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Christopher, Walker, and Dick Michael, eds. The induction of the cult image in ancient Mesopotamia: The Mesopotamian Mīs Pî ritual. Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Univesity of Helsinki, 2001.

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Christopher, Walker, and Dick Michael Brennan 1943-, eds. The induction of the cult image in ancient Mesopotamia: The Mesopotamian Mĭs Pî ritual. Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Univesity of Helsinki, 2001.

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E, Cohen Mark. The canonical lamentations of ancient Mesopotamia. Capital Decisions Ltd, 1988.

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Marchesi, Gianni. LUMMA in the onomasticon and literature of ancient Mesopotamia. Sargon, 2006.

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Yuhong, Wu, ed. Gu dai liang he liu yu xie xing wen zi jing dian ju yao: Hanmulabi fa dian, Marui wang shi dang an di 4 juan xin jian, Yashu wang Xinnaheruibu ba ci zhan yi ming ji = Selected texts of ancient Mesopotamia : Code of Hammurabi, Archives Royales de Mari IV, lettres, Chicago prism of Sennacherib. Heilongjiang ren min chu ban she, 2006.

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Tervanotko, Hanna, and Jonathan Stökl, eds. Text as Revelation. T&T CLARK, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780567689740.

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Text as Revelation analyses the shift of revelatory experiences from oral to written that is described in ancient Jewish literature, including rabbinic texts. The individual essays seek to understand how, why, and for whom texts became the locus of revelation. While the majority of the contributors analyse ancient Jewish literature for depictions of oral and written revelation, such as the Hebrew Bible and the literature of the Second Temple era, a number of articles also investigate textualization of revelation in cognate cultures, analysing Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Greek sources. With subj

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Balogh, Amy L. Moses among the Idols. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2018. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978720817.

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In Moses among the Idols: Mediators of the Divine in the Ancient Near East, Balogh simultaneously redefines one of the greatest figures in the history of religion and challenges the historically popular understanding of ancient Mesopotamian idols as the idle objects of antiquated faiths. Drawing on interdisciplinary research and methods of comparison, Balogh not only offers new insight into the lives of idols as active mediators between humanity and divinity, she also makes the case that when it comes to understanding the figure of Moses, Mesopotamian idols are the best analogy that the ancien

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Steymans, Hans Ulrich, ed. Ancient Near Eastern Iconography and the Bible. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780567691859.

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Examines the dilemma of whether ancient Near Eastern images – while providing unique aspects of the world-views of the cultures from which the Bible arose – can be interpreted in a way that traceably relates them to the biblical text. To avoid the danger of using images merely as illustrations for concepts found in the Bible, one first needs to behold the image with its own right to been seen. The essays within this volume describe the methods developed by Othmar Keel for bringing imagery into a dialogue with texts from the ancient Orient and their own interpretation, including previously unpu

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The Canonical lamentations of ancient Mesopotamia. Capital Decisions, 1988.

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Reid, J. Nicholas. Prisons in Ancient Mesopotamia. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192849618.001.0001.

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Prisons in Ancient Mesopotamia: Confinement and Control until the First Fall of Babylon explores the earliest historical evidence related to imprisonment in the history of the world. While many historical investigations into prisons have revolved around the important question of punishment, this work moves beyond that more narrow approach to consider the multifunctional practices of detaining the body in ancient Iraq. It is the contention of this book that imprisonment arose out of the desire to control and detain the body in relation to labor. The practice of detainment for coercion became ad

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Pallis, Svend A. Antiquity of Iraq (Ancient Mesopotamian Texts and Studies). Ams Pr Inc, 2003.

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Luckenbill, Daniel David. Annals of Sennacherib (Ancient Mesopotamian Texts and Studies). Ams Pr Inc, 2007.

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Pallis, Svend A. Babyloian Akitu Festival (Ancient Mesopotamian Texts and Studies). Ams Pr Inc, 1990.

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King, L. W. Chronicles Concerning Early Babylonian Kings (Ancient Mesopotamian Texts & Studies). Ams Pr Inc, 2005.

