Books received.

• Position: Bibliography

1. ANCIENT NEAR EAST

   Abusch, TZVI. Male and Female in the Epic of Gilgamesh: Encounters, Literary History, and Interpretation. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2015. Pp. ix + 236. $39.50 (paper).

   --. The Witchcraft Series Maqlu. Writings from the Ancient World, vol. 37. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2015. Pp. xiv + 201. $29.95 (paper).

   ALLEN, JAMES P. The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, 2nd ed. Writings from the Ancient World, vol. 38. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2015. Pp. xii + 381. $44.95 (paper).

   ARNOLD, BILL T., and RICHARD S. HESS, eds. Ancient Israel's History: An Introduction to Issues and Sources. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2014. Pp. xv + 544, illus. $44.99.

   BACKES, BURKHARD, and JACCO DIELEMAN, eds. Liturgical Texts for Osiris and the Deceased in Late Period and Greco-Roman Egypt. Studien zur spatagyptischen Religion, vol. 14. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015. Pp. viii + 312, illus. 98 [euro].

   BAKER, HEATHER D., and MICHAEL JURSA, eds. Documentary Sources in Ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman Economic History. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2014. Pp. vi + 338, illus. $66. [Distributed by Casemate Academic, Havertown, Pa.]

   BALENTINE, SAMUEL E. Have You Considered My Servant Job? Understanding the Biblical Archetype of Patience. Columbia, S.C.: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 2015. Pp. xxi + 287. $54.95.

   BALLENTINE, DEBRA SCOGGINS. The Conflict Myth & the Biblical Tradition. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2015. Pp. ix + 292. $74.

   BARTL, PETER VINZENZ. Die Ritzverzierungen auf den Relieforthostaten Assurnasirpals II. aus Kalhu. Baghdader Forschungen, vol. 25. Mainz: Philipp von Zabem, 2014. Pp. xxvi + 191, 46 plates. 79.90 [euro].

   BAWANYPECK, DALIAH, and ANNETTE IMHAUSEN, eds. Traditions of Written Knowledge in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Alter Orient und Altes Testament, vol. 403. Munster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2014. Pp. 237. 89 [euro].

   BECKMAN, GARY. The babilili-Ritual from Hattusa (CTH 718). Mesopotamian Civilizations, vol. 19. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2014. Pp. xiii + 97. $49.50.

   BIANCHI, ALICE; HEIKE DOHMANN-PFALZNER; EVA GEITH; PETER PFALZNER; and ANNE WISSING. Die Architektur und Stratigraphie der zentralen Oberstadt von Tell Mozan/Urkes. Studien zur Urbanisierung Nordmesopotamiens, Serie A, vol. 1. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014. Pp. 1 + 428, 60 plates, portfolio. 184 [euro].

   BLEIBTREU, ERIKA, and HANS ULRICH STEYMANS, eds. Edith Parada zum 100. Geburtstag: A Centenary Volume. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, vol. 268. Fribourg: Academie Press, 2014. Pp. xv + 642, illus. FS 184.

   BLENKINSOPP, JOSEPH. Abraham: The Story of a Life. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2014. Pp. xv + 240. $29 (paper).

   BRENIQUET, CATHERINE, and CECILE MICHEL, eds. Wool Economy in the Ancient Near East and the Aegean: From the Beginnings of Sheep Husbandry to Institutional Textile Industry. Ancient Textiles Series, vol. 17. Havertown, Pa.: Oxbow Books, 2014. Pp. viii + 464, illus. $60. [Distributed by Casemate Academic, Havertown, Pa.]

   BREYER, FRANCIS. Altakkadisches Elementarbuch. SILO, vol. 3. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014. Pp. xiv + 263, illus. 28 [euro] (paper).

   BURNS, J. PATOUT, JR., and ROBIN M. JENSEN. Christianity in Roman Africa: The Development of Its Practices and Beliefs. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2014. Pp. liii + 670, illus. $55.

