Persia and the Victorians by Gail, Marzieh

Table of Contents: “…PERSIA AND THE VICTORIANS; Copyright; PERSIA AND THE VICTORIANS; Copyright; CONTENTS; CHAPTER I 'Have You Seen the Shah?'; CHAPTER II The Nearing East; CHAPTER III Sir William and Bocara's Gold; CHAPTER IV Orientalism in Rags; CHAPTER V Hippopotamus Murray; CHAPTER VI Julius de Reuter: Afternoon of a Faun; CHAPTER VII The Glory of God; CHAPTER VIII The Writing Diplomats; CHAPTER IX 'What For You Write Hajji Baba ...?'…”
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Intolerance, polemics, and debate in antiquity : politico-cultural, philosophical, and religious forms of critical conversation

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Intolerance, Polemics, and Debate in Antiquity: Politico-Cultural, Philosophical, and Religious Forms of Critical Conversation in the Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, Graeco-Roman, and Early Islamic Worlds; Part 1 Discourses within the Ancient Near East and Early Judaism; Chapter 1 Religious Intolerance in the Ancient Near East; Chapter 2 Polemics against Child Sacrifice in Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic History; Chapter 3 Jubilees 11-12 against the Background of the Polemics against Idols in the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Literature…”
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Invisible armies

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King Hammurabi of Babylon : a Biography. by Van De Mieroop, Marc

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Imagining Babylon The Modern Story of an Ancient City by Liverani, Mario, Liverani, Mario

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European archaeology abroad : global settings, comparative perspectives

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A political history of the Arameans : from their origins to the end of their polities by Younger, K. Lawson, Jr

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Royal Autobiography in the Book of Qoheleth by Koh, Y. V.

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International law in antiquity by Bederman, David J.

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From the Fjords to the Nile by Steiner, Pål

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From an Antique Land : an Introduction to Ancient Near Eastern Literature. by Ehrlich, Carl S.

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The travels and journal of Ambrosio Bembo by Bembo, Ambrosio

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Sky Blue Stone : the turquoise trade in world history by Khazeni, Arash

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Transition to Democracy : Proceedings of a Workshop. by Staff, National Research Council

Table of Contents: “…Comment and Synthesis: Plenary Session III""; ""OVERVIEW""; ""Regional Perspectives: Reports of the Working Groups""; ""ASIA""; ""NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA""; ""EASTERN EUROPE""; ""AFRICA""; ""LATIN AMERICA""; ""DISCUSSION""; ""Threats to Democracy: Plenary Session IV""; ""A RESEARCH PERSPECTIVE""; ""Setting an Action Agenda: Plenary Session V""; ""Appendix: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers ""…”
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Archaeology and the Old Testament.

Table of Contents: “…MYTH IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST ; All Mankind Returned to Clay; Gilgamesh, Most Splendid among Heroes; Conflict and Creation; Adapa's Lost Chance for Immortality; Flood and Creation in Sumer; 6. …”
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When heroes love : the ambiguity of eros in the stories of Gilgamesh and David by Ackerman, Susan

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Imperialism and biblical prophecy, 750-500 BCE by Aberbach, David, 1953-

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Mechanization for rural development : a review of patterns and progress from around the world

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER 6 China: Development of farm mechanization and the agricultural machinery industryCHAPTER 7 The Near East Region -- CHAPTER 8 The development of farm mechanization in Brazil -- CHAPTER 9 Agricultural mechanization in countries in transition in Eastern Europe and Central Asia -- CHAPTER 10 Agricultural mechanization and the environment -- CHAPTER 11 Agricultural mechanization strategies -- CHAPTER 12 Agricultural mechanization in development: A donorâ€?…”
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A Feminist Companion to Genesis. by Brenner-Idan, Athalya

Table of Contents: “…Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Introduction; I: CREATION AND PARADISE REVISITED; ... et GENETRIX; Gender Construction in the Yahwist Creation Myth; The Doom of Paradise: Literary Patterns in Accounts of Paradise and Mortality in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East; II: MAL[E]PRACTICES; Daddy-Dearest and the ''Invisible Spirit of Wine''; A Feminist Reading of Genesis 19.1-11; Abraham and the Seeds of Patriarchy; Through Whose Eyes? …”
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Intellect Encounters Faith - A Synthesis : a Festschrift in Honor of Jay Harold Ellens, Ph. D. by Greene, John T.

