This historical study argues that the Mandaean religion originated under Sasanid rule in the fifth century, not earlier as has been widely accepted. It analyzes primary sources in Syriac, Mandaic, and Arabic to clarify the early history of Mandaeism. This religion, along with several other, shorter...
The civilization of ancient Mesopotamia spanned more than 3000 years; together with that of ancient Egypt, its record constitutes nothing less than the first half of history. Hundreds of thousands of cuneiform texts, found throughout modern Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey, offer detailed glimpses...
The volume provides facsimile copies and editions of 80 historical and historical-literary texts from the city of Ashur, long-time capital of ancient Assyria. Dating from the 13th to the 7th century BCE, the texts include so far unknown royal inscriptions and chronicles, a new "letter to the god...
A Ninth Century Bookman in Baghdad
Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation of anecdotes about thirty-eight women who were consorts to those in power, most of them concubines of the early Abbasid caliphs and wives of latter-day caliphs and sultans. This slim but illuminating volume is one of the few...
Studies in Pragmatics, 27
(Im)politeness in Ancient Egypt is the first book-length study of (im)politeness in ancient Egyptian texts. Leading experts in their respective corpora examine a range of textual sources spanning approximately 2,000 years, using the latest frameworks for analyzing language in usage. This edited...
Harvard Egyptological Studies, 16
In the House of Heqanakht: Text and Context in Ancient Egypt gathers Egyptological articles in honor of James P. Allen, Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University.
Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 4/3, Tübingen: Mohr 2015
A collection of essays that explore how the literati of Babylonia and Assyria, the writers and redactors of the Hebrew Bible, and later rabbinical scholars gained new perspectives and created new ideas by interpreting ancient texts and traditions.
Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 4/3, Tübingen: Mohr...
Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition
