Books received.

1. Ancient Near East

   ACKERMAN, SUSAN. When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2005. Pp. xvi + 353. $45.

   ALBENDA, PAULINE. Ornamental Wall Painting in the Art of the Assyrian Empire. Cuneiform Monographs, vol. 28. Leiden: Brill/Styx, 2005. Pp. xiii + 148, illus. [euro]99.

   ARNOLD, BILL T. Who Were the Babylonians? SBL Archaeological and Biblical Studies, vol. 10. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004. Pp. xi + 148, illus. $15.95 (paper).

   BALTER, MICHAEL. The Goddess and the Bull: Catalhoyuk: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization. New York: Free Press, 2005. Pp. 400, illus. $27.

   BARMASH, PAMELA. Homicide in the Biblical World. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005. Pp. xvi + 253. $70 (cloth); $25.99 (paper).

   BARNETT, PAUL. The Birth of Christianity: The First Twenty Years, After Jesus, vol. 1. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005. Pp. x + 230. $15 (paper).

   BECKER, DAN. Arabic Sources of Isaac Ben Barun's Book of Comparison between the Hebrew and the Arabic Languages. Texts and Studies in the Hebrew Language and Related Subjects, vol. 12. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 2005. Pp. viii + 227. (Hebrew).

   BELFIORE, STEFANO. Il periplo del Mare Eritreo di anonimo del I sec. D.C. e altri testi sul commercio fra Roma e l'Oriente attraverso l'Oceano Indiano e la Via della Seta. Rome: Societa Geografica Italiana, 2004. Pp. 278, illus. (paper).

   BERTMAN, STEPHEN. Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. Pp. xiii + 396, illus. $19.95 (paper).

   BICKEL, SUSANNE, and BERNARD MATHIEU, eds. D'un monde a l'autre: Textes des pyramides, textes des sarcophages. Bibliotheque d'Etude, vol. 139. Cairo: Institut Francais d'Archaeologie Orientale, 2004. Pp. vii + 311, illus. (paper).

   BIENERT, HANS-DIETER, and JUTTA HASER, eds. Men of Dikes and Canals: The Archaeology of Water in the Middle East. Orient-Archaologie, vol. 13. Rahden, Westphalia: Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2004. Pp. xi + 424, illus.

   BILLING, NILS. Nut: The Goddess of Life in Text and Iconography. Uppsala Studies in Egyptology, vol. 5. Uppsala: Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala Univ., 2002. Pp. viii + 490, illus. (paper).

   BLACK, JEREMY; GRAHAM CUNNINGHAM; ELEANOR ROBSON; and GABOR ZOLYOMI. The Literature of Ancient Sumer. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2004. Pp. lxiii + 372, illus. $120.

   BLAKE, EMMA, and A. BERNARD KNAPP, eds. The Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory. Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology, vol. 6. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2005. Pp. xvi + 333, illus. $34.95 (paper).

   BOCCACCINI, GABRIELE, ed. Enoch and Qumran Origins: New Light on a Forgotten Connection. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005. Pp. xviii + 454. $40 (paper).

   BORDREUIL, PIERRE, and DENNIS PARDEE. Manuel d'Ougaritique. 2 vols. Paris: Geuthner, 2004. Pp. 177, 206, CD-ROM. [euro]25, 29 (paper).

   BRIESE, MARIA BERG, and LEIF ERIK VAAG, eds. Trade Relations in the Eastern Mediterranean from the Late Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity. Halicarnassian Studies, vol. 3. Odense: Univ. Press of Southern Denmark, 2005. Pp. 256, illus. $35.00. [Distrib. in North America by International Specialized Book Services, Portland, Or.]

   BROWN, JUDITH ANNE. John Marco Allegro: The Maverick of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005. Pp. xvi + 288, illus. $25.

   CALAMENT, FLORENCE. La revelation d'Antinoe par Albert Gayet: Histoire, archeologie, museographie. 2 vols. Bibliotheque d'Etudes Coptes, vol. 18. Cairo: Institut Francais d'Archeologie Orientale, 2005. Pp. xxii + 616, illus.

   CAMERON, RON, and MERRILL P. MILLER, eds. Redescribing Christian Origins. SBL Symposium Series, vol. 28. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004. Pp. xvi + 539. $49.95 (paper).

   CAMPBELL, ANTONY F., S.J. 2 Samuel. The Forms of the Old Testament Literature, vol. 8. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005. Pp. xiv + 242. $50 (paper).

   CARR, DAVID M. Writing on the Tablet of the Heart: Origins of Scripture and Literature. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. Pp. xiv + 330. $65.

   CAWKWELL, GEORGE. The Greek Wars: The Failure of Persia. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. Pp. viii + 316. $115.

   COHEN, ERAN. The Modal System of Old Babylonian. Harvard Semitic Studies, vol. 56. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2005. Pp. xiv + 225. $32.95.

   COLLON, DOMINIQUE, and ANDREW GEORGE, eds. Nineveh: Papers of the XLIVe Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, London, 7-11 July 2003. 2 vols. London: British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 2005. Pp. xiv + 427. (paper).

   COOK, STEPHEN L. The Social Roots of Biblical Yahwism. SBL Studies in Biblical Literature, vol. 8. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004. Pp. xii + 310. $39.95 (paper).

   COOK, STEPHEN L., and CORRINE L. PATON, eds. Ezekiel's Hierarchical World: Wrestling with a Tiered Reality. SBL Symposium Series, vol. 31. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004. Pp. xiii + 288. $39.95 (paper).

   CORNELIUS, IZAK, and HERBERT NIEHR. Gotter und Kulte in Ugarit. Zaberns Bilderbande zur Archaologie. Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2004. Pp. 92, illus. [euro]37.90.

   CRISLIP, ANDREW T. From Monastery to Hospital: Christian Monasticism and the Transformation of Health Care in Late Antiquity. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2005. Pp. x + 235, illus. $65.

   CUSSINI, ELEANORA, ed. A Journey to Palmyra: Collected Essays to Remember Delbert R. Hillers. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, vol. 22. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Pp. xxii + 258, illus. [euro]125.

   D'AGOSTINO, F.; F. POMPONIO; and R. LAURITO. Neo-Sumerian Texts from Ur in the British Museum: Epigraphical and Archaeological Catalogue of an Unpublished Corpus of Texts and Fragments. Nisaba, vol. 5. Messina: Di.Sc.A.M., 2004. Pp. 221, illus. [euro]40 (paper).

   DAIBER, VERENE, and ANDREA BECKER, eds. Raqqa III: Baudenkmaler und Palaste I. Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2004. Pp. viii + 166, plates. [euro]65.50.

   DALLEY, STEPHANIE. Old Babylonian Texts in the Ashmolean Museum, mainly from Larsa, Sippar, Kish, and Lagaba. Oxford Editions of Cuneiform Texts, vol. 15. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005. Pp. ix + 69, plates. $130.

   DE LA PENA, PEDRO BADENAS, et al., eds. Lenguas en Contacto: El testimonio escrito. Manuales y Anejos de "Emerita," vol. 46. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 2004. Pp. xx + 320. (paper).

   DEVER, WILLIAM G. Did God Have a Wife?: Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005. Pp. xvi + 344, illus. $25.

   DIETRICH, WALTER, ed. David und Saul im Widerstreit--Diachronie und Synchronie im Wettstreit: Beitrage zur Auslegung des ersten Samuelbuches. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, vol. 206. Fribourg: Academic Press, 2004. Pp. 312. SF76.

   EHRINGHAUS, HORST. Gotter, Herrscher, Inschriften: Die Felsreliefs der hethitischen Gro[beta]reichszeit in der Turkei. Sonderbande der Antiken Welt. Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2005. Pp. 124, illus. [euro]37.90.

   ENGSHEDEN, AGE. La reconstitution du verbe en egyptien de tradition. Uppsala Studies in Egyptology, vol. 3. Uppsala: Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala Univ., 2003. Pp. xii + 434 (paper).

   ESCHMENT, BEATE, and HANS HARDER, eds. Looking at the Colonizer: Cross-Cultural Perceptions in Central Asia and the Caucasus, Bengal, and Related Areas. Mitteilungen zur sozial- und kultur-geschichte der islamischen Zeit, vol. 14. Wurzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2004. Pp. 360, illus. [euro]42 (paper).

   FINLAN, STEPHEN. The Background and Content of Paul's Cultic Atonement Metaphors. Academic Biblica, vol. 19. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004. Pp. x + 264. $39.95 (paper).

   FORTSON, BENJAMIN W. IV. Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction. Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics, vol. 19. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. Pp. xviii + 468, illus. $44.95 (paper).

   GANE, ROY E. Ritual Dynamic Structure. Gorgias Dissertations, vol. 14. Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2004. Pp. xx + 398.

   GASS, ERASMUS. Die Ortsnamen des Richterbuchs in historischer und redaktioneller Perspektive. Abhand-lungen des Deutschen Palastina-Vereins, vol. 35. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005. Pp. xii + 683, maps. [euro]98.

   GASSE, ANNIE. Catalogue des ostraca litteraires de Deir al-Medina, vol. 5. Documents de fouilles, vol. 44. Cairo: Institut Francais d'Archeologie Orientale, 2005. Pp. 173, illus. (paper).

   GIANTO, AUGUSTINUS, ed. Biblical and Oriental Essays in Memory of William L. Moran. Biblica et orientalia, vol. 48. Pp. ix + 203. Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 2005. [euro]20 (paper).

   GLASSNER, JEAN-JACQUES. Mesopotamian Chronicles, ed. Benjamin R. Foster. Writings from the Ancient World, vol. 19. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004. Pp. xx + 365. $24.95 (paper).

   GORDON, ANDREW H., and CALVIN W. SCHWABE. The Quick and the Dead: Biomedical Theory in Ancient Egypt. Egyptological Memoirs, vol. 4. Leiden: Brill/Styx, 2004. Pp. xii + 236, illus. [euro]75.

   GUNTER, ANN C., and STEFAN R. HAUSER, eds. Ernst Herzfeld and the Development of Near Eastern Studies, 1900-1950. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Pp. xv + 636, illus. [euro]99.

   GZELLA, HOLGER. Tempus, Aspekt und Modalitat im Reichsaramaischen. Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz; Veroffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, vol. 48. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2004. Pp. xi + 408. [euro]58.

   HAGGMAN, SOFIA. Directing Deir el-Medina. Uppsala Studies in Egyptology, vol. 4. Uppsala: Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala Univ., 2002. Pp. x + 453 (paper).

   HARRIS, W. V., and GIOVANNI RUFFINI, eds. Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece. Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, vol. 26. Leiden: Brill, 2004. Pp. xx + 296, plates. [euro]75.

   HASEL, MICHAEL G. Military Practice and Polemic: Israel's Laws of Warfare in Near Eastern Perspective. Berrien Springs, Mich.: Andrews Univ. Press, 2005. Pp...