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Franke, Sabine. Anthology of Ancient Mesopotamian Texts: When the Gods Were Human. Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2016.

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Franke, Sabine. Anthology of Ancient Mesopotamian Texts: When the Gods Were Human. Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2016.

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Franke, Sabine. Anthology of Ancient Mesopotamian Texts: When the Gods Were Human. Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2016.

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Franke, Sabine. Anthology of Ancient Mesopotamian Texts: When the Gods Were Human. Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2016.

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Quick, Laura. Deuteronomy 28 and the Aramaic Curse Tradition. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198810933.001.0001.

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This study considers the relationship of Deuteronomy 28 to the curse traditions of the ancient Near East. It focuses on the linguistic and cultural means of the transmission of these traditions to the book of Deuteronomy. The author considers a broad range of materials, including Old Aramaic inscriptions, attempting to show the value of these Northwest Semitic texts as primary sources to reorient our view of an ancient world usually seen through a biblical or Mesopotamian lens. By studying these inscriptions alongside the biblical text, this study aims to increase our knowledge of the early hi

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Gordon, Edmund I. Sumerian Proverbs: Glimpses of Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.

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Thompson, Reginald Campbell. A Dictionary of Assyrian Chemistry and Geology (Ancient Mesopotamian Texts and Studies). Ams Pr Inc, 1991.

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Milstein, Sara J. Making a Case. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190911805.001.0001.

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Outside of the Bible, all of the known Near Eastern law collections were produced in the third to second millennia BCE, in cuneiform on clay tablets, and in major cities in Mesopotamia and in the Hittite Empire. None of the five major sites in Syria to have yielded cuneiform tablets has borne even a fragment of a law collection, despite the fact that several have yielded ample legal documentation. Excavations at Nuzi have turned up numerous legal documents, but again, no law collection. Even Egypt has not yielded a collection of laws. As such, the biblical blocks that scholars regularly identi

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Flynn, Shawn W. The Value of Ancient Children. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198784210.003.0001.

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This chapter reviews previous scholarship on children in the Hebrew Bible and identifies successes and common methods, but also some gaps. Children have rarely been considered a valid interpretive lens for elucidating biblical texts. No study has yet undertaken to examine the stages of a child’s life. While many of the historically based studies begin to suggest discussions of a child’s value, they do not explore those further. To begin the discussion, the chapter takes a linguistic analysis of terms for children both in Mesopotamian literature and the Hebrew Bible to begin framing the stages

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Mills, Kevin. Myths and Ancient Stories. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350346888.

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An introduction to ancient myths and the critical discussions that surround them, this book dives into the stories of pre-modern culture, taking a comparative look at how they have shaped the West and modern storytelling as we have come to understand it today. It makes texts and scholarship from near Eastern, Classical and Celtic disciplines engaging and accessible, and traces narrative meaning through stories from ancient Mesopotamia to the BritishMedieval Period, offering compelling pathways into such writings as The Epic of Gilgamesh, Genesis and Job, The Odyssey, The Mabinogi, The Life of

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Flynn, Shawn W. Children in Ancient Israel. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198784210.001.0001.

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Flynn contributes to the emerging field of childhood studies in the Hebrew Bible by isolating stages of a child’s life and, through a comparative perspective, studies the place of children in the domestic cult and their relationship to the deity in that cult. The study gathers data relevant to different stages of a child’s life from a plethora of Mesopotamian materials (prayers, myths, medical texts, rituals), and uses that data as an interpretive lens for Israelite texts about children at similar stages such as: pre-born children, the birth stage, breast feeding, adoption, slavery, children’s

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Quick, Laura. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198810933.003.0008.

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After summing up the key findings of this study concerning the importance of the futility curse as a characteristic feature of Northwest Semitic literature in the first millennium BCE, this conclusion argues that Northwest Semitic literary traditions in general provide stronger pegs from which to hang a comparative approach between biblical and ancient Near Eastern texts than the Mesopotamian materials usually invoked by scholars. If we are to understand anything about the composition of the Hebrew Bible, especially in comparison with texts from the ancient Near East, we must first nuance our

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Paulette, Tate. In the Land of Ninkasi. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197682449.001.0001.

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Abstract In the Land of Ninkasi: A History of Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia tells the story of the world's first great beer culture. It provides a close-up look at the beers of ancient Mesopotamia and the people who brewed and drank them. The book takes readers on a journey across the famous “land between the rivers” to visit the breweries, houses, taverns, temples, and tombs where beer was produced and consumed. It explains how beer was brewed and the brewing equipment employed. It also explores the stories that people told about beer, their preferred styles of drinking, the beer-drinking gods

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Ancient Mesopotamian Herbal Handbook : The Series UR. an. NA and MUD-UR. MAH. Volume 1: The Tablets. Peeters Publishers & Booksellers, 2021.

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Tell El-Amarna Tablets in the British Museum With Auto-Type Facsimiles (Ancient Mesopotamian Texts and Studies). Ams Pr Inc, 1992.

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Flynn, Shawn W. The Pre-Born Child. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198784210.003.0002.

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A previously unstudied stage of the child’s life in current scholarship, the pre-born child is an essential expression of the child’s life in the ancient Near East. Through Mesopotamian medical texts, personal letters, prayers, and the mythology that intersects with this data set, thought on pre-born and birthing children strongly suggests the child’s value in domestic cult. In particular the connection between child and deity is an important connection between the child and the domestic cult that underpins the question of value. This data illustrates how the child is understood in ancient Isr

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Flynn, Shawn W. Times of Transition and Stability. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198784210.003.0003.

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Chapter 3 gathers times in a child’s life that are either stable or transitory. Breast-feeding and scribal training demonstrate extensions of a child’s domestic cultic value. Adoption may also be an institution ensuring those with disabilities are found a place in society. Thus the value of children in the domestic cult is echoed in the legal and institutional structures of the ancient world. Breast feeding, scribal training, and adoption practices of the ancient Near East are reading lenses for the birth and adoption of Moses in Exodus 1–2, which is argued to be structured off an adoption con

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Schwemer, Daniel, and Tzvi Abusch. Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals: Volume Two. BRILL, 2016.

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Burns, William E., ed. Astrology through History. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400615580.

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Alphabetically arranged entries cover the history of astrology from ancient Mesopotamia to the 21st century. In addition to surveying the Western tradition, the book explores Islamic, Indian, East Asian, and Mesoamerican astrology. The field of astrology is growing rapidly, as historians recognize its centrality to the intellectual life of the past and sociologists and anthropologists treat its importance in a number of modern cultures. Despite the historical and cultural significance of the subject, most reference works on astrology focus on instructional techniques and are written by astrolo

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Chrissanthos, Stefan G. Warfare in the Ancient World. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216033875.

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From the clash of bronze weapons on bronze armor to the fall of Rome, war often decided the course of ancient history. This volume is a practical introduction to the study of warfare in the ancient world, beginning with Egypt and Mesopotamia, and tracing the advances made in battle tactics, technology, and government over hundreds of years, culminating with developments in Greece and the Roman Empire. The chronological structure allows the reader to trace certain general themes down through the centuries: how various civilizations waged war; who served in the various armies and why; who the ge

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Barmash, Pamela. The Laws of Hammurabi. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197525401.001.0001.

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The Laws of Hammurabi is one of the earliest law codes, dating from the eighteenth century BCE Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq). It is the culmination of a tradition in which scribes would demonstrate their legal flair by composing statutes on a repertoire of traditional cases, articulating what they deemed just and fair. The book describes how the scribe of the Laws of Hammurabi advanced beyond earlier scribes in composing statutes that manifest systematization and implicit legal principles. The scribe inserted the statutes into the structure of a royal inscription, skillfully reshaping the genre.

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The anti-witchcraft ritual Maqlû: The cuneiform sources of a magic ceremony from ancient Mesopotamia. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017.

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Nissinen, Martti. Prophecy and Ecstasy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808558.003.0005.

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The prophetic performance is typically associated with a specific state of mind variously called ecstasy, trance, or possession. This chapter demonstrates that an altered state of consciousness appears as a prerequisite of the prophetic performance in ancient Near Eastern, Greek, and biblical texts. One of the designations of Mesopotamian prophets, muḫḫûm/maḫḫû, implies an ecstatic performance, and many biblical prophets engage in ecstatic behavior, seeing visions, and making spirit journeys. In Greek sources, the divine possession of the Delphic Pythia is taken for granted, and also the proph

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Glass and glassmaking in ancient Mesopotamia: An edition of the cuneiform texts which contain instructions for glassmakers : with a catalogue of surviving objects. Corning Museum of Glass Press, 1988.

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Wiggins, Steve A. Nightmares with the Bible. Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978720336.

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Demons! Nightmares with the Bible views demons through two lenses: that of western religion and that of cinema. Sketching out the long fear of demons in western history, including the Bible, Steve A. Wiggins moves on to analyze how popular movies inform our beliefs about demonic forces. Beginning with the idea of possession, he explores the portrayal of demons from ancient Mesopotamia and the biblical world (including in select extra-biblical texts), and then examines the portrayal of demons in popular horror franchises The Conjuring, The Amityville Horror, and Paranormal Activity. In the fina

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Stern, Karen B. Writing on the Wall. Princeton University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691161334.001.0001.

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Few direct clues exist to the everyday lives and beliefs of ordinary Jews in antiquity. Prevailing perspectives on ancient Jewish life have been shaped largely by the voices of intellectual and social elites, preserved in the writings of Philo and Josephus and the rabbinic texts of the Mishnah and Talmud. Commissioned art, architecture, and formal inscriptions displayed on tombs and synagogues equally reflect the sensibilities of their influential patrons. The perspectives and sentiments of nonelite Jews, by contrast, have mostly disappeared from the historical record. Focusing on these forgot

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Obayashi, Hiroshi. Death and Afterlife. Praeger, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400638206.

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Major religious traditions of the world contain perspectives of perennial importance on the topic of death and afterlife. Such concepts and beliefs are not only reflected directly in mortuary and funerary practices, but also inform patterns of beliefs and rituals that shape human lifestyles. Though evidenced in sacred texts, they cannot be fully understood in isolation by textual study alone. Rather, they must be explored in terms of a comprehensive understanding of the given religious system as rooted in an overall culture. Here thirteen scholars, each a specialist in a particular religious t

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Knoppers, Gary N. I Chronicles 10–29. Yale University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780300261226.

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In this latest addition to the esteemed Anchor Bible series, scholar Gary Knoppers examines one of the most neglected books of the Hebrew Bible and establishes its importance to understanding the nation of Israel. What was the place of the monarchy in the history of ancient Israel? Was Israel's first king Saul a hero or a disaster? Was David a highly gifted leader and accomplished king or a murderer and a cheat? Did Solomon preside over the most glorious epoch in Israelite history or did he lead the nation into a fateful decline? Knoppers show how the Bible itself contains a variety of fascina

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Barag, Dan, A. Leo Oppenheim, Robert H. Brill, and Axel Von Saldern. Glass and Glass Making in Ancient Mesopotamia: An Edition of the Cuneiform Texts Which Contain Instructions for Glassmakers With a Catalogue of Surv (The Corning Museum of Glass monographs). Associated Univ Pr, 1988.

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Knoppers, Gary N. I Chronicles 1–9. Doubleday, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780300261219.

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In his latest addition to the esteemed Anchor Bible Commentaries, scholar Gary Knoppers examines one of the most neglected books of the Old Testament and established its importance as a key to understanding the nation of Israel. Who were the Israelites? Was Israel’s first king, Saul, a hero or a disaster? Was David a gifted and accomplished leader or a murderer and a cheat? Did Solomon preside over the most glorious epoch in Israelite history or did he lead the nation into a fateful decline? In I Chronicles, the distinguished scholar Gary Knoppers addresses these questions through a thoughtful

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