New year, new reading suggestions!
Directly from Jack M. Sasson’s Agade mailing list, here is a list of recent publications in the fields of Assyriology and Mesopotamian Archaeology.
Note that this list only includes titles that have been notified between October, 1st and December, 31th 2019. Earlier titles have already appeared in the previous post, while publications notified from January onwards will be included in the next list.
Please do write to us, at stefania.ermidoro@iaassyriology.com, if we have overlooked a publication or if you are aware of any title that did not appear in Agade and should be added to the list. Thanks!
Akopian, A., Classical Syriac, Gorgias Press, 2019.
Alivernini, S., and Greco, A., Neo-Sumerian Administrative Texts from the Géjou Collection kept in the British Museum, Nisaba 31, DICAM, 2019.
Alstola, T., Judeans in Babylonia. A Study of Deportees in the Sixth and Fifth Centuries BCE, Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 109, Brill, 2019.
Amrhein, A., Fitzgerald, C., and Knott, E. (eds), A Wonder to Behold: Craftsmanship and the Creation of Babylon’s Ishtar Gate, Princeton University Press, 2019.
Anthonioz, S., and Fink, S. (eds), Representing the Wise. A Gendered Approach. Proceedings of the 1st Melammu Workshop. Lille, 4-5 April 2016, Melammu Workshops and Monographs 1, Zaphon, 2019.
Avalos, H., The Reality of Religious Violence: From Biblical to Modern Times, Bible in the Modern World 72, Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2019.
Avioz, M., Minka, O., and Shemesh, W. (eds), Ben Porat Yosef: Studies in the Bible and Its World Essays in Honor of Joseph Fleishman, Alter Orient und Altes Testament 458, Ugarit Verlag, 2019.
Blakely, S., and Collins, B.J. (eds), Religious Convergence in the Ancient Mediterranean, Studies in Ancient Mediterranean Religions 2, Lockwood Press, 2019.
Bordreuil, P., Pardee, D., and Roche-Hawley, C., Ras Ibn Hani II. Les textes en écritures cunéiformes de l’âge du Bronze récent (fouilles 1977 à 2002), Bibliothèque Archéologique et Historique 214, Presses de l’Ifpo, 2019.
Bretschneider, J., and Jans, G. (eds), About Tell Tweini (Syria): Artefacts, Ecofacts and Landscape. Research Results of the Belgian Mission, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 281, Peeters, 2019.
Briquel Chatonnet, F., Capet, E., Gubel, E., Roche-Hawley, C. (eds), Nuit de pleine lune sur Amurru. Mélanges offerts à Leila Badre, Geuthner, 2019.
Buck, M.E., The Canaanites. Their History and Culture from Texts and Artifacts, Wipf and Stock, 2019.
Cotterell, A., The First Great Powers. Babylon and Assyria, Hurst Publishers, 2019.
Couturaud, B., Les incrustations en coquille de Mari, Subartu 40, Brepols, 2019.
Da Riva, R., Lang, M., and Fink, S. (eds), Literary Change in Mesopotamia and Beyond and Routes and Travellers between East and West. Proceedings of the 2nd and 3rd Melammu Workshops, Melammu Workshops and Monographs 2, Zaphon, 2019.
Daviau, M., Excavations at Tall Jawa, Jordan. Volume 3: The Iron Age Pottery, Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 11/3, Excavations at Tall Jawa, Jordan 11/3, Brill, 2019.
Driediger-Murphy, L.G., and Eidinow, E. (eds), Ancient Divination and Experience, Oxford University Press, 2019.
Ernst-Pradal, F., Scribes d’Ougarit et paléographie akkadienne. Les textes juridiques signés, Ras Shamra – Ougarit 27, Peeters, 2019.
Evans, J.M, Green, J., and Teeter, E., (eds), 100 Highlights of the Collections of the Oriental Institute Museum, Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2019.
Foster, B.R., Sargonic Texts from Umma in the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Nisaba 31, DICAM, 2019.
George, A.R., and Taniguchi, J., Cuneiform Texts from the Folios of W. G. Lambert, Part One, Mesopotamian Civilization, Eisenbrauns, 2019.
Greenberg, R., The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant: From Urban Origin to the Demise of City-States, 3700–1000 BCE, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Guterbock, H.G., Hoffner, H.A., van den Hout, T.P.J., and Goedegeburre, P.M. (eds), The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CHD), S, fascicle 4 (-šma/i- A. to šūu-), Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2019.
Haubold, J., Steele, J., and Stevens, K. (eds), Keeping Watch in Babylon. The Astronomical Diaries in Context, Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 100, Brill, 2019.
Herbordt, S., Mattila, R., Parker, B. (†),Postgate, J.N., and Wiseman, D.J. (†) (eds), Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud, Vol. VI – Documents from the Nabu Temple and from Private Houses on the Citadel, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 2019.
Homan, Z.S., Mittani Palaeography, Cuneiform Monographs 48, Brill, 2019.
Hout, van den T. (ed), Discovering New Pasts: The OI at 100, Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2019.
Hutter, M., and Hutter-Braunsar, S. (eds), Economy of Religions in Anatolia: From the Early Second to the Middle of the First Millennium BCE. Proceedings of an International Conference in Bonn (23rd to 25th May 2018), Alter Orient und Altes Testament 467, Ugarit Verlag, 2019.
Johnson, J. Cale, and Stavru, A. (eds), Visualizing the Invisible With the Human Body: Physiognomy and Ekphrasis in the Ancient World, Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures 10, De Gruyter, 2019.
Kelder, J.M., and Waal, W.J.I. (eds), From ‘LUGAL.GAL’ to ‘Wanax’. Kingship and Political Organisation in the Late Bronze Age Aegean, Sidestone Press, 2019.
Kim, D.E., Rest in Mesopotamian and Israelite Literature, Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its Contexts 29, Gorgias Press, 2019.
Kletter, R., Archaeology, Heritage and Ethics in the Western Wall Plaza, Jerusalem. Darkness at the End of the Tunnel, Routledge, 2019.
Lanfranchi, G.B., Mattila, R. and Rollinger, R. (eds), Writing Neo-Assyrian History. Sources, Problems, and Approaches, State Archives of Assyria Studies 29, Eisenbrauns, 2019.
Lenzi, A.C., An Introduction to Akkadian Literature. Contexts and Content, Eisenbrauns, 2019.
Lopez-Ruiz, C., and Doak, B.R., The Oxford Handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean, Oxford University Press, 2019.
Magdalene, F.R., Wunsch, C., and Wells, B., Fault, Responsibility, and Administrative Law in Late Babylonian Legal Texts, Mesopotamian Civilization, Eisenbrauns, 2019.
Marciniak, A. (ed), Concluding the Neolithic: The Near East in the Second Half of the Seventh Millennium BCE, Lockwood Press, 2019.
Martin, L., and Freiherr von Oppenheim, C. (eds), Max Freiherr von Oppenheim und die arabische Welt – Die Stiftung des Diplomaten, Forschers und Sammlers, Wienand, 2019.
McClellan, T.L., with contributions by H. Buitenhuis, E. Polak, R. Prevalet, D.S. Reese & C. Sagona, El-Qitar: A Bronze Age Fortress on the Euphrates, Subartu 41, Brepols, 2019.
Mekkattukulam, J.F., Le don du sceau dans les Actes syriaques et grecs de Judas Thomas. Le plus antique témoignage sur l’initiation chrétienne: « Onction – Baptême – Eucharistie », Cahier d’études syriaques 6, Geuthner, 2019.
Mittermayer, C., Was sprach der eine zum anderen? Argumentationsformen in den sumerischen Rangstreitgesprächen, Untersuchungen zur Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie 15, De Gruyter, 2019.
Nissinen, M., Prophetic Divination. Essays in Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy, Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 494, De Gruyter, 2019.
Notizia, P., Neo-Sumerian Administrative Texts from the Rosen Collection, Nisaba 32, DICAM, 2019.
Novák, M., Kozal, E., Yaşin. D. (eds), Sirkeli Höyük. Ein urbanes Zentrum am Puruna-Pyramos im Ebenen Kilikien. Vorbericht der schweizerisch-türkischen Ausgrabungen 2006–2015, Schriften zur Vorderasiatischen Archäologie 13, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019.
Overmann, K.A., The Material Origin of Numbers. Insights from the archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East 14, Gorgias Press, 2019.
Peleg-Barkat, O., Ashkenazi, J., Leibner, U., Aviam, M., and Talgam, R. (eds), Between Sea and Desert: On Kings, Nomads, Cities and Monks – Essays in Honor of Joseph Patrich, Land of Galilee 5, Ostracon, 2019.
Pieńkowska, A., Szeląg, D., and Zych, I. (eds), Stories Told Around the Fountain. Papers Offered to Piotr Bieliński on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2019.
Pini, N., Arab Settlements: Tribal structures and spatial organizations in the Middle East between Hellenistic and Early Islamic periods, Archaeopress, 2019.
Pitkänen, P., Migration and Colonialism in Late Second Millennium BCE Levant and Its Environs: The Making of a New World, 1st Edition, Routledge Studies in the History of the Ancient Near East, 2019.
Orazi, R., with contributions by J.A. Massih, F. Colosi, I. Finzi Contini, E. Di Luzio, R. Menis, D. Morandi Bonacossi, S. Palpacelli, and H.A. Qasim, The Archaeological Environmental Park of Sennacherib’s Irrigation Network. Recording, Conservation and Management of the Cultural Heritage of the Northern Region of Iraqi Kurdistan, Italian Archaeological Mission to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Monographs 1, Forum, 2019.
Rahmstorf, L., and Stratford, E., Weights and Marketplaces from the Bronze Age to the Early Modern Period. Proceedings of Two Workshops Funded by the European Research Council (ERC), Weight & Value 1, Wachholtz Verlag, 2019.
Regev, D., New Light on Canaanite-Phoenician Pottery, Equinox Publishing, 2019.
Reynolds, F., A Babylon Calendar Treatise: Scholars and Invaders in the Late First Millennium BC. Edited with Introduction, Commentary, and Cuneiform Texts, Oxford University Press, 2019.
Roche, M-J., Inscriptions nabatéennes datées de la fin du IIe siècle avant notre ère au milieu du IVe siècle, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 279, Peeters, 2019.
Rositani, A., Strumenti per la gestione dell’allevamento nella Mesopotamia paleo-babilonese: le etichette, Sud 2, DICAM, 2019.
Ryholt, K., and Barjamovic, G. (eds), Libraries Before Alexandria: Ancient Near Eastern Traditions, Oxford University Press, 2019.
Robson, E., Ancient Knowledge Networks: A Social Geography of Cuneiform Scholarship in First-Millennium Assyria and Babylonia, UCL Press, 2019.
Sader, H., The History and Archaeology of Phoenicia, Society of Biblical Literature Press, 2019.
Schaudig, H., Explaining Disaster. Tradition and Transformation of the “Catastrophe of Ibbi-Sîn” in Babylonian Literature, dubsar 13, Zaphon, 2019.
Schmidt, M., Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem, Princeton University Press, 2019.
Schniedewind, W.M., The Finger of the Scribe. How Scribes Learned to Write the Bible, Oxford University Press, 2019.
Sigrist, M., and Ozaki, T., Tablets from the Irisaĝrig Archive, Eisenbrauns, 2019.
Thavapalan, S., The Meaning of Color in Ancient Mesopotamia, Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 104, Brill, 2019.
Thavapalan, S., and Warburton, D.A. (eds), The Value of Colour. Material and Economic Aspects in the Ancient World, Berlin Studies of the Ancient World 70, Topoi Excellence Cluster, 2019.
Wee, J.Z., Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary: Ancient Mesopotamian Commentaries on a Handbook of Medical Diagnosis (Sa-gig), Cuneiform Monographs 49/1, Brill, 2019.
Wee, J.Z., Mesopotamian Commentaries on the Diagnostic Handbook Sa-gig: Edition and Notes on Medical Lexicography, Cuneiform Monographs 49/2, Brill, 2019.
Worthington, M., Ea’s Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story, Routledge, 2019.
Yalman, S., and Uğurlu, A.H. (eds), Sacred Spaces and Urban Networks, Anamed, 2019.
Zgoll, C., Tractatus mythologicus. Theorie und Methodik zur Erforschung von Mythen als Grundlegung einer allgemeinen, transmedialen und komparatistischen Stoffwissenschaft, Mythological Studies 1, De Gruyter, 2019.