Table of Contents: “…Themystery of ancient faith, art, and archaeologythe enduring power of trustingthe readers' intelligenceor, the enduring power of the bibleas literature; literature; what matters for a hero and whatis proper for a female deityin the ancient near east?; unanswered questionsin the dead sea scrolls; psalm 137 with a view toward voiceand vision; military history; josephus and the homeless of julias; bethsaida/julias in both the roman andjewishmilitary strategies for thegalilee-golan during the first jewishrebellion against rome, 66-73 c.e.…”
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The Old Testament in Its World : Papers Read at the Winter Meeting, January 2003, and Joint Meeting, July 2003, The Society for Old Testament Study. by Gordon, Robert P.

Table of Contents: “…Cathcart); 'As for the other events ... ' Annals and Chronicles in Israel and the Ancient Near East (M. Dijkstra); 'Comparativism' and the God of Israel (R.P. …”
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Pageants And Processions : Images And Idiom As Spectacle.

Table of Contents: “…Makers of meaning : plays and processions in goddess cults of the Near East / Michelle Wimber -- The holiest day : the rituals of Yom Kippur as sacred procession / David Nielsen -- From marketplace to Mount Carmel : eastern pageantry and the spectacle of folk religion on the Bay of Naples / Elliott Wise -- Painted processions : the Victorian fascination with Christian and pagan ritual / Rita Wright -- The pageants of power and society in the Republic of Venice / Marino Zorzi -- Processions in Burgundy : late-medieval ceremonial entries / Jesse D. …”
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The graven image : representation in Babylonia and Assyria by Bahrani, Zainab, 1962-

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Given World and Time : Temporalities in Context. by Miller, Tyrus

Table of Contents: “…Maul, Walking Backwards into the Future: The Conception of Time in the Ancient Near East; 2. Karen Bassi, Epic Remains: Seeing and Time in the Odyssey; 3. …”
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When gods were men : the embodied God in biblical and Near Eastern literature by Hamori, Esther J.

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Rethinking comparison in archaeology

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Restless dead : encounters between the living and the dead in ancient Greece by Johnston, Sarah Iles, 1957-

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Language, Memory, and Identity in the Middle East : the Case for Lebanon. by Salameh, Franck

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Sex rewarded, sex punished : a study of the status "female slave" in early Jewish law by Kriger, Diane

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Growing up in ancient Israel : children in material culture and biblical texts by Garroway, Kristine Henriksen

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Ancient Israel and its neighbors : interaction and counteraction : collected essays. Vol. 1 by Naʼaman, Nadav

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Body parts and bodies whole : changing relations and meanings

Table of Contents: “…Body parts and bodies whole : introduction / Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, Marie Louise Stig Sørenson, Jessica Hughes -- Bodies in pieces in the Neolithic Near East / Karina Croucher -- Parts to a whole : manipulations of the body in prehistoric eastern Mediterranean / Kirsi O. …”
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Writing on the Tablet of the Heart : Origins of Scripture and Literature. by Carr, David M.

Table of Contents: “…Textuality, Orality, and the Shaping of the Ancient Mind; Part I Early Examples of Textuality and Education in the Near East and Mediterranean; 2. Ancient Mesopotamia: The Earliest and Best-Documented Textual/Educational System; 3. …”
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A history of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period. Volume 2 : the coming of the Greeks : the early Hellenistic Period (335-175 BCE) by Grabbe, Lester L.

Table of Contents: “…5.1 The Alexander Historians5.2 Hecataeus of Abdera; 5.3 Diodorus Siculus; 5.4 Polybius; 5.5 Porphyry; 5.6 Appian; 5.7 Plutarch; 5.8 Berossus; 5.9 Manetho; Part III: SOCIETY AND INSTITUTIONS; Chapter 6 HELLENISM AND JEWISH IDENTITY; 6.1 The Problem: Hellenization, the Jews and the Ancient Near East; 6.2 History of the Discussion; 6.3 Hellenism in the Ancient Near East; 6.4 Hellenism and the Jews: The Question of Jewish Identity; 6.5 Synthesis; Chapter 7 ADMINISTRATION; 7.1 Administration in the Hellenistic Empires; 7.2 Government and Administration among the Jews; 7.3 Conclusions.…”
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The Oxford History of the Biblical World. by Coogan, Michael D.

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Army In the Civil War : Atlanta. by Cox, Jacob D.

Table of Contents: “…""; ""SIEGE OF ATLANTA""; ""EZRA CHURCH""; ""CHAPTER XV.""; ""THE LINES NEAR EAST POINT""; ""JONESBORO""; ""FALL OF ATLANTA""; ""CHAPTER XVI…”
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Private Gardens of South Florida. by Staub, Jack

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Of courtiers and kings : the biblical Daniel narratives and ancient story-collections by Holm, Tawny, 1966-

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The private lives of women in Persian Egypt by Azzoni, Annalisa

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One world periphery reads the other : knowing the 'oriental' in the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula

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