[Booknews] New and noteworthy, May 22, 2008

[James Spinti]

BookNews from Eisenbrauns

You have just a little over a week to save on this month's sale: 
various Eisenbrauns titles at savings ranging from 40-60% off.

To see cover graphics and read more information about the new
titles listed below, please follow this link:
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New from our distribution partners:

>From Ugarit Verlag:
The newest Ugarit Forschungen:
"Ugarit -Forschungen 38 (2007)"
Edited by Manfried Dietrich and Oswald Loretz 
Ugarit-Forschungen - UF 38
Ugarit-Verlag, 2008. Cloth. German and English.
ISBN: 9783934628977
Your Price: $180.00

The latest AOAT volumes:
"Tell Johfiyeh: Ein archäologischer Fundplatz und seine Umgebung 
in Nordjordanien. Materialien zu einer Regionalstudie"
by Roland Lamprichs
Alter Orient und Altes Testament - AOAT 344
Ugarit-Verlag, 2008. Cloth. German.
ISBN: 9783838350005
Your Price: $212.00

"A Comparative Lexicon of Ugaritic and Canaanite"
by Issam K.H. Halayqa
Alter Orient und Altes Testament - AOAT 340
Ugarit-Verlag, 2008. Cloth. English.
ISBN: 9783934628953
Your Price: $188.00

>New from Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht:
"Jahrbuch fur Liturgik und Hymnologie 46"
Edited by Ada Kadelbach, et al. 
Jahrbuch für Liturgik und Hymnologie - JLH 46
Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 2007. Paper. German.
ISBN: 9783525572177
Your Price: $75.00
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Other new and noteworthy books:

>ANE:

Cambridge has released topical versions of Woodard's huge Cambridge 
"Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages:"

"The Ancient Languages of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Aksum"
by Roger D. Woodard
Cambridge University Press, 2008. Paper. English.
ISBN: 0521684978
Your Price: $39.99

"The Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia"
by Roger D. Woodard
Cambridge University Press, 2008. Paper. English.
ISBN: 0521684986
Your Price: $39.99

Sally Freedman's long awaited volume 2:
"If a City Is Set on a Height: The Akkadian Omen Series Shumma 
Alu ina mele Shakin, Vol. 2: Tablets 22-40"
by Sally Freedman
Occasional Publications of the Samuel Noah Kramer Fund - OPSNKF 19
University Museum / Babylonian Section, 2006. Cloth. English.
Your Price: $73.00

>Biblical Studies:
"Zechariah"
by George L. Klein
New American Commentary - NAC 21B
Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2008. Cloth. English.
ISBN: 9780805494945
List Price: $29.99 Your Price: $20.96

"Esther"
by Debra Reid
Tyndale Old Testament Commentary - TOTC 
InterVarsity Press - IVP, 2008. Paper. English.
ISBN: 9780830842131
List Price: $16.00 Your Price: $12.80

Now available in paperback:
"The Historical Reliability of the Gospels"
by Craig L. Blomberg
InterVarsity Press - IVP, 2008. Paper. English.
ISBN: 9780830828074
List Price: $24.00 Your Price: $18.00