Digging into the debate on whether the Land of Israel was emptied at the end of the Iron Age in the 6th century BCE when Babylon destroyed the urban centers of Judah, Faust (land of Israel studies and
In 18 papers presented at Society meetings in 2007 and 2009, and at the 2008 meeting of the European Association of Biblical Studies, scholars analyze inscriptions and seals mostly in Shlomo Moussaief
Elayi's book is the only existing biography of Sargon II, the famous Assyrian king, who was a megalomaniac and a warlord. Among the most important questions addressed in the book are the following: wh
"Josette Elayi's Sennacherib, King of Assyria is the only extant biography of Sargon II's infamous son. This critical resource for students and scholars traces the reign of Sennacherib in context in o
"Growing Up in Ancient Israel uses a child-centered methodology to investigate the world of children in ancient Israel. Where sources from ancient Israel are lacking, the book turns to cross-cultural
Lost to history for millennia, the Hittites have regained their position among the great civilizations of the Late Bronze Age Near East, thanks to a century of archaeological discovery and philologic
Three decades of dialogue, discussion, and debate within the interrelated disciplines of Syro-Palestinian archaeology, Israelite history, and Hebrew Bible on the question of the relevance of the bibl
