Books received.

1. Ancient Near East

   AHITUV, SHMUEL. Echoes from the Past: Hebrew and Cognate Inscriptions from the Biblical Period. Tr. Anson F. Rainey. Jerusalem: Carta, 2008. Pp. xiv + 512. $90.

   ANDRASSY, PETRA; JULIA BUDKA; and FRANK KAMMERZELL, ed. Non-Textual Marking Systems, Writing and Pseudo-Script from Prehistory to Modern Times. Lingua Aegyplia, Studia monographica. vol. 8. Gottingen: Seminar fur Agyptologie und Koptologie, 2009. Pp. viii + 312, illus. [euro]59.

   ARNOLD, BILL T. Genesis. The New Cambridge Bible Commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1008. Pp. xxi + 409. $85 (cloth); $26.99 (paper).

   ASPESI. FRANCESCO; VERMONDO BRUGNATELLI; ANNA LINDA CALLOW; and CLAUDIA ROSENZWEIG, eds. il mio cuore e a Oriente: Studi di linguistica storica, filologia e cultura ebraica dedicati a Maria Luisa Mayer Modena. Quaderni di Acme, vol. 101, Milan: Cisalpino, 2008. Pp. 816. illus. (paper). [euro]42.

   ATTIA, ANNIE, and GILLES BUISSON, eds. Advances in Mesopotamian Medicine from Hammurabi to Hippocrates. Cuneiform Monographs, vol. 37. Leiden: Brill. 2009. Pp. xxi + 161, illus. $123.

   AYAD, MARIAM F. God's Wife, God's Servant: The God's Wife of Amun (C. 740-525 BC). London: Roultedge, 2009. Pp. xviii + 203, illus. $110.

   BACKES, BURKHARD, et al., eds. Bibliographie zum Altagyptischen Totenbuch. 2nd edition. Studien zum Altagyptischen Totenbuch, vol. 13. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009. Pp. x + 249. [euro]49 (paper).

   BAGHDO, ABD EL-MASIH HANNA; LUTZ MARTIN; MIRKO NOVAK; and WINFRIED ORTHMANN, ed. Tell Halaf: Vorberichte Uber die erste und zweite syrisch-deutsche Grabungskampagne. Vorderasiatische For-schungen der Max Freiherr von Oppenheim-Stiftung, vol. 3.1. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009. Pp. 128, illus., plans. [euro]58.

   BAILEY, RANDALL C; TAT-SIONG BENNY LIEW; and FERNANDO F. SEGOVIA, eds. They Were All Together in One Place? Toward Minority Biblical Criticism. Semeia Studies, vol. 57. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009. Pp. xiv + 397. $45.95 (paper).

   BAKER, DAVID L. Tight Fists or Open Hands? Wealth and Poverty in Old Testament Law. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2009. Pp. xxiv + 411. $36 (paper).

   BARNETT, PAUL. Finding the Historical Christ. After Jesus, vol. 3. Grand Rapids. Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2009. Pp.

   xi + 299. $22 (paper).

   BARTELS, UWE. Edfu: Die Darstellungen auf den Au[beta]enseiten der Umfassungsmauer und auf dem Pylonen: Strichzeichnungen und Photographien. Die Inschriften des Tempels von Edfu. vol. II, 1. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Veriag, 2009. Pp. x + plates, CD-ROM. [euro]87 (paper).

   BERTMAN, STEPHEN, and LOIS PARKER, eds. The Healing Power of Ancient Literature. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. Pp. xii + 127, $52.99.

   BLENKINSOPP, JOSEPH. JUDAISM: The First Phase. The Place of Ezra and Nehemiah in the Origins of Judaism. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2009. Pp. xiv + 262. $30 (paper).

   BOCCACCINI, GABRIELE, and GIOVANNI IBBA, eds. Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2009. Pp. xxi + 474. $55 (paper).

   BODA, MARK J.; DANIEL K. FALK; and RODNEY A. WERLINE, eds. Seeking the Favor of God, volume 3: The Impact of Penitential Prayer beyond Second Temple Judaism. Early Judaism and its Literature, vol. 23. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2008, Pp. xiii + 306. $39.95 (paper).

   BONATZ. DOMINIK; RAINER M. CZICHON; and F. JANOSCHA KREPPNER, eds. Fundstellen: Gesammelte Schriften zur Archdologie und Geschichte ad honorem Hartmut Kuhne. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2008. Pp. xix + 395, illus. [euro]68.

   BORDREUIL, PIERRE, and DENNIS PARDEE. Manual of Ugaritic. Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic, vol. 3. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2009. Pp. xii + 355, illus., CD-ROM. $69.50.

   BRAND, PETER J., and LOUISE COOPER, eds. Causing His Name to Live: Studies in Egyptian Epigraphy and History in Memory of William J. Murnane. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, vol. 37. Leiden: Brill, 2009. Pp. xiii + 237. plates. $179.

   BRIGHTON, MARK ANDREW. The Sicarii in Josephus's Judean War: Rhetorical Analysis and Historical Observations. Early Judaism and Its Literature, vol. 27. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009. Pp. xiv + 184. $26.95 (paper).

   BURKETT, DELBERT, Rethinking the Gospel Source. volume 2: The Unity and Plurality of Q. Early Christianity and Its Literature, vol. 1. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009. Pp. x + 282. $35.95 (paper).

   CALVET, YVES, and MARIELLE PIC, eds. Failaka: Fouilles francaises 1984-1988: Materiel ceramique du temple-tour et epigraphique. Travaux de la Maison de I'Orient et de la Mediterranee, vol. 48.

   Lyon: De Boccard Editions, 2008. Pp. 205, illus. (paper). [euro]30.

   CALVET. YVES, AND MARGUERITE YON, eds. Ougarit au Bronze moyen et au Bronze recent. Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Mediteranee, vol. 47. Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Mediteranee, 2008. Pp. 275, illus. [euro]30 (paper).

   CHESHIRE, WENDY. The Bronzes of Ptolemy II Philadelphus. Agypten und Altes Testament, vol. 77. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009. Pp. xxvi + 256, plates. [euro]76.

   COHEN, YORAM. The Scribes and Scholars of the City of Emar in the Late Bronze Age. Harvard Semitic Studies, vol. 59. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2009. Pp. xxvi + 287. $44.95.

   COHICK, LYNN H. Women in the World of the Early Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2009. Pp. 350, illus. $26.99 (paper).

   COLLINS. ADELA YARBRO, and JOHN J. COLLINS. King and Messiah as Son of God: Divine, Human, and Angelic Messianic Figures in Biblical and Related Literature. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2008. Pp. xiv + 261. $28 (paper).

   COSAERT, CARL P. The Text of the Gospels in Clement of Alexandria. The New Testament in the Greek Fathers, vol. 9. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2008. Pp. xiv + 370. $47.95 (paper).

   DER MANUELIAN, PETER. Mastabas of Nucleus Cemetery G 2100, part I: Major Mastabas G 2100-2220. Giza Mastabas, vol. 8. Pp. liv + 475, illus. Boston: Museum of Pine Arts, 2009. $150. [Distrib, by David Brown Book Co., Oakville, Ct.]

   DOZEMAN, THOMAS B. Exodus. Eerdmans Critical Commentary. Grand Rapids. Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2009. Pp. xix + 868. $55 (paper).

   DUISTERMAAT, KIM. The Pots and Potters of Assyria: Technology and Organisation of Production, Ceramic Sequence and Vessel Function at Late Bronze Age Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria. PALMA, vol. 4. Turnhout: Brepols, 2008. Pp. 605, illus. [euro]125.

   DUNN, JAMES D. G. Beginning from Jerusalem. Christianity in the Making, vol. 2. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2009. Pp. xv + 1347.$80.

   EDELMAN, DIANA V., and EHUD BEN ZVI, eds. The Production of Prophecy: Constructing Prophecy and Prophets in Yehud. London: Equinox, 2009. Pp. x + 235. $32.95 (paper). [Distrib, by David Brown Book Co., Oakville, Ct.]

   EISLER, JAKOB, ed. Deutsche in Palastina und ihr Anteil an der Modernisierung des Landes. Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palastina-Vereins, vol. 36. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2008. Pp. xi + 207, plates. [euro]48.

   ELAYI J. Byblos, cite sacree ([8.sup.e]-[4.sup.e]s. av. j. -C). Supplements a Transeuphratene, vol. 15. Paris: Gabalda, 2009. Pp. 275, plates. [euro]65.

   EPH'AL, ISRAEL. The City Besieged: Siege and Its Manifestations in the Ancient Near East. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, vol. 36. Leiden: Brill, 2009. Pp. xvii + 211. $118.

   FAIVRE, XAVIER; BRIGITTE LION; and CECILE MICHEL, eds. El il y eut un esprit duns 1'Homme: Jean Bottero et la Mesopoiamie. Travaux de la Maison Rene-Ginouves, vol. 6. Paris: De Boccard, 2009. Pp. xvi + 346. [euro]35 (paper).

   FERGUSON, EVERETT. BAPTISM in the Early Church: History, Theology, and Liturgy in the First Five Centuries. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2009. Pp. xxii + 953. $60.

   FITZGERALD, JOHN T.: FIKA J. VAN RENSBURG; and HERRIE F. VAN ROOY, eds. Animosity, the Bible, and Us: Some European. North American, and South African Perspectives. Global Perspectives on Biblical Scholarship, vol. 12. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009. Pp. xv + 363. $45.95 (paper).

   FLANNERY, FRANCES: COLLEEN SCHANTZ: and RODNEY A. WERLINE, eds. Experientia, volume 1: Inquiry into Religious Experience in Early Judaism and Early Christianity. SBL Symposium Series, vol. 40. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2008. Pp. ix + 261. $32.95 (paper).

   FLUSSER, DAVID. Judaism of the Second Temple Period. vol. 2: The Jewish Sages and Their Literature. Translated by Azzan Yadin. Grand Rapids. Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2009. Pp. x + 380. $42.

   FOSTER, BENJAMIN R., and KAREN POLINGER FOSTER. Civilizations of Ancient Iraq. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2009. Pp. xii + 297. illus. $26.95.

   FRAHM, ECKART. Historische und historisch-literarische Texte. Keilschrifttexte aus Assur literarischen Inhalts. vol. 3. Wissenschaftliche Veroffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft. vol. 121. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009. Pp. xi + 276, plates. [euro]48.

   FRIEDENBERG, DANIEL M. Sasanian Jewry and Its Culture: A Lexicon of Jewish and Related Seals. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 2009. Pp. xv + 75. illus. $40.

   GARFINKLE, STEVEN J., and J. CALE JOHNSON, eds. The Growth of an Early State in Mesopotamia: Studies in Ur III Administration. Biblioteca del Proximo Orientc Antiguo, vol. 5. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 2008. Pp. 234. [euro]28.85.

   GAB, ERASMUS. Die Moabiter--Geschichte und Kultur eines ostjordanischen Volkes im l. Jahrtausend v Chr. Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palastina-Vereins, vol. 38. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009. Pp. x + 374, illus. [euro]72.

   GEORGE, MARK K. Israel's Tabernacle as Social Space. Ancient Israel and Its Literature, vol, 2. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009. Pp. xiii + 233. $29.95 (paper).

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