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Ancient Near Eastern Studies Ancient Near Eastern Studies Studies in Ancient Persia Receptions of the Ancient Near East and the Achaemenid Period in Popular Culture and Beyond edited by John Curtis edited by Lorenzo Verderame An important collection of eight essays on and Agnès Garcia-Ventura Ancient Persia (Iran) in the periods of the This book is an enthusiastic celebration Achaemenid Empire (539–330 BC), when of the ways in which popular culture has the Persians established control over the consumed aspects of the ancient Near East whole of the Ancient Near East, and later the to construct new realities. It reflects on how Sasanian Empire: stone relief carvings from objects, ideas, and interpretations of the Persepolis; the Achaemenid period in Baby- ancient Near East have been remembered, lon; neglected aspects of biblical archaeol- constructed, re-imagined, mythologized, or ogy and the books of Daniel and Isaiah; and the Sasanian period in Iran (AD indeed forgotten within our shared cultural memories. 250–650) when Zoroastrianism became the state religion. 332p, illus (Lockwood Press, March 2020) paperback, 9781948488242, $32.95. 232p (James Clarke & Co., January 2020) paperback, 9780227177068, $38.00. Special Offer $27.00; PDF e-book, 9781948488259, $27.00 Special Offer $31.00; hardcover, 9780227177051, $98.00. Special Offer $79.00 PDF e-book, 9780227907061, $31.00; EPUB e-book, 9780227907078, $30.99 Women at the Dawn of History The Synagogue in Ancient Palestine edited by Agnete W. Lassen Current Issues and Emerging Trends and Klaus Wagensonner edited by Rick Bonnie, Raimo Hakola and Ulla Tervahauta In the patriarchal world of ancient This book brings together leading experts in the field of ancient-synagogue Mesopotamia, women were often studies to discuss the current issues and emerging trends in the study of represented in their relation to men. synagogues in ancient Palestine. Divided into four thematic units, the differ- But, as this volume explores, they ent contributions apply archaeological, textual, historical and art historical were also authors and scholars, methodologies to questions related to ancient synagogues. astute businesswomen, sources of 512p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, November 2020, Forschungen expressions of eroticism, priestesses zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments 279) hardcover, with access to major gods and goddesses, and regents. 9783525522141, $138.00. Special Offer $111.00 112p, col illus (Yale Babylonian Collection, February 2020) paperback, 9781734342000, $19.95. Special Offer $16.00 Photos courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. 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 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 Représenter dieux et hommes When Gods Speak to Men dans le Proche-Orient ancien Divine Speech according to Textual Sources et dans la Bible in the Ancient Mediterranean Basin Actes du colloque organisé par le Collège edited by Stéphanie Anthonioz, de France, Paris, les 5 et 6 mai 2015 Alice Mouton and Daniel Petit edited by Thomas Römer, Hervé This volume seeks to respond to a problem Gonzalez and Lionel Marti that has received little consideration: the What was the function of representing articulation of divine speech with the various deities and also humans in the ancient forms of its representation. The aim is to Near-East? Which were the different ways of analyze the nature of divine speech through making gods visible? What was the role of its materiality and the impact of the latter on images in the royal cult? These conference proccedings seek to shed light on the former’s definition and evolution. these questions and many more. French text. 148p (Peeters Publishers, December 2019, Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 289) 398p (Peeters Publishers, May 2019, Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 287) hardcover, hardcover, 9789042941328, $90.00. Special Offer $72.00 9789042939738, $108.00. Special Offer $87.00 PDF e-book, 9789042941335, $113.00 PDF e-book, 9789042939745, $135.00 Des polythéismes aux Vielfältig geprägt monothéismes Das spätperserzeitliche Samaria Mélanges d’assyriologie offerts und seine Münzbilder à Marcel Sigrist by Patrick Wyssmann edited by Uri Gabbay This volume presents coins from the province and Jean Jacques Pérennès of Samaria in the Persian Period and the Marcel Sigrist is known in the world of imagery depicted on them. A comprehensive assyriologists for his major contribution to study of the imagery promises important the knowledge of the Ur III period, owing in insights into the region’s history and culture. particular to the transcription of thousands The monograph provides a detailed icono- of tablets that he published in various books. graphic analysis on the basis of a critical This volume is a token of esteem and gratitude. English and French text. study of the numismatic material with numerous comparisons. German text. 549p (Peeters Publishers, May 2020, Etudes Bibliques 82) paperback, 380p (Peeters Publishers, December 2019, Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 288) 9789042941939, $115.00. Special Offer $92.00 hardcover, 9789042941236, $120.00. 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In the last part, the reader can find useful information regarding the typology of inscriptions used by the author and the means of communication between the divine world and the terrestrial one. 761p (Peeters Publishers, December 2019, Colloquia Antiqua 23) hardcover, 9789042937291, $144.00. Special Offer $116.00 PDF e-book, 9789042937307, $180.00 Une autre façon d’être grec / Phrygia in Antiquity: Another Way of Being Greek From the Bronze Age Interactions et productions des Grecs to the Byzantine Period en milieu colonial / Interactions and edited by Gocha R. Tsetskhladze Cultural Innovations of the Greeks in a Colonial Milieu The first part of this volume touches on vari- ous aspects of Midas, moving on through the edited by Michela Costanzi Achaemenid to Byzantine periods, linguistics, and Madalina Dana onomastics and epigraphy, borders, pottery, This volume embraces the activities and and architecture. The second part focuses on innovations of the Greeks in the colonial individual regions and sites from the Early milieu—by transformation of their cultural Bronze Age to the Roman Period, including heritage, by exploiting local resources, or by adapting their practices under ethnic composition, the cult of Cybele, and recent results. the influence of other Greeks. Focusing on these exchanges, the authors 820p (Peeters Publishers, December 2019, Colloquia Antiqua 24) hardcover, question the place of local connections in the construction of regional 9789042937383, $157.00. Special Offer $126.00 cultures, and their original features. English and French text. PDF e-book, 9789042937390, $197.00 472p (Peeters Publishers, May 2020, Colloquia Antiqua 26) hardcover, 9789042937949, $119.00. Special Offer $96.00 Ariadne’s Threads PDF e-book, 9789042937956, $149.00 The Construction and Significance of Clothes in the Aegean Bronze Age Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies by Bernice R. Jones A Commemoration Volume This book is the first to deal comprehen- for Jos J.S. Weitenberg sively with the construction, significance, and function of the full range of garments edited by Uwe Bläsing, Jasmine Dum- of Aegean women and related attire of Tragut and Theo Maarten van Lint men from the Neolithic to the end of the The twenty-three studies by colleagues and Bronze Age. The study collects, analyzes former students gathered in this volume and compiles a typology of the corpus of reflect some of the depth and breadth of garments represented in sculpture, frescoes and glyptic. Weitenberg’s scholarship. 340p, illus (Peeters Publishers, August 2019, Aegaeum
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