt at an by the question of audience and admit- integral translation of the Early Dynastic tance to the king: Who was admitted to the Sumerian hymns, known in the literature as king and how was the king presented? The the Zame Hymns (zà-mì), published by R.D. Assyrian king was actually less secluded in Biggs in 1974. Most of the deities featuring in the collection of the short Zame his palace than hitherto assumed by the classical tradition originating from Hymns also occur in the god lists from Abū Salābīh and Fāra. The hymns are Ctesias, and followed by modern scholars. It is clear that his relatively public embedded in a narrative which relates to the institution of the cult places for appearances were regarded as extraordinary events which interrupted his the great gods by the supreme god Enlil in Nippur. The last hymn is dedicated daily royal activities. All the strategies that apparently hamper access to the to Lisin and her cult place ĜEŠ.GI, which is most probably to be identified with royal court should be considered as highlighting the extreme privilege of Abū Salābīh, where Lisin is installed as city goddess. The score edition and being admitted to the palace and not as ways of emphasizing the seclu- translation are supplemented by a detailed commentary on various cultural, sion of the king. The whole protocol procedure together with architectural historical, grammatical and orthographic aspects. An appendix is devoted to obstructions were strategically used both to protect the king but also to make the colophons of contemporary texts from Tell Abū Salābīh, Fāra, and Ebla. the event exceptional. Whatever their complexity, images, texts, and court 278p (Zaphon, October 2020, dubsar 12) hardcover, 9783963270345, $112.00. activities offer an exhibition of kingship. Through the omnipresence of the Special Offer $90.00 king and the apotropaic values of some images, together with the royal word and the performance of rituals and ceremonies they convey blessings—and The Babylonian the global harmony creates an atmosphere of order, rationality and grace šumma immeru Omens 326p (Zaphon, December 2020, marru 11) hardcover, 9783963271342, Transmission, Reception $119.00. Special Offer $96.00 and Text Production Assyrische Rechtsprechung by Yoram Cohen im 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr. The Babylonian šumma immeru (‘If the Sheep’) omens are concerned with ominous by Betina Faist signs drawn from the behavior of sacrificial Betina Faist offers a systematic presenta- sheep at the time of their sacrifice. They are tion of the jurisprudence in the Neo-Assyr- part of the diviner’s craft and are related ian period based on a detailed examina- to the technique of extispicy (i.e., the tion of the traditional cuneiform texts. examination of the entrails). The omens are attested from the Old Babylonian The methodological starting point is the period to almost the very end of cuneiform civilization at Seleucid Uruk. analysis of the linguistic design of the texts, Manuscripts of the omens and of their commentaries arrive from Babylonia, the research of the relevant terms and Assyria, Anatolia and Northern Syria. This book is the first comprehensive expressions as well as the critical examina- study of this omen genre. It offers complete text editions and commentaries tion of the available sources with regard to their thematic significance. This of the omens, some previously unpublished. It places the šumma immeru philological-historical approach is supplemented by a comparison with other omens within the context of Babylonian divination, and investigates how epochs of the cuneiform tradition and with other legal circles. German text. texts reached a “canonical” status. 376p (Zaphon, December 2020, dubsar 15) hardcover, 9783963270925, 406p (Zaphon, December 2020, dubsar 9) hardcover, 9783963270420, $126.00. Special Offer $101.00 $138.00. Special Offer $111.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1807–21 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 11 Distributor of Scholarly Books

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