Books received.

1. Ancient Near East

   ALIZADEH, ABBAS. The Development of a Prehistoric Regional Center in Lowland Susiana, Southwestern Iran: Final Report of the Last Six Seasons of Excavations 1972-1978. Chogha Mish, vol. 2. Oriental Institute Publications, vol. 130. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2008. Pp. xliv + 395, plates. $90. [Distrib. in North America by David Brown Book Co., Oakville, Conn.]

   ASSMANN, JAN. Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2008. Pp. x + 196. $26.95 (paper).

   AVANCINI, ALESSANDRA, ed. A Port in Arabia between Rome and the Indian Ocean (3rd C. BC-5th C. AD). Khor Rori Report, vol. 2. Rome: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 2008. Pp. 742, illus. [euro]450.

   BAINES, JOHN; JOHN BENNET; and STEPHEN HOUSTON, eds. The Disappearance of Writing Systems: Perspectives on Literacy and Communication. London: Equinox Publishing, 2008. Pp. xviii + 378, illus. $95. [Distrib. in North America by David Brown Book Co., Oakville, Conn.]

   BERLIN, ADELE. The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism. Revised and expanded. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2008. Pp. xxiv + 200. $21 (paper).

   BODEL, JOHN, and SAUL M. OLYAN, eds. Household and Family Religion in Antiquity. The Ancient World: Comparative Histories. Maiden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2008. Pp. xvii + 324, illus. $100.

   BOER, ROLAND. Last Stop before Antarctica: The Bible and Postcolonialism in Australia. 2nd ed. SBL Semeia Studies, vol. 64. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2008. Pp. xiv + 201. $24.95 (paper).

   BOLGER, DIANE, ed. Gender through Time in the Ancient Near East. Lanham, Md.: Alta Mira Press, 2008. Pp. xviii + 373, illus. $80.

   BORDREUIL, PIERRE; FRANCOISE BRIQUEL-CHATONNET; and CECILE MICHEL, eds. Les debuts de l'histoire: Le Proche-Orient, de l'invention de l'ecriture a la naissance du monotheisme. Paris: Editions de La Martiniere, 2008. Pp. 420, illus. [euro]39.

   BRISCH, NICOLE, ed. Religion and Power: Divine Kingship in the Ancient World and Beyond. Oriental Institute Seminars, vol. 4. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2008. Pp. xiii + 271. $24.95 (paper). [Distrib. in North America by David Brown Book Co., Oakville, Conn.]

   BRIQUEL-CHATONNET, FRANCOISE; ALAIN DESREUMAUX; and JACOB THEKEPARAMPIL. Recueil des inscriptions syriaques, vol. 1: Kerala. Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres. Paris: Diffusion De Boccard, 2008. Pp. 247, illus. [euro]60 (paper).

   CIANCAGLINI, CLAUDIA A. Iranian Loanwords in Syriac. Beitrage zur Iranistik, vol. 28. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2008. Pp. xlvii + 315. $116. [Distrib. in North America by David Brown Book Co., Oakville, Conn.]

   COLLINS, BILLIE JEAN; MARY R. BACHVAROVA; and IAN C. RUTHERFORD, eds. Anatolian Interfaces: Hittites, Greeks, and their Neighbors. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2008. Pp. ix + 213, illus. $90. [Distrib. in North America by David Brown Book Co., Oakville, Conn.]

   CORNELIUS, IZAK, and LOUIS JONKER, eds. "From Ebla to Stellenbosch": Syro-Palestinian Religions and the Hebrew Bible. Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palastina-Vereins, vol. 37. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2008. Pp. vii + 169, plates. [euro]48.

   CRAWFORD, SIDNIE WHITE. Rewriting Scripture in Second Temple Times, Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature. Grand Rapids, Mich.: "William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2008. Pp. xii + 160. $16 (paper).

   CURTIS, J. E., and N. TALLIS, eds. The Balawat Gates of Ashurnasirpal II. London: The British Museum Press, 2008. Pp. xvi + 264, plates. $100. [Distrib. in North America by David Brown Book Co., Oakville, Conn.]

   CZICHON, RAINER M., and PETER WERNER. Die bronzezeitliche Keramik. Ausgrabungen Tall-Munbaqa-Ekalte, vol. 4. Wissenschaftliche Veroffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, vol. 118. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2008. Pp. xviii + 362, plates. [euro]98.

   D'AURIA, SUE H., ed. Servant of Mut: Studies in Honor of Richard A. Fazzini. Probleme der Agyptologie, vol. 28. Leiden: Brill, 2008. Pp. xxiv + 267, illus. $161.

   DAVIES, PHILIP R. Memories of Ancient Israel: An Introduction to Biblical History--Ancient and Modern. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008. Pp. vi+ 182. $24.95 (paper).

   ECKSTEIN, ARTHUR M. Rome Enters the Greek East: From Anarchy to Hierarchy in the Hellenistic Mediterranean, 230-170 BC. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2008. Pp. xi + 439, maps. $120.

   ELIAV, YARON Z.; ELISE A. FRIEDLAND; and SHARON HERBERT, eds. The Sculptural Environment of the Roman Near East: Reflections on Culture, Ideology, and Power. Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion, vol. 9. Leuven: Peeters, 2008. Pp. xxvii + 769, illus. [euro]85.

   ESHEL, HANAN. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hasmonean State. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2008. Pp. xii + 208, illus. $28 (paper).

   FASSONE, ALESSIA, and ENRICO FERRARIS. Egypt: Pharonic Period, tr. Jay Hyams. Dictionaries of Civilization. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 2008. Pp. 384, illus. $24.95 (paper).

   FIEMA, ZBIGNIEW T., and JAAKKO FROSEN. Petra--The Mountain of Aaron, I: The Church and the Chapel. Helsinki: Societas Scientiarium Fennica, 2008. Pp. iv + 447, illus. plates.

   FITZMYER, JOSEPH A., S.J. A Guide to the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature. Rev. ed. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2008. Pp. xvii + 302. S24 (paper).

   FREYDANK, HELMUT, and BARBARA FELLER. Mittelassyrische Rechtsurkunden und Verwaltungstexte VIII. Keilschrifttexte aus mittelassyrischer Zeit, vol. 6. Wissenschaftliche Veroffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, vol. 119. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007. Pp. 83, plates. [euro]48.

   GARBINI, GIOVANNI. Scrivere la storia d'Israele: vi-cende e memorie ebraiche. Biblioteca di storia e storiografia dei tempi biblici, vol. 15. Brescia: Paideia Editrice, 2008. Pp. 357. [euro]37.50 (paper).

   GELLER, MARKHAM J. Evil Demons: Canonical Uttuku Lemnutu Incantations. State Archives of Assyria Cuneiform Texts, vol. 5. Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2007. Pp. xxii + 310. $75 (paper).

   GELLER, MARKHAM J., and MINEKE SCHIPPER, eds. Imagining Creation. Institute of Jewish Studies, Studies in Judaica, vol. 5. Leiden: Brill, 2008. Pp. xxii + 424, illus. $162.

   GERMER, RENATE. Handbuch der altagyptischen Heilpflanzen. Philippika, Marburger altertumskundliche Abhandlungen, vol. 21. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2008. Pp. 388, illus. [euro]32.

   GRANDET, PIERRE. Les pharons du nouvel empire: une pensee strategique (1550-1069 avant J. C). L'art de la Guerre. Monaco: Editions du Rocher, 2008. Pp. 381. [euro]19.

   GRODDEK, DETLEV. Hethitische Texte in Transkription, KBo 22. Dresdner Beitrage zur Hethitologie, vol. 24. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2008. Pp. xxi + 287. [euro]68 (paper).

   GRODDEK, DETLEV. Hethitische Texte in Transkription, KBo 50. Dresdner Beitrage zur Hethitologie, vol. 28. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2008. Pp. xv + 222, [euro]58 (paper).

   GROSS, ANDREW D. Continuity and Innovation in the Aramaic Legal Tradition. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, vol. 128. Pp. xii + 229, map. Leiden: Brill, 2008. $142.

   GUNDLACH, ROLF. Die Konigsideologie Sesostris I. anhand seiner Titulatur. Konigtum, Staat und Gesellschaft fruher Hochkulturen, vol. 7. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2008. Pp. xxii + 377. [euro]78.

   GZELLA, HOLGER, and MARGARETHA L. FOLMER, eds. Aramaic in its Historical and Linguistic Setting. Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz, Veroffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, vol. 50. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2008. Pp. vii + 388. [euro]58.

   HABEL, NORMAN C., and PETER TRUDINGER, eds. Exploring Ecological Hermeneutics. SBL Symposium Series, vol. 46. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2008. Pp. xiv + 183. $24.95 (paper).

   HOFFNER, HARRY A. JR., and H. CRAIG MELCHERT. A Grammar of the Hittite Language, part 1: Reference Grammar. Languages of the Ancient Near East, vol. 1/1. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2008. Pp. xxii + 468, CD-ROM. $59.50.

   HOFFNER, HARRY A. JR., and H. CRAIG MELCHERT. A Grammar of the Hittite. Language, part 2: Tutorial. Languages of the Ancient Near East, vol. 1/2. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2008. Pp. vi + 75. $22.50.

   HORN, CORNELIA B., and ROBERT P. PHENIX JR., ed. and tr. John Rufus: The Lives of Peter the Iberian, Theodosius of Jerusalem, and the Monk Romanus. Writings from the Greco-Roman World, vol. 24. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2008. Pp. xcii + 370. $51.95 (paper).

   JUNGE, FRIEDRICH. Neuagyptisch: Einfuhrung in die Grammatik. 3rd ed. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2008. Pp. 404. [euro]49 (paper).

   KAHL, JOCHEM. Ancient Asyut: The First Synthesis after 300 Years of Research. The Asyut Project, vol. 1. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007. Pp. x + 188, plates. [euro]48.

   KAHN, GEOFFREY. The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Barwar. 3 vols. Handbook of Oriental Studies, vol. 1/96. Leiden: Brill, 2008. Pp. xxxviii + 2175, illus. $738.

   KLINKOTT, H.; S. KUBISCH; and R. MULLER-WOLLERMANS, eds. Geschenke und Steuren, Zolle und Tribute; Antike Abgabenformen in Ansprach und Wirklichkeit. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, vol. 29. Leiden: Brill, 2007. Pp. xxix + 568, plates. $265.

   KLOEKHORST, ALWIN. Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon. Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series, vol. 5. Leiden: Brill, 2008. Pp. xiii + 1162. $291.

   KNAPP, A. BERNARD. Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cyprus: Identity, Insularity and Connectivity. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2008. Pp. xix + 497, illus. $170.

   KOCKELMANN, HOLGER. Untersuchungen zu den spaten Totenbuch-Handschrifien auf Mumienbinden. Vol. 1.1: Die Mumienbinden und Leinenamulette des memphistischen Priesters Hor, Text und Photo-Tafeln; Vol. 1/2: Ubersichten und Umschrift-Tafeln; Vol. II: Handbuch zu den Mumienbinden und Leinamuletten. Studien zum Altagyptischen Totenbuch, vol. 12. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2008. Pp. xxiv + 227, plates; ix, plates; xiii...