[Booknews] New and Noteworthy, November 13, 2006

[James Spinti]

BookNews from Eisenbrauns

Be sure to check out our monthly sale: 1/3 off on selected Harvard 
Semitic Museum titles. Follow the link at the top of the New and 
Noteworthy page.

Convention week! ASOR starts this week. Be sure to stop by and say 
"hi" to Jim and Merna. Of course, we would appreciate it if you 
bought some books, too.

AAR/SBL starts on Saturday. Come early, you never know which books 
will sell out. Come often, every day is a new chance to win one 
of two $50.00 gift certificates.

Can't make it to either conference? Well, you can still participate 
in the sale by downloading the order forms here:
http://www.eisenbrauns.com/sbl
Prices are valid from November 17-December 31, 2006

To see cover graphics and read more information about the new 
titles listed below, please follow this link: 
http://www.eisenbrauns.com/wconnect/wc.dll?ebGate~EIS~~~~NEWNOTES 

Don't miss this week's special: Jastrow's Dictionary at 45% off. 
See the bottom of this e-mail for details.
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This week's New and Noteworthy books:

>An archaeological report
"Tel Tanninim: Excavations at Krokodeilon Polis, 1996-1999"
by Robert R. Stieglitz
American Schools of Oriental Research Archaeological Reports - 10
American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), Cloth. English.
ISBN: 0897570723
Your Price: $84.95

>Two on Egypt:
"Pharao und Sport"
by Wolfgang Decker
Philipp von Zabern Verlag, Cloth. German.
ISBN: 3805336209
Your Price: $65.00

"Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800"
by Roger S. Bagnall and Raffaella Cribiore
University of Michigan Press, Cloth. English.
ISBN: 0472115065
Your Price: $75.00

>The first volume of the 5 volume dictionary:
"New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible: Volume 1, A-C"
Edited by Katharine Doob Sakenfeld
New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible - NIDB 1
Abingdon, Cloth. English.
ISBN: 0687054273
List Price: $75.00 Your Price: $59.93

>Textual Criticism of the Greek New Testament:
"Textual Guide to the Greek New Testament: An Adaptation of Bruce 
Metzger's Textual Commentary for the Needs of Translators"
Edited by Roger L. Omanson
Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft Stuttgart, Cloth. English.
ISBN: 3438060442
Your Price: $38.00

>New commentaries:
"I and II Kings"
by Gina Hens-Piazza
Abingdon Old Testament Commentary - AOTC
Abingdon, Paper. English.
ISBN: 0687490219
List Price: $36.00 Your Price: $27.00

"The Gospel of John"
by Jerome H. Neyrey
New Cambridge Bible Commentary - NCBC
Cambridge University Press, Paper. English.
ISBN: 0521535212
List Price: $23.99 Your Price: $22.79

"2 Peter and Jude"
by Peter H. Davids
Pillar New Testament Commentary - PNTC
Eerdmans, Cloth. English.
ISBN: 0802837263
List Price: $34.00 Your Price: $23.77

>Early Christianity:
"Early Christian Creeds: Third Edition"
by J. N.D. Kelly
Continuum, Paper. English.
ISBN: 0826492169
List Price: $39.95 Your Price: $31.96

"The Earliest Christian Artifacts: 
Manuscripts and Christian Origins"
by Larry W. Hurtado
Eerdmans, Paper. English.
ISBN: 0802828957
List Price: $20.00 Your Price: $15.00 

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This week's retail special:
"A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, 
and the Midrashic Literature"
by Marcus Jastrow
Hendrickson Publishers, 2005
1760 pages, English, Cloth, 9.25 x 7
ISBN: 1565638603
List Price: $49.95 Sale Price: $27.47 (45%)