Who invented national literature? What is the relationship between script, identity, and history? This volume contains papers from a symposium, which brought le
Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture offers an historical overview of the civilizations of the ancient Near East spanning ten thousand years of history. Thi
As long as there has been a need for language, there has been a need for translation; yet there is remarkably little scholarship available on pre-modern transla
Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World presents a cross-cultural comparison of the ways in which ancient civilizations thought about the
The Levites and the Boundaries of Israelite Identity brings renewed attention to the place of the Levites in the definition of Israelite concepts and myths of i