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Ten years at a glance…Then and now!THEN: The entire Gorgias stock andfulfillment in 2001, housed in theKiraz private residence.Gorgias’ first exhibit at the NorthAmerican Patristics Society; TabethaKiraz above. May 2002 (Chicago, IL).First exhibit at Rutgers University,Sept. 2002 (New Brunswick, NJ).First exhibit at the Middle EasternStudies Association annual meeting,Nov. 2002 (Washington, DC).Gorgias author Stephanie Dally (left)at Oxford University, 2003.Gorgias Editor-in-Chief/PresidentGeorge A. Kiraz at our former basementoffice, 2005.Sebastian Kenoro Kiraz inspecting thequality of Gorgias books at the RencontreAssyriologique Internationale,July 2006 (Münster, Germany).Gorgias Press survives the GreatRaritan River Flood of April 2007.The flood may have dampened thespines of our paperbacks, but it neverdiminished the quality of our books!Gorgias employees take a break forsome laughs during post-floodcleanup, April 2007.Book signing and talk by Gorgiasauthor David Gaunt, 2007 (Paramus,NJ).Gorgias author and world-renownedSyriac studies scholar Sebastian P.Brock signs a copy of his work TheWisdom of Isaac of Nineveh, July 2007.

Special hand-scribed Syriac text composedby Thomas Carlson & bakedby Mary Carlson for the GorgiasOpen House, January 2008.L-R standing: George Kiraz, ChristineKiraz, Monique and Lucas van Rompay;seated Thomas and Mary Carlsonat the Open House, 2008.G. Kiraz and Gorgias authorsSebastian Brock, & Khalid Dinnobrowsing Abrohom Nuro’s collection,2008 (Aleppo, Syria).Gorgias represented at the 2009 Associationof American University Presses(Philadelphia, PA).1st Hugoye Symposium celebratingthe Beth Mardutho Research Library’sgrand opening, sponsored by GorgiasPress, May 2010 (Piscataway, NJ).Gorgias staff at the Hugoye Symposiumdinner reception, sponsored byGorgias Press, May 2010 (NewBrunswick, NJ).Gorgias Press visits our bindery tolearn how our books are printed andbound, Aug. 2010.Gorgias at the Societyfor Biblical Literature’sannual meeting, Nov.2010 (Atlanta, GA).Authors and friends gather at the GorgiasPress reception at the NorthAmerican Syriac Symposium at DukeUniversity, June 2011 (Durham, NC).NOW: Gorgias Press’s partial inventory in2011… and this is just a sampling of thethousands of titles we offer!Thank you for helping us write the Gorgiasstory thus far; here’s to another ten years!

Table of ContentsA Word from the Vice President............................................................................ iTen Years at a Glance Scrapbook ......................................................................... iiiGorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (GEDSH) .............. 2Gorgias Book Grants Over the Years ................................................................... 3Gorgias Journals ....................................................................................................... 8Editor’s Choice ....................................................................................................... 13Reviewer’s Choice .................................................................................................. 15Gorgias All Time Best Sellers ............................................................................... 18New and Noteworthy ............................................................................................ 20Forthcoming ........................................................................................................... 48Series ........................................................................................................................ 54Back List .................................................................................................................. 73Index of Author ...................................................................................................... 79e-Gorgias Newsletter ............................................................................................. 81Beth Mardutho Subscriptions and Membership Form ..................................... 82Order Forms ........................................................................................................... 83iiiOrder online at www.gorgiaspress.com E-mail: helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com m

6SHIRLY NATAN YULZARYBook Grant Awardee 2008The books were very useful for me and still are.For example, The Ethics of Violence in the Storyof Aqhat by C. Sun was the most recent essay onAqhat at the time I was conducting my research onthe same text. Word of Tree and Whisper of Stone,and Other Papers on Ugaritian Thought byN. Wyatt includes many important articles, towhich I referred in my dissertation. A Reassessmentof Asherah, with further Considerationsof the Goddess by S. A. Wiggins is an excellentbook on the Canaanite goddess in biblical andextra-biblical texts.Today I am working in three institutions: HaifaUniversity, Levinsky Colledge of Education and“Maayan-Shahar” Junior High School, in Israel. Iam very busy, but still aspire to progress in theacademic sphere. At Haifa University I amteaching the course “The Bible and the CanaaniteLiterature”. So I am still using the books I havereceived as a book Grant award constantly.KYLE SMITHBook Grant Awardee 2008GORGIAS BOOK GRANTS OVER THE YEARSChristine Luckritz Marquis); the second is for aforthcoming translation of the Martyrdom andHistory of Blessed Simeon bar Sabba’e, which isto be published in Gorgias’ “Persian Martyr Actsin Syriac: Text and Translation” series. I know ofno other academic press that goes so out of itsway to support the work of graduate students,both materially and intellectually, and I amgrateful to Gorgias for its continued help andencouragement.THE HISTORYOF THE GREAT DEEDSOF BISHOP PAUL OF QENTOSAND PRIEST JOHN OF EDESSA978-1-60724-670-1 Pb $43.566 x 9, 99pp., 2010THOMAS CARLSONBook Grant Awardee 2007The generous Book Grant that I was awarded byGorgias Press allowed me to add several Syriactexts to my library that I otherwise would nothave been able to afford. The solicitousness ofthe press, and namely George Kiraz, in fosteringthe scholarship of graduate students interested inSyriac Christianity later resulted in two bookcontracts. The first was for an edition andtranslation of a fifth-century Syriac hagiography,the History of the Great Deeds of Bishop Paul ofQentos and Priest John of Edessa (co-publishedwith three other graduate students at DukeUniversity: Hans Arneson, Emanuel Fiano, andI am finishing my fourth year as a Ph.D. studentin History at Princeton University. Mydissertation elucidates and analyzes the communalself-conceptions of the Church of the East in thefifteenth century, paying attention to the diversesocial context and to the many dimensions ofcomplex social self-understandings. I used mybook grant to acquire J. S. Assemani’s BibliothecaOrientalis Clementino-Vaticana, the eighteenthcenturymonument of Syriac studies reprinted byGorgias Press. Assemani’s unparalleled breadthcontinues to provide needed references, especiallyin periods neglected by more recent scholars, suchiiiGorgias Press, P.O. Box 6939 Piscataway, NJ 08855-6939 Tel: (732) 885-8900 Fax: (732) 885-8908

GORGIAS BOOK GRANTS OVER THE YEARS 7as the fifteenth century. In addition to providingeditions of numerous historical sources, Assemanihas drawn my attention to additional uneditedsources, unused and unmentioned by laterscholars, for reconstructing social relationsbetween churches in this period. The acquisitionof Assemani has enabled me to deepen myengagement with the source materials in a poorlystudied period.AARON BUTTSBook Grant Awardee 2006NA’AMA PAT-ELBook Grant AwardeeAaron Michael Butts (Gorgias Book Grantrecipient in 2006) is currently Lector of Semitics inthe Department of Near Eastern Languages &Civilizations at Yale University. He teaches courseson Semitic languages and linguistics, including atwo-year sequence dedicated to the Syriac language.His research focuses on the dialectology andreconstruction of the Semitic language family, withSyriac (and its broader Aramaic context)comprising his primary interest. Within the field ofSyriac Studies, he has edited a poem by David thePhoenician, translated a homily by Jacob of Sarug,and contributed studies on Syriac grammar andliterature. In addition, he is one of the co-editors,with S. P. Brock, G. A. Kiraz, and L. Van Rompay,of the soon-to-appear Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionaryof the Syriac Heritage. There is hardly a day that passeswhen he does not refer to a book from GorgiasPress, including the books that he was generouslyawarded through the 2006 book grant. This is atestament to the important role that Gorgias Pressand its book grant program play in thedevelopment of young scholars in the field ofSyriac Studies.Gorgias book grant, granted to me in my secondyear of graduate school, helped me build thefoundation of my Syriac library, now filling manyshelves in my university office. But beyond thematerial gratification, it made me feel part of a field.This was not the last time Gorgias initiated me intothe field. In the past year I have been working on amanuscript for my first book, expected to bepublished by Gorgias. Although a small press,Gorgias is intimately involved with the academiclife of its customers, many of whom like myself arealso authors under its auspices. Now an assistantprofessor at the University of Texas, Austin, I amgrateful for the help the press has granted methroughout the years.NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR THE2012 BOOK GRANTSEligibility: Candidates must be enrolled in a graduateprogram (Master's or Ph.D.) in an accrediteduniversity or an institution of learning in the field ofthe grant. Canditates must have the equivalent of a 3.0GPA or higher.Requirements: A letter of interest, a description ofthesis or course work, official transcripts, and 2 lettersof recommendation.Send all applications to: Gorgias Press LLC, BookGrants Program, 954 River Rd., Piscataway, NJ08854.For official rules, eligibility, requirements, and theapplication process, please visit the Book Grants linkon our website at:http://www.gorgiaspress.com/bookshop/t-grants.aspx.iiim Order online at www.gorgiaspress.com E-mail: helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com

Gorgias JournalsAESTIMATIOAlan Bowen,EditorISSN: 1549-4470Aestimatio providescritical, timelyassessments ofbooks published inthe history of whatwas called sciencefrom antiquity tothe early modernperiod in culturesranging from Spainto India, and from Africa to northern Europe.The aim is to allow reviewers the opportunity toengage critically both the results of research in thehistory of science and how these results areobtained.Volume 1:Reviewers in volume 1 include Mauro Zonta,John M. Steele, Sarah Symons, Joshua J. Reynolds,Sven Dupré, J. Brian Pitts, Henry Mendell,William Wians, Annette Imhausen, RenzoBaldasso, Peter J. Ramberg, Fernando Q. Gouvêa,Kim Plofker, Bernard Goldstein, C. RobertPhillips III, Paolo Palmieri, Noel G. Coley,Michael P. Fronda, Massimo Raffa, Ian Mueller,Ronald Polansky, Lee Ann Riccardi, BrookeHolmes, Peter Lautner, Fabio Acerbi, GeorgeGheverghese Joseph, Peter Oleson, HermannHunger, and Richard Lim.978-1-60724-617-6 Hb $127.456 x 9, 182 pp.Volume 2:978-1-60724-661-9 Hb $173.196 x 9, 257 pp.Volume 3:Reviewers in volume 3 include Alberto Bernabé,Philippa Lang, Mary Beagon, Sara Ahbel-Rappe,John Steele, Pamela H. Smith, Stephen Gaukroger,Edward C. Halper, Mary M. Thomas, DarynLehoux, Julie Laskaris, Serafina Cuomo, Daniel B.Gallagher, John P. Britton, Fabio Acerbi, MauroZonta, Joshua J. Reynolds, Barton C. Hacker,S. R. Sarma, Cristina Viano, Ryan D. Tweney,Katharina Volk, Daniel W. Graham, David McGee,Teun Tieleman, Joel Walker, and Donald J. Zeyl.There are also memorial notices by John Murdochand John P. Britton.978-1-61143-422-4 Hb $130.15AESTIMATIO: 36 x 9, 201 pp.Volume 4:Reviewers in volume 4 include Lee Ann Riccardi,Charles Burnett, Georgia L. Irby-Massie, HeikeSefrin-Weis, Corinna Rossi, Peter Lautner, Y. TzviLangermann, James G. Lennox, C. Robert PhillipsIII, Sylvia Berryman, Fabio Acerbi, StephenBrogan, Georgette Taylor, Kevin van Bladel,G. R. Boys-Stones, Jens Høyrup, John M. Steele,William Wians, James E. Morrison, Antonio Clericuzio,Nick Wilding, Duane H. Jaecks, ClemencyMontelle, Margaret Graver, Bradford McCall,Robert Hannah, Ruth Glasner, Harry M. Hine, andAndrew Smith. There is also a response by LarrieD. Ferreiro.978-1-61143-547-4 Hb $135.406 x 9, 236 pp.Volume 5:Reviewers in volume 5 include Claudio Schiano,William E. Hutton, Jacco Dieleman, Duncan J.Melville, Donald Beaver, Alison Laywine, AnnetteImhausen, Massimo Raffa, Peter Machamer, ScottMandelbrote, Indra Kagis McEwen, JosephZiegler, T. E. Rihll (2), Serafina Cuomo, NathanSidoli, Bruce Stephenson, Sabine Rommevaux,Andrea Bréard, Lesley B. Cormack, John Dillon,Stefan Pedersen, Daniel W. Graham, John T.Young, Rémi Franckowiak, Stamatina Mastorakou,Patrice Guinard, Robert B. Todd, Kevin vanBladel, Michael Squire, and Joel T. Walker. Thereis also a response by Nigel Hiscock.978-1-61143-549-8 Hb $140.056 x 9, 267 pp.Volume 6:Reviewers in volume 6 include Andrew Barker,Eberhard Knobloch, Warren Van Egmond,Joshua J. Reynolds (2), Andrea Falcon, A. MarkSmith, Michael H. Shank, David Sider, PeteriiiGorgias Press, P.O. Box 6939 Piscataway, NJ 08855-6939 Tel: (732) 885-8900 Fax: (732) 885-8908

GORGIAS JOURNALS 9Adamson, Beatriz Porres de Mateo, J. L. Mancha,Katja Maria Vogt, Vivian Nutton, MariskaLeunissen, Fernando Q. Gouvêa, Max Lejbowicz,Janet Downie, Lloyd P. Gerson, Rachel L. Dunn,Micah T. Ross, David Bloch, Joseph W. Dauben,Gad Freudenthal, Sandra Herbert, Iain MacleodHiggins, William Wians, Sylvain Perrot, andDuncan J. Melville. There is also a response byJens Høyrup.978-1-61143-555-9 Hb $136.006 x 9, 240 pp.AMERICAN JOURNALOF ANCIENT HISTORYT. CoreyBrennan, EditorISSN: 0362-8914Founded in 1976,the American Journalof Ancient Historywas the first journalin any Englishspeakingcountrywholly devoted toancient history. Thecentral interest ofthe Journal hasalways been Greekand Roman history—but taken in a sense wideenough to encompass eras ranging from theBronze Age to later antiquity, across all therelevant geographic areas—and historiographyboth ancient and modern. Review discussions ofespecially important books on ancient history arefeatured from time to time. Ernst Badian foundedAJAH at Harvard University, and edited andpublished the Journal for twenty-five years, until2001. T. Corey Brennan launched a second seriesof the Journal at Rutgers University in 2002.Editorial board members are W.R. Connor, ErichGruen, Sabine MacCormack, Christopher Mackayand Stephen V. Tracy. In 2007 AJAH enteredinto a production and distribution partnershipwith Gorgias Press.Volume 2 No. 2:This volume contains three articles by Laura D.Steele, John Dayton, and Stephen Ruzicka.978-1-59333-746-9 Pb $89.386 x 9, 2003Volumes 3-4:Nine articles comprising volumes 3 and 4:Dolores Mirón, Robert D. Luginbill, DanielleKellogg, Craige B. Champion, Kelly Olson, ColinM. Wells, Alexander Polley, Serena Connolly, andAnthony Kaldellis.978-1-59333-782-7 Pb $125.006 x 9, 2004Volume 5:This volume is a special book-length publicationof T.R.S. Broughton, Autobiography, edited by T.Corey Brennan, withT. Alan Broughton, Ryan F. Fowler, Andrew G.Scott, and Kathleen J. Shea.978-1-59333-837-4 Pb $78.756 x 9, 335 pp., 2008Volume 6:This volume contains eleven articles by Thomas J.Figueira, Gordon P. Kelly, Wolfgang Polleichtner,Robert N. Hayes, William C. Mahaney,Christopher S. Mackay, James Stewart, GeoffreyTully, Alex G. Garman, and Stephen Brunet.978-1-59333-838-1 Pb $62.506 x 9, ForthcomingArkadiuszSoltysiak,EditorISSN: 1898-9403BIOARCHAEOLOGYOF THE NEAR EASTBioarchaeology ofthe Near East ispublished annuallyin one volume.The aim of thejournal is topromote researchon the history ofhuman populations inhabiting the areas ofSouthwestern Asia (chiefly Mesopotamia, Syria,Palestine, Anatolia, Iran, and Egypt). It willpublish original contributions in which methodsof physical anthropology and bioarchaeology areused to answer historical questions. Three kindsof texts will be considered for publication:original papers, general review articles (especiallythose focusing on methodological issues) andshort fieldwork reports. Papers of two firstcategories will be subject to peer review.iiiOrder online at www.gorgiaspress.com E-mail: helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com m

10 GORGIAS JOURNALSVolume 1:Contributions by Theya Molleson, Douglas H.Ubelaker, and Joseph L. Rife, as well as shortfieldwork reprots.978-1-60724-666-4 Hb $171.887 x 10, 74 pp., 2009Volume 2:Contributions by Nathan K. Harper, Sherry C.Fox, Mateusz Baca, and Martyna Molak, as well asshort fieldwork reprots.978-1-60724-667-1 Hb $171.887 x 10, 109 pp., 2009HUGOYE:JOURNAL OF SYRIAC STUDIESGeorge A. Kiraz,EditorISSN: 1097-3702Widely regarded as apremier journaldedicated to thestudy of Syriac,Hugoye: Journal ofSyriac Studies wasestablished in 1998as a venue devotedexclusively to thediscipline. An organof Beth Mardutho, the Syriac Institute, the journalappears semi-annually and will be printed in annualeditions. A peer-reviewed journal, Hugoye is arespected academic source for up-to-dateinformation about the state of Syriac studies andfor discovering what is going on in the field.Contributors include some of the most respectednames in the world of Syriac today.Volume 1:Volume 1 includes articles by Sebastian Brock,Andreas Juckel, Dirk Kruisheer and Lucas vanRompay, Richard E. McCarron, Andrew Palmer,Hannah Hunt, David G. K. Taylor, Sidney H.Griffith, Alain Desreumaux, Zaga Gavrilovic,Jane Stevenson, and Gordon Wakefield.978-1-59333-810-7 Pb $75.006 x 9, 319 pp.Volume 2:Volume 2 includes articles by Sebastian Brock,Michel Esbroeck, David Ganz, GregoriosIbrahim and George Kiraz, Thomas Koonammakkal,Robert Murray, Andrew Palmer,Geoffrey Rowell, Karel C. Innemée, Lucas vanRompay, and Elizabeth Sobczynski, George Lane,and Heleen H. L. Murre-van den Berg.978-1-59333-811-4 Pb $75.006 x 9, 306 pp.Volume 3:Volume 3 includes articles by Gary A. Anderson,Sidney H. Griffith, Angela Y. Kim, Lucas vanRompay, Michael Morony, Dorothea Weltecke,Joseph Tarzi, and Hubert Kaufhold.978-1-59333-812-1 Pb $75.006 x 9, 306 pp.Volume 4:Volume 4 includes articles by Jean Fathi-Chelhod,Hidemi Takahashi, Michael Penn, Susan A. Harvey,Avril M. Makhlouf, and numerous brief articles.978-1-59333-813-8 Pb $75.006 x 9, 303 pp.Volume 5:Volume 5 includes articles by Edward G.Mathews, Jr., Christine C. Shepardson, Paul S.Russell, Sebastian Brock, Marica Cassis, WassiliosKlein, as well as some shorter articles.978-1-59333-814-5 Pb $75.006 x 9, 2002Volume 6:Volume 6 includes articles by Andreas Juckel,Robert A. Kitchen, Edward G. Mathews, Jr.,Hidemi Takahashi, Sebastian Brock, William F.Clocksin and Prem P. J. Fernando, Sidney Griffith,and Amir Harrak.978-1-59333-815-2 Pb $75.006 x 9, 400 pp., 2009Volume 7:Volume 7 includes articles by, Heleen H.L.Murre-van den Berg, Craig E. Morrison, LucasVan Rompay, Volker Menze, Karla R. Suomala,and Robert Kitchen.978-1-59333-816-9 Pb $75.006 x 9, 221 pp., 2010 ForthcomingVolume 8:Volume 8 includes articles by Nancy A. Khalek,Karla R. Suomala, Alison Salvesan, Susan A.Harvey, Andreas Juckel, and Paul Russell.978-1-59333-817-6 Pb $75.006 x 9, 266 pp.Volume 9:Volume 9 includes articles by Jennifer L. Ball,Jennifer L. Hevelone-Harper, Ilaria Ramelli,iiiGorgias Press, P.O. Box 6939 Piscataway, NJ 08855-6939 Tel: (732) 885-8900 Fax: (732) 885-8908

GORGIAS JOURNALS 11Catherine Chin, Leo Depudyt, and Kristi Upson-Saia.978-1-59333-818-3 Pb $75.006 x 9, 258 pp.Volume 10:Volume 10 includes articles by Sebastian Brock,Lucas Van Rompay, George Kiraz, MajellaFranzmann, and John F. Healey. It also includesshorter contributions and book reviews.978-1-59333-819-0 Pb $75.006 x 9, 164 pp., 2007Volume 11:Volume 11 includes articles by Iskander SharbilBcheiry, Bogdan Bucur, and Sidney H. Griffith.978-1-60724-672-5 Pb $75.006 x 9, 267 pp., In PressVolume 12:Volume 12 includes articles by Patrik Blanc, AlainDesreumaux, Sébastien de Courtois, Sebastian P.Brock, Andreas Juckel, Kyle Smith, Ute Possekel,Nathanael J. Andrade, Michael Philip Penn, IlariaRamelli, and Benjamin Trigona-Harany.978-1-60724-426-4 Pb $75.006 x 9, 311 pp., 2009Volume 13:Volume 13 is a special Isshue on Philoxenos ofMabbug.978-1-60724-921-4 Pb $75.006 x 9, 371 pp.Volume 14:978-1-61143-926-7 Pb $75.006 x 9, In PressJOURNALOF THE CANADIAN SOCIETYFOR COPTIC STUDIESRamez Boutros,EditorThe first issue ofthe Journal of theCanadian Society forCoptic Studiescontains the paperspresented in theFirst AnnualSymposium ofCoptic Studies heldon 29 March 2008at the University of Toronto. The attendance tothis first symposium was a witness to the needand importance of such an initiative in this city.The purpose behind this venture was to bringtogether individuals interested in Coptic Studiesand to create awareness among academics aboutthe richness of Coptic heritage. Hence the namegiven to this first meeting “Coptic HeritageAncient and Modern” expressed the wide rangeof topics presented at the Symposium: papersabout Late Antique Egypt to contemporarystudies about the Coptic community. Thisjournal, lays down a foundation of academicwork for Coptologists in Canada and offers awindow of opportunity to future young scholarsinterested in this field of studies.Volume 1:978-1-61719-000-1 Pb $40.008.25 x 10.75, 132 pp.JOURNALOF THE CANADIAN SOCIETYFOR SYRIAC STUDIESAmir Harrak,EditorISSN: 1499-6367JCSSS is a refereedjournal publishedannually by theCanadian Societyfor Syriac StudiesInc. (CSSS),located at theDepartment ofNear and Middle Eastern Civilizations, Universityof Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. JCSSScontains the transcripts of public lecturespresented at the CSSS and possibly other articlesand book reviews. JCSSS focuses on the vastSyriac literature, which is rooted in the same soilfrom which the ancient Mesopotamian andbiblical literatures sprung; on Syriac art that bearsNear Eastern characteristics as well as Byzantineand Islamic influences; and on archaeology,unearthing in the Middle East and the rest of Asiaand China the history of the Syriac-speakingpeople: Assyrians, Chaldeans, Maronites andCatholic and Orthodox Syriacs. Modern SyriacChristianity and contemporary vernacularAramaic dialects are also the focus of JCSSS. Thelanguages of the Journal are English, French andGerman, and quotations from ancient sources aregiven in the original languages and in translation.iiiOrder online at www.gorgiaspress.com E-mail: helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com m

