[Booknews] New and noteworthy, April 24, 2008

[James Spinti]

BookNews from Eisenbrauns

Only 5 days left on our April clearance sale, with savings up 
to 80%. Follow this link to see the titles or download the PDF:
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>New from Ugarit Verlag:
"Tradition and the Poetics of Innovation: Sumerian Court 
Literature of the Larsa Dynasty (c. 2003-1763 BCE)"
by Nicole Brisch 
Alter Orient und Altes Testament - AOAT 339
Ugarit-Verlag, 2007. Cloth. English.
ISBN: 9783934628915
Your Price: $105.00

"Der subordinierte Satz in den spätbabylonischen Briefen"
by Johannes Hackl
Alter Orient und Altes Testament - AOAT 341
Ugarit-Verlag, 2007. Cloth. German.
ISBN: 9783934628960
Your Price: $84.00

"Studia Etanaica: New Texts and Discussions"
by J. Kinnier Wilson
Alter Orient und Altes Testament - AOAT 338
Ugarit-Verlag, 2007. Cloth. English.
ISBN: 9783934628908
Your Price: $77.00

"Alles fauler Zauber?: Beiträge zur heutigen Attraktivität von Magie"
Edited by Gabriele Lademann-Priemer, Rudiger Schmitt, and Bernhard Wolf 
Forschungen zur Anthropologie und Religionsgeschichte - FARG 41
Ugarit-Verlag, 2007. Cloth. German.
ISBN: 9783934628922
Your Price: $96.00

>New from Fribourg, in the OBO series:
"Amulette, Siegel und Perlen: Studien zur Typologie und 
Tragesitte im Alten und Mittleren Reich"
by Ulrike Dubiel
Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis - OBO 229
Academic Press Fribourg, 2007. Cloth. German.
ISBN: 9783727816017
Your Price: $88.00

>The latest from NATCP in the SAAS series:
"Secrecy and the Gods: Secret Knowledge in 
Ancient Mesopotamia and Biblical Israel"
by Alan Lenzi
State Archives of Assyria Studies - SAAS 19
Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project - NATCP, 2008. Paper. English.
ISBN: 9789521013300
Your Price: $69.00

>From Carta, now available in English:
"The Raging Torrent: Historical Inscriptions from 
Assyria and Babylonia Relating to Ancient Israel"
by Mordechai Cogan
Carta Handbook 
Carta, Jerusalem, 2008. Cloth. English.
ISBN: 9652207071
Your Price: $64.00

>A new series, distributed in North America by Eisenbrauns:
"Rewritten Bible Reconsidered: Proceedings of the 
Conference in Karkku, Finland, August 24-26 2006"
Edited by Antti Laato and Jacques Van Ruiten
Studies in Rewritten Bible - SRB 1
Studies in Rewritten Bible, 2008. Paper. English.
ISBN: 9789521220197
Your Price: $49.00

>New from Tel Aviv, the latest word on dendrochronology:
"Timber in Ancient Israel: Dendroarchaeology and Dendrochronology"
by Nili Liphschitz
Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology 26
Tel Aviv University/Institute of Archaeology, 2007. Cloth. English.
ISBN: 9652660248
Your Price: $60.00

>New from the IAA, the first shipment is already sold, 
but more are on the way:
"Map of Amazya (109): Volume 2, The Southern Sector"
by Yehuda Dagan
Archaeological Survey of Israel - ASI 
Israel Antiquities Authority, 2007. Paper. English.
Your Price: $28.00