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Private and State in the Ancient Near East
In the 5 days from July 16 through July 20, 2012, more than three hundred Assyriologists from all over the world gathered in Leiden, the Netherlands, to read more than 130 papers …
Feasting in the Archaeology and Texts of the Bible and the Ancient Near East
This volume brings together the work of scholars using various methodologies to investigate the prevalence, importance, and meanings of feasting and foodways in the texts and …
Most Probably
The system that any language uses to express evaluations, judgments, estimations, and non-real situations tends to be complicated and poorly understood, and this has certainly been …
A Grammar of the Hittite Language
The second volume of Hoffner and Melchert’s Grammar, this tutorial consists of a series of graded lessons with illustrative sentences for the student to translate. The tutorial is …
Law and (Dis)Order in the Ancient Near East
Mesopotamia is often considered to be the birthplace of law codes. In recognition of this fact and motivated by the perennial interest in the topic among Assyriologists, the 59th …
Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East
This volume explores how the interpretation of material from the ancient Near East is enriched through the application of diverse methodological and theoretical approaches to …
Fortune and Misfortune in the Ancient Near East
In the week between July 21 and 25, 2014, the University of Warsaw hosted more than three hundred Assyriologists from all over the world. In the course of five days, nearly 150 …
Organization, Representation, and Symbols of Power in the Ancient Near East
In July, 2008, the International Association for Assyriology met in Würzburg, Germany, for 5 days to deliver and listen to papers on the theme “Organization, Representation, and …
The Verb in the Amarna Letters from Canaan
The Amarna letters from Canaan offer us a unique glimpse of the historical and linguistic panorama of the Levant in the middle of the fourteenth century BCE. Their evidence …