12 GORGIAS JOURNALSThe articles are interdisciplinary and scholarly; theEditorial Committee brings together scholarsfrom four American, Canadian, and Europeanuniversities. The CSSS that publishes JCSSS wasfounded in 1999 at the University of Toronto,Department of Near and Middle EasternCivilizations, as part of the latter’s academicprogramme in Aramaic and Syriac languages andliteratures. It was incorporated under the CanadaCorporations Act in January 23, 1999.Volume 1:Volume 1 includes articles by Sebastian Brock,Amir Harrak, Lucas van Rompay, Andrea B.Schmidt, Erica C. Dodd, and Wassilios Klein.978-1-60724-066-2 Pb $75.008.25 x 10.75, 108 pp., 2010Volume 2:Volume 2 includes articles by James Reilly, SidneyH. Griffith, Paul-Hubert Poirier, Robert A. Kitchen,Amir Harrak, and Marica Cassis.978-1-60724-065-5 Pb $75.008.25 x 10.75, 96 pp., (from 2002 ed.)Volume 3:Volume 3 includes articles by John H. Corbett,Herman Teule, Susan Ashbrook Harvey, KathleenE. McVey, and Geoffrey Greatrex.978-1-60724-064-8 Pb $75.008.25 x 10.75, 98 pp., (from 2003 ed.)Volume 4:Volume 4 includes articles by Sebastian Brock,John W. Watt, George Saliba, Marina Greatrex,Adam Lehto, NIU Ruji, and Amir Harrak.978-1-60724-063-1 Pb $75.008.25 x 10.75, 82 pp., (from 2004 ed.)Volume 5:Volume 5 includes articles by Sebastian Brock,Hidemi Takahashi, Jan van Ginkel, NIU Ruji,Debra Foran, and Amir Harrak.978-1-60724-062-4 Pb $75.008.25 x 10.75, 93 pp., (from 2005 ed.)Volume 6:Volume 6 includes articles by Adil al-Jadir, MurielDebié, Richard Burgess, Geoffrey Greatrex, Janvan Ginkel, and Witold Witakowski.978-1-60724-061-7 Pb $75.008.25 x 10.75, 92 pp., (from 2006 ed.)Volume 7:Volume 7 includes articles by Judith H. Newman,Frederick McLeod, George Bevan, Sidney H.Griffith, Mat Immerzeel, Mary Hansbury and aReport on the North American Syriac SymposiumV by George Kiraz.978-1-60724-060-0 Pb $75.008.25 x 10.75, 113 pp., 2010 (from 2007 ed.)Volume 8:Volume 8 includes articles by Lucas Van Rompay,Craig E. Morrison, Cor-bishop David Royel, Mary T.Hansbury, Narmen Muhamad Amen Ali, and aReport on the tenth Symposium Syriacum and theeighth Conference on Arab-Christian Studies byKhalid Dinno.978-1-60724-053-2 Pb $75.008.25 x 10.75, 95 pp., 2008Volume 9:Volume 9 includes the following articles byAlexander Treiger, Mark Dickens, EmmanuelJoseph Mar-Emmanuel, Khalid Dinno and AmirHarrak, and Martin Tamcke.978-1-60724-686-2 Pb $75.008.25 x 10.75, 85 pp., 2009Volume 10:Volume 10 includes articles by Robert Thomson,Edward G. Mathews Jr., Claude Cox, HidemiTakahashi and Jos J.S. Weitenberg, and ArmanAkopian. It is on Syriac-Armenian topics.978-1-61143-671-6 Pb $75.008.25 x 10.75, 111 pp., 2010MOSAIKJOURNALKristina Lahn, EditorISSN: 2159-8541MOSAIKjournal was established in 2009 as aninterdisciplinary e-journal primarily specializing inresearch on antiquity. Each volume is dedicated toa special topic of current academic interest. Theaim of this new journal is to give scholars a jointforum of discussion and to synthesize results ofdifferent disciplines.Volume 1:The first volume includes articles by Maria KristinaLahn and Maren-Grischa Schröter, Janne Arp,Julian Buchmann, Anastasia Christophilopoulou,Andreas Effland and Ute Effland, Wiebke Friese,Jan-Peter Graeff, Carlos Gracia Zamacona, AnikaGreve, Alexandra V. Mironova, and Susanne Rau.978-1-61143-955-7 Pb $152.506 x 9, In PressiiiGorgias Press, P.O. Box 6939 Piscataway, NJ 08855-6939 Tel: (732) 885-8900 Fax: (732) 885-8908

Editor’s ChoiceANTHROPOLOGYAND THE BIBLEEmanuel Pfoh(ed.)With contributionsby David Chalcraft,Anne Katrine Gudme,Niels PeterLemche, PhilippeGuillaume, Evelinevan der Steen,PhilippeWajdenbaum, andEmanuel Pfoh thiscollection stands as a critical and necessaryrenewal of the uses of anthropology andsociology in biblical scholarship. An importantaspect of this volume is its attempt to addressmethodological problems, seen as underminingprevious social-scientific approaches, associatedwith the uncritical acceptance of the historicity offigures, events, and sociological processesdescribed in the biblical literature.978-1-60724-956-6 Hb $128.75BIBLICAL INTERSECTIONS: 36 x 9, 179 pp., 2010RE-READING THE PROPHETS THROUGHCORPORATE GLOBALIZATIONA Cultural-Evolutionary Approach to EconomicInjustice in the Hebrew BibleMatthew CoomberThis very interesting and wide-ranging work notonly offers new readings of land misuse in Isaiahand Micah, it probes more thoroughly than anystudy hitherto into the possible range of socialcontexts and social-group interests that lie behindthese texts. Coomber clearly conveys his ability tointegrate different academic disciplines forexegetical ends and for making importantadvances in sociological approaches to biblicalstudies.—David Chalcraft, University of DerbyThis nuanced and welcome study makes asignificant contribution to an area where relativelyfew dare to tread: ancient Near Eastern andbiblical economics. Coomber is fully aware of thehermeneutical challenges and potential snares thatare involved with comparative approaches of thiskind and his use of economic theories, sociology,and patterns of agrarian life show hisattentiveness to these issues.—Roland Boer,University of NewcastleCoomber covers some crucial areas in socioeconomichistory on the macro- and microlevels.This book is (rightly) ambitious and muchbroader in scope than standard biblical studiesbooks and will be of value beyond HebrewBible/Old Testament studies. It is clearly written,well argued, and creative. Anyone with a genuineconcern for global justice in relation to the Bibleneeds to read this impressive book.—JamesCrossley, University of Sheffield978-1-60724-978-8 Hb $152.50BIBLICAL INTERSECTIONS: 46 x 9, 343 pp., 2010MAKINGSOF THE SEAJourney, Doubtand NostalgiaJohn BaldacchinoThe first book of atrilogy that exploresMediterraneanaesthetics, Malteseborn author, JohnBaldacchino beginshis ’Odyssey’ withas much richness,complexity and depth as the expansiveness andsublimity of Theo Angelopoulo’s film Ulysses’sGaze. He turns to the Sea to begin weaving thegeopolitical specificity of the Mediterraneanimagination. In a series of poetic chapters,Baldacchino deftly charts a journey that willinglyfaces doubt as to the vistas he presents, butalways returns home so that he can begin anew.Baldacchino starts his quest by tracing a horizonagainst which a host of artists, poets, and writersare drawn upon, all the while keeping thesignificance of the Sea at play as he takes thereader to home shores so that the second volumecan begin to appear on a new horizon. The bookis an important achievement in Mediterraneangeopolitical aesthetics. We await its sequels.iiiOrder online at www.gorgiaspress.com E-mail: helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com

14 EDITOR’S CHOICE—Jan Jagodzinski, Professsor of Visual Artand Media Education, University of Alberta978-1-59333-695-0 Hb $158.19MEDITERRANEA: 16 x 9, 177 pp., 2010A PALIMPSEST:RHETORIC,IDEOLOGY,STYLISTICS,AND LANGUAGERELATING TOPERSIAN ISRAELEhud Ben Zvi,Diana Edelman,Frank Polak.The basic questionthat the volumeexplores through thedifferent approaches and questions raised by theauthors is what can we learn by looking into thematters of biblical Hebrew linguistics, rhetoric,style, and ideology about the producers andreaders of these books. What do they teach usabout these literati’s world of knowledge andimagination, about the issues they had in mindand the ways in which they came to deal withthem through authoritative literature? Theinclusion of perspectives drawn from linguistics inthis conversation is particularly valuable, sincethey are often absent from this type ofconversation.978-1-60724-584-1 Hb $189.31PERSPECTIVES ON HEBREW SCRIPTURES AND ITSCONTEXTS 56x9, 343 pp., 2009BARDAISANOF EDESSA:A REASSESS-MENT OF THEEVIDENCE ANDA NEW INTER-PRETATIONIlaria RamelliA critical assessmentof the reliability ofthe sources underminesthe picture of aGnostic and hereticBardaisan. Some charges against him (likethose, similar, against Origen) prove unfounded.Bardaisan’s thought emerges as a deeply Christianthought, depending on the exegesis of Scripture,read in the light of Greek philosophy (anenterprise accomplished by Philo earlier, and inBardaisan’s day by Origen). Positive ancientsources present him as a deacon or even apresbyter, as an author of refutations ofMarcionism and Gnosticism, and as a confessorof the Christian faith during a persecution. It istelling that the most positive sources on Bardaisanare authors belonging to the Origenian tradition.978-1-60724-074-7 Hb $160.00GORGIAS EASTERN CHRISTIAN STUDIES 226x9, 402 pp., 2009BIBLE IN TECHNOLOGY(1943–1969):The Bible in Technology (BIT) is a series that exploresthe intersection between biblical studiesand computer technology within the broadercontext of digital humanities. It includes bothstudies that focus specifically on the biblicalliterature as well as studies from other disciplinesacross this pioneering and dynamic field.See Page 53 for books in this Series.A BRIDGE OVERTHE BALKANS:DEMETRA VAKABROWN ANDTHE TRADITIONOF “WOMEN’SORIENTS”EleftheriaArapoglouThe works of theGreek-Americanjournalist and authorDemetra Vaka Brown (1877–1946) discussedin this book specifically address questions ofspace, geography, and identity. Arapoglou’s aim isto examine these texts for the different theories ofhuman-place relations that are inherent in theirnarrative discourses. More specifically, she arguesthat the development in spatial representation thatVaka Brown’s works illustrate raises an importantset of critical questions related to the concept ofcultural identity and the process of selfidentification.An engaging read, even for thenon-specialist, particularly for those with aninterest in Women’s Studies, Orientalism, IdentityPolitics, and Cultural Geography.978-1-59333-655-4 Hb $162.50GORGIAS OTTOMAN TRAVELERS: 46 x 9, 196 pp., 2011 In PrintiiiGorgias Press, P.O. Box 6939 Piscataway, NJ 08855-6939 Tel: (732) 885-8900 Fax: (732) 885-8908

Reviewer’s ChoiceTHEFORGOTTENBISHOPSThe MalabarIndependent SyrianChurch and its Placein the Story of the StThomas Christians ofSouth IndiaJohn Fenwick“Fenwick hasundoubtedly madean importantcontribution to the history of the ’New Party’during the second half of the eighteenth and mostof the nineteenth century. Not only have manydetails and uncertainties been clarified, but (moreimportantly) he has successfully brought out theimportance of the wider role played by thebishops of Thozhiyur especially in thedevelopments that took place in the nineteenthcentury, with, on the other hand, the tensionsbetween those who promoted close links withAntioch and those who sought to weaken the tiesof dependence (eventually resulting in thetwentieth century in the split into two separateChurches), and, on the other hand, the emergenceof the separate Mar Thoma Church.”- S.P. Brockof the Oriental Institute, Oxford, The Journal ofRoyal Asiatic Society -Series 3 -Volume 20/4[2010].978-1-60724-619-0 Hb $250.00GORGIAS EASTERN CHRISTIAN STUDIES: 206 x 9, 652 pp., 2009THE PASSION OF S. PERPETUAJ. Robinson“Robinson’s introduction to and edition of theLatin and Greek texts testifies to a 19th centurycommitment to scholarship not easily foundtoday ... This reprint not only provides scholarstoday with well-researched primary informationon the Passio, but also feeds the current freshinterest in African studies ... The book istherefore recommended to all scholars working inthe field.”—Christina Landman, University ofSouth Africa, Studia Historiae EcclesiasticaeVol. 36.1-59333-277-7 Hb $95.00TEXT AND STUDIES: 06 x 9, 148 pp., 2004TEXTUALVARIATION:THEOLOGICALAND SOCIALTENDENCIES?Papers from the FifthBirminghamColloquium on theTextual Criticism ofthe New TestamentH. Houghton“This work expressesthe most up-to-date survey of the statusquaestionis concerning theological scribal habitsand contains essential information for anyonewho practices New Testament textualcriticism.”—Gregory S. Paulson of the Universityof Edinburgh Theological Book Review 21:2[2009].978-1-59333-789-6 Hb $164.06TEXTS AND STUDIES: 66 x 9, 209 pp., 2008EAST AND WESTEssays on Byzantine and Arab Worlds in theMiddle AgesJuan Pedro Monferrer-Sala“The book presents an excellent, detailed, almostcomprehensive discussion of the key issues,dealing with Byzantine and Oriental lands,peoples and cultures via a wide variety ofperspectives,” notes reviewer Nader Al Jallad ofthe University of Córdoba. “The richness andquality of the contents of this volume aresufficient justification for including it in anylibrary, and it is likely to inspire much interestingresearch to come.”—Collectanea ChristianaOrientalia Vol. 7.978-1-60724-056-3 Hb $203.13GORGIAS EASTERN CHRISTIAN STUDIES: 156 x 9, 368 pp., 2009iiiOrder online at www.gorgiaspress.com E-mail: helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com

16 REVIEWER’S CHOICEJOHNOF TELLA’SPROFESSIONOF FAITHThe Legacyof a Sixth-CenturySyrian OrthodoxBishopVolker Menze“With their editionof the text, which isbilingual, easilyreadable, and equippedwith a richly laden critical apparatus, Menzeand Akalin give suitable attention to a long undervaluedtheologian and church politician ... Menzeand Akalin emphasize that their work is, above all,intended to make the text accessible to a widercircle of researchers, and serve as a foundationand stimulus to future work. The book isdoubtless more than sufficient for this goal.”(Translation credit: Paul MacLean Anderson)—Daniel Syrbe Sehepunkte, 10 Nr.7/8 [2010].978-1-59333-843-5 Pb $82.81TEXTS FROM CHRISTIAN LATE ANTIQUITY: 256 x 9, 129 pp., 2009THE CRUSADES:CONFLICTBETWEENCHRISTENDOMAND ISLAMMatti Moosa“The work whichMoosa is offering tothe English readerprovides him with amore balanced andscientific approachof the subject, bymaking use of European, Latin and Greek sourcesand at the same level Arabic and Syriac medievaltexts, always weighed one against the other byreferring to the best what the abundant secondaryliterature is offering.”—J.M.F. Van Reeth of theUniversity of Antwerp, Acta Comparanda, Vol. 21978-1-59333-366-9 Hb $276.25PUBLICATIONS OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF THE SYRIACORTHODOX CHURCH 56 x 9, 1164 pp., 2008SYRIAC ANDANTIOCHIANEXEGESISAND BIBLICALTHEOLOGYFOR THE 3RDMILLENNIUMRobert MillerThis book providesa timely and muchneededforum fora Conversation betweenscholars andpractitioners in different fields, a conversationwhich needs to happen if the gap between biblicalstudies and theology is to be bridged... [The] bookis to be commended for responding to the chasmbetween biblical studies and theology with afruitful and constructive conversation.—RosaHunt of the International Baptist TheologicalSeminary, Prague, Communio Viatorum.978-1-59333-487-1 Hb $153.13GORGIAS EASTERN CHRISTIAN STUDIES: 66 x 9, 296 pp., 2008SAMUEL DAVIDLUZZATTO:PROLEGOMENATO A GRAMMAROF THE HEBREWLANGUAGEAaron Rubin“The translator,Aaron D. Rubin, isto be commendedfor this enterprise,which is an importantcontribution tothe history of Hebrew grammar in two ways:(1) through Luzzatto’s enormous erudition we geta rich overview of the scholars who precededhim, from the earliest Puntatori down to his owntime; and (2) Luzzatto had a few things to say onthe matter himself that, even if outdated, are stillworth listening to. This rare work can now reachthe larger audience it deserves.”—Arian Verheij,University of Amsterdam Review of BiblicalLiterature 2: [2007]“A fascinating and comprehensive overview ofthe history of rabbinical interest in the Hebrewlanguage.”—J. Middlemas, Journal for the Study ofthe Old Testament, 31.5 [2007]1-59333-334-X Hb $96.256 x 9, xx+232 pp., 2006iiiGorgias Press, P.O. Box 6939 Piscataway, NJ 08855-6939 Tel: (732) 885-8900 Fax: (732) 885-8908

REVIEWER’S CHOICE 17WORD OF TREEAND WHISPER OF STONE:AND OTHER PAPERSON UGARITIAN THOUGHTNicolas Wyatt“This book is very informative, and Wyattdisplays a great deal of erudition and thoughtfulpresentation throughout. It will be of value notjust to biblicists but to anyone interested in thehumanities.”—John Engle of Columbus, Ohio,Review of Biblical Literature, March, 2011.978-1-59333-716-2 Hb $112.50GORGIAS UGARITIC STUDIES: 16 x9, 252 pp., 2008MASSACRES,RESISTANCE,PROTECTORS:MUSLIM-CHRISTIANRELATIONSIN EASTERNANATOLIADURINGWORLD WAR IDavid GauntAll in All, this is amajor contributionto late-Ottoman Studies, and to the catastropheswhich befell multiple Christian and Muslimcommunities during this period of imperialdissolution and national supersession. It alsoserves to remind genocide scholars that the mostimmediate and obvious answer is rarely asufficient one.—Mark Levene of the University ofSouthampton, Journal of Genocide Research, 10: 1,20081-59333-301-3 Pb $636 x 9, 556 pp., 2006THE JEWISH NEO-ARAMAIC OF URMIGeoffrey Khan“Khan’s [book is] valuable not only for [its]linguistic data, however. The [text] alone [is] oftremendous importance, as [it records] manydetails about the culture and customs of a worldthat no longer exists… Speakers of JU will ceaseto exist in the next generation, if not sooner…[This volume is record] not only of fascinatinglanguages, but also of the lives and stories of [its]speakers. We look forward to the next grammarby Khan, and we are grateful for the abundanceof material he has already given us to workwith.”—Aaron D. Rubin of Pennsylvania StateUniversity, Journal of Semitic Studies, Vol. 56, no 1,Spring [2011].978-1-59333-425-3 Hb $196.25GORGIAS NEO-ARAMAIC STUDIES: 26 x 9, 644 pp, 2008ABORTIONAND THEAPOSTOLATEMatthew W.MitchellMitchell hasproduced aninteresting studythat reminds us ofhow much is stillfluid in ourperceptions ofChristian originsand that we should not too easily boast ofour progress in understanding Paul. —William S. Campbell of the University ofWales Trinity Saint David, Review ofBiblical Literature, July, [2011]978-1-60724-057-0 Hb $139.45SERIES: GORGIAS DISSERTATIONS IN BIBLICALSTUDIES 426 x 9, 263 pp., 2009iiiOrder online at www.gorgiaspress.com E-mail: helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com m

Gorgias All TimeBest SellersMASSACRES, RESISTANCE, PROTECTORS:MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN RELATIONSIN EASTERN ANATOLIADURING WORLD WAR IDavid GauntThis pioneering historical investigation of thegenocide of the Assyrian, Chaldean, and SyrianChristians of Upper Mesopotamia during WorldWar I uses primary sources of Turkish, Russian,German, French, and Arabic origin, and oralhistories by survivors and their descendants.1-59333-301-3 Pb $636 x 9, 556 pp., 2006ANINTRODUCTIONTO SYRIACSTUDIESSebastian BrockThis Introductionaims to provide basicguidance to importantareas of Syriacstudies. The relevanceof Syriac studiesto a variety of otherfields is explored.A brief orientationto the history of Syriac literature is offered, andSyriac is set within the context of the other Aramaicdialects. A thorough discussion on importanttools (Instrumenta Studiorum) is presented;topics include grammars, dictionaries, the Bible inSyriac, histories of Syriac literature, bibliographicalaids and relevant series, periodicals, and encyclopedias.This Introduction should prove usefulboth for the student beginning Syriac studies andfor scholars working in adjacent fields.1-59333-349-8 Pb $38GORGIAS HANDBOOKS: 46 x 9, 2006SALADINPeter GubserSaladin, the greattwelfth centuryMiddle East leader,not only created anempire, but alsoreduced the Crusaderpresence in theHoly Land. In acomprehensive mannerand clear prose,Peter Gubser describeshow Saladin roseto power, conquered lands, governed peoples, andraised armies. In addition, he clearly addressesSaladin’s imperial motives, a combination ofambition and devotion to the ideal of unity inIslam.978-1-61143-670-9 2010 Pb $386 x 9, 467 pp., 2010THE BIBLEIN THE SYRIAC TRADITIONSebastian BrockThis is a basic introduction to the various Syriactranslations of the Bible and the ways in whichthey were used in the Syriac tradition. After aninitial discussion of the general problems ofbiblical translation, the different surviving Syriactranslations are outlined, as well as biblicalmanuscripts, lectionaires, printed editions, andtranslations. A reception history of the SyriacBible covers the ways in which it has beeninterpreted, the commentary tradition, its use inpreaching, in liturgy, and in spirituality. Anappendix offers some comparative samples (intranslation) to illustrate some of the differencesbetween the different Syriac translations.1-59333-300-5 Pb $38GORGIAS HANDBOOKS: 76 x 9, 2006iiiGorgias Press, P.O. Box 6939 Piscataway, NJ 08855-6939 Tel: (732) 885-8900 Fax: (732) 885-8908

GORGIAS ALL TIME BEST SELLERS 19A SYRIACLEXICONMichael SokoloffThe second editionof Carl Brockelmann’sLexiconSyriacum, publishedin 1928, is the bestdictionary of Syriacever written. However,its Latin languageand theordering of wordsaccording to triliteral Semitic roots make its usedifficult for most students and scholars. Thisrevised edition by Sokoloff renders meanings inEnglish, arranges words alphabetically, andincludes many useful tools on a CD.978-1-60724-620-6 Hb $149.507 x 10, 1738 pp., 2009THE NEW SYRIAC PRIMERGeorge Anton KirazA truly useful introduction to the Syriac languageis a rare find. This practical initiation to the studyof the ancient language of the Christian churchspeaks with clarity and authority. A fruitfulintegration of scholarly introduction and practicalapplication, this primer is more than a simplegrammar or syntactic introduction to thelanguage. Written in a style designed forbeginners, Kiraz avoids technical language andstrives for a reader-friendly inductive approach.Readings from actual Syriac texts allow thestudent to experience the language first hand andthe basics of the grammar of the language are ablyexplained. The book comes with downloadablematerial so that readers may listen to all readingsentences and text passages in the book.978-1-59333-325-6 Pb $72GORGIAS HANDBOOKS: 97.5 x 9.75, 404 pp., 2007MECCAN TRADE AND THE RISE OF ISLAMPatricia CronePatricia Crone reassesses one of the most widelyaccepted dogmas in contemporary accounts ofthe beginnings of Islam: the supposition thatMecca was a trading center. In addition, she seeksto elucidate sources on which we shouldreconstruct our picture of the birth of the newreligion in Arabia.1-59333-102-9 Hb $896 x 9, 312 pp., 2004THE FORGOTTEN GENOCIDE: EASTERNCHRISTIANS, THE LAST ARAMEANSSebastien de CourtoisThe first and only extensive treatment of thegenocide of the Aramaic-speaking Christians ofthe Middle East, in particular the Syriac Orthodoxcommunities, in the late 1800s and early 1900sunder the Ottomans.1-59333-077-4 Hb $656 x 9, 412 pp., 2004SYMBOLSOF CHURCHAND KINGDOMRobert MurrayIn this revised andupdated edition ofhis classic work, RobertMurray offersthe fullest and mostvivid picture yetavailable of the developmentand characterof the culture.It will be of interest to a wide range of readers.1-59333-150-9 Pb $846 x 9, 2004AMERICAN JOURNALOF ANCIENT HISTORY(NEW SERIES 5, 2006 [2008])T. Corey BrennanA special book-length publication of T.R.S.Broughton, Autobiography. Edited by T. CoreyBrennan (Rutgers University), with T. AlanBroughton (University of Vermont, emeritus),Ryan F. Fowler, Andrew G. Scott, and Kathleen J.Shea (Rutgers). Edition with introduction, notes,and annotated index of the unpublishedautobiography of one of North America’sforemost ancient historians, who lived 1900–1993. The volume contains also Broughton’sunpublished 1970 lecture “Roman studies in thetwentieth century”, which masterfully places LilyRoss Taylor’s major works in their intellectualcontext.978-1-59333-837-4 Pb $636 x 9, 335 pp., 2008iiiOrder online at www.gorgiaspress.com E-mail: helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com m

New and NoteworthyANCIENT NEAR EASTARCHAEOLOGIESOF WATERIN THE ROMANNEAR EAST63 BC—AD 636Zena KamashWater is one of themost benign, anddestructive, powersin the lives of allpeople, in particularin semi-arid and aridareas such as the Near East. This book providesan alternative way of thinking about the RomanNear East by exploring how its inhabitantsmanaged and lived with their water supplies,especially in the wake of the Roman conquest. Itlooks at water in all areas of human life fromirrigation systems for farming to aqueductsproviding water for bathhouses in cities to howwater was used in the home.The book is structured around a series of themesthat will be of interest not only to those interestedin the Roman world, but also to those who thinkabout water from geographical, hydrological andanthropological perspectives. These themesinclude Roman Imperialism, Roman economy,change and transformation in late Antiquity, andthe role of religion. The overarching theme isunderstanding attitudes towards water and wateruse, exploring in particular what constrained orenabled the changing behaviours of those living inthe Roman Near East.978-1-61143-421-7 Hb $137.50GORGIAS DISSERTATIONS IN NEAR EASTERNSTUDIES: 546 x 9, 246 pp., 2010SALADINARABIC & ISLAMIC STUDIESEmpireand Holy WarPeter GubserSaladin, the greatMuslim leader ofthe twelfth century,generated far-reachingchange in theMiddle East. Duringhis life, he profoundlyaltered theregion’s landscapein religious, political, geographic and ethnic terms.In the West, he is famous for sharply curtailingthe Crusader presence in the region, but also forthe chivalrous and honorable way he dealt withadversaries and neighbors. In Muslim lands, he iswell known—even lionized—for his success visà-visthe Crusaders.Saladin’s achievements in other spheres alsonotably influenced the course of Middle Easthistory. First, by eliminating Fatimid rule in Egyptas he built his own Ayyubid Empire, he deracinatedShia Islam from that important part of the region.Second, Saladin built a new empire from Egypt,North Africa, and Yemen to the Levant, Syria, Iraqand parts of Anatolia. Third, the Seljuk Turks hadruled large sections of the Middle East. With theascendancy of Saladin, who was of Kurdishheritage, the role of the Seljuk Turks declined, to bereplaced by a more varied group—Kurds, Arabs,Turks, and others—but with a unifying Muslimidentity.The portrait that emerges is that of a complex,humane but hardly sentimental warrior-king withboth great talents and inherent flaws, one whoserightful place in history may be closer toconquerors who also built, like Alexander theGreat or Napoleon Bonaparte, than to those likeGenghis Khan, who merely conquered.978-1-60724-669-5 Hb $170.05978-1-61143-670-9 2010 Pb $386 x 9, 467 pp., 2010iiiGorgias Press, P.O. Box 6939 Piscataway, NJ 08855-6939 Tel: (732) 885-8900 Fax: (732) 885-8908

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY 21ARMENIAN STUDIESBEFORETHE SILENCEArchivalNews Reportsof the ChristianHolocaustThat Begs to BeRememberedSofiaKontogeorgeKostosThis book is a collection of newspaper reportsdocumenting the massacres and genocides ofGreeks, Armenians and Assyrian minorities whoinhabited Asia Minor over many millennia by theOttoman Turks and later the Kemalists. Thesereports emanating from English language sourcesshow that there was a systematic and organizedcampaign by Turkish authorities to eliminate alltraces of the memories of these minorities fromthe face of the earth.Before the Silence will serve as a permanent reminderthat the many massacres starting from 1822, andthe genocides carried out during the years 1914–23 are a crime against humanity and the memoriesof the victims should never be forgotten butrespected and remembered.978-1-60724-999-3 Hb $55.0010 x 12.5, 349 pp., 2010BIBLICAL STUDIESSCEPTICISMAND IRONICCORRELATIONSIN THE JOYSTATEMENTSOF QOHELETH?WilliamAndersonScepticism and IronicCorrelations in the JoyStatements of Qoheleth?is a response to thepopular counter-reading of Ecclesiastes in the1980s and 90s as a book of “joy” (rather than avery pessimistic and depressing book). Itexamines the seven “joy statements” of Qohelethin great detail: linguistically, form critically, inimmediate and overall context, and in the light ofanalogies with scepticism and the literary form ofirony. Irony, like scepticism, has the function toinduce doubt and questions. While the reading ofthe joy statements of Qoheleth appearindeterminate in Anderson’s book, they are likelyanalogous to expressions of complex irony (akaSocratic Irony)—whereby what is said is bothmeant and not meant. This close examination ofthe “joy statement” of Qoheleth highlights theconceptual and literary complexity of the biblicalbook—while demonstrating just how unlikely the“joy reading” may well be. ConsequentlyQoheleth still leaves the reader guessing about themeaning of life.978-1-60724-322-9 Hb $142.50GORGIAS DISSERTATIONS IN BIBLICAL STUDIES: 446 x 9, 211 pp., 2010I DEAL DEATHAND GIVE LIFEBiblical Perspectiveson DeathShaul BarIs death really thefinal station of thehuman journey,from which there isno return, or doesthe Bible allude tosome form of continuityafter death?Why must humanbeings die? Is there any meaning to the diverseforms of death, natural or unnatural to which aperson succumbs? According to the Bible thedead go down to Sheol, the underworld. Do boththe righteous and the wicked inhabit theunderworld? Do the dead know what ishappening in the world of the living? Are thereany allusions in the Bible regarding the survival ofthe soul after death? A series of questions areraised related to the cult of the dead: Did peopleconsult with the dead, and how? Is there anyevidence in the Bible of sacrifices to the dead?The Bible mentions mourning customs—arethese related to the cult of the dead? Finally, theresurrection of the dead is explored. Theconsensus among scholars is that Daniel 12:2–3,refers to the resurrection of the dead. Thequestion is whether biblical texts before the 2 ndcentury BCE allude to this doctrine. The phrase“resurrection of the dead” never appears in theBible; but does in the Mishnah and in theBabylonian Talmud. Does the Bible view death asfinal? Or does it uphold a belief in resurrection?The fact that the Lord kills and then gives (back)iiiOrder online at www.gorgiaspress.com E-mail: helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com m

22 NEW AND NOTEWORTHYlife is an indication of his power to alter thecondition of the dead and restore them to life.978-1-60724-328-1 Pb $166.256 x 9, 481 pp., 2010PERSPECTIVESON HEBREWSCRIPTURES VIComprising theContentsof Journal of HebrewScriptures, vol. 9Ehud Ben ZviThe Journal ofHebrew Scriptures(JHS)isan academic peerreviewedjournalthat pioneers open-source, freely available,prompt, and academically responsible electronicpublication in the area. This printed volumeincorporates all the articles and reviews publishedin the journal in 2009. The review section includesmore than eighty reviews.978-1-61143-004-2 Hb $246.10PERSPECTIVES ON HEBREW SCRIPTURES AND ITSCONTEXTS: 76 x 9, 974 pp., 2010THE SACREDTEXTExcavating theTexts, Exploringthe Interpretations,and Engaging theTheologies of theChristian ScripturesMichael BirdThe Sacred Textsection, “The Interpretation of the Texts,” looksat hermeneutical issues such the origins ofmodern biblical criticism, the current interest intheological exegesis, post-modern approaches toScripture, and new methodologies relating tobiblical interpretation such as feminist and postcolonialapproaches. The final section on “TheTheological Status of the Texts as Scripture” dealswith how the texts are regarded as Scripture invarious faith communities, including those ofCatholic, Orthodox, and Evangelical traditions,and also by twentieth century theologians such asKarl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann. The Sacred Textis a solid introduction to questions of how theScriptures came to be, how they should be read,and what they mean to different Christiancommunities.978-1-60724-741-8 Hb $142.50GORGIAS PRECIS PORTFOLIOS: 76 x 9, 280 pp., 2010RE-READINGTHE PROPHETSTHROUGHCORPORATEGLOBALIZATIONA Cultural-EvolutionaryApproachto Economic Injusticein the Hebrew BibleMatthewCoomberWhile prophetic texts attributed to eighth-centuryJudah offer some of the Bible’s most scathingattacks against economic exploitation, their socioeconomiccontexts remain hidden. Theories as tomotivations, societal consequences, and even theidentities of the perpetrators and victims of theseacts are largely speculative. Re-Reading the ProphetsThrough Corporate Globalization offers a freshapproach to understanding these ancient texts.Corporate Globalization is the most recent cyclein an ancient series of large-scale trade systems,often resulting in cultural-evolutionary patternsthat lead to land consolidation and unequal wealthdistribution. Building upon Marvin Chaney’s andD.N. Premnath’s theory that propheticcomplaints against landownership abuse reflectsuch a shift during Judah’s absorption into theAssyrian trade-nexus, this book explores theinterpretive value of the presence of thesepatterns in corporate globalization. While thecurrent economic system is vastly different frompresents anoverview of theformation, reception, and interpretation of theChristian Scriptures. It is written by contributorsfrom diverse Christian traditions and covers anarray of topics about historical and doctrinalmatters pertaining to Scripture. The first sectionon “The History of the Texts” deals with theformation of the Christian canon, including thestatus of the Septuagint, the concept of Scripturein the second century, the role of tradition increating and interpreting these ancient texts, andissues about canon and authority. The secondiiiGorgias Press, P.O. Box 6939 Piscataway, NJ 08855-6939 Tel: (732) 885-8900 Fax: (732) 885-8908

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY 23its Iron Age counterpart, the wounds that itinflicts appear to be similar, allowing for newquestions and meaning to be drawn from biblicaltexts that have been reluctant to give up theirsecrets.978-1-60724-978-8 Hb $152.50BIBLICAL INTERSECTIONS: 46 x 9, 343 pp., 2010VERBSOF LEADINGIN THE HEBREWBIBLEDaniel LeavinsAuthors of theHebrew Bible had atleast 17 differentverbs from whichthey could choose torepresent the actionof “leading” or“guiding” in theHebrew Bible. What are these “verbs of leading”and how are they similar to and different fromone another? Also, why did they choose theparticular “leading” verb that they chose in eachparticular context? In this study, the verb class“verbs of leading” in the Hebrew Bible isanalyzed. Every occurrence of the verbs ofleading in the Hebrew Bible is examined throughthe lens of semantic-role theory by assigningsemantic roles (e.g., Agent, Object, Goal, Source,Path) to each of the phrases typically used withthe verbs. This study accomplishes at least threethings: first, the verb class “verbs of leading” isdefined. Second, distinguishing features betweenthe particular verbs of leading are identified.Third, several problem passages in the Bible aredealt with using insights from this analysis. Inaddition, this work is significant because of thelack of work that has been done on verb groupsin Biblical Hebrew. In lexicons, articles, andbooks, scholars have given the study of individualBiblical Hebrew words, and especially verbs, agreat amount of attention. Little study has beendone, however, on specific verb groups in theHebrew Bible. This analysis provides a potentialmodel for such work in the future.978-1-61143-925-0 Hb $148.60PERSPECTIVES ON HEBREW SCRIPTURES AND ITSCONTEXTS: 116 x 9, 324 pp., 2011BETWEEN LAW AND NARRATIVEThe Method and Function of AbstractionBernon LeeAside from being the content of speeches bycharacters in narrative, how do passages of laws inthe Pentateuch interact with the surroundingnarratives? This book proposes that certainpassages of law in Leviticus and Numbers offerdirection for the interpretation of adjacentsegments of narrative. This ’direction’ may serveto emphasize select themes and concepts innarrative. Alternatively, it may misdirect readers,or suggest alternative options to more accessibleinterpretations for a stretch of narrative.A rigorous literary and syntactical analysis of sixpassages of narrative and law (Lev 10:1–20;24:10–23; Num 15:1–41; 27:1–11; 36:1–13)reveals networks of laws in each passage, often ondisparate topics, that share common themes andconcepts. The reader’s ability to recognize thesecommon themes and concepts in each passage isthe act of abstraction. Consequently, the reader ismoved to search for these themes and concepts inan adjacent narrative, which is shown to beamenable to these acts of ideation.Thus, law and narrative collaborate to inform thereader of important themes in certain passages.978-1-59333-912-8 Hb $148.00GORGIAS DISSERTATIONS IN BIBLICAL STUDIES: 516 x 9, 326 pp., 2010A REDACTIONHISTORYOF THEPENTATEUCHTARGUMSGenesis 1:26–27 inthe ExegeticalContext of FormativeJudaismGudrun LierA Redaction History ofthe Pentateuch Targumscombines Targum studies with Judaic studies. Theauthor assigns different Targums (FragmentTargum [Recension P, MS Paris 110], Neofiti 1,Onqelos and Pseudo-Jonathan) each to arespective particular “Sitz im Leben”, stressingthe close connection between Targum andMidrash literature. She challenges the assumptionthat all extant Targums were compiled for theSynagogue. Instead, she suggests that TargumOnqelos might have fulfilled a function in theiiiOrder online at www.gorgiaspress.com E-mail: helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com m

24 NEW AND NOTEWORTHYcontext of the early beth din and demonstratesthat Pseudo-Jonathan can be linked with therhetorical practices which abounded in lateramoraic, educational circles. Her theory is thatPseudo-Jonathan was actually compiled in stages.She identifies various problems, for example, thesupposition by Mortensen and Flesher that rabbisand priests worked in distinct groups in the fourthcentury C.E.978-1-61719-181-7 Hb $148.75GORGIAS DISSERTATIONS IN BIBLICAL STUDIES: 536 x 9, 311 pp., 2010ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE BIBLECritical PerspectivesEmanuel PfohThe papers in this anthology represent theproceedings of the Anthropology and the Biblesession from the European Association of BiblicalStudies Annual Meeting held in Lincoln, UK (July2009). The main aim of the session is to fostercritical uses of social anthropology for readingbiblical scholarship and ancient Near Easternstudies related to the Bible as well. The papers ofthis volume reflect all these perspectives andstand as a critical renewal of the uses ofanthropology and sociology in biblical scholarshipin distinction to social-science approaches.Contributors include: David Chalcraft, AnneKatrine Gudme, Niels Peter Lemche, PhilippeGuillaume, Eveline van der Steen, PhilippeWajdenbaum, and Emanuel Pfoh.978-1-60724-956-6 Hb $128.75BIBLICAL INTERSECTIONS: 36 x 9, 179 pp., 2010DROUGHT,FAMINE,PLAGUEANDPESTILENCEAncient Israel’sUnderstandingsof and Responsesto NaturalCatastrophesWarrenRobertsonThis interdisciplinary study integrates textualanalysis of the Hebrew Bible and comparableancient Near Eastern material with social theoryand archaeology in order to articulate the ancientIsraelites’ taken-for-granted understandings(doxa) of natural disasters, their intellectual andtheological challenges to those understandings,and their intellectual and theological reconstructionsthereof.After a survey of textual and archaeologicalevidence for natural disasters in the ancient NearEastern and Mediterranean world, Robertsondemonstrates that common understandings ofthem are cast in terms of punishment forcovenant infidelity. However, when naturaldisasters are understood as such, their arbitrarydestruction challenges those taken-for-grantedassumptions. The clash between cognitiveexpectation and experiential reality producescognitive dissonance. Responses, then, come inthe attempt to return to cognitive, if not social,stability.Several responses were practiced and articulatedby the ancient Israelites regarding the retributiveunderstanding of natural (and other communal)disasters: avoid and/or attempt to prevent thedisrupting experience through the use ofapotropaic and other ritual techniques, protest thesuffering of the innocent, revise the assumptionsabout divine punishment and/or divine character,revise the assumptions about human actions, ordespair of identifying any correlation betweenhuman action and divine punishment.978-1-59333-649-3 Hb $135.00GORGIAS DISSERTATIONS IN BIBLICAL STUDIES: 456 x 9, 210 pp., 2010THE EXODUSCOMMENTARYOF ST EPHREMA fourth centurySyriac commentaryon the bookof ExodusAlison SalvesenKnown mainly forhis dazzling theologicalpoetry, theSyriac writer StEphrem also produced commentaries on theDiatessaron (Gospel Harmony) and the books ofGenesis and Exodus that were of great influenceon the work of later generations of Syriac writers.That on Exodus is easily the shortest (it mayrepresent lecture notes taken by a disciple), but itshares two prominent features with the muchlonger Genesis commentary, namely a stronginterest in the female characters of the biblicaliiiGorgias Press, P.O. Box 6939 Piscataway, NJ 08855-6939 Tel: (732) 885-8900 Fax: (732) 885-8908

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY 25narrative, and many parallels with Jewish biblicalinterpretation of the same period. Probably datingfrom the third quarter of the fourth century andwritten in Edessa, this represents the earliestsurviving Syriac commentary on Exodus. Thismodern English translation of the work is arevised edition of an earlier publication, includingnotes on the rendering, biblical references, andJewish parallels to Ephrem’s interpretation.978-1-61719-808-3 Pb $28.85MORAN ETHO: 86 x 9, 59 pp., 2011COMPUTERASSISTEDRESEARCHON THE BIBLEIN THE 21 STCENTURYLuis VegasMontanerThe application ofcomputer technologyto the editionand linguistic analysisof biblical textshas provided advanced tools for researchpurposes as well as for teaching the Bible in theclassroom. This discipline requires, nonetheless, acritical evaluation from a historical perspective,examining past and present achievements andfailures. There is a necessity to evaluate thecurrent tools and to consider what is needed tosatisfy the increasing demand of software relatedto the analysis of the biblical texts. This has beenthe task of the International Conference on Bibleand Computers held in El Escorial in 2008,organised by the Universidad Complutense deMadrid. This collection of essays includes themost relevant lectures and papers that have beenpresented there, and offers a wide overview ofdifferent trends in computer assisted technologyon the Bible. Research and teaching demandshave been raised; particularities dependent on thedifferent biblical traditions and languages used inbiblical sources. The contributors have all longterm research and teaching experience in the useof computer technology applied to the linguisticand literary study of the biblical texts. The volumewill be of value to all Bible scholars andtheologians interested in biblical interpretationand biblical criticism.978-1-60724-930-6 Hb $145.00BIBLE IN TECHNOLOGY: 56 x 9, 191 pp., 2010DATINGARCHAICBIBLICALHEBREWPOETRYA Critiqueof the LinguisticArgumentsRobyn VernFor over sixty years,researchers includeingAlbright, Cross,Freedman andRobertson have been pursuing a methodology foridentifying a corpus of “Archaic Biblical Hebrew”poetry using a handful of linguistic forms incommon with second millennium BCE Ugariticand Amarna Canaanite. The dating of the poemsunder consideration has been an outcome of thisresearch. On this basis, Exodus 15.1-18, “Moses’Song of the Sea”, is frequently claimed to be theoldest poem, possibly dating to the secondmillennium BCE.A critical analysis of the arguments and theunderlying hypotheses used to support the use oflinguistic data to date this particular corpus ofbiblical texts is overdue. The author proposes thatlinguistic data provides neither sufficient norreliable evidence for dating purposes. Thecomparison of the second millennium sourceswith Archaic Biblical Hebrew poetic textsindicates that this Hebrew poetry is typologicallymore representative of first millennium sources.This does not imply that an individual poemcannot be of second millennium provenance.What it does show is that linguistic evidence is aninappropriate tool for dating these poems.978-1-61143-921-2 Hb $145.30PERSPECTIVES ON HEBREW SCRIPTURES AND ITSCONTEXTS: 106 x 9, 302 pp., 2011THE BOOK OF LAMENTATIONSAND THE SOCIAL WORLD OF JUDAHIN THE NEO-BABYLONIAN ERALauress WilkinsThe book of Lamentations evokes sympathy forthe survivors of Babylonia’s destruction ofJerusalem in 586 BCE. However, most of theJudeans who survived and remained in Judahduring the Neo-Babylonian period were peasantsliving in the rural areas. The Book ofLamentations and the Social World of Judah iniiiOrder online at www.gorgiaspress.com E-mail: helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com m

26 NEW AND NOTEWORTHYthe Neo-Babylonian Era explores the experienceof Judean peasants and reconstructs their stories.Using a form of social-historical criticism thisbook provides a counter-reading of Lamentationsthat elucidates the impact and aftermath of siegewarfare on Judah’s peasants. The rhetoric ofLamentations, ancient Near Eastern writings andarchaeological evidence are considered, along withanalogous social models from other agrariansocieties. Together these shed light on thechanging social dynamics, religious customs, andpolitical and economic structures of rural andurban Judah in the sixth century BCE. The Bookof Lamentations and the Social World of Judah inthe Neo-Babylonian Era brings to life voices longsilent, and suggests that Judah’s resilient peasantcommunities played a significant role in thesurvival of peasant and city-dweller alike, onceJerusalem had been destroyed.978-1-60724-112-6 Hb $141.25BIBLICAL INTERSECTIONS: 66 x 9, 277 pp., 2010CAN NOPHYSICIAN BEFOUND?The Influenceof Religionon Medical Pluralismin Ancient Egypt,Mesopotamia andIsraelLaura ZucconiCan No Physician beFound: The Influence ofReligion on Medical Pluralism in Ancient Egypt,Mesopotamia and Israel (2700–586 BCE), analyzeshow religion, as an expression of a universalorder, applied to the medical practices in thecultures of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia andIsrael. The comparative approach sheds light onhow religious concepts shaped not only theparticular medical identity of each society, butalso how they can simultaneously participate in abroader medical culture spanning the ancientNear East.A feature common to all three cultures is thepresence of two types of healers. Scholars forancient Egypt and Mesopotamia distinguish themas a scientific one (physician) and the othermagical (priest) whereas Biblical scholarship seeshealing in connection with prophets and priests assimply miraculous. By understanding the role ofreligion, we can see that these ancient societiesdid not operate under the science/magicdichotomy but rather used the multiplicity ofhealers as variations within a single healingstrategy based upon the ideas of illness as a divinemessage and healing as a method of communitycohesion. One type of healer focused on themessage as a form of vertical communication withthe deities maintaining a relationship betweenhumans and the divine. The other class of healersconcentrated on the horizontal mode ofcommunication allowing people within thecommunity to understand the message behind theillness as well as the potential resolution to suchproblems in the community.978-1-60724-079-2 Pb $45.006 x 9, 165 pp., 2010MY BABYBROTHERLUCIANCHILDREN’S BOOKSTabetha KirazWho is My BabyBrother Lucian?[ ]A baby born to aSyriac family[ ] He looks like agirl[ ]He’s still a baby[X] All of the above!Find out moreabout the real amazing Lucian Nurono Kiraz byreading this exciting biography written byLucian’s own older sister. (She is nine-years old.)978-1-61719-081-0 Hb $22.506 x 9, 34 pp., 2010CHURCH HISTORYA FRANCISCAN DISCIPLESHIP HANDBOOKSpiritual Formation and Guidance in the Writingsof Francis of AssisiJim DayThis book deals with the training St. Francisreceived in undertaking the life of discipleship toChrist and the training St. Francis gave to othersto help them live their vocation as disciples ofChrist. St. Francis of Assisi was constantly awareof God’s hand being ever operative in his ownlife. Helping others perceive God’s direct andpersonal intervention in their lives, underscoresiiiGorgias Press, P.O. Box 6939 Piscataway, NJ 08855-6939 Tel: (732) 885-8900 Fax: (732) 885-8908

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY 27the highlights of St. Francis’ way of trainingothers in Christian discipleship.978-1-61719-238-8 Pb $70.00GORGIAS HANDBOOKS: 186 x 9, 211 pp., 2010CLASSICSMAKINGSOF THE SEAJourney, Doubt andNostalgiaJohnBaldacchinoIn Thodor Angelopoulos’sUlysses’sGaze it is poeticallyclaimed that God’sfirst creation was thejourney after whichcame doubt and nostalgia. Anyone who knowsthe Mediterranean will recognise that claims ofthis sort go beyond their poetic packaging.Makings of the Sea presents the Mediterranean as ahorizon of journey, doubt, and nostalgia. Readers areinvited to follow the journey as that which casts theMediterranean as a universal aesthetic imaginary;where through doubt, a hybrid imaginary emergesover a horizon stretched between utopia andcrude fact; and where we are all invited toreconsider nostalgia as the ground without whichno one might properly converse with the nuancesof everyday life.Engaging with 20 th century Mediterranean visualand performing arts, literature and music, thisbook invites the reader to consider how everydayaesthetics inhabit and define the Mediterranean asa common cultural horizon founded ondifference. The author entertains no illusions onhow this region is ’shared’ between its peoplesand their histories. Instead, he urges the reader toattend to what Albert Camus identifies as “thelight” which Mediterranean men and women“have been able to keep.” Yet one must neverforget that Camus’s statement is further qualifiedwith a warning: “just as the Mediterranean sun isthe same for all men, the effort of men’sintelligence should be a common inheritance andnot a source of conflicts and murders.”978-1-59333-695-0 Hb $126.55MEDITERRANEA: 16 x 9, 177 pp., 2010HEARSAY,HISTORY, ANDHERESYCollected Essays onthe Roman Republicby Richard E.MitchellRandallHowarthThis book features aselection of articleswritten by RichardE. Mitchell concerning the origins anddevelopment of the ancient Roman state and themodern historiography that supports ourunderstanding of that history. The introductionand commentary are provided by one of his PhDstudents, Randall S. Howarth, whose own work isvery much concerned with the same topic. Thepublication of these articles in a single volumeprovides a comprehensive commentary on theassumptions governing modern reconstructionsof the period and the problems informing thoseassumptions.The social and institutional history of the RomanRepublic, especially that of the earliest years, isone of the most problematic and convolutedareas of study in the ancient world. Modernscholars have tended to assume that we shouldtake the broad outlines of the traditions handed tous by the Romans at face value, despite theirinvention hundreds of years after the fact. Theinevitable result is that the dominant modernnarrative contains a core of assumptions ofdubious historicity. While some scholars havemade significant attempts to correct portions ofthe obviously flawed narrative, virtually none havegone so far as to question its most fundamentalelements. Mitchell’s work has always done exactlythis and when originally published, many of hisarguments were regarded as radical. Nevertheless,over the last twenty years or so, scholarlyconsensus is inexorably moving toward Mitchell.This collection traces the development ofMitchell’s thought processes and highlights all ofthe most important evidence.978-1-59333-642-4 Hb $156.256 x 9, 376 pp., 2010iiiOrder online at www.gorgiaspress.com E-mail: helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com m

28 NEW AND NOTEWORTHYSTUDIES INEMOTIONSAND POWERIN THE LATEROMAN WORLD:PAPERS INHONOUROF RONNEWBOLDBarbara SidwellThis book is acollection of paperswhich are the resultof a conference on Power and Emotions inAntiquity, which was held at the University ofAdelaide in December 2008, on the occasion ofthe retirement of Dr Ron Newbold. The mainaim of this collection is to explore the issues ofpower and emotions and their relationships withthe ancient world, using written sources such aspersonal letters, speeches, philosophical orhistorical writings. The book explores differentaspects in which power and emotions co-existedin the Roman Imperial and Late Antique world, inthe time span stretching from the High Empire ofMarcus Aurelius to the post-Roman world ofGregory of Tours and the Frankish kings.The papers in this book explore topics such as:self-addressing in the works of the emperorMarcus Aurelius; the struggle for control in thewritings of St. Jerome; the consequences of theriot of the statues in 4 th century Antioch; the placeof rage as a virtue in the literature of the fourthcentury; insult and rage in the work of thehistorian Ammianus Marcellinus; love and grief inthe letters of the Austrasian Frankish queenBrunhild; and the more global problems of powerrelations and identity transformations occurring inthe world of late antiquity.978-1-61719-914-1 Hb $132.85GORGIAS PRÉCIS PORTFOLIOS: 86 x 9, 219 pp., 2010THE PORTRAYAL AND ROLEOF ANGER IN THE RES GESTAEOF AMMIANUS MARCELLINUSBarbara SidwellAmmianus’ treatment of the emotion of angerreveals as much, if not more, about his education,values, beliefs, personality, than it does about thepeople he writes about. This research contributesto a greater depth of understanding of the role ofthe key emotion of anger within the individualand collective lives of the characters as portrayedby Ammianus Marcellinus and how he uses themto influence the reader and colour his narrative.Scholars now tend to examine Ammianus todiscern or evaluate the historical reliability of hisauthorship. But there is also scope for examininghow Ammianus shapes his narrative and tries toinfluence the reader by his portraits of individualsand collective characters. Although this approachseems an obvious one, no one has hitherto donethis in an extended and thorough way before.Ammianus’ treatment and representations ofemotions have idiosyncratic features that cruciallyaffect any assessment of him as an observer andreporter of Rome and its past. This carefulstudy of Ammianus’ Res Gestae and thecharacterisations he incorporated within revealsthe discourse of Ammianus, by unearthing thebias, the propagandist elements and the generaltrends of his portrayals, through keywords thatrefer directly to anger. In this we can betterunderstand the purpose behind many of theserepresentations.978-1-60724-128-7 Hb $156.25GORGIAS DISSERTATIONS IN CLASSICS: 486 x 9, 375 pp., 2010CHANGINGTHE CENTEROF GRAVITYTransformingClassical StudiesThroughCyberinfrastructureMelissa TerrasThis collection ofessays representsthe wide perspectiveof current researchbeing undertaken in Digital Classics. Classics hasalways been at the forefront of the use ofcomputing in Humanities research. We are nowbeginning to see new intellectual practices and anew cyberinfrastructure emerging which gobeyond relatively superficial technologicalmethods which evolved alongside printtechnologies. These innovative researchenvironments allow Classical scholars to access,create, manipulate, interrogate, analyse, and utilisedisparate digital sources in their complex researchtasks.The essays in this volume reflect a new generationof classicists hunting for new methods tounderstand and to disseminate ancient texts, bothiiiGorgias Press, P.O. Box 6939 Piscataway, NJ 08855-6939 Tel: (732) 885-8900 Fax: (732) 885-8908

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY 29to increase the body of published informationabout classical Greek and Latin and also toencourage these languages to play an increasedrole in the intellectual life of humanity. Indiscussing areas as diverse as teaching, citation,criticism, collaboration, epigraphy, geography,grammar, lexicography, and digitization, thisvolume demonstrates the new scope and potentialin Digital Classics research.These essays emerged from a workshop onOctober 5 th 2007 on the subject of Cyberinfrastructurein the Classics, funded by theNational Science Foundation and hosted by theUniversity of Kentucky. They serve as afestschrift to Allen Ross Scaife, Professor ofClassics at the University of Kentucky andfounding editor of the Stoa Consortium forElectronic Publication in the Humanities(stoa.org), who did more than any one person toadvance the field of classics in the decade thatcarried us from the twentieth to the twenty-firstcentury.978-1-60724-881-1 Hb $175.00BIBLE IN TECHNOLOGY: 46 x 9, 485 pp., 2010EASTERN CHRISTIANITYTHE HISTORYOF THE GREATDEEDSOF BISHOP PAULOF QENTOSAND PRIESTJOHN OF EDESSAEdessa to visit the monks on Sinai, but instead ofreaching the site of their intended pilgrimage theyare abducted and taken to Yemen by treeworshippingArabs. After a battle with a tree-god,they succeed in converting the Arabs toChristianity. During the long journey home, theyencounter some unusual ascetics: a dendrite livingin a mountaintop tree; and a band of wanderingmonks among whom is a woman disguised as aman.978-1-60724-670-1 Pb $35.00TEXTS FROM CHRISTIAN LATE ANTIQUITY: 296 x 9, 99 pp., 2010PATROLOGIAPACIFICA:SELECTEDPAPERSPRESENTEDTO THE ASIAPACIFIC EARLYCHRISTIANSTUDIESSOCIETYFifth AnnualConference (Sendai,Japan, September 10–12, 2009)and other Patristic StudiesVladimir BaranovThe volume includes selected papers of the fifthAPECSS annual conference (Sendai, Japan, 2009)and other patristic studies. The conference papersdeal with the letters from Christian Antiquity,from apostle Paul up to Theodore the StuditeHans Arneson(ninth century), considered in different aspects,Set in fifth-century namely, historiography of studies, literary form,Edessa during the Church history, dogmatic contents, attribution,time of Bishop etc. Among the considered authors are EphremRabbula, the History the Syrian, fathers of the Pachomian coenobium,of the Great Deeds Jerome, John Chrysostom, Eusebius of Vercelli,of Bishop Paul of Qentos and Priest John of Augustine, Dionysius the Areopagite, Severus ofEdessa narrates the wonders experienced and Antioch. The other patristic studies are dedicatedperformed by two holy men during a pilgrimage to the St Sophia church in Constantinople (itsto Mount Sinai.hagiographic program compared with that of theDesiring to lead an ascetic life and to serve the Holy Sepulchre church in Jerusalem; in appendix,priesthood in anonymity, Paul abandons his the first English translation from Georgian of thebishopric in Italy and—like Alexius, the “Man of sermon of John of Bolnisi on the consecration ofGod”—travels to Edessa. There, he meets John. Jerusalem churches), the program of unificationNot knowing a trade, Paul earns a meager living between Christianity and Islam by George ofas a day laborer, but gives most of his money to Trebizond (fifteenth century Byzantine thinker),the poor and prays everyday in the caves and recuperation of the sources concerning the elevenmountains near the city. John realizes that Paul is monasteries founded by St Pachomius in Egypt,a wonderworker, and so he begs to accompany dogmatic views of Anthony Bulatovich (a Russianhim on his travels. Soon, the two friends leave Palamite theologian of the early twentiethiiiOrder online at www.gorgiaspress.com E-mail: helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com m

30 NEW AND NOTEWORTHYcentury) expressed in the Church polemics aboutthe veneration of the Name of God. The volumealso contains notes on the Qumranic calendars intheir main contexts, Christian Ethiopian astronomicaltreatises and Babylonian astronomy, andbook reviews.978-1-61143-005-9 Hb $168.10SCRINIUM: REVUE DE PATROLOGIE, D’HAGIOGRAPHIECRITIQUE ET D’HISTOIRE ECCLESIASTIQUE: 66 x 9, 454 pp., 2010COLLECTIONOF HISTORICALDOCUMENTSIN RELATIONWITH THESYRIACORTHODOXCOMMUNITYIN THE LATEPERIOD OFTHE OTTOMANEMPIREThe Register of Mardin MS 1006Iskandar BcheiryIn the Ottoman Empire, Syriacs kept their ownbaptismal books, marriage, funeral and otherrecords, but not all these have survived. However,still many Syriac records can be found in variouslibraries, churches, monasteries in the West andEast, especially in Mardin, which was once theheadquarter of the Syriac nation and theirpatriarchate. The Syriac Garšuni manuscriptfound in the Church of the Forty Martyrs inMardin (number 1006, dated in 1872) containsseveral lists of different subjects that go back tothe late period of the Ottoman Empire. Theselists, published here for the first time withannotations, are an important historical sourcenot only for the Syriacs, but also for the social,economic, cultural and religious history of someplaces in Near East, during the 19 th century.978-1-60724-994-8 Hb $122.50GORGIAS EASTERN CHRISTIAN STUDIES: 246 x 9, 92 pp., 2010A LIST OF SYRIAC ORTHODOXECCLESIASTIC ORDINATIONS FROM THESIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTHCENTURYThe Syriac Manuscript of Hunt 444(Syr 68 in Bodleian Library, Oxford)Iskandar BcheiryThe Bodleian Library in Oxford currently holdsan unpublished historical document in Syriaccontaining precious historical information withregards to the ordination of bishops, priests,monks, and deacons. These ordinations tookplace in the region of Southeastern Anatolia andin a few places in Syria during the 16 th centuryand the first half of the 17 th century. The interestof this list goes much beyond its role of recordingsuccessive ordinations. It also offers factual datarelated to villages, monasteries, churches, andecclesiastical leaders who played important roleswithin the Syriac Orthodox Church during theOttoman period for an entire century. Bcheirygives the text and translation, and focuses on theimportance of the data found in this historical listwhich he compares with other historical datafound in other sources.978-1-60724-621-3 Hb $137.50GORGIAS EASTERN CHRISTIAN STUDIES: 216 x 9, 143 pp., 2010CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM DIALOGUESThe Religious Uses of a Literary Form in the EarlyIslamic Middle EastDavid BertainaChristian and Muslim Dialogues examines the historyof interreligious discourse between Christians andMuslims in the Middle East from the pre-Islamicperiod until the eve of the Crusades. Linked by acommon geography and claim to the true religion,Eastern Christians and Muslims composed textsin the form of dialogues in light of theirencounters with one another. This book surveysthe development of the literary genre and howdialogues came to determine the patterns ofconversation. Each chapter highlights a thematicfeature of the literary form, demonstrating thatChristian and Muslim authors did not part ways inthe first century of Islamic rule, but rathercontinued a dialogue commending God’s faithfulbelievers.This book will help readers to better understandhistorical approaches to Christian-Muslimencounters, the conditions for dialogue, theliterary form and its content, and severaliiiGorgias Press, P.O. Box 6939 Piscataway, NJ 08855-6939 Tel: (732) 885-8900 Fax: (732) 885-8908

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY 31significant dialogues of the period. It reveals howdialogues were used for Christological debate,divine exegesis, conquest and conversion,competing historiographies, theological educationand dialectic, hagiography, and scripturalreinterpretation. Using dialogue literature as aguide, the book argues that Christians andMuslims integrated into the dominant Islamicculture in a symbiotic fashion by articulating anexplicit identity while simultaneouslyincorporating the realities of religious pluralisminto their communities.978-1-61143-920-5 Hb $142.50GORGIAS EASTERN CHRISTIAN STUDIES: 296 x 9, 297 pp., 2011TEACHINGSON THE PRAYEROF THE HEARTIN THE GREEKAND SYRIANFATHERSThe Significanceof Bodyand CommunityJill GatherThe prayer of theheart is an earlyChristian contemplative tradition of strikingprofundity and beauty. In this work, theinherently embodied, communal nature of thisancient teaching is explored, and its relevance tocontemporary mystical seekers is addressed.Taking as its starting point the holistic biblicalorientation of the prayer of the heart, the presentwork draws on the writings of renowned earlyChristian ascetics from Aphrahat the Persian Sageand Origen of Alexandria to Maximus theConfessor to consider the deeply experiential,integrative nature of their teaching. Christianauthors of the Greek- as well as the Syriacspeakingworld placed the heart at the center of amystical theology that viewed the body as a Godgiveninstrument of divine ascent and therelational setting of Christian existence as animportant means of experiencing God’s abidinginner presence. Committed to the unity of bodyand soul, of individual and community, and ofinternal and external worship, the early Christianwriters presented in these pages believed thehardships and joys of mundane, day-to-dayexistence to be valuable means of transformingthe human heart into a place of interior worshipand divine indwelling. The world-affirming tenorof their message promises to speak to allcontemporary individuals who seek to experiencegreater intimacy with God despite the manydemands and distractions of worldly existence.978-1-60724-729-6 Hb $150.00GORGIAS DISSERTATIONS IN EARLY CHRISTIANSTUDIES: 476 x 9, 299 pp., 2010MIAPHYSITECHRISTOLOGYAn EthiopianPerspectiveMebratu KirosGebruAs in the case of thechristology of theother non-ChalcedonianOrientalOrthodox Churches,Ethiopian christoogyis usually nicknamedas monophysite christology—an erroneouschristological position which indicates theabsorption of the humanity of Christ by its divinity. Disproving such a pejorative designation, thisbook contends that the christological position ofthe Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church(EOTC) should correctly be termed as miaphysitechristology, which highlights the one-united(tewahedo) nature of the Word of God incarnate.Besides, the book proves the orthodoxy ofEthiopian christology, demonstrating how it isbased on the christology of St. Cyril of Alexandria(+ A.D. 444).978-1-60724-528-5 Hb $123.006 x 9, 120 pp., 2010STUDIES ON JACOB OF EDESSAGregorios IbrahimJacob of Edessa was a seventh century polymathwho witnessed the coming of Islam. In thiscollection of papers, specialists discuss the lifeand works of this literary figure with emphasis onthe cultural landscape of the seventh century.Contributors include Sebastian P. Brock, RichardPrice, Andreas Juckel, Alison Salvesen, TheresiaHainthaler, Amir Harrak, Aho Shemunkasho, andKhalid Dinno.978-1-60724-997-9 Hb $162.50GORGIAS EASTERN CHRISTIAN STUDIES: 256 x 9, 159 pp., 2010iiiOrder online at www.gorgiaspress.com E-mail: helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com m

32 NEW AND NOTEWORTHYJACOBOF SERUGHAND HIS TIMESStudies in Sixth-Century SyriacChristianityGeorge KirazThis volume is acollection of studieson the Syriac sixthcentury writer Jacobof Sarug by a teamof internationalscholars, including Susan Ashbrook Harvey,Sebastian P. Brock, Sharbil Iskandar Bcheiry,Khalid Dinno, Sidney Griffith, Mary Hansubry,Amir Harrak, George A. Kiraz, Edward Mathews,Aho Shemunkasho, and Lucas Van Rompay. Thepapers were presented on the occasion of the 50-year celebration of the establishment of St. Mark’sSyrian Orthodox Cathedral in NJ.978-1-60724-049-5 Hb $145.00GORGIAS EASTERN CHRISTIAN STUDIES: 86 x 9, 264 pp., 2010SALVATION IN CHRISTACCORDING TO JACOB OF SERUGHAn Exegetico-theological Studyon the Homilies of Jacob of Serughon the Feasts of Our LordThomas KollamparampilJacob of Serugh’s extent homilies, with otherwritings, place him as the most important Syriacwriter after Ephrem the Syrian. The exegeticotheologicalupraisal of Jacob’s homilies ondominical feasts in this volume presents a moregenuine and reliable theologico-mystical vision ofJacob rooted in his basic Syriac vision. Thedynamism, freshness and perennial exegeticalapplicability of many biblical imageries, types andsymbols in Christian theology are well attested inthis volume as a review of the whole history ofsalvation based on the mystery of Christ. Basedon his true Syriac genius, Jacob of Serughexpounds some unique elements of SyriacChristian tradition through the liturgicalcommemorations, catechetical teachings, biblicalexegesis and theological reflections. Theexposition of the homilies on the dominical feastsof Jacob in this volume is a true manifestation ofJacob’s typological and symbolic thought patternsmade explicit through his symbolic-mysticalsilenceapproach to the mystery of Christ. MarJacob’s mode of handling Adam-ChristComplementarity, the Road of Salvation and theChristocentric Sacramental World-vision areSyriac symbolic ways of handling TheologicalAnthropology, Soteriology and Christ-Mystery(Christology) respectively. True to his originalSyriac vision, the mystery of Christ is explained asthe inspiring and governing power of the wholehistory of salvation in its hidden and revealed,sacramental and mystical, catechetical andpastoral, exegetical and theological aspects of theChristian vision of salvation of all times.978-1-60724-880-4 Hb $175.00GORGIAS DISSERTATIONS IN EARLY CHRISTIANSTUDIES: 496 x 9, 557 pp., 2010THE COR-RESPONDENCEOF SEVERUSAND SERGIUSIain TorranceExploring the worldof sixth-centuryMiaphysitism, Torrancehere providestranslations of theletters between twoMiaphysites of differingoutlooks. Severusof Antioch was the Patriarch of Antioch anda moderate Miaphysite whose doctrine differedfrom Catholic teaching primarily in terminologicaldivergences. Sergius the Grammarian is a lesserknownfigure, but the content of his lettersdemonstrates that he was a more extremeMiaphysite. The correspondence between the twoconsists of three letters of Sergius and the threereplies by Severus. An additional apology bySergius rounds out the collection. Made availablein the original Syriac along with Torrance’stranslation, these letters are an important part ofthe working out of concerns associated with thecontext of the Council of Chalecedon. Presentedhere with a new introduction by the translator, theletters are available to readers interested in thisfascinating and involved period of church history.978-1-59333-971-5 Pb $48.00TEXTS FROM CHRISTIAN LATE ANTIQUITY: 116 x 9, 220 pp., 2011iiiGorgias Press, P.O. Box 6939 Piscataway, NJ 08855-6939 Tel: (732) 885-8900 Fax: (732) 885-8908

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY 33REDEFININGHISTORYON PRE-ISLAMICACCOUNTSThe ArabicRecensionof the Martyrsof NajrânJuan PedroMonferrer-SalaAs the account ofthe Martyrs ofNajran has hithertobeen known till the moment through the Greekand the Syriac textual tradition, an originalanalysis with a comparative scope is offered inthis book to provide information about the mostimportant details narrated in the Arabic version,and for identifying the original text from whichthe Arabic version was done. Thus, the aim of thepresent book is to make available to theresearchers a comparative study of the contentsand structure of the tragic events which tookplace in the South Arabian city of Najran as theywere narrated in the Arabic recension containedin the MS Sinaitic Arabic 535, the most importantof the Arabic witnesses in which the account ofthe martyrs of Najran is included.978-1-61719-158-9 Hb $119.50GORGIAS EASTERN CHRISTIAN STUDIES: 266 x 9, 130 pp., 2010SYRIACCHURCHESENCOUNTERINGISLAMPast Experiencesand FuturePerspectivesDietmar WinklerSince its foundationin 1964 by the lateCardinal Franz König,PRO ORIEN-TE (Austria) has focused on the relationshipsbetween the Roman Catholic Church and theEastern Christian Churches. In order to help thevarious churches of the Syriac tradition and topreserve their unique heritage which is ofimportance for the whole of Christianity, theFoundation edits the “PRO ORIENTE Studies inthe Syriac Tradition”. A team of expert scholarsfrom the various Syriac Churches—the “PROORIENTE Forum Syriacum”—advises andconsults the Foundation to develop appropriatestudies and helps to coordinate the researchprojects.The present volume includes the papersof the first PRO ORIENTE Colloquium Syriacum,which took place in Salzburg/ Austria andconcentrated on the Syriac Churches’ experienceswith Islam throughout history: the times of theFour Caliphs, the Umayyad, Abbasid andOttoman periods were discussed as well as theIndian experience and the present situation. Thebook includes contributions by Sidney Griffith,Mor Gregorios Y. Ibrahim, Mar Mikhael al-Jamil,Karam Risk, Mar Louis Sako, Mar Bawai Soro,Martin Tamcke, Herman Teule, Baby Varghese,Dietmar W. Winkler, and Joseph Yacoub.978-1-61143-001-1 Hb $139.75PRO ORIENTE STUDIES IN THE SYRIAC TRADITION: 16 x 9, 265 pp., 2010THE RABBIS’KING-PARABLESMidrash Fromthe Third-CenturyRoman EmpireAlan AppelbaumThe Rabbis’ King-HEBREW & JUDAICAParables: MidrashFrom the Third-CenturyRoman Empire,shows the ancientRabbis at work indifferent ways andwith different purposes, but always with the sametools, parables of kings. As it attends in detail tothe king-parables’ form, structure, functions,settings and characters, it emphasizes the Rabbis’distinctive ideas about the relationship ofhumanity to God, and it engages with studies byscholars such as David Stern, Daniel Boyarin,Martin Goodman and Clemens Thoma and withthe method of dating rabbinic material advocatedby Jacob Neusner. It considers the parables asresistance literature in light of the work oftheorists of dominated groups, and it is the firstsystematic attempt to read the parables as sourcesfor Roman history in over 100 years.978-1-61719-159-6 Hb $166.25JUDAISM IN CONTEXT: 76 x 9, 351 pp., 2010iiiOrder online at www.gorgiaspress.com E-mail: helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com m

34 NEW AND NOTEWORTHYLILYMONTAGU’SSHEKHINAHLuke DevineLily Montagu’s Shekhinahprovides amuch needed correctiveto the extanthistoriography thathas served to marginalize,neglect, andeven erase LilyMontagu’s role asthe founder ofLiberal Judaism in England. Luke Devine’sinnovative re-reading of her oft-ignored novel,Naomi’s Exodus, along with the introduction oflittle known archival material, generates a moreaccurate picture of Montagu, her biography, heractivism, and most importantly, her theologicaldiscourse. Indeed, Devine’s account reveals a LilyMontagu that will be unfamiliar to students andscholars alike: a Lily Montagu that is not a discipleof Claude Montefiore, but, rather, a woman withlatent fiery temperament, deeply held spiritualconvictions, along with the intellectual prowess todevelop and articulate these theologicalreflections. Lily Montagu’s Shekhinah maps thehistory of Liberal Judaism at the fin-de-siècle andthe development of Montagu’s proto-feministaspirations, culminating in her theologicaldiscourse of “gender completion,” and elaborationon the feminine aspect of the divinepresence, known to Jewish feminists as theShekhinah.Anglo-Jewish religious, cultural, and social history,anti-Semitism, Reform Judaism (in Germany aswell as England), Orthodox / rabbinic Judaism,first-century Palestinian Judaism, modern Jewishidentity, the early-Church, and the Jesusmovement. The book will also be of interest toreaders and students of Victorian literature,minority literature, lesbian or Sapphic poetics,Midrash, Christian Evangelicalism, thefragmentation of the Anglo-Jewish community,and nineteenth-century secularization.The book’shighly original perspective elucidates therelationship between the fin de siècle Anglo-Jewishwriting of Amy Levy and Second-Wave Jewishfeminist theology and activism. Indeed, in directopposition to much of the extant historiography,the book demonstrates that Levy’s writing is lessanti-Judaic and more profoundly inflected by thereligious concerns of German Reform Judaismthan has previously been supposed. In fact, herwriting constitutes a genre whose femalesubjectivity evidences a concern for justice andauthority that prefigures numerous aspects ofSecond-Wave Jewish feminist theory and itsspiritual, theological, and theoreticalunderpinnings.978-1-61719-915-8 Hb $142.30JUDAISM IN CONTEXT: 96 x 9, 282 pp., 2010JUDAIC LOGICAndrewSchumannJudaismconsiderablydiffersfrom978-1-61143-684-6 Hb $130.00 other theisticJUDAISM IN CONTEXT: 11religions. One of6 x 9, 200 pp., 2011the main features isthat Jewish religiousFROM ANGLO-FIRST-WAVElaws are not dogmaticbut based onTOWARDS AMERICAN SECOND-WAVEJEWISH FEMINISM:specific legal reasoning.This reason-NEGOTIATINGWITH JEWISH FEMINIST THEOLOGYing was developed by the first JudaicAND ITS COMMUNITIEScommentators of the Bible for inferring JudaicIN THE WRITING OF AMY LEVYlaws from the Pentateuch. The book is aboutLuke DevineJudaic reasoning from the standpoint of modernlogic. Its first goal is to define Judaic logic. ThisFrom Anglo-First-Wave towards American Second-Wave logic was aimed to be a methodology forJewish Feminism: Negotiating with Jewish Feminist deducing religious laws. The idea that thisTheology and its Communities in the Writing of Amy methodology can be viewed as original logic thatLevy is essential reading for scholars and students is not less deductive than Aristotle’s logic did notalike; particularly those of Victorian women’s emerge until the Late Middle Ages. At that timewriting, Anglo-Jewish literary criticism, Jewish Medieval Hebrew works about Judaic reasoningfeminism, Jewish feminist theology, Victorian were influenced by Arabo-Islamic philosophy asstudies, First, Second, and Third-Wave feminism,iiiGorgias Press, P.O. Box 6939 Piscataway, NJ 08855-6939 Tel: (732) 885-8900 Fax: (732) 885-8908

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY 35well as by Latin Scholastic logic. In this volumewe discuss different forms of influence of theAristotelian logic on developing the Talmudicmethodology. Then we aim to sketch semanticsfor the Judaic reasoning, explicating Talmudiccase study and Rabbinic situation analysis todevelop general approaches to formalizing Judaiclogic. This consideration of Judaic logic hasrelevance for modern logic and analyticphilosophy and may be compared with thecontribution made by the formalization ofAncient Greek logical systems to 20 th -centurylogic and language philosophy.978-1-61719-194-7 Hb $140.20JUDAISM IN CONTEXT: 86 x 9, 268 pp., 2010MIDRASHAND THEEXEGETICALMINDProceedings of the2008 and 2009SBL MidrashSessionsLieve TeugelsContained in thisvolume are theProceedings of theMidrash session of the SBL’s annual conferencesin 2008 and 2009. Chairs Rivka Ulmer and LieveTeugels are the editors of this and the threeprevious Proceedings volumes published in thisseries. This fourth volume contains eight essaysby leading scholars in Rabbinics, dealing withvarious aspects of rabbinic interpretationalactivity. Rachel Adelman investigates the origin ofGod’s footstool in rabbinic sources, based on theverse describing the theophany at the ratificationof the Sinai covenant (Exod 24:10). Isaac Kalimiinvestigates how the Rabbis tried to reconcile theintermarriages mentioned in genealogical lists inChronicles with the opposition againstintermarriage stated in Ezra-Nehemiah. SimonLasair studies two passages from Song Rabbahusing a methodology based on an intersection ofliterary and political theory. Erica L. Martinfocuses upon the rabbinic exegesis of the ellipticalepisode of Noah’s drunkenness in Gen. 9:20-25.David Nelson asserts that the text of the Mek.RaShBY is best understood as a writtenembodiment of the diverse pedagogical andtransmissional culture within which it functioned.Jesse Rainbow states that in its emphasis on themotif of Ishmael as hunter, Genesis Rabbah 53:11is informed by a larger typology of the rejectedfirst-born son in Genesis. Ishay Rosen-Zvi claimsthat Babylonian rabbinic sources not only show amore positive attitude toward sexuality thanPalestinian sources, but multiply and increasesexuality itself. Nehemia Polen investigates thepractice of derashah in the tannaitic period whichwas a mode of communication with God ratherthan the application of hermeneutic rules.978-1-61143-683-9 Hb $132.55JUDAISM IN CONTEXT: 106 x 9, 217 pp., 2010A BRIEFINTRODUCTIONTO THE SEMITICLANGUAGESLINGUISTICSAaron RubinWith a writtenhistory of nearlyfive thousand years,the Semitic languagescompriseone of the world’searliest attested andlongest attestedfamilies. Well known members of the familyinclude Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Amharic, andAkkadian. This volume provides an overview ofthis important language family, including bothancient and modern languages. After a briefintroduction to the history of the familyand its internal classification, subsequent chapterscover topics in phonology, morphology, syntax,and lexicon.Each chapter describes features that arecharacteristic of the Semitic language family as awhole, as well as some of the more extraordinarydevelopments that take place in the individuallanguages. This provides both a typologicaloverview and a description of more uniquefeatures. The chapters contain abundant examplesfrom numerous languages. All the examplesinclude morpheme by morpheme glosses, as wellas translations, which help make these examplesclear and accessible even to those not familiarwith a given language. Concluding the book is adetailed guide to further reading, which directsthe reader to the most important reference toolsand secondary literature, and an up-to-datebibliography.iiiOrder online at www.gorgiaspress.com E-mail: helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com m

36 NEW AND NOTEWORTHYThis brief introduction contains a rich variety ofdata, and covers topics not normally found inshort sketches such as this. The clarity ofpresentation makes it useful not only to those inthe field of Semitic linguistics, but also to thegeneral linguist or language enthusiast who wishesto learn something about this important languagefamily.978-1-61719-860-1 Pb $36.50GORGIAS HANDBOOKS: 196 x 9, 110 pp., 2010LITERATUREGOOD VS. EVILTabetha KirazStrange things startto happen whenthree best friends(Sarah, Jessica andPhoebe) visit aspecial library section,check out abook called Good vs.Evil, and start readingit. Somehow,Sarah finds herselfin the book. What is worse is the Evil Queen hasstolen the Magic Book that makes the story inorder. Sarah is alone in a strange land where shemakes friends with a good angel named Gloria.Together with Gloria, Sarah travels to the Evilside on a quest to discover the identity of theGood Queen but first she must acquire fivemagical items. In order to succeed, she will haveto outwit a witch, trolls, sirens, a merchantTrader, and finally the evil queen who turns outto be someone she knows. In this ultimate battlebetween good and evil, will Good triumph andfinally put the story in order?Tabetha G. Kiraz is a native speaker of classicalSyriac and is the author of My Baby Brother Lucian(Gorgias Press, 2010). She is currently pursuingher elementary degree and participates annually inthe Young Author’s Program at her school. Sheloves to read fiction, and dance. Though this isher first chapter book, she hopes to become afamous author when she grows up.978-1-61143-968-7 Hb $22.506 x 9, 55 pp., 2011LITURGYLITURGY IN ANCIENT JERUSALEMJohn BaldovinThis brief study investigates the liturgy ofJerusalem, a church which had a far-reachingand permanent effect on the rest ofChristianity.Initiation, the Eucharist, the DailyOffice and the liturgical year are considered.978-1-60724-364-9 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 136 x 9, 46 pp., 2010THE SACRAMENTARYOF SARAPION OF THMUISR. J. S. Barrett-LennardA text for Students, with Introduction,Translation and Commentary978-1-60724-377-9 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 266 x 9, 54 pp., 2010DAILY AND WEEKLY WORSHIP:FROM JEWISH TO CHRISTIANRoger BeckwithAn examination of the centres, patterns andelements of Jewish worship and the transitionfrom Jewish worship to Christian. The study alsoconsiders the origin of several aspects of Christianworship.978-1-60724-346-5 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 66 x 9, 42 pp., 2010THE CANONSOF HIPPOLYTUSPaul BradshawThe fifth or sixthcentury documentknown as the ’Canonsof Hippolytus’is a set of thirtyeightcanons with aconcluding sermon.They are presentedhere translated intoEnglish with anintroduction.978-1-60724-347-2 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 76 x 9, 43 pp., 2010iiiGorgias Press, P.O. Box 6939 Piscataway, NJ 08855-6939 Tel: (732) 885-8900 Fax: (732) 885-8908

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY 37CORONATIONS PAST, PRESENTAND FUTUREPaul BradshawHenry Everett, Paul Bradshaw and Colin Buchanancombine to provide a post-Reformationoverview of the changes and tendencies in theEnglish Coronation service, including anastringent look at the likely future needs.978-1-60724-389-2 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 386 x 9, 46 pp., 2010ESSAYS IN EARLY EASTERNINITIATIONPaul BradshawPaul Bradshaw, Maxwell Johnson, and RuthMeyers write on baptismal practice in theAlexandrian tradition, reconciling Cyril and Egeriaon the catechetical process, and the structure ofthe Syrian baptismal rite.978-1-60724-363-2 Hb $110.00GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 126 x 9, 45 pp., 2010THE BISHOP IN LITURGYAn Anglican Symposium on the role and taskof the Bishop in the field of LiturgyColin BuchananA series of essays exploring the sacerdotal role ofthe bishop in the Anglican church. Both historicaland contemporary perspectives on the bishop’sliturgical role are presented.978-1-60724-361-8 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 106 x 9, 63 pp., 2010LITURGIES OF THE SPANISHAND PORTUGUESE REFORMEDEPISCOPAL CHURCHESColin BuchananThe liturgies of the Spanish Reformed EpiscopalChurch and the Lusitanian Church are presentedhere and introduced by a bishop of the Anglicancommunion.978-1-60724-352-6 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 606 x 9, 45 pp., 2010MODERN ANGLICAN ORDINATION RITESColin BuchananThis study presents the Anglican ordination ritesfrom the 1970s and 1980s, analyzing andcomparing their respective contents andcharacter.978-1-60724-359-5 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 86 x 9, 64 pp., 2010THE SAVOYCONFERENCEREVISITEDThe proceedingstaken from theGrand Debate of1661 and the worksof Richard BaxterColin BuchananThe records of theSavoy Conferencecome from seventeenthcentury sources, and they were edited andreproduced in two nineteenth century volumes: E.Cardwell, A History of Conferences and OtherProceedings connected with the Revision of TheBook of Common Prayer; from the year 1558 tothe year 1690 (1841; 2 1849) and G. Gould,Documents relating to the Settlement of theChurch of England by the Act of Uniformity of1662 (London, 1862). Both these present thePresbyterians’ ’Exceptions’ tabled at the SavoyConference in 1661; and both also print theBishops’ (somewhat unyielding) Answers to theExceptions—but neither editor brings the textstogether. This Joint Study presents the GeneralExceptions in parallel column with their respectiveAnswers; and for the Particular Exceptions thereare four parallel columns—1.The Text in the 1604Prayer Book to which ’Exception’ is taken; 2. Theactual Exception; 3. The Bishops’ Answer; 4.COB’s notes explaining both the background, andthe outcome in its effect on the 1662 text. There isan Historical Introduction, Notes andAppendixes—and the volume runs to 80 pagesrather than the usual 48.978-1-60724-403-5 Hb $140.00GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 526 x 9, 84 pp., 2010iiiOrder online at www.gorgiaspress.com E-mail: helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com m

38 NEW AND NOTEWORTHYCHURCH AND WORSHIPIN FIFTH-CENTURY ROMEThe Letter of Innocent 1 to Decentius of GubbioMartin ConnellThe letter comes from the fourth century and istherefore very significant for studies of earlyRoman liturgical history—and is frequentlyquoted. Here the series provides the full text withtranslation and notes.978-1-60724-401-1 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 506 x 9, 50 pp., 2010HIPPOLYTUS: A TEXT FOR STUDENTSGeoffrey CumingWith Introduction, Translation, Commentary, andNotes.978-1-60724-350-2 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 586 x 9, 36 pp., 2010ANGLICANMISSALSAND THEIRCANONS1549, Interim Riteand RomanMark DalbyWith the 1552prayer book theweaponry of theearlier liturgicalworks changed. Thisbooklet discusses the missals and canons up tothe modern period.978-1-60724-392-2 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 416 x 9, 44 pp., 2010INFANT COMMUNIONThe New Testament to the ReformationMark Dalbyduring the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,but there were major gaps in their treatment andmuch that today needs amending. Thanks to thework of JDC Fisher and DR Holeton, many ofthese gaps have now been filled. I have drawnsignificantly on their work, as well as on an articleof my own in CQR in 1966, but I have also soughtto fill in more of the gaps. For reasons of space, Ihave concluded my study with the Reformationand the Counter-Reformation, but hopefully oneday I can extend it to our own times.978-1-60724-405-9 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 546 x 9, 42 pp., 2010CREMATION TODAY AND TOMORROWJ. Douglas DaviesThis booklet considers the implications ofcremation, both theological and pastoral aspects.Clerical and lay points of view are presented.978-1-60724-370-0 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 196 x 9, 47 pp., 2010FOURTH CENTURY ANAPHORALCONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUESJohn FenwickThe origins, methodologies, and uses of theAnaphoras of Sts. Basil and James are explored,along with examples.978-1-60724-353-3 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 616 x 9, 41 pp., 2010ANGLICAN LITURGICAL INCULTURATIONIN AFRICAThe Kanamai Statement ’African Culture andAnglican Liturgy’David GitariWith Introduction, Papers read at Kanamai, and afirst Response.978-1-60724-380-9 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 296 x 9, 56 pp., 2010The communion of infants is different from theadmission of children at, say, seven or eight. Bothpractices traditionally require baptism, and eithermay require confimation/chrysmation as well. Butinfant communion never requires a measure of’understanding’, whereas child communion does.As yet there is no comprehensive history of infantcommunion. Several learned attempts were madeiiiGorgias Press, P.O. Box 6939 Piscataway, NJ 08855-6939 Tel: (732) 885-8900 Fax: (732) 885-8908

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY 39THE LITURGICAL PORTIONSOF THE APOSTOLIC CONTITUTIONSW. Jardine GrisbrookeA text for students, with translation, introductionand annotations.978-1-60724-368-7 Hb $142.44GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 176 x 9, 97 pp., 2010LITURGICALREVISIONIN THE CHURCHOF ENGLAND1984–2004The workingof the LiturgicalCommissionDavidHebblethwaiteThe liturgy of theChurch of Englandis primarily located in The Book of CommonPrayer (1662), but from the mid-20 th century ithas been enriched and supplemented by a rangeof authorized alternative services. Most of thesewere initially collected in The Alternative ServiceBook 1980 (ASB). From 1986 to 2005 there wasa comprehensive revision and enlargementin the scope of alternative services. These,combined with the main elements of the 1662tradition, are now published in CommonWorship. The planning, drafting and processingof this work lay with the Liturgical Commissionof the Church of England, and JLS 57 charts theseparate but interlocking processes whichthis involved from the perspective of theCommission’s Secretary and chroniclerthroughout the period 1984–2002.978-1-60724-406-6 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 556 x 9, 50 pp., 2010ANGLICAN ORDERS AND ORDINATIONSDavid HoletonEssays and Reports from the Interim Conferenceat Jarvenpaa, Finland, of the International AnglicanLiturgical Consultation, 4–9 August 1997.978-1-60724-390-8 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 396 x 9, 65 pp., 2010LITURGICAL INCULTURATIONIN THE ANGLICAN COMMUNIONIncluding the York Statement‘Down to Earth Worship’David HoletonA set of essays exploring the concept ofinculturation in the liturgy within the wide net ofthe Anglican world. Consideration of African andAsian liturgies are especially prominent.978-1-60724-369-4 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 186 x 9, 58 pp., 2010LITURGICAL PRESIDENCYPaul JamesThe deliberate use of the title ’President’ for thecelebrant of the eucharist in the modern languagerites of the Church of England demonstrates achange in understanding of not only the role ofthe priest/bishop, but of the whole people ofGod in the liturgical assembly.978-1-60724-376-2 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 256 x 9, 53 pp., 2010LITURGYIN EARLY CHRISTIAN EGYPTMaxwell JohnsonChristian initiation, eucharistic liturgy andanaphora, orders, hours, and the liturgical year ofthe early Christian church in Egypt are the subjectof this booklet.978-1-60724-384-7 Hb $110.00GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 336 x 9, 53 pp., 2010DAILY PRAYERIN THE REFORMED TRADITIONAn Initial SurveyDiane Karay TrippBrings together two seminal articles from StudiaLiturgica by the author with other evidence fromdisparate sources, and provides a powerfulmonograph about an area little studied by mostscholars.978-1-60724-386-1 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 356 x 9, 44 pp., 2010iiiOrder online at www.gorgiaspress.com E-mail: helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com m

40 NEW AND NOTEWORTHYCELEBRATINGFORGIVENESSAn original textdrafted by MichaelVaseyTrevor LloydThis Liturgical Studyis dedicated to thememory of MichaelVasey, liturgy tutorat St John’s College,Durham (1975–1998), and a member of the Church of England’sLiturgical Commission (1985–1998), who died inJune 1998. It reproduces the text which heoriginally drafted for the Commission in the early1990s, as amended both by the Commission andby the House of Bishops, on which discussionwas effectively suspended in 1995. At that stagethe Commission propsed to further the discussionon penitence and reconciliation in the church bypublishing its proposed text together with somebackground essays, but the project, which Michaelwas to have edited, was halted by his untimelydeath.978-1-60724-348-9 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 566 x 9, 52 pp., 2010THE ANGLICAN EUCHARISTIN NEW ZEALAND 1814–1989Bosco PetersThe background, beginnings, and controversies ofthe Eucharistic developments in New Zealand arepresented. The twenieth century is divded intofour periods to facilitate the exploration.978-1-60724-374-8 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 236 x 9, 46 pp., 2010THE RITUAL KISSIN EARLY CHRISTIAN WORSHIPL. Edward PhillipsThis study collates the scattered evidence in theNew Testament patristic literature for its practice,and examines its spiritual and quasi-sacramentalsignificance, including its relation to the role ofthe Spirit.978-1-60724-387-8 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 366 x 9, 38 pp., 2010IRENAEUS OF LYONSON BAPTISM AND EUCHARISTDavid PowerSelected texts with Introduction, Translation andAnnotation.978-1-60724-372-4 Hb $110.00GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 216 x 9, 31 pp., 2010CALVIN AND BULLINGERON THE LORD’S SUPPERPaul RoremAn investigation of sixteenth-century Reformedviews on the Lord’s Supper from two of theleaders of that tradition. The impasse andresolution between John Calvin and Zwingli’ssuccessor Heinrich Bullinger provide thebackground for this discussion.978-1-60724-367-0 Hb $110.00GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 166 x 9, 60 pp., 2010A LITURGICAL GLOSSARYMichael SansomLiturgy is a subject which very quickly throws up abarrage of unfamiliar words to defeat the student,the lay enquirer—and even a good many clergy.The basis of this glossary was a simple word listcompiled for students inthe Cambridge Federation of Theological Colleges,but it has been expanded and rewritten by studentsat Ridley Hall.978-1-60724-351-9 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 596 x 9, 32 pp., 2010THE TESTAMENTUM DOMINIGrant Sperry-WhiteA Text for Students, with Introduction,Translation and Notes.978-1-60724-373-1 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 226 x 9, 52 pp., 2010iiiGorgias Press, P.O. Box 6939 Piscataway, NJ 08855-6939 Tel: (732) 885-8900 Fax: (732) 885-8908

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY 41MAR NESTORIUS AND MAR THEODORETHE INTERPRETERThe Forgotten Eucharistic Prayers of East SyriaBryan SpinksThis is a brilliant addition to the comprehensiverange of patristic liturgical materials offered bythis Series.978-1-60724-395-3 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 446 x 9, 43 pp., 2010ON BAPTISMAL FONTS:ANCIENT AND MODERNS. Anita StaufferAn artful examination of the baptismal font andits place in ancient and modern Christianity. Thebasic concepts of water and baptism are alsoexplored.978-1-60724-381-6 Hb $139.44GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 306 x 9, 79 pp., 2010EARLY JEWISHLITURGYA Sourcebook foruse by studentsof Early ChristianLiturgyAlistair Stewart-SykesWhereas manystudies suggest orpresuppose somelink betweenChristian liturgicalorigins and the practices of Judaism the Jewishsources are hard to find and understand forChristian students without any background inearly Judaism and its literature. This bookpresents some of the relevant sources in clearEnglish, with accompanying material which setsthe sources in their context and introduces thestudent to the debate about the relationshipbetween Jewish and early Christian liturgy.978-1-60724-400-4 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 496 x 9, 47 pp., 2010LANGUAGE, LITURGY AND MEANINGAnthony ThiseltonAn intellectual exploration of language and liturgyand how both of them participate in thearticulation of meaning.978-1-60724-349-6 Hb $110.00GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 576 x 9, 37 pp., 2010A KINGDOM OF PRIESTSLiturgical Formation of the People of GodTalley ThomasPapers read at the Anglican Liturgical ConsultationBrixen, North Italy, 24–25 August 1987.978-1-60724-360-1 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 96 x 9, 43 pp., 2010INCULTURATION:THE EUCHARIST IN AFRICAPhillip ToveyAn introduction to the issues surroundinginculturation, with particular reference to theEucharist in the African context. Discussion isheld of a variety of denominations and the text ofthe Eucharistic prayer for the new Kenyan serviceis included.978-1-60724-362-5 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 116 x 9, 47 pp., 2010THE LITURGY OF ST JAMESAS PRESENTLY USEDPhillip ToveyThe Liturgy of St James is used by a number ofchurches. This gives the Greek, Syriac andReformed (Mar Thoma Syrian Church) texts inparallel columns for comparison.978-1-60724-391-5 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 406 x 9, 54 pp., 2010COMMUNION OUTSIDE THE EUCHARISTPhillip ToveyA study of Extended Communion, SundayWorship in the Absent of a Priest, and similarservices. This looks at the development of theservices and their use in a variety of churches.iiiOrder online at www.gorgiaspress.com E-mail: helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com m

42 NEW AND NOTEWORTHYTexts are also provided from some of theauthorised services.978-1-60724-378-6 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 276 x 9, 57 pp., 2010ADULT INITIATIONDonald WitheyPapers delivered at the Conference of the Societyfor Liturgical Study 1988 by David M.Thompson, Colin Buchanan, Christopher J.Walsh and Peter W Ball.978-1-60724-365-6 Hb $137.50GORGIAS LITURGICAL STUDIES: 146 x 9, 52 pp., 2010MANDAICTHE GREATSTEM OF SOULSReconstructingMandaean HistoryJorunn BuckleyMandaeans are thelast living NearEastern Gnostics inthe world and theyare also possessorsof the largestGnostic literature.Mandaean priestsstill copy this literature by hand, and thecolophons—postscripts at the end of each text—offer the scribal lineage of the copyist. Thesecolophons provide not only scribal “family trees”sometimes stretching back to the third centuryAD, but they also give historically exactinformation on named Muslim rulers, on thegeographical spread of the Mandaean religion (inpresent-day Iraq and Iran), on political climates,religious persecutions, and natural disasters. TheMandaean colophons offer information that hasnot previously been placed in a framework forgaining a view of Mandaean history. After anIntroduction, the first part of The Great Stem ofSouls, deals with the Mandaean “holy scripture,”the Ginza. The second part, “Priests andScholars,” presents portraits of two specificMandaean priests and their relationships to twowestern scholars (Lady E. S. Drower andHeinrich Petermann). Part II also includes achapter on Mandaean women priests. Mandaeantexts, such as the liturgies and The Book of John,are treated in part III; the last part, IV, addressesthe earliest colophons and concludes bypresenting a new argument regarding Mandaeanearly history and origins. Several appendicesinclude lists of the Mandaean astrological namesand of about eighty Mandaean clan names, and adescription of the documents belonging in theDrower Collection at Oxford University’sBodleian Library.978-1-59333-621-9 Hb $157.30GORGIAS MANDAEAN STUDIES: 16 x 9, 382 pp., 14 illus., 2010THE HISTORIO-GRAPHYOF MUSIC INGLOBALPERSPECTIVESam MirelmanThis volume examinesthe perception ofmusic’s past, in all itsMUSIChistorical, geographicaland culturalbreadth. Thecollection of papersaddresses the interpretation of past music culturesfrom the earliest records of antiquity until thepresent. It geographically focuses on Europe,Latin America, Greece and the Near East.The studies presented here highlight the extent towhich music archaeology has been a flourishingfield of research since at least the mid 19 th centuryuntil the present. Many of the topics discussed,especially the 19 th century scholars, are largelyunknown within musicology and archaeology.Such early studies contextualise the history andbackground through which the contemporarydiscipline of music archaeology emerged. Suchearly enquiries into music’s earliest archaeologyand history contribute towards an understandingof wider cultural and musical history in the19 th /early 20 th centuries, and by extension, thecontext in which the modern disciplines ofmusicology and ethnomusicology originated. As acomplement to such studies, critical enquiries intoancient Greek historiography, early modern musicoutside Europe, and contemporary perspectiveson music archaeology, are offered.978-1-61143-669-3 Hb $131.25GORGIAS PRÉCIS PORTFOLIOS: 96 x 9, 215 pp., 2010iiiGorgias Press, P.O. Box 6939 Piscataway, NJ 08855-6939 Tel: (732) 885-8900 Fax: (732) 885-8908

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY 43PATRISTICSJACOBOF SARUG’SHOMILIESON ELISHAMetrical Homilies ofMar Jacob of SarugStephenKaufmanRecognized as asaint by both Chalcedonianand non-Chalcedonian Christians alike, Jacob of Sarug (d.521) produced many narrative poems that haverarely been translated into English. Of hisreported 760 metrical homilies, only about halfsurvive. Part of a series of fascicles containing thebilingual Syriac-English editions of Saint Jacob ofSarug’s homilies, this volume contains hishomilies on Elisha. The Syriac text is fullyvocalized, and the translation is annotated with acommentary and biblical references. The volumeis one of the fascicles of Gorgias Press’s CompleteHomilies of Saint Jacob of Sarug, which, whencomplete, will contain all of Jacob’s survivingsermons.978-1-60724-302-1 Pb $60.00TEXTS FROM CHRISTIAN LATE ANTIQUITY: 286 x 9, 361 pp., 2010JACOB OF SARUG’S HOMILIESON THE NATIVITYMetrical Homilies of Mar Jacob of SarugThomas Kollamparampil978-1-60724-139-3 Pb $60.00TEXTS FROM CHRISTIAN LATE ANTIQUITY: 236 x 9, 255 pp., 2010PHILOSOPHY & THEOLOGYELEMENTSOF CULTURALCONTINUITYIN MODERNGERMANLITERATUREA Study of Goethe,Nietzsche, and MannRamona SimutThis book is asurvey of the innerrelationship betweenthe most representative German writers andthinkers of the 18 th , 19 th , and 20 th century:Goethe, Nietzsche, and Thomas Mann. Itexamines the content of their thought as reflectedin their attitude towards the arts, society, andpolitics of their times. Consequently, it is, on theone hand, a synoptic study, as it envisages thehistorical context of these three pivotal centuriesand their strategic importance for the cultural andsocial development of modern Germany andEurope in general. On the other hand, it providesa detailed analysis of the key aspects in thethought of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Mann, whichled to the formation of common themes andconcepts in their works and thus to the distinctivemessage they convey. The main purpose of thestudy is to prove that these common themes—thecondition and role of the artist in society, thenon-exclusivity of art as related to politics, theneed to transcend chaotic nationalist politics,etc.—are in fact specific features of a directGoethean heritage in the thought of bothNietzsche and Mann. This fact has two implicitconclusions. First, their message for society wasethical and visionary, representing the goal oftheir literary-philosophical productions. They allsearched for the meaning of internal and externalevents in their lives and the manifested opinionstowards political turning points like the FrenchRevolution, Bismarck’s Kulturkampf, or the twoworld wars. Secondly, their ethical convictions arerelevant to this day, as an increasing number ofhistorians and literary critics try to find in theworks of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Mann what canbe defined as an answer to current inquiries whichare similar to the ones in the past. After all, the artof writing is an art with a message.978-1-61143-966-3 Hb $157.45GORGIAS STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY: 36 x 9, 383 pp., 2011iiiOrder online at www.gorgiaspress.com E-mail: helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com m

44 NEW AND NOTEWORTHYREFERENCECONFLICTOS,NEGOCIACIONESY COMERCIODURANTELAS GUERRAS DEINDEPENDENCIALATINO-AMERICANASRaúl FradkinEste libro pasarevista a los conflictosy negociacionesque transformaronlos circuitos y las modalidades del comercio envarias regiones de América Latina durante lasllamadas guerras de la independencia. Estas guerras,desencadenadas por la crisis de las monarquíasibéricas a comienzos del siglo XIX, derivaron en unheterogéneo y contradictorio proceso revolucionarioa ambos lados del Atlántico y provocaronla desintegración de estos imperios y elfuncionamiento de las diferentes redes comercialesen torno a las cuales se habían configurado losespacios económicos y definido sus articulacionesinternas y externas. En estas páginas el lector seencontrará frente a una variedad de situaciones ytransformaciones y apara analizarlas se haconvocado a destacados especialistas que analizanla cuestión en diferentes niveles y prestan atencióna distintos ámbitos sociales y espaciales. En laprimera parte se realiza una evaluación de la crisis anivel imperial y se indaga la diferente perfomancede algunas economías regionales. En la segunda seexamina su impacto en los sistemas de comerciolocal, regional e interregional en las áreas centralesdel orden colonial. Y, en la tercera parte se indaganlas situaciones producidas en las áreas fronterizasdel imperio español y portugués como entre lassociedades hispano-criollas y los pueblos indígenasque no estaban sometidos al dominio colonial. Asíel lector se encontrará con un rico y actualizadopanorama de conjunto de este momento históricode inflexión de la historia latinoamericana así comode sus notables variaciones regionales.978-1-61143-000-4 Hb $175.00CONFLICT AND TRADE: 66 x 9, 319 pp., 2010RELIGIONTHE BEST OF JOURNAL OF MEN,MASCULINITIES AND SPIRITUALITYJoseph GelferJournal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality(JMMS) is an online, scholarly, peer-reviewed,interdisciplinary journal. JMMS seeks to be asinclusive as possible in its area of inquiry. Papersaddress the full spectrum of masculinities andsexualities, particularly those which are seldomheard. Similarly, JMMS addresses not onlymonotheistic religions and spiritualities but alsoEastern, indigenous, new religious movements andother spiritualities which resist categorization. TheBest of Journal of Men, Masculinities andSpirituality brings together the best paperspublished to date in JMMS, offering them for thefirst time in printed form.978-1-61143-003-5 Hb $145.006 x 9, 257 pp., 2010LATE ANTIQUEMOTIFSIN YEZIDI ORALTRADITIONEszter SpätYezidis are a Kurdish-speakingreligiousminority of afew hundred thousandsouls, livingmainly in NorthernIraq, as well as Syria,Turkey and theCaucasus. Yezidis follow a highly syncretisticreligion of their own, based exclusively on oraltradition. Yezidi mythology, beside showing theinfluence of both Sufism and a pre-ZoroastrianWestern Iranian mythology, has also incorporatedand adapted to its particular religious systemcertain myths and motifs which once enjoyedwidespread popularity among the interrelatedreligious movements of Late Antiquity, rangingfrom Judaism through Christianity to Gnosticismand Manichaeism.This book demonstrates that these myths andmotifs, though long since relegated to oblivion inthe West, can be found in the religious lore of theYezidis, as well as of numerous other groups,both medieval and contemporary, in the MiddleEast. Hence it is argued that they are the vestigesof a common cultural substratum once shared bythe people of the region. Placing these motifsiiiGorgias Press, P.O. Box 6939 Piscataway, NJ 08855-6939 Tel: (732) 885-8900 Fax: (732) 885-8908

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY 45within the context of a religious languageoriginating in Late Antiquity is not only the key toa better understanding of Yezidi religion, but alsoto the way it developed and the working of oraltradition in the Middle East in general. In thiscontext, establishing the late antique origins ofsome motifs reveals the way literacy interactedwith orality in the region. Furthermore, ithighlights the long lasting influence late antiquereligious thought had on the development ofreligious imagery and thinking in the area.978-1-60724-998-6 Hb $186.85GORGIAS DISSERTATIONS IN RELIGION: 526 x 9, 579 pp., 2010SYRIACTHECOMMENTARYOF SAINTEPHREMON GENESISWITH AN ARABICTRANSLATIONAssad AssadSt. Ephrem’s commentaryis one ofthe oldest survivingcommentaries onGenesis, and itsmanuscript is considered one of the oldestsurviving Syriac manuscripts. The text is in proseand represents the beauty of Ephrem’s style.Sauma’s edition provides the Syriac text with anArabic tanslation. The volume also gives a longintroduction to the Syriac exegesis in its easternand western traditions. Ephrem’s Commentary isuseful for the general readers, the clergymen aswell as for the student of Syriac studies.Ephrem’s Syriac text is edited here in Serto (WestSyriac) and is completely vocalized. Each page ofthe Syriac text is followed directly by its Arabictranslation. This will help the reader in followingthe text and its translation easily. The facingtranslation can also be used as a tool to studySyriac. Students not familiar with Arabic will findthe vocalized Syriac text helpful in reading St.Ephrem.BRIDE OFLIGHTHymns on Maryfrom the SyriacChurchesSebastian BrockSyriac is particularlyrich in poetry onMary. Not only issome of this ofgreat tendernessand beauty, butmuch is also highlyimaginative and dramatic. Three different genresare represented in the present selection, lyric,dialogue and narrative poems; almost all are likelyto date from the fourth or fifth century. Firstcome five poemsby St Ephrem himself, followed by a series of15 Hymns on Mary attributed to him, but whichmust date from somewhat later. The section onlyric poems ends with nine charming short poemson the Nativity by Simeon the Potter, acontemporary of St Jacob of Serugh, and a lamentput in the voice of Mary at the Crucifixion. Of thefive dialogue poems, the first three are based onmoments in the opening chapters of the Gospelsof Matthew and Luke—Mary and the angel at theAnnunciation, Mary and Joseph at the momentwhen Joseph discovers his betrothed is pregnant,and Mary and the Magi. By contrast, the last twoare set on the morning of the Resurrection, wherethe Mary of chapter 20 of the Gospel of John isidentified as Mary, the mother of Jesus, followingan early tradition, and not as Mary Magdalene.The collection concludes with three narrativepoems, of which the longest, on Mary and Jacob,makes use of themes in the Protogospel of James.A series of indexes includes ones listing the titlesof Christ and of Mary that occur, as well asbiblical references.978-1-59333-845-9 Pb $48.00MORAN ETHO: 66 x 9, 206 pp., 2010VERBAL PARADIGMSIN SYRIACGeorge Kiraz978-1-61143-548-1 Hb $158.80DAR MARDIN: CHRISTIAN ARABIC AND SYRIAC Honed by years of personal experience inSTUDIES FROM THE MIDDLE EAST: 39teaching Syriac for beginners, George A. Kiraz6 x 9, 392 pp., 2010tabulates clearly in this handbook the mostcommon verbal paradigms and conjugations. Thebook begins by explaining the various types ofverbs and how they differ from each other. EveryiiiOrder online at www.gorgiaspress.com E-mail: helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com m

46 NEW AND NOTEWORTHYtable is spread over two pages in width. Columnsand rows and marked to make easy references.978-1-60724-920-7 Pb $35.00GORGIAS HANDBOOKS: 167 x 10, 97 pp., 2010THEDEMONSTRA-TIONSOF APHRAHAT,THE PERSIANSAGEAdam LehtoOne of the firstmajor Syriac authors,Aphrahatwrote hisDemonstrationsin the middle ofthe long reign ofSha-pur II, andduring a period of intense conflict between Persiaand Rome. His intended readers were the so-called’covenanters’, representing a native Syriac form ofascetic life which would only later be influenced byGreek models. His Demonstrations are a mix ofpractical guidance, polemic against the Jewishcommunity, and occasional exhortations to thePersian Church as a whole, all saturated withbiblical exegesis. What makes his work unique isthat the worldview he represents is only marginallyhellenized, much closer to its Jewish roots thanmost other forms of Christianity in his day.The first ten of the twenty-three sections of theDemonstrations were written in 337, many ofthem devoted to standard themes: faith, love,fasting, prayer, ascetic vows, repentance, andhumility. This first group also includes a veileddiscussion of political events of the day (“OnWars”), as well as treatments of the resurrectionand the role of church leaders.The next twelve demonstrations were composedin 344. Most of these engage in polemicalarguments against Jewish positions oncircumcision, Passover, Sabbath, food laws, thestatus and future of the Jewish people, the statusof Christ, the legitimacy of celibacy, and themeaning of persecution. In addition, there isteaching on almsgiving, a reflection on death andthe end times, and a long exhortation to theleadership of the Persian Church. The very lastdemonstration was written in the following year,and is Aphrahat’s attempt to compile a ’geneologyof the righteous’. The closing sections of this lastdemonstration contain some of the mostcompelling passages in the work.978-1-59333-768-1 Hb $188.75GORGIAS EASTERN CHRISTIAN STUDIES: 276 x 9, 591 pp., 2010A SYRIACLEXICONA Translation fromthe Latin,Correction,Expansion, andUpdateof C. Brockelmann’sLexicon SyriacumMichaelSokoloffThe second editionof Carl Brockelmann’s Lexicon Syriacum,published in 1928, is rightly considered to be thebest dictionary of Syriac ever written. However, itsLatin language and the ordering of words accordingto triliteral Semitic roots make its use difficult formost students and scholars. Moreover, thedictionary was composed in an extremely concisemanner, which meant that references were givenwithout citing any of the text. This often makes theglosses impossible even for someone who knowsLatin.In the 81 years that have passed since the book’spublication, there have been great advances inboth Aramaic and Semitic studies. Moreover,Syriac studies—especially the publication of thecritical texts of classical authors, such asEphrem—have greatly enhanced our knowledgeof Syriac and have made the publication of a newand up-to-date dictionary imperative. However,because a new dictionary project does not yetexist and would take decades to complete, thisedition of Brockelmann’s work has beenundertaken to make Syriac vocabulary moreaccessible to scholars, students, and Syriacspeakers. Following are the changes introducedinto the Syriac Lexicon in this revision:• The meanings are given in English, not Latin• The vocabulary is ordered alphabetically.• All text citations have been verified byconsulting the original publications, andwhere new critical editions have appeared(e.g., those of E. Beck for the works ofEphrem), references have been changed topoint to the new editions.• Text citations with partial or completetranslations have now been provided.iiiGorgias Press, P.O. Box 6939 Piscataway, NJ 08855-6939 Tel: (732) 885-8900 Fax: (732) 885-8908

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY 47• All of the etymologies have been thoroughlyrevised.• Two electronic indexes (English-Syriac andText References) have been prepared.This dictionary is an essential tool for anyoneworking in Syriac studies, Semitic linguistics, andbiblical studies.978-1-60724-620-6 Hb $149.507x10, 1738 pp., 2009INDEX TOHUGOYE:JOURNAL OFSYRIAC STUDIESVolumes 1–10J. WaltersThis index providesan index to thecontents of Hugoye:Journal of SyriacStudies, Volumes 1–10, organized intofive parts. Part Iprovides the article titles, authors, abstracts, andpage numbers organized by volume. Part II is anindex of all articles organized alphabetically byarticle title. Part III is an index of all articlesorganized alphabetically by the last name of theauthor.Part IV is an index of all the books reviewed inHugoye and presents this material in two sections:1) alphabetically by author of the book reviewed,and 2) alphabetically by author of the review.Part V provides a subject index in five sections:manuscripts, ancient texts, people, places, andkeywords.978-1-4632-0078-7 Pb $30.80GORGIAS HANDBOOKS: 226 x 9, 72 pp., 2011THEOPHANYANDCHAOSKAMPF:THE INTER-PRETATION OFTHEOPHANICIMAGERY INTHE BAAL EPIC,ISAIAH,AND THETWELVEUGARITICEric OrtlundThe imagery of thunder and lightning, fire andearthquake which attends YHWH’s theophany inOld Testament poetic texts has most often beeninterpreted as a series of metaphors in biblicalscholarship. This work applies insights fromrecent work in metaphor theory and myththeory—especially with regard to thehermeneutics of the symbol in a metaphoricalutterance and a mythic narrative—to argue thatthis traditional interpretation of poetic theophanicimagery is mistaken, and that these texts makebetter exegetical sense when understood againstthe background of the ANE myth of the defeat ofchaos. The most important West Semitic versionof this myth, the Baal Epic, is examined in orderto show the dimensions of this ANE mythicnarrative and the use of symbols in it.Metaphorical and mythic frameworks are thenapplied to various texts from Isaiah and thetwelve Minor Prophets in order to show that ametaphorical interpretation of poetic theophanictexts fails to do justice both to their internal unityand their larger contribution to the books inwhich they are now found. This work thuscontinues the application of metaphor and myththeory to biblical texts already occurring inbiblical studies, as well as providing a newtemplate for interpreting poetic theophanic texts.978-1-61719-160-2 Hb $148.45GORGIAS UGARITIC STUDIES: 56 x 9, 323 pp., 2010iiiOrder online at www.gorgiaspress.com E-mail: helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com m

ForthcomingANTHROPOLOGYANTROCOM:JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGYPrinted EditionMarco MenicocciAOJA is an multilingual European project thatcollect studies in the fields of physical and culturalanthropology, and of the disciplines related to. Itoffers original researches by scholars of merit andyoung researchers, with particular attention toproposals by Asian and developing countriesauthors.978-1-4632-0051-0 Pb $56.45ANTROCOM: JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY: 610 x 12.5, 189 pp., In PressMODERN ASSYRIAN STUDIESTHE ASSYRIANSIN AUSTRALIAN ARCHIVESDocuments from the National Archives of Australiaand Australian War Memorial, 1914-1947Stavros StavridisThe small Assyrian community proved to be loyal,dedicated and hard-working citizens to Australiaduring the years 1914-1947. This is the first timethe Assyrian issue will be seen through the eyes ofAustralian official documents and hopefully raiseawareness of these people within Australia andabroad.978-1-60724-993-1 Hb $177.85GORGIAS HANDBOOKS: 177 x 10, 519 pp., 2010 In PressBIBLICAL STUDIESTHE RECEPTION AND REMEMBRANCEOF ABRAHAMPernille CarstensThis book explores the role of the Biblicalpatriarch Abraham in the formation and use ofauthoritative texts in the Persian and Hellenisticperiods. It reflects a conference session in 2009focusing on Abraham as a figure of culturalmemory in the literature of these periods.978-1-4632-0054-1 Hb $100.00PERSPECTIVES ON HEBREW SCRIPTURES AND ITSCONTEXTS: 136 x 9, In PressNEO-ASSYRIAN PROPHECYAND THE HEBREW BIBLE: NAHUM,HABAKKUK, AND ZEPHANIAHRussell MackThis comparative literary study of Neo-Assyrianprophecy and the Old Testament books Nahum,Habakkuk, and Zephaniah highlights similaritiesand differences in the material. The differenceshave implications for who produced the materialand when.978-1-4632-0077-0 Hb $160.30PERSPECTIVES ON HEBREW SCRIPTURES AND ITSCONTEXTS: 146 x 9, In PressMOSES, DAVIDAND THE HIGH KINGSHIP OF YAHWEHA Canonical Studyof Book IV of the PsalterMichael G. McKelveyThis work investigates the overall message of Pss90–106 within OT Psalter. It examines especiallythe figures of Moses, King YHWH and David,whose literary voices appear to address theoccurrence of exile and the post-exilic period.978-1-61143-682-2 Hb $157.30GORGIAS DISSERTATIONS IN BIBLICAL STUDIES: 556 x 9, 382 pp., 2010 In PressFROM TRIBAL CONFEDERATIONTO MONARCHIC STATEThe Editorial Perspective of the Book of JudgesLawson StoneCombining diachronic redaction-critical analysiswith synchronic literary sensibilities, Stonereassesses the entire tradition history and literaryiiiOrder online at www.gorgiaspress.com E-mail: helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com

FORTHCOMING 49structure of the book of Judges, employing arevitalized approach to redaction-critical analysisinformed by studies of ancient Near Easterneditorial and literary practice. The result is aninterpretation of the book of Judges that is bothhistorical-developmental and thematicallycoherent.978-1-60724-342-7 Hb $218.75GORGIAS DISSERTATIONS IN BIBLICAL STUDIES: 506 x 9, In PressSOURCES AND AUTHORS:ASSUMPTIONS IN THE STUDYOF HEBREW BIBLE NARRATIVENoel WeeksThis work disputes the common view thatHebrew Bible narrative has been cobbled togetherout of diverse and contradictory sources. Itstudies the assumptions that produced thatunderstanding and the application of differentassumptions to a number of narrative books.978-1-4632-0034-3 Hb $158.65PERSPECTIVES ON HEBREW SCRIPTURES AND ITSCONTEXTS: 126 x 9, 391 pp., 2011 In PressBYZANTIUMKASSIA THE NUNIN CONTEXT THE RELIGIOUS THOUGHTOF A NINTH-CENTURY BYZANTINEMONASTICKurt SherryKassia the Nun in Context provides bothscholarly and non-expert readers with a wideranginganalysis of a remarkable female writer ofthe Iconoclastic period. Her reflections onmatters of Christology, gender, and monasticisminject diversity into the study of Byzantium.978-1-61143-969-4 Hb $117.256 x 9, 159 pp., 2011 In PressCOPTIC & EGYPTIAN STUDIESVIE DE S. MACAIRE L’EGYPTIENEdition et traduction des textes copte et syriaqueToda SatoshiThe Life of saint Macarius the Egyptian (c. 300-390) is transmitted in various languages of theChristian Orient. This work is a study in itstransmission and the reedition of its Coptic andSyriac versions.978-1-61143-971-7 Hb $205.00EASTERN CHRISTIAN STUDIES SERIES:6 x 9, In PressTHE LIFE AND WORKSOF SEVERUS OF ANTIOCHIN THE COPTIC ANDCOPTO-ARABIC TRADITIONTexts and CommentariesYouhanna YoussefThis book provides the reader with texts relatingto the life, works (whether authentic orapocryphal) and the veneration of Severus ofAntioch in the Coptic and Copto-Arabic tradition.978-1-61719-738-3 Hb $137.50GORGIAS EASTERN CHRISTIAN STUDIES: 286 x 9, In PressEASTERN CHRISTIANITYMARY AND JOSEPH,AND OTHER DIALOGUE POEMSON MARYSebastian BrockIn this volume of TeCLA, a set of anonymousdialogue poems are presented in both the originalSyriac and in an English translation. Four poemsare included in this collection; in the namesakepiece of this volume the dialogue is between Maryand Gabriel, the angel of the annunciation. Theother dialogues are between Mary and Joseph,Mary and the Magi, and Mary and the Gardener.These poems are here translated and introducedby Sebastian Brock, a leading authority on theSyriac language.978-1-59333-839-8 Pb $35.00TEXTS FROM CHRISTIAN LATE ANTIQUITY: 86 x 9, 113 pp., 2011 ForthcomingTHE SYRIAC BOOK OF STEPS 2Syriac Text and English TranslationRobert KitchenThe Syriac Book of Steps collects 30 sermons bya late 4 th century anonymous author in the PersianEmpire. The author details the spiritual life,highlighting the duties and problems of two ranksof committed Christians, the Upright and thePerfect.978-1-59333-980-7 Pb $76.25TEXTS FROM CHRISTIAN LATE ANTIQUITY: 06 x 9, 237 pp., 2011 In PressiiiOrder online at www.gorgiaspress.com E-mail: helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com m

50 FORTHCOMINGTHE SYRIAC BOOK OF STEPS 3Syriac Text and English TranslationRobert Kitchen978-1-59333-981-4 Pb $61.00TEXTS FROM CHRISTIAN LATE ANTIQUITY: 06 x 9, ForthcomingHEBREW & JUDAICATHE CONCEPT OF INTENTIONIN THE OLD TESTAMENT,PHILO OF ALEXANDRIAAND THE EARLY RABBINIC LITERATUREA study in human intentionality in the areaof criminal, cultic and religious and ethical law.Aurelian BoticaThe book answers a number of questions abouthuman intentionality, raised by the OldTestament, Philo of Alexandria and by the earlyrabbies. It does so exploring this concept in theareas of criminal and cultic law, and in the spheresof piety and ethics.978-1-59333-653-0 Hb $175.00PERSPECTIVES ON HEBREW SCRIPTURES AND ITSCONTEXTS: 96 x 9, 513 pp., 2011 In PressSECOND-WAVE JEWISH FEMINISM,1971–1991: FOUNDATIONAL THEOLOGYAND SACRAL DISCOURSEFoundational Theology and Sacral DiscourseLuke DevineThis book is the definitive critical analysis of theJewish feminist theological project in the UnitedStates, its principal theologians and itsfoundational, embryonic, and more elaboratedsacral discursive. The monograph criticallyexamines each of the diverse theologians, theirvaried perspectives, and individual contributions,and asks will a prescriptive Jewish feministtheology ever be a reality?978-1-4632-0084-8 Hb $146.506 x 9, In PressMELILAH:MANCHESTER JOURNALOF JEWISH STUDIES (2010)Daniel Langtonancient, medieval and modern eras. Contributors(2010) include Simon Mayers, Z. Yaakov Wise,Ed. Kessler, Hyam Maccoby, and GlendaAbramson.978-1-4632-0055-8 Pb $36.05MELILAH: MANCHESTER JOURNAL OF JEWISH STUDIES:77 x 10, 114 pp., In PressLINGUISTICSA COMPARATIVE DIALECTICAL STUDYOF GENITIVE CONSTRUCTIONSIN ARAMAIC TRANSLATIONS OF EXODUSMark MeyerThe purpose of this book is to “mine the gold”in multiple Aramaic translations of the biblicalbook of Exodus. The pages within revealimportant similarities and differences betweenfive Aramaic dialects in the use of genitiveconstructions.978-1-61143-002-8 Hb $218.75PERSPECTIVES ON SYRIAC LINGUISTICS: 56 x 9, In PressLATIN HISTORICAL PHONETICSHelen PerdicoyianniThe book is designed for students who wish tolearn the principles of Latin phonetics as well asfor more advanced students who wish to reviewor reevaluate these principles in the light offurther philological and linguistic evidence.978-1-4632-0048-0 Pb $36.50GORGIAS HANDBOOKS: 216 x 9, 110 pp., 2011 In PressMEDIEVAL STUDIESTHE DESERTED MEDIEVALVILLAGE OF COTTAMAND THE SETTLEMENT MATRIX MODELWilliam FittsThis volume introduces the Settlement Matrixmodel. Based on the concept of the setting, thisapproach examines each venue of daily life fromthe house to the settlement to the field system asintegral parts of a single cultural construct.978-1-61143-964-9 Hb $153.25BIBLE IN TECHNOLOGY: 66 x 9, 328 pp., 2011 In PressMelilah is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewjournal concerned with Jewish law, history,literature, religion, culture and thought in theiiiGorgias Press, P.O. Box 6939 Piscataway, NJ 08855-6939 Tel: (732) 885-8900 Fax: (732) 885-8908

FORTHCOMING 51MUSICIDIOPHONESOF THE ANCIENT NEAR EASTIn the Collections of the British MuseumRichard DumbrillA comprehensive catalogue of the idiophones ofthe ancient Near East acquired by theDepartment of the Near East of the BritishMuseum since the mid-nineteenth century. Thebook is fully illustrated with updated descriptionsand bibliography.978-1-61143-956-4 Hb $118.758.25 x 10.75, 2011 In PressPATRISTICSJACOB OF SARUG’S HOMILYON THE CHARIOTTHAT PROPHET EZEKIEL SAWMetrical Homilies of Mar Jacob of SarugAlexander GolitzinThis volume gives a bilingual Syriac-Englishedition of Saint Jacob of Sarug’s homily on theChariot which the Prophet Ezekiel saw. TheSyriac text is fully vocalized, and the translation isannotated with a commentary and biblicalreferences. The volume constitutes a fascicle ofGorgias’s Complete Homilies of Saint Jacob ofSarug. In Syriac and English.978-1-59333-735-3 Pb $51.00TEXTS FROM CHRISTIAN LATE ANTIQUITY: 36 x 9, In PressJACOB OF SARUG’S HOMILYON ZACCHAEUS THE TAX COLLECTORMetrical Homilies of Mar Jacob of SarugDana MillerThis volume gives a bilingual Syriac-Englishedition of Saint Jacob of Sarug’s homily onZacchaeus the Tax Collector. The Syriac text isfully vocalized, and the translation is annotatedwith a commentary and biblical references. Thevolume constitutes a fascicle of Gorgias’sComplete Homilies of Saint Jacob of Sarug.978-1-61719-660-7 Pb $57.50TEXTS FROM CHRISTIAN LATE ANTIQUITY: 66 x 9, 72 pp., 2010 In PressSYRIACTHE GORGIASENCYCLOPEDIC DICTIONARYOF THE SYRIAC HERITAGESebastian BrockThe Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the SyriacHeritage (GEDSH) is the first major encyclopediatypereference work devoted exclusively to SyriacChristianity, both as a field of scholarly inquiryand as the inheritance of Syriac Christians today.In more than 600 entries it covers the Syriacheritage from its beginnings in the first centuriesof the Common Era up to the present day.Special attention is given to authors, literaryworks, scholars, and locations that are associatedwith the Classical Syriac tradition. Within thistradition, the diversity of Syriac Christianity ishighlighted as well as Syriac Christianity’s broaderliterary and historical contexts, with major entriesdevoted to Greek and Arabic authors and moregeneral themes, such as Syriac Christianity’scontacts with Judaism and Islam, and withArmenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, and GeorgianChristianities.978-1-59333-714-8 Hb $98.008.25 x 10.75, ForthcomingMANUSCRITS EN ARABE KARSUNICONSERVES DANS LA BIBLIOTHEQUEDES MARONITES D’ALEP (SYRIE)Francisco del Río SánchezThis book is the second part of a comprehensivework of classification and identification of theMaronite manuscripts of Aleppo, offering the firstdetailed record and description of the 250 Arabic-Karshuni manuscripts. The material is helpfullycategorized according to the area of particularconcern to each work: Bible, Biblical Commentaries,Patristic works, Theology and Spirituality,Philosophy, Sciences and History, Controversiesand Apologies, Councils and Law, Hagiographies,Synaxaries, Homilies and Rituals. The bookincludes also 100 images and full indices of titles,personal names, subjects and places.978-1-61143-667-9 Hb $243.00GORGIAS EASTERN CHRISTIAN STUDIES: 236 x 9, 2 vols., 410 pp., 2010 In PressiiiOrder online at www.gorgiaspress.com E-mail: helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com m

52 FORTHCOMINGSYRIAC LITERATUREAn English Translation of La Littérature SyriaqueRubens DuvalA new English translation of R. Duval, LaLittérature Syriaque (Paris, 1907).978-1-61143-962-5 Hb $167.50GORGIAS HANDBOOKS: 206 x 9, In PressAN ALBUM OF DATED SYRIACMANUSCRIPTSWith a New Introduction by Lucas Van RompayWilliam HatchThe main reference for dating Syriac manuscriptsand the standard in the field. This Albumconveniently brings together two hundredfacsimiles, each representing a page of a datedSyriac manuscript.1-931956-53-7 Hb $455.008.25 x 10.75, ca. 250 illus., 2002 (from 1946 ed.)THE NEW SYRIAC PRIMERIntroduction to SyriacGeorge KirazA truly useful introduction to the Syriac languageis a rare find. This practical initiation to the studyof the ancient language of the Christian churchspeaks with clarity and authority. A fruitfulintegration of scholarly introduction and practicalapplication, this primer is more than a simplegrammar or syntactic introduction to thelanguage. Written in a style designed forbeginners, Kiraz avoids technical language andstrives for a reader-friendly inductive approach.Readings from actual Syriac texts allow thestudent to experience the language first hand andthe basics of the grammar of the language are ablyexplained. The book comes with downloadablematerial so that readers may listen to all readingsentences and text passages in the book.978-1-59333-325-6 Pb $72.00GORGIAS HANDBOOKS: 97.5 x 9.75, 404 pp., 2007THE SEARCHABLE AND BOOKMARKEDSYRIAC-ENGLISH DICTIONARYA Searchable PDF of J. Payne Smith’sA Compendious Syriac Dictionary Foundedupon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne SmithGeorge KirazIn the lamentable absence of an English-Syriacdictionary, this handy digital tool will be useful toSyriac scholars on the go. A pdf version of J.Payne-Smith’s Compendious Syriac Dictionary,fully bookmarked and searchable, this innovativetool will allow scholars to search all Englishwords in the dictionary. Not only can this pdf beuploaded to laptops, it will also work with smartphones, palms, and other portable electronicdevices. Ideal for carrying into the library withyou while on Syriac research, this worthwhileedition of the time-honored dictionary will becertain to find a host of applications for today’sSyriac scholar.978-1-59333-790-2 PDF $51.008.25 x 10.75TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONSOF THE CHRONICLEOF MICHAEL THE GREATSyriac Original, Arabic Garshuni Version,and Armenian Epitome with Translationsinto FrenchGeorge KirazThis invaluable nine-volume set on the Chronicleof Michael the Great makes the scholarlyresources on this unique manuscript availabletogether for the first time. Now inaccessible, theChronicle is the largest medieval chronicleknown, and is available here for the first time inhistory as a facsimile copy of the originalmanuscript, as well as in a copy of the originalSyriac, the French translation, an abbreviatedArmenian recension, and Arabic versions. TheChronicle is one of the most important primarysources on the history of the Middle East,especially the period between the rise of Islamand the Crusades.978-1-59333-114-6 Hb $1,937.508.25 x 10.75, 11 vols., 7196 pp., 2009 ForthcomingAN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHYOF PRINTED SYRIAC LEXICADavid TaylorThis annotated bibliography provides the firstcomprehensive bibliography of all publishediiiGorgias Press, P.O. Box 6939 Piscataway, NJ 08855-6939 Tel: (732) 885-8900 Fax: (732) 885-8908

FORTHCOMING 53Syriac lexica in all languages. In addition to thetechnical description of the volumes, there areshort notes about the textual sources used andabout the lives of the scholars who producedthem.978-1-59333-189-4 Hb $123.75PERSPECTIVES ON SYRIAC LINGUISTICS: 27 x 10, ForthcomingTWO SYRIAC VERSIONSOF THE PRAYER OF MANASSEHWido van PeursenThe authors present a detailed philological andlinguistic comparison of two versions of ThePrayer of Manasseh. Combing state-of-the-artcomputational tools together with traditionalphilology the texts are compared at all linguisticlevels, from their vocabulary up to their discursivestructure, with a special emphasis on theirmorphology and syntax. The results are revealingnot only as for the question of the relationshipbetween the two versions, but also illuminatevarious debates pertaining to Syriac syntax.978-1-4632-0050-3 Hb $111.00GORGIAS EASTERN CHRISTIAN STUDIES: 306 x 9, In PressTHE COMMENTARYOF DIONYSIUS BAR SALIBION THE EUCHARISTBaby VargheseBar Salibi’s commentary on the Eucharist is aninvaluable witness to the history of the Syriacversion of the anaphora of St James. B. Vargheseprovides here an English translation of the text.978-1-61719-404-7 Pb $37.70MORAN ETHO: 106 x 9, 118 pp., 2011 In PressTHE COMMENTARY OF JOHNOF DARA ON THE EUCHARISTBaby VargheseBaby Varghese publishes here an Englishtranslation of the Commentary on the Eucharistby John of Dara, a ninth century leader in theWest Syrian tradition.978-1-4632-0033-6 Pb $32.00MORAN ETHO: 126 x 9, 69 pp., 2011 In PressWOMEN’S STUDIESA BRIDGE OVER THE BALKANS:DEMETRA VAKA BROWNAND THE TRADITIONOF “WOMEN’S ORIENTS”Eleftheria ArapoglouThis book is a critical study of Demetra VakaBrown, one of the most significant GreekAmerican writers of the turn of the last century,framed within the fields of “Orientalism” andcultural studies.978-1-59333-655-4 Hb $162.50GORGIAS OTTOMAN TRAVELERS: 46 x 9, 196 pp., 2011 In PressTHE WOMEN OF ISRAELBY GRACE AGUILARTwo Volumes in Onewith a New Introduction and CommentaryMayer GruberFor almost a century after it was first published in1845 Grace Aguilar’s Women of Israel waspresented as a high school graduation gift andeven as a Christmas present to employees inbusinesses. More than 150 years before thecurrent proliferation of books on women inbiblical narrative and biblical law, Aguilar offeredbrilliant and innovative interpretations of abidingvalue. The extensive introduction and notes willmake this new edition once again accessible tolaypersons, students, and scholars.978-1-61719-626-3 Hb $295.25JEWISH STUDIES CLASSICS: 116 x 9, 1076 pp., 2011 In PressiiiOrder online at www.gorgiaspress.com E-mail: helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com m

SeriesANALECTA GORGIANABIBLE IN TECHNOLOGYThis is a collection of long essays and shortmonographs which are consistently cited bymodern scholars but previously difficult to findbecause of their original appearance in obscurepublications. Carefully selected by a team ofscholars based on their relevance to modernscholarship, these essays can now be fully utilizedby scholars and proudly owned by libraries. Thefollowing are selections from new GP publications.Ben Zvi, Ehud. Two Sides of a Coin: JuxtaposingViews on Interpreting the Book of theTwelve / the Twelve Prophetic Books: 978-1-60724-303-8 Pb, 102 pp. Analecta Gorgiana: 201$45.31Dwight, Harrison. Catalogue of All WorksKnown to Exist in the Armenian Language: Upto the Seventeenth Century 978-1-59333-869-5Pb, Analecta Gorgiana: 54 $29.00Griffith, Sidney. Hunayn ibn Ishaq and theKitab Adab al-falasifah: The Pursuit of Wisdomand a Humane Polity in Early Abbasid Baghdad:978-1-60724-043-3 Pb, 26 pp. Analecta Gorgiana:122 $45.31Montgomery, James. Ascetic Strains in EarlyJudaism: 978-1-59333-868-8 Pb, Analecta Gorgiana:53 $32.00Ramelli, Ilaria. Possible Historical Traces in theDoctrina Addai: 978-1-60724-662-6 Pb, 86 pp.Analecta Gorgiana: 399 $173.19The Bible in Technology (BIT) is a series thatexplores the intersection between biblical studiesand computer technology within the broadercontext of digital humanities. It includes bothstudies that focus specifically on the biblicalliterature as well as studies from other disciplinesacross this pioneering and dynamic field.Cargill, Robert. Qumran through (Real) Time: AVirtual Reconstruction of Qumran and the DeadSea Scrolls 978-1-60724-058-7 Hb, 355 pp. Bible inTechnology: 1 $147.50Fitts, William. The Deserted Medieval Village ofCottam and the Settlement Matrix Model: 978-1-61143-964-9 Hb, Bible in Technology: 6 $153.25Naef, Thomas. Holy Bits: A Guide for UsingComputers in Biblical Scholarship 978-1-60724-327-4 Hb, 154 pp. Bible in Technology: 3 $162.50Terras, Melissa. Changing the Center of Gravity:Transforming Classical Studies ThroughCyberinfrastructure 978-1-60724-881-1 Hb, 485 pp.Bible in Technology: 4 $175.00Vegas Montaner, Luis. Computer AssistedResearch on the Bible in the 21 st Century: 978-1-60724-930-6 Hb, 191 pp. Bible in Technology: 5$145.00iiiOrder online at www.gorgiaspress.com E-mail: helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com

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SERIES 65ancient Syria, its language, culture, religiousbeliefs, and ancient literary works fundamental tothe contextualization of the Hebrew Bible and itsinterpretation.Belnap, Dan. Fillets of Fatling and Goblets ofGold: The Use of Meal Events in the RitualImagery in the Ugaritic Mythological and EpicTexts 978-1-59333-084-2 Hb, 253 pp. GorgiasUgaritic Studies: 4 $179.69Ortlund, Eric. Theophany and Chaoskampf: TheInterpretation of Theophanic Imagery in the BaalEpic, Isaiah, and the Twelve: 978-1-61719-160-2Hb, 323 pp. Gorgias Ugaritic Studies: 5 $148.45Tatu, Silviu. The Qatal//Yiqtol (Yiqtol//Qatal)Verbal Sequence in Semitic Couplets: A CaseStudy in Systemic Functional Grammar withApplications on the Hebrew Psalter and UgariticPoetry 978-1-59333-958-6 Hb, 582 pp. GorgiasUgaritic Studies: 3 $138.00Wiggins, Steve. A Reassessment of Asherah:With Further Considerations of the Goddess978-1-59333-717-9 Hb, 391 pp. Gorgias UgariticStudies: 2 $90.00Wyatt, Nicolas. Word of Tree and Whisper ofStone, and other papers on Ugaritian thought:978-1-59333-716-2 Hb, 252 pp. Gorgias UgariticStudies: 1 $112.50JEWISH STUDIES CLASSICSJewish Studies Classics brings back to academiastandard works in Jewish Studies, which remainvery desirable among scholars in the field, writtenin English, German and Hebrew. The firstvolumes in the series are works from the 19th andearly 20th century scholars of the Wissenschaftdes Judentums and their followers. Each title isreproduced from the original, with a newintroduction by a contemporary scholar.Gruber, Mayer. The Women of Israel by GraceAguilar: Two Volumes in One with a NewIntroduction and Commentary 978-1-61719-626-3 Hb, Jewish Studies Classics: 11 $295.25JUDAISM IN CONTEXTJudaism in Context is a series of monographs andcollections focusing on the relations betweenJews, Judaism, and Jewish culture and the otherpeoples, religions, and cultures among whomJews have lived and flourished.Appelbaum, Alan. The Rabbis’ King-Parables:Midrash From the Third-Century Roman Empire978-1-61719-159-6 Hb, 351 pp. Judaism in Context:7 $166.25Devine, Luke. Lily Montagu’s Shekhinah: 978-1-61143-684-6 Hb, 200 pp. Judaism in Context:$130.00Devine, Luke. From Anglo-First-Wave towardsAmerican Second-Wave Jewish Feminism: Negotiatingwith Jewish Feminist Theology and itsCommunities in the Writing of Amy Levy: 978-1-61719-915-8 Hb, 282 pp. Judaism in Context: 9$142.30Kraus, Matthew. How Should RabbinicLiterature Be Read in the Modern World?: 1-59333-214-9 Hb, 228 pp. Judaism in Context: 4$123.75Schumann, Andrew. Judaic Logic: 978-1-61719-194-7 Hb, 268 pp. Judaism in Context: 8 $140.20Teugels, Lieve. Interpretation, Religion andCulture in Midrash and Beyond: Proceedings ofthe 2006 and 2007 SBL Midrash Sessions 978-1-59333-619-6 Hb, 157 pp. Judaism in Context: 6$112.50Teugels, Lieve. Midrash and Context:Proceedings of the 2004 and 2005 SBLConsultation on Midrash 978-1-59333-582-3 Hb,188 pp. Judaism in Context: 5 $122.50Teugels, Lieve. Midrash and the ExegeticalMind: Proceedings of the 2008 and 2009 SBLMidrash Sessions 978-1-61143-683-9 Hb, 217 pp.Judaism in Context: 10 $132.55iiiOrder online at www.gorgiaspress.com E-mail: helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com m

66 SERIESMEDITERRANEAThis is a book series that opens the notion ofMediterranean Studies to the tessellated spectacleof Modernity. While arguing for the perennialcondition of difference and paradox across thevarious histories, polities, forms and expressionsthat converge in this region, Mediterranea isintended as a discursive, analytic, poetic and criticalspace that hosts, affirms and problematizeswhat is often identified as a hybrid narrative.Voices and approaches that come together in thisspace include, amongst other, philosophers, historians,artists, poets, performers and critics; aswell as pedagogues, sociologists and politicaltheorists.Baldacchino, John. Makings of the Sea: Journey,Doubt and Nostalgia 978-1-59333-695-0 Hb,177 pp. Mediterranea: 1 $126.55Langton, Daniel. Melilah: Manchester Journal ofJewish Studies (2010): 978-1-4632-0055-8 Pb, 114pp. Melilah: Manchester Journal of Jewish Studies: 7$36.05MORAN ETHOseries provides short monographs and tools forthe study of Syriac Christianity in all itstraditions.Brock, Sebastian. Bride of Light: Hymns onMary from the Syriac Churches 978-1-59333-845-9 Pb, 206 pp. Moran Etho: 6 $48.00Salvesen, Alison. The Exodus Commentary ofSt Ephrem: A fourth century Syriac commentaryon the book of Exodus 978-1-61719-808-3 Pb,Moran Etho: 8 $25.25Varghese, Baby. The Commentary of DionysiusBar Salibi on the Eucharist: 978-1-61719-404-7Pb, 118 pp. Moran Etho: 10 $37.70Varghese, Baby. The Commentary of John ofDara on the Eucharist: 978-1-4632-0033-6 Pb,Moran Etho: 12 $32.00ORIENTALIA JUDAICA CHRISTIANAOrientalia Judaica Christiana, the Christian Orientand its Jewish Heritage, is dedicated, first of all, tothe afterlife of the Jewish Second Templetraditions within the traditions of the ChristianEast. A second area of exploration is somepriestly (non-Talmudic) Jewish traditions thatsurvived in the Christian environment.Lourié, Basil. L’église des deux Alliances:Mémorial Annie Jaubert (1912–1980) 978-1-59333-083-5 Hb, 239 pp. Orientalia JudaicaChristiana: 1 $138.00Orlov, Andrei. Divine Manifestations in theSlavonic Pseudepigrapha: 978-1-60724-407-3 Hb,315 pp. Orientalia Judaica Christiana: 2 $171.88A publication of the St. Ephrem EcumenicalResearch Institute (SEERI), the Moran EthoiiiGorgias Press, P.O. Box 6939 Piscataway, NJ 08855-6939 Tel: (732) 885-8900 Fax: (732) 885-8908

SERIES 67PERSIAN MARTYR ACTS IN SYRIAC:TEXT AND TRANSLATIONPersian Martyr Acts in Syriac is a series of Syriacmartyrological texts composed from the fourthcentury into the Islamic period. They detail themartyrdom of a diversity of Christians at thehands of Sasanian kings, bureaucrats, and priests.These documents vary from purely mythologicalaccounts to descriptions of actual events with aclear historical basis, however distorted by thehagiographer’s hand.Brock, Sebastian. The History of the Holy MarMa’in: With a Guide to the Persian Martyr Acts978-1-59333-222-8 Pb, 133 pp. Persian Martyr Actsin Syriac: Text and Translation: 1 $63.80PERSPECTIVES ON HEBREWSCRIPTURES AND ITS CONTEXTSThe series Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures andits Contexts publishes academic works dealingwith study of the Hebrew Bible, ancient Israelitesociety and related ancient societies, biblicalHebrew and cognate languages, the reception ofbiblical texts through the centuries, and thehistory of the discipline. Volumes in the seriesinclude monographs, collective works, and theprinted version of the contents of the importanton-line Journal of Hebrew Scriptures.Ben Zvi, Ehud. Perspectives on HebrewScriptures I: Comprising the contents of Journalof Hebrew Scriptures, volumes 1-4 1-59333-310-2Hb, Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its Contexts:1 $236.25Ben Zvi, Ehud. Perspectives on HebrewScriptures III: Comprising the Contents ofJournal of Hebrew Scriptures, Vol. 6 978-1-59333-976-0 Hb, 496 pp. Perspectives on HebrewScriptures and its Contexts: 3 $125.00Ben Zvi, Ehud. Perspectives on HebrewScriptures II: Comprising the contents of Journalof Hebrew Scriptures, vol. 5 978-1-59333-612-7Hb, 708 pp. Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and itsContexts: 2 $200.00Ben Zvi, Ehud. Perspectives on HebrewScriptures IV: Comprising the Contents ofJournal of Hebrew Scriptures, vol. 7 978-1-59333-920-3 Hb, 573 pp. Perspectives on Hebrew Scripturesand its Contexts: 4 $185.95Ben Zvi, Ehud. A Palimpsest: Rhetoric,Ideology, Stylistics, and Language Relatingto Persian Israel: 978-1-60724-584-1 Hb,343 pp. Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and itsContexts: 5 $151.45Ben Zvi, Ehud. Perspectives on HebrewScriptures VI: Comprising the Contents ofJournal of Hebrew Scriptures, vol. 9 978-1-61143-004-2 Hb, 974 pp. Perspectives on Hebrew Scripturesand its Contexts: 7 $246.10Botica, Aurelian. The Concept of Intention inthe Old Testament, Philo of Alexandria and theEarly Rabbinic Literature: A study in humanintentionality in the area of criminal, cultic andreligious and ethical law. 978-1-59333-653-0 Hb,513 pp. Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and itsContexts: 9 $175.00Carstens, Pernille. The Reception andRemembrance of Abraham: 978-1-4632-0054-1Hb, Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its Contexts:13 $100.00Leavins, Daniel. Verbs of Leading in theHebrew Bible: 978-1-61143-925-0 Hb,324 pp. Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and itsContexts: 11 $148.60Mack, Russell. Neo-Assyrian Prophecy and theHebrew Bible: Nahum, Habakkuk, andZephaniah: 978-1-4632-0077-0 Hb, Perspectives onHebrew Scriptures and its Contexts: 14 $160.30iiiOrder online at www.gorgiaspress.com E-mail: helpdesk@gorgiaspress.com m

68 SERIESVern, Robyn. Dating Archaic Biblical HebrewPoetry: A Critique of the Linguistic Arguments978-1-61143-921-2 Hb, 302 pp. Perspectives onHebrew Scriptures and its Contexts: 10 $145.30Weeks, Noel. Sources and Authors: Assumptionsin the Study of Hebrew Bible Narrative:978-1-4632-0034-3 Hb, 391 pp. Perspectives onHebrew Scriptures and its Contexts: 12 $158.65PERSPECTIVESON SYRIAC LINGUISTICSPRO ORIENTE STUDIESIN THE SYRIAC TRADITIONA publication of the International SyriacLanguage Project (ISLP), the Perspectives onSyriac Linguistics series contains monographs,paper collections, and reference works on Syriaclexicography and related ancient languages.Dyk, Janet. Foundations for Syriac LexicographyIII: Colloquia of the International SyriacLanguage Project 978-1-60724-072-3 Hb, 337 pp.Perspectives on Syriac Linguistics: 4 $187.44Forbes, Dean. Foundations for SyriacLexicography: Colloquia of the InternationalSyriac Language Project 1-59333-138-X Hb,Perspectives on Syriac Linguistics: 1 $89.00Meyer, Mark. A Comparative Dialectical Studyof Genitive Constructions in AramaicTranslations of Exodus: 978-1-61143-002-8Hb, Perspectives on Syriac Linguistics: 5$218.75Taylor, David. An Annotated Bibliography ofPrinted Syriac Lexica: 978-1-59333-189-4 Hb,Perspectives on Syriac Linguistics: 2 $123.75Williams, P. J. Foundations for SyriacLexicography II: Colloquia of the InternationalSyriac Language Project 978-1-60724-088-4 Hb,212 pp. Perspectives on Syriac Linguistics: 3 $171.38Since its foundation in 1964 by the lateCardinal Franz König, Pro Oriente (Austria)has focused on the relationships between theRoman Catholic Church and the EasternChristian Churches. In order to help thevarious churches of the Syriac tradition and topreserve their unique heritage which is ofimportance for the whole of Christianity, theFoundation edits the “Pro Oriente Studies inthe Syriac Tradition”. A team of expertscholars from the various Syriac Churches—the “Pro Oriente Forum Syriacum”—advisesand consults the Foundation to developappropriate studies and helps to coordinate theresearch projects. This includes the scholarlyexchange in academic conferences called “PROORIENTE Colloquia Syriaca” as well asindividual studies, regional study groups in theMiddle East, India and elsewhere, which arepublished in this series.Winkler, Dietmar. Syriac ChurchesEncountering Islam: Past Experiences and FuturePerspectives 978-1-61143-001-1 Hb, 265 pp. ProOriente Studies in the Syriac Tradition: 1 $139.75iiiGorgias Press, P.O. Box 6939 Piscataway, NJ 08855-6939 Tel: (732) 885-8900 Fax: (732) 885-8908

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Index of AuthorsAbdisho of Nisibis, 77Butts, Aaron, 71, 77Gigineishvili, Levan, 61, 77Ali, Jamal, 57, 73Cargill, Robert, 54, 75Gitari, David, 38Ambjörn, Lena, 71, 75Carstens, Pernille, 48, 67 Golitzin, Alexander, 51, 71Ameer, John, 73Cattoi, Thomas, 61, 78Goodine, Elizabeth, 58, 74Anderson, William, 21, 57 Childers, J., 70, 74Graves, David, 57, 74Appelbaum, Alan, 33, 65 Cho, Sang Youl, 56, 73Griffith, Sidney, 54, 75Arapoglou, Eleftheria, 14, Clohessy, Christopher, 57, Grisbrooke, W. Jardine, 3953, 6373Gruber, Mayer, 11, 53Arneson, Hans, 29, 71Connell, Martin, 38Gubser, Peter, 20Assad, Assad, 45, 56Coomber, Matthew, 13, 22, Hallman, Joseph, 64, 77Avioz, Michael, 7355Hansbury, Mary, 71, 77Baldacchino, John, 13, 27, Cribb, Bryan, 57, 74Harrak, Amir, 12, 65, 7166Crosby, Elise, 57, 73Harvey, Susan, 71Baldovin, John, 36Cuming, Geoffrey, 38Hatch, William, 52Bar, Shaul, 21Dalby, Mark, 38Hebblethwaite, David, 39Baranov, Vladimir, 69, 75 Davies, J. Douglas, 38Heidl, György, 61, 75Barrett, Deirdre, 59, 73Day, Jim, 26, 62Holeton, David, 39Barrett-Lennard, R. J. S., 36 Decter, Jonathan, 64, 76 Holloway, Steven, 64, 73Barsoum, Aphram I, 69, 75, del Río Sánchez, Francisco, Houghton, H., 15, 70, 747851, 61, 78Howarth, Randall, 27Bcheiry, Iskandar, 30, 60, den Biesen, Kees, 58, 77 Humm, Alan, 7475Depuydt, Leo, 73Hunter, Erica C. D., 61, 75Beckwith, Roger, 36DeRouchie, Jason, 57, 74 Ibrahim, Gregorios, 31, 61Behnam, Gregorius, 69, 76 Devine, Luke, 34, 50, 65 Jackson, Samuel, 59, 73Belnap, Dan, 65, 78Dragani, Anthony, 60, 78 James, Paul, 39Ben Zvi, Ehud, 22, 54, 67, Driver, S., 74Jarkins, Stephanie, 58, 7573Dumbrill, Richard, 51Johnson, Maxwell, 39Benjamin, Daniel, 78Duval, Rubens, 52, 62Johnston, Pamela, 58, 74Bennett, Clinton, 62, 73 Dwight, Harrison, 54, 77 Jongkind, Dirk, 70, 74Berg, Ina, 58, 74Dyk, Janet, 68, 78Kamash, Zena, 20, 60Bergen, David, 55, 73Ebied, Rifaat, 73Karavites, Peter, 74Bertaina, David, 30, 60Edwards, Timothy, 57, 74 Karay Tripp, Diane, 39Bird, Michael, 22, 64Fairen, Glen, 78Katz, Jill, 60, 73Birdsall, Neville, 70, 73Farag, Lois, 58, 77Kaufman, Stephen, 43, 71,Blumfield, Fiona, 62, 76 Fenwick, John, 15, 38, 61,77Bosman, Jan, 55, 7475Keaveney, Arthur, 74Botica, Aurelian, 50, 67 Ferencz, Nicholas, 60, 75 Khan, Geoffrey, 63, 77Boutros, Ramez, 11Fiensy, David, 78Kiraz, George, 10, 11, 32,Bowen, Alan, 8, 9Fitts, William, 50, 5445, 52, 61, 62, 75Bradshaw, Paul, 36, 37Forbes, Dean, 68Kiraz, George A., 11, 65Brennan, T., 9, 54Fox, Samuel, 63, 77Kiraz, Tabetha, 26, 36Brock, Sebastian, 45, 49, 51, Fradkin, Raúl, 44, 56Kitchen, Robert, 49, 50, 71,62, 63, 66, 67, 71, 74, 75, Freedman, Daphne, 59, 76 7577, 78Gather, Jill, 31, 58Kollamparampil, Thomas,Brown, S., 62, 74Gaunt, David, 7632, 43, 59, 71, 72, 77Brune, Lester, 56, 77Gebru, Mebratu Kiros, 31 Kostos, Sofia Kontogeorge,Buchanan, