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Over three centuries of centuries publishing three scholarly Over New and Forthcoming Publications Q2 2021 Contents African Studies* American Studies* 3 Ancient Near East and Egypt 5 Art History 7 Asian Studies 15 Biblical Studies and Early Christianity Biology* 20 Book History and Cartography 21 Classical Studies 25 Education 30 History 44 International Law and Human Rights 55 International Relations 56 Jewish Studies 59 Languages and Linguistics 62 Literature and Cultural Studies Media* 68 Middle East and Islamic Studies 77 Philosophy Humanities Matter by Brill 82 Religious Studies blog.brill.com Slavic and Eurasian Studies* Podcasts available on: 85 Social Sciences 89 Theology and World Christianity This issue of our quarterly ’Forthcoming Publications’ contains Follow us on Facebook and Twitter information about titles scheduled for publication in between March 2021 and July 2021. facebook.com/BrillPublishing * While the scope of our publications cover all of these areas, twitter.com/BrillPublishing you will find that forthcoming titles from select subjects are not yet available. Be sure to check the next issue for titles in youtube.com/BrillPublishing these areas. © Copyright 2021 Brill. All rights reserved. ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT The Manasseh Hill The Rephaim Colonial Encounters in Country Survey Sons of the Gods Southwest Canaan during Volume 6 Jonathan Yogev, Ben-Gurion the Late Bronze Age The Eastern Samaria University of the Negev and the Early Iron Age Shoulder, from Nahal Tirzah Ido Koch, Tel Aviv University (Wadi Far’ah) to Ma’ale Ephraim Junction Shay Bar and Adam Zertal, University of Haifa The book presents the results In this study, Jonathan Yogev In Colonial Encounters in 3 of a complete detailed archaeo- analyzes every text that men- Southwest Canaan during the logical survey of parts of Eastern tions the Rephaim, in order to Late Bronze Age and the Early PUBLICATIONS FORTHCOMING AND NEW Samaria. It is Volume 6 of the determine their exact function Iron Age Koch offers a detailed Manasseh Hill Country Survey and importance in societies of analysis of local responses to co- series of publications. This terri- the ancient Levant. lonial rule, and to its collapse. tory is one of the most important in the country from the archaeo- logical, Biblical and other points of view. READERSHIP: All who are in- READERSHIP: All those inter- READERSHIP: All interested in the terested in archaeology, Near ested in Biblical, Ugaritic and history and archaeology of the Eastern and Biblical Studies, with Phoenician literature, culture, southern Levant during the Late special interest in the Jordan theology, history and the devel- Bronze Age and early Iron Age, Valley and Samaria. opment of concepts of myth in as well as those interested in an- ancient societies. cient colonial encounters. June 2021 June 2021 April 2021 Hardback Hardback Hardback ISBN 9789004463226 ISBN 9789004460850 ISBN 9789004432826 Price € 105 / US$ 126 Price € 118 / US$ 142 Price € 115 / US$ 138 E-ISBN 9789004463233 E-ISBN 9789004460867 E-ISBN 9789004432833 E-Price € 105 / US$ 126 E-Price € 118 / US$ 142 E-Price € 115 / US$ 138 Culture and History of the Ancient Culture and History of the Ancient Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, 21/6 Near East, 121 Near East, 119 ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT Early Makuria Research Language Contact, The Ur III Administrative Project. El-Zuma Cemetery Colonial Administration, Texts from Puzrish-Dagan (3-vol. set) and the Construction of Kept in the Harvard VOLUME I: M. El-Tayeb, E. Identity in Ancient Israel Museum of the Ancient Czyżewska-Zalewska, U. Near East Iwaszczuk, Z. Kowarska, Constructing the Context Changyu Liu, S. Lenarczyk, R. Mahler, for Contact Zhejiang Normal University Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin, J.. Samuel L. Boyd, University Juchniewicz, E. Skowrońska, A. of Colorado Boulder Cedro, Polish, J. Then-Obłuska, and Ł. Zieliński In The Ur III Administrative Texts 4 Publication of the results of In Language Contact, Colonial archaeological excavations at a Administration, and the from Puzrish-Dagan Kept in the NEW AND FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS FORTHCOMING AND NEW UNESCO heritage site in Sudan. Construction of Identity in Harvard Museum of the Ancient The Early Makurian elite tumuli Ancient Israel, Boyd offers the Near East Changyu Liu offers cemetery from the 5th–6th cen- first book-length incorporation an edition of 689 cuneiform turies C.E. highlights an elite of language contact theory with clay tablets kept in the Harvard community in ancient Nubia data from the Bible. It allows for Museum of the Ancient Near at the dawn of a new age in its a reexamination of the nature of East. history, preceding the rise of the contact between biblical authors Christian kingdoms. and the Assyrian, Babylonian, and Achaemenid empires. READERSHIP: Researchers and READERSHIP: The readership READERSHIP: All interested in students studying post-Meroitic/ of the volume includes bibli- the history of the Ur III dynasty Early Makurian themes from cal scholars, Assyriologists, and the Neo-Sumerian cunei- ancient Nubia; scholars of funer- Aramaicists, linguists, and his- form documents, and anyone ary traditions from this period in torians of the ancient Near East. concerned with Sumerology, ancient Nubia. Specialists and advanced gradu- Assyriology and ancient Near ate students will benefit from Eastern studies. reading it. June 2021 February 2021 June 2021 Hardback Hardback (xx, 493 pp.) Hardback ISBN 9789004433748 ISBN 9789004448759 ISBN 9789004461352 Price € 143 / US$ 172 Price € 280 / US$ 336 Price € 210 / US$ 252 E-ISBN 9789004433755 E-ISBN 9789004448766 E-ISBN 9789004461369 E-Price OPEN ACCESS E-Price € 280 / US$ 336 E-Price € 210 / US$ 252 Harvard Egyptological Studies, 13 Harvard Semitic Monographs Harvard Semitic Studies, 68 Material World The Intersection of Art, Science, and Nature in Ancient Literature ART HISTORY and its Renaissance Reception Edited by Guy Hedreen, Bryn Mawr College The interplay between nature, science, and art Rerum Natura of Lucretius, Automata of Hero, and 5 in antiquity and the early modern period differs Timaios of Plato among other texts reveal how significantly from late modern expectations. In fields of inquiry now considered distinct were PUBLICATIONS FORTHCOMING AND NEW this book scholars from ancient studies as well as originally understood as closely interrelated. In our early modern studies, art history, literary criticism, choice of texts, we focus on materialistic theories philosophy, and the history of science, explore that of nature, knowledge, and art that remain underap- interplay in several influential ancient texts and preciated in ancient and early modern studies even their reception in the Renaissance. The Natural today. History of Pliny, De Architectur of Vitruvius, De READERSHIP: Readers interested in ancient materialist thought and its reception in philosophy, cultural criticism, poetry, art, and scientific writing, in antiquity and the Renaissance. June 2021 Hardback ISBN 9789004423763 Price € 125 / US$ 151 E-ISBN 9789004461376 E-Price € 125 / US$ 151 NIKI Studies in Netherlandish-Italian Art History, 15 Metaphorical Materialism Sculpture Collections in The Normativity Art in New York in Europe and the United of Musical Works: the Late 1960s States 1500-1930 A Philosophical Inquiry Dominic Rahtz, University Variety and Ambiguity Alessandro Arbo, for the Creative Arts, University of Strasbourg Edited by Malcolm Baker, ART HISTORY Canterbury Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California, and Inge Reist, Director Emerita, enter for the History of Collecting, The Frick Collection 6 Metaphorical Materialism: Art Exploring the various forms tak- The essay advocates a theory in New York in the Late 1960s is a en by sculpture collections, this of the musical work as a “social NEW AND FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS FORTHCOMING AND NEW volume of essays on the relation- volume presents new research on object” which is based on a trace ship between materiality and collectors, modes of display, and informed by a normative value. materialism in the work of Carl the aesthetics of viewing sculp- Such a normativity is explored Andre, Robert Smithson, Richard ture, making a notable addition in relation to three ways of fixing Serra, Eva Hesse and Lawrence to the literature on the history of the trace: orality, notation and Weiner. sculpture and art collecting as a phonography. cultural phenomenon. READERSHIP: All interested in the READERSHIP: Beyond its obvious art of the 1960s, in the material- relevance to academic and cura- ity of art, and materialisms. torial audiences, this book will appeal to members of the gen- eral public interested in the rel- evance of collecting to European and American cultural history. June 2021 June 2021 April 2021 Hardback (approx. 230 pp., 21 illus.) Hardback (approx. 370 pp., 70 illus.) Paperback ISBN 9789004460218 ISBN 9789004458468 ISBN 9789004462762 Price € 90 / US$ 108 Price € 62 / US$ 75 Price € 70 / US$ 84 E-ISBN 9789004460225 E-ISBN 9789004458840 E-ISBN 9789004462779 E-Price € 90 / US$ 108 E-Price € 62 / US$ 75 E-Price € 70 / US$ 84 Studies in Art & Materiality, 4 Studies in the History of Collecting & Art Brill Research Perspectives Markets, 10 in Art and Law Crossing Cultural Boundaries in East Asia and Beyond The Evolution of Darwin H. 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