   CALLENDER, DEXTER E., ed. Myth and Scripture: Contemporary Perspectives on Religion, Language, and Imagination. Resources for Biblical Study, vol. 78. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2014. Pp. xi + 311. $36.95 (paper).

   CANTERA, ALBERTO. Vers une edition de la liturgie longue zoroastrienne: Pensees et travaux preliminaires. Studia Iranica, cahier 51. Paris: Association pour l'avancement des etudes iraniennes, 2014. Pp. 429, illus. 70 [euro]. [Distributed by Peeters, Leuven.]

   CHARPIN, DOMINIQUE. Gods, Kings, and Merchants in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia. Publications de l'Institut du Proche-Orient Ancien du College de France. Leuven: Peeters, 2015. Pp. 223, illus. 41 [euro] (paper).

   CONTERNO, Maria, ed. Temistio orientale. Testi di Vicino Oriente antico, vol. HA. Brescia: Paideia Editrice, 2014. Pp. 150. 18 [euro].

   DAVIDOVICH, TAL; ABLAHAD LAHDO; and TORKEL LINDQUIST, eds. From Tur Abdin to Hadramawt: Semitic Studies. Festschrift in Honour of Bo Isaksson on the Occasion of His Retirement. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014. Pp. 207. 68 [euro].

   DAVIES, BENJAMIN G. Ramesside Inscriptions, vol. IV: Merenptah and the Late Nineteenth Dynasty. Notes and Comments. Ramesside Inscriptions Translated & Annotated. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. Pp. xl + 397, maps, charts. $400.

   DEL OLMO LETE, GREGORIO, and JOAQUIN SANMARTIN. A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Translated and edited by WILFRED G. E. WATSON. 3rd rev. ed. 2 vols. Handbuch der Orientalistik, vol. 112. Leiden: Brill. Pp. xlii + 470, 471-989. $210.

   DORNAUER, ARON A. Das Archiv des assyrischen Statthalters Mannu-ki-Assur von Guzana/Tall Halaf. Vorderasiatische Forschungen der Max Freiherr von Oppenheim-Stiftung, vol. 3/III. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014. Pp. ix + 116, illus. 54 [euro].

   DURAND, JEAN-MARIE; MICHAEL GUICHARD; and THOMAS ROMER, eds. Tabou et transgressions: Actes du colloque organise par le College de France, Paris, les 11-12 avril 2012. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, vol. 274. Fribourg: Academie Press, 2015. Pp. xi+ 314. 88 [euro].

   ELAYI, J., and A. G. ELAYI. Arwad, cite phenicienne du nord. Supplement a Transeuphratene, vol. 19. Pende: Gabalda, 2015. Pp. 253, 15 pits. 70 [euro] (paper).

   FELDMAN, MARIAN H. Communities of Style: Portable Luxury Arts, Identity, and Collective Memory in the Iron Age Levant. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. xvii + 250, illus. $70.

   FERRER-LOSILLA, JUANO. Final -y in Non-Manichaean Parthian and the Proto-Parthian 'Rhythmic Law'. Studia Iranica, cahier 52. Paris: Association pour l'avancement des etudes iraniennes, 2014. Pp. 108, illus. 20 [euro] (paper). [Distributed by Peeters, Leuven.]

   FINK, SEBASTIAN; KLAUS EISTERER; ROBERT ROLLINGER; and DIRK RUPNOW, eds. Carl Friedrich Lehmann-Haupt: Ein Forscherleben zwischen Orient und Okzident. Classica et Orientalia, vol. 11. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015. Pp. vi + 217, illus. 48 [euro].

   FOX, MICHAEL V. Proverbs: An Eclectic Edition with Introduction and Textual Commentary. The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition, vol. 1. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2015. Pp. xxii + 431, 42*. $69.95.

   FUGERT, ANJA. Die neuassyrische und spatbabylonische Glyptik aus Tall Seh Hamad. 1: Text und Konkordanzen. 2: Katalog und Tafeln. Berichte der Ausgrabung Tall Seh Hamad / DQr-Katlimmu, vol. 16. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015. Pp. Ixxviii + 318, ix + 497, illus. 198 [euro].

   GABBAY, URI. Pacifying the Hearts of the Gods: Sumerian Emesal Prayers of the First Millennium BC. Heidelberger Emesal-Studien, vol. 1. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014. Pp. xx + 356. 78 [euro].

   GABBAY, URI, and SHAI SECUNDA, eds. Encounters by the Rivers of Babylon. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, vol. 160. Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014. Pp. vi + 469. 189 [euro].

   GABRIEL, GOSTA, enuma elis--Weg zu einer globalen Weltordnung. Orientalische Religionen in der Antike, vol. 12. Tiibingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014. Pp. xxii + 524. 129 [euro].

   GARROWAY, KRISTINE. Children in the Ancient Near Eastern Household. Explorations in Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations, vol. 3. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2014. Pp. xvii + 374. $57.50.

   GASPA, SALVATORE; ALESSANDRO GRECO; DANIELE MORANDI BONACASSI; SIMONETTA PONCHIA; and ROBERT ROLLINGER, eds. From Source to History: Studies on Ancient Near Eastern Worlds and Beyond. Dedicated to Giovanni Battista Lanfranchi on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday on June 23, 2014. Alter Orient und Altes Testament, vol. 412. Munster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2014. Pp. xiv + 810, pits. 144 [euro].

   GAUBERT, CHRISTIAN, and JEAN-MICHEL MOUTON. Hommes et villages du Fayyoum dans la documentation papyrologique arabe (xe-xie- siecles). Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Hautes Etudes Orientales, Moyen et Proche-Orient 6, vol. 52. Geneva: Droz, 2014. Pp. xv + 361, illus. (paper).

   GELLER, MARKHAM J. Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice. Ancient Cultures. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. Pp. xii + 221, illus. $34.95 (paper).

   GERLACH, IRIS, ed. South Arabia and Its Neighbours: Phenomena of Intercultural Contacts. Deutsches Archaologisches Institute San'a\ 14. Rencontres Sabeennes. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2015. Pp. xii + 222, illus. 78 [euro].

   GOEDEGEBUURE, PETRA. The Hittite Demonstratives: Studies in Deixis, Topics and Focus. Studien zu den Bogazkoy-Texten, vol. 55. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014. Pp. xxv + 610. 98 [euro].

   GREENFIELD, HASKEL J., ed. Animal Secondary Products: Archaeological Perspectives on Domestic Animal Exploitation in the Neolithic and Bronze Age. Pp. vii + 352, illus., CD-ROM. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2014. $115. [Distributed by Casemate Academic, Havertown, Pa.]

   GRIEB, VOLKER; KRZYSZTOF NAWOTKA; and AGNIESZKA WOJCIECHOWSKA, eds. Alexander the Great and Egypt: History, Art, Tradition. Philippika, vol. 74. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014. Pp. 458, illus. 83 [euro].

   GRODDEK, DETLEV. Hethitische Texte in Transkription KBo 46. Dresdner Beitrage zur Hethitologie, vol. 47. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015. Pp. xxi + 249. 68 [euro].

   GROSSMAN, EITAN; STEPHANE POLIS; ANDREAS STAUDER; and JEAN WINAND, eds. On Forms and Functions: Studies in Ancient Egyptian Grammar. Lingua Aegyptia, Studia Monographica, vol. 15. Hamburg: Widmaier Verlag, 2014. Pp. 366. 59 [euro].

   GYSELEN, RIKA, ed. Documents, argenterie et monnaies de tradition sassanide. Res Orientales, vol. 22. Burres-sur-Yvette, France: Groupe pour l'Etude de la Civilisation du Moyen-Orient, 2014. Pp. 189, illus.

   GZELLA, HOLGER. A Cultural History of Aramaic: From the Beginnings to the Advent of Islam. Handbuch der...