This book is a comprehensive treatment of the ancient prophetic phenomenon as it comes to
us through biblical, Near Eastern, and Greek sources. Once a distinctly biblical concept …

The Culture of Animals in Antiquity provides students and researchers with well-chosen and
clearly presented ancient sources in translation, some well-known, others undoubtedly …

Les rabats de jaquette indiquent:" When we encounter a text, whether ancient or modern, we
typically start at the beginning and work our way toward the end. In Tracking the Master …

The identity of the toponym Dugurasu, which is mentioned some fifty times in the ED IIIb
documentation from Ebla, is a highly contested issue. While MG Biga had proposed an …

From the late third millennium BCE on, the adventures of Gilgamesh were well known
throughout Babylonia and Assyria, and the discovery of fragmentary Akkadian-language …

“As long as the people of your culture are convinced that the world belongs to them and that
their divinely-appointed destiny is to conquer and rule it, then they are of course going to go …

It is widely recognised that the epics of Homer are closely related to the earlier mythology
and literature of the Ancient Near East, above all the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh. But how …

A poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star,
bringing together scholarly precision and poetic grace" Sophus Helle's new translation...[is] …

How can nations ensure that buried nuclear waste goes undisturbed for thousands of years?
The United States government tried to solve this problem with the help of experts they …

The tale of the combat between the Storm-god and the Sea that began circulating in the
early second millennium BCE was one of the most well-known ancient Near Eastern myths …