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Melusine ; or, The noble history of Lusignan by Jean, d'Arras, active 14th century

Table of Contents: “…Geoffrey big-tooth in Ireland -- Crisis in the near East -- Betrayal, fratricide, and loss -- Geoffrey in Northumberland -- Raymond: pilgramage and penance -- Six sons of Lusignan defend Alsace -- Raymond's noble funeral -- Epilogue I: the knight of the tower -- Epilogue II: the castle of the sparrow hawk -- The legacy of Lusignan and the Duke of Berry.…”
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Introduction to the prophets : their stories, sayings, and scrolls by Leclerc, Thomas L., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Prophecy in its various contexts -- Intermediaries and prophets in the ancient near east -- Stories of prophets in the Pentateuch -- Stories of prophets in the Deuteronomistic history -- The prophetic books -- Amos of Tekoa, Prophet of doom -- Hosea, prophet of the covenant -- Micah of moresheth -- Three late seventh-century prophets: Zephaniah, Nahum, and Habakkuk -- The fall of Jerusalem: Jeremiah, Lamentations, and Obadiah -- Ezekiel, Priest and Prophet in Exile -- The second Isaiah: Consolation in Exile -- Prophecy after the Exile (part 1): Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi -- Prophecy after the Exile (Part 2): Third Isaiah, Joel, and Jonah -- The book of Daniel.…”

Introduction to the prophets : their stories, sayings, and scrolls by Leclerc, Thomas L., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Prophecy in its various contexts -- Intermediaries and prophets in the ancient Near East -- Stories of prophets in the Pentateuch -- Stories of prophets in the Deuteronomistic history -- The prophetic books -- Amos of Tekoa, prophet of doom -- Hosea, prophet of the covenant -- Isaiah, prophet of Zion -- Micah of Moresheth -- Three late seventh-century prophets : Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakkuk -- The fall of Jerusalem : Jeremiah, Lamentations, and Obadiah -- Ezekiel, priest and prophet in exile -- The second Isaiah : consolation in exile -- Prophecy after the exile (part 1) : Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi -- Prophecy after the exile (part 2) : third Isaiah, Joel, Jonah, and Daniel.…”

History of the Akkadian Language (2 Vols) by Vita, Juan-Pablo

Table of Contents: “…Teaching and Writing Akkadian in the Ancient Near East -- Chapter 2. Teaching Akkadian in the Ancient Near East (Kleinerman) -- Chapter 3. …”
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Playing with Leviathan. by Van Bekkum, Koert

Table of Contents: “…List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part 1 Ancient Near East; Chapter 1 The Leviathan in the Ancient Near East; Part 2 Old Testament; Chapter 2 God and the Dragons in the Book of Isaiah; Chapter 3 As a Fish on Dry Land Some Remarks on Tannîn in Ezekiel; Chapter 4 "Is Your Rage Against the Rivers, Your Wrath Against the Sea?" …”
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Genesis 1 as ancient cosmology by Walton, John H., 1952-

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Bronze monsters and the cultures of wonder : griffin cauldrons in the preclassical Mediterranean by Papalexandrou, Athanasios Christou, 1965-

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Age of Empires The History and Administration of Judah in the 8th-2nd Centuries BCE in Light of the Storage-Jar Stamp Impressions. by Lipschits, Oded

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Storage-Jar Stamp Impressions in the Ancient Near East -- Chapter 2: The Jar-Stamping Phenomenon in Judah -- Chapter 3: The Stamped Judahite Storage Jars -- Chapter 4: Main Stamp-Impression Types: Typology, Corpus and Distribution -- Chapter 5: The Chronology of the Stamped Storage-Jar Systems in the Kingdom of Judah -- Chapter 6: The Function and Modus Operandi of the Stamped Storage-Jar System in the Kingdom of Judah…”
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Love's Obsession : the lives and archaeology of Jim and Eve Stewart. by Powell, Judy

Table of Contents: “…(Eve) Stewart archive -- in praise of handwriting; Timeline; Notes; Foreword; Prologue; CHAPTER 1 -- England, Egypt and Cyprus, 1914-36; CHAPTER 2 -- England and Cyprus, 1936-39; CHAPTER 3 -- England, Cyprus and the Near East, 1930-38; CHAPTER 4 -- War, 1940-45; CHAPTER 5 -- England and Cyprus, 1945-47; CHAPTER 6 -- Australia, 1947-50; CHAPTER 7 -- Mount Pleasant, 1951-54.…”
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Good agricultural practices for greenhouse vegetable crops : principles for Mediterranean climate areas.

Table of Contents: “…Integrated pest management and farmer education: FAO experiences from the Near East and the Maghreb…”
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Atheism as a Positive Social Force. by Converse, Raymond W.

Table of Contents: “…Modern Religion in the Near East and Rome; Chapter 4. Christianity, Persia and Islam; Chapter 5. …”
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Disability Studies and Biblical Literature. by Moss, Candida R.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1 The Nature of Barrenness in the Hebrew Bible; 2 The Blind, the Lame, and the Barren Shall Not Come into the House; 3 "Like the eunuch who does not beget": Gender, Mutilation, and Negotiated Status in the Ancient Near East; 4 Sexual Disabilities in the Hebrew Bible; 5 The Ascription of Physical Disability as a Stigmatizing Strategy in Biblical Iconic Polemics; 6 Whoring after Cripples: On the Intersection of Gender and Disability Imagery in Jeremiah; 7 A Tale of Two Eunuchs: Isaiah 56:1-8 and Acts 8:26-40.…”
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The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia. by Kohl, Philip L.

Table of Contents: “…. ; CHAPTER 3 THE CAUCASUS -- DONOR AND RECIPIENT OF MATERIALS, TECHNOLOGIES, AND PEOPLES TO AND FROM THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST; CHAPTER 4 TAMING THE STEPPE -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF MOBILE ECONOMIES: FROM CATTLE HERDERS WITH WAGONS TO HORSEBACK ... ; CHAPTER 5 ENTERING A SOWN WORLD OF IRRIGATION AGRICULTURE -- FROM THE STEPPES TO CENTRAL ASIA AND BEYOND: ...…”
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Nonlinear Models for Archaeology and Anthropology : Continuing the Revolution. by Baden, William W.

Table of Contents: “…7 Approaches to Modelling Archaeological Site Territories in the Near East8 Afterword; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Kings and Prophets : Monarchic Power, Inspired Leadership, and Sacred Text in Biblical Narrative. by Grottanelli, C. (Cristiano)

Table of Contents: “…9 Prophecy and Writing in the Ancient Near East10 Making Room for the Written Law; Index.…”
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Dr. Lyle J. Hayden.

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Appropriating innovations : entangled knowledge in Eurasia, 5000-1500 BCE

Table of Contents: “…a view from the Anatolian highlands / Maria Bianca D'Anna and Giulio Palumbi -- The "green revolution" in prehistory : late Neolithic agricultural innovations as a technological system / Maria Ivanova -- The spread of productive and technological innovations in Europe and Near East : an integrated zooarchaeological perspective on secondary animal products and bronze utilitarian metallurgy / Haskel J. …”
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Studies in Bible and feminist criticism by Frymer-Kensky, Tikva Simone

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Retrospective -- List of Abbreviations -- COMPARATIVE CULTURE I: ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN RELIGIONS -- Creation Myths -- 1 / Atrahasis: An Introduction -- 2 / The Planting of Man: A Study in Biblical Imagery -- Flood Myths -- 3 / Israel and the Ancient Near East: New Perspectives on the Flood -- 4 / The Atrahasis Epic and Its Significance for Our Understanding of Genesis 1â€?…”
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Essays on ancient Israel in its Near Eastern context : a tribute to Nadav Naʼaman

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Chinese energy futures and their implications for the United States by Eberling, George

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Content; List of Tables and Figures; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; Part I The Dependency Scenario; Chapter 2 The Competitive Dependency Scenario; Chapter 3 The Asia-Pacific; Chapter 4 Central Eurasia; Chapter 5 The Middle East and North Africa (Near East); Chapter 6 Sub-Saharan Africa; Chapter 7 Western Europe; Chapter 8 Western Hemisphere; Chapter 9 Summary; Part II The Surplus Scenarios; Chapter 10 Surplus Scenarios: Competitive versus Cooperative; Chapter 11 Conclusions.…”
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Hamas : politics, charity, and terrorism in the service of jihad by Levitt, Matthew, 1970-

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Children in the Ancient Near Eastern Household by Garroway, Kristine Henriksen

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People, plants, and genes : the story of crops and humanity / People, plants, & genes by Murphy, Denis J.

Table of Contents: “…Early human societies and their plants -- Plant management and agriculture -- How some people became farmers -- Plant genomes -- Fluid genomes, uncertain species, and the genetics of crop domestication -- The domestication of cereal crops -- The domestication of non-cereal crops -- People and the emergence of crops -- Agriculture : a mixed blessing -- Evolution of agrourban cultures : I The Near East -- Evolution of agrourban cultures : II south and east Asia -- Evolution of agrourban cultures : III Africa, Europe, and the Americas -- Crop management in the classical and medieval periods -- Agricultural improvement and the rise of crop breeding -- Imperial botany and the early scientific breeders -- Agricultural improvement in modern times -- The future of agriculture and humanity.…”
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Espionage in the ancient world : an annotated bibliography of books and articles in Western languages by Sheldon, R. M., 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Acknowledgments; Contents; Foreword ; Preface ; Introduction ; Glossary ; Espionage-General; Road Building, Communications, Tradecraft; The Ancient Near East ; Mesopotamia and Palestine ; Egypt; Assyria and Babylonia ; Persia; Greece ; General; The Skytale ; Tachygraphy ; The Spartan Krypteia ; Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age; The Roman Republic General ; General; Tironian Notes ; The Roman Empire ; General; Signalling; The Byzantine Empire ; General; Greek Fire ; Medieval World ; General; Dubthach Cipher & the Bamberg Cryptogram; Oghams ; Bacon Cipher; Runes…”
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ISS 7 Islam and Contemporary Civilisation : Evolving Ideas, Transforming Relations. by Rane, Halim

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Title; Dedication; Contents; Abbreviations; Preface; Map; Population distribution of the Muslim world; The spread of Islam from the era of the Prophet until the fall of the Umayyds; The expansion of Israel in Palestine; The Near East after the Six-Day War of 1967; Introduction; I Foundations; 1 Islam and Muslims; 2 Expansion, developments and movements; 3 Modern developments in Muslim thought; II Debates; 4 Issues in legal thought; 5 Human rights; 6 The struggle for democracy; III Dilemmas; 7 Mediated Islam; 8 Jihad and Muslim militancy; 9 The question of Palestine…”
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Mesopotamia : writing, reasoning, and the gods by Bottéro, Jean

Table of Contents: “…The "avalanche" of decipherments in the ancient Near East between 1800 and 1930 ; 5. From mnemonic device to script ; 6. …”

Origins of agriculture

Table of Contents: “…Pre-Agricultural Tools For The Preparation Of Foods In The Old World Man, Domestication, And Culture In Southwestern Asia -- A Model For The Origin Of Agriculture In The Near East -- Changing Economy In Ancient India -- The Dynamics Of Agricultural Origins In Palestine: A Theoretical Model -- Abstract: The Cultural Processes Leading To The Origins Of Agriculture In The Ancient Near East -- Section Four: The Beginnings Of Agriculture In The New World -- The Origins Of Zea Mays -- Why Didnâ€?…”
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Ancient west & east.

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Reflections of Roman imperialisms

Table of Contents: “…; Nationality and Ideology in the Roman Near East; From War to Peace (Euphrates Frontier in 60-s AD); The Image of Romans in the Eyes of Ancient Chinese; Afterword; Contributors; Index…”
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The origins of agriculture : an international perspective

Table of Contents: “…Crawford -- The origins of plant cultivation in the Near East / Naomi F. Miller -- Indigenous African agriculture / Jack R. …”
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Mesopotamia and the Bible : comparative explorations

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Mans Quest for Political Knowledge : the Study and Teaching of Politics in Ancient Times. by Anderson, William

Table of Contents: “…THREE ANCIENT LITERATE SOCIETIES OF THE NEAR EAST; 1 Mesopotamia; 2 Egypt; 3 The Israelites; PART II: THE GREEKS OF ANCIENT TIMES; 4 The Delphic Oracle; 5 Pre-Socratic Writers; 6 Socrates' Contemporaries; 7 Socrates and Political Education; 8 Plato and Anti-Politics; 9 Plato's Contemporaries; 10 Aristotle; PART III. …”
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The dark ages : an age of light.

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Languages from the World of the Bible. by Gzella, Holger

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Words beginning with SA by Puhvel, Jaan

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Daughters of Miriam : women prophets in ancient Israel by Gafney, Wilda, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Biblical prophets and related roles -- Definitions -- Technical vocabulary -- Women's prophecy around biblical Israel -- Scope and limits of our data -- Women prophets in Mari -- Assyrian (Ninevite) oracles -- Women prophets in Emar -- General observations on women prophets in the ancient Near East and Israel -- Women prophets in the Hebrew scriptures -- Miryam -- Deborah -- Huldah -- Hanebiy'ah (the anonymous woman-prophet) -- Daughters who prophesy in Ezekiel -- Daughters who will prophesy in Joel -- Noadiah -- Daughters of Heman -- Female prophetic guilds in context -- Musical/funerary guilds -- Scribal guilds -- Rabbinic and Christian trajectories -- Navi'/Nevi'ah in Rabbinic Texts -- Navi'/Nevi'ah in the Mishnah -- Navi'/Nevi'ah in the Midrash -- Navi'/Nevi'ah in the Talmuds -- Prophetis in early Christian texts -- Prophetic constructions -- General observations -- Prophetic constructions -- Rebekah : the inquiring prophet -- Prophet-warriors and sanctuary-guardians -- Queen mother and oracle shaper -- Mourners' guild : partner-prophets in mourning -- Hidden prophets : obscured in Neviy'im.…”

Evangelizing Lebanon : Baptists, missions, and the question of cultures by Trexler, Melanie, 1982-

Table of Contents: “…Building a Baptist Community in Beirut: Said Jureidini and the Arrival of the Near East Baptist Mission (1900-1948) ; 3. Reform, Resistance, and Rebellion: The NEBM Program of Advance and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (1948-1968); 4. …”
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Remembering the crusades : myth, image, and identity

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South-eastern Mediterranean peoples between 130,000 and 10,000 years ago

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Racism in the modern world : historical perspectives on cultural transfer and adaptation

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: The Racialization of the Globe: Historical Perspectives: Frank Dikötter -- Chapter 2: How Racism Arose in Europe and Why It Did Not in the Near East: Benjamin Braude -- Chapter 3: Culture's Shadow: "Race" and Postnational Belonging in the Twentieth Century: Christian Geulen -- Chapter 4: Racism and Genocide: Boris Barth -- Chapter 5: Slavery and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Cuba: Michael Zeuske -- Chapter 6: Toward a Transnational History of Racism: Wilhelm Marr and the Interrelationships between Colonial Racism and German Anti-Semitism: Claudia Bruns -- Chapter 7: Transatlantic Anthropological Dialogue and "the Other": Felix von Luschan's Research in America, 1914-1915: John David Smith -- Chapter 8: Transits of Race: Empire and Difference in Philippine-American Colonial History: Paul A. …”
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