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Textile terminologies in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean from the third to the first millennia BC /

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...: the terminology, function, form, and symbolism of tents in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East /... by Homan, Michael M.

“…Culture and history of the ancient Near East ;…”
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Translating writings of early scholars in the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, and Rome : methodological aspects with examples /

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Prophets male and female : gender and prophecy in the Hebrew Bible, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the ancient Near East /...

Table of Contents: “…Gender and prophetic agency in the Ancient Near East /…”
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Archaeologists, tourists, interpreters : exploring Egypt and the Near East in the late 19th-early 20th centuries / by Mairs, Rachel

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Prophets male and female : gender and prophecy in the Hebrew Bible, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the ancient Near East /

Table of Contents: “…Gender and prophetic agency in the Ancient Near East /…”
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Childbirth as a metaphor for crisis : evidence from the ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, and 1QH XI, 1-18 / by Bergmann, Claudia D.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The scope of this book -- Definitions of metaphor -- The approach to metaphor in this book -- Birth as event and metaphor in the ancient Near East -- The sources -- The experience of birth -- The experience of birth becomes a metaphor -- Birth as event and metaphor in the Hebrew Bible -- Birth as an event in the Hebrew Bible -- Birth as a metaphor in the Bebrew Bible -- The biblical birth metaphor for cases of local crisis -- War imagery and bad news -- War imagery -- Divine punishment imagery -- The biblical birth metaphor for cases of universal crisis -- Texts -- The biblical birth metaphor for cases of personal crisis -- Engulfment imagery -- War imagery -- Prophetic vision imagery -- 1QH XI, 1-18: the birth metaphor at Qumran -- 1QH XI, 1-18 within the corpus of the Hodayot -- The identity of the mothers and the children in 1QH XI, 1-18 -- Interpreting 1QG XI, 1-18 in light of the birth metaphor -- 1QH XI, 1-18 : personal and universal crisis.…”
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Representations of political power : case histories from times of change and dissolving order in the ancient Near East /

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The land that I will show you : essays on the history and archaeology of the ancient Near East in honour of J. Maxwell Miller /

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Sefer Moshe : the Moshe Weinfeld jubilee volume : studies in the Bible and the ancient Near East, Qumran, and post-Biblical Judaism /

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Gallipoli : When Murdoch went to war / When Murdoch went to war

Subjects: “…World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns Turkey and the Near East Gallipoli.…”
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The Routledge handbook of the peoples and places of ancient western Asia : the Near East from the early Bronze Age to the fall of the Persian Empire /... by Bryce, Trevor, 1940-

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...Paul on the Bible and the ancient Near East, 1967-2005 = [Divre Shalom (Devarim 2, 26 ; Ester 9, 30)] /... by Paul, Shalom M.

“…Culture and history of the ancient Near East ;…”
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Marbeh Ḥokmah : studies in the Bible and the ancient Near East in loving memory of Victor Avigdor Hurowitz /

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City invincible ; a Symposium on Urbanization and Cultural Development in the Ancient Near East held at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, December 4-7, 1958 /

Victory for us is to see you suffer : in the West Bank with the Palestinians and the Israelis by Winslow, Philip C.

Subjects: “…United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East Employees.…”
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Courts and elites in the Hellenistic empires. / Near East after the Achaemenids, c. 330 to 30 BCE by Strootman, Rolf

Table of Contents: “…List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; The Hellenistic Dynasties; Series Editor's Preface; Map 1: The Hellenstic Near East, 330 to 30 BCE; Introduction: Court and Empire in the Hellenistic Near East; Part I: Setting the Scene; 1: The Court as an Instrument of Power; 2: The Theatre of Royalty; 3: The Royal Palace: A Stage for Royal Rituals; Part II: The Court as a Socio-Political System; 4: The Royal Household; 5: Court Society; 6: Royal Pages; 7: Social Dynamics; 8: Hierarchy and Conflict; Part III: Ceremonial and Ritual; 9: Ceremonial and Protocol.…”
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A companion to ancient Near Eastern art

Table of Contents: “…The "Art" of the "Ancient Near East" /…”
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Patterns of destiny : narrative structures of foundation and doom in the Hebrew Bible by Sharon, Diane M.

“…Literary function of eating and drinking in Hebrew Bible narrative with reference to the literatures of the ancient Near East.…”
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One God, one cult, one nation : archaeological and biblical perspectives

Table of Contents: “…Cult centralization in the ancient Near East? Conceptions of the ideal capital in the ancient Near East /…”
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The Politics of the Developing Areas

Table of Contents: “…The Politics of the Near East /…”
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Writing and Ancient Near Eastern Society : Papers in Honour of Alan R. Millard

Table of Contents: “…: the monumental use and non-use of writing in the ancient Near East /…”
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Advances in Mesopotamian medicine from Hammurabi to Hippocrates : proceedings of the International Conference "Oeil Malade et Mauvais Oeil", Collège de France, Paris, 23rd June 200...

Table of Contents: “…Another look at physicians and exorcists in the Ancient Near East /…”
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Salamanders of the Old World : the salamanders of Europe, Asia and northern Africa / Salamanders of Europe, Asia and northern Africa by Sparreboom, M.

Table of Contents: “…Maps of Europe and Northern Africa, the Near East, South-East and East Asia --…”
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Jesus and Gospel traditions in bilingual context : a study in the interdirectionality of language by Lee, Sang-Il

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Bilingualism of First-Century Palestine and the Roman Near East --…”
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The materiality of divine agency

Table of Contents: “…A Feast for the Senses : Visual and Auditory Engagement with the Divine and Divine Agents in the Ancient Near East.…”
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A companion to Greek religion

Table of Contents: “…Greek religion and the ancient Near East /…”
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The Oxford handbook of the prophets / Prophets

Table of Contents: “…Prophetic Intermediation in the Ancient Near East /…”
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The foreign policies of Arab states : the challenge of globalization

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Critical approaches to ancient Near Eastern art

Table of Contents: “…Pictorial Mythology and Narrative in the Ancient Near East /…”
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Meat-eating & human evolution / Meat-eating and human evolution

Table of Contents: “…Neandertal hunting and meat-processing in the Near East: evidence from Kebara Cave (Israel) /…”
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Myth and scripture : contemporary perspectives on religion, language, and imagination by Callender, Dexter E., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Myth in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East. "Myth" in the Old Testament /…”
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Global climates since the last glacial maximum

Table of Contents: “…Vegetational, lake-level, and climatic history of the Near East and Southwest Asia /…”
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Liquid bread : beer and brewing in cross-cultural perspective

Table of Contents: “…Interdisciplinary investigations into the brewing technology of the Ancient Near East and the potential of the cold mashing process /…”
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Essays in the history of architecture presented to Rudolf Wittkower

Table of Contents: “…Battlements in the military architecture and in the symbolism of the ancient Near East /…”

Walls of the prince : Egyptian interactions with Southwest Asia in Antiquity. Essays in honour of John S. Hollady Jr.

Table of Contents: “…Anthropoid Clay Coffins of the Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age in Egypt and the Near East: A Re-Evaluation of the Evidence from Tell el-Yahudiya /…”
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Theorizing Scriptures : New Critical Orientations to a Cultural Phenomenon

Table of Contents: “…Dynamics of scripturalization: the ancient Near East /…”
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The Sufi doctrine of man : ?adr al-Din al-Qunawi's metaphysical anthropology by Todd, Richard, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Travels and Teaching in the Near East --…”
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Theorizing Scriptures : New Critical Orientations to a Cultural Phenomenon

Table of Contents: “…Dynamics of scripturalization: the ancient Near East /…”
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Art of the first cities : the third millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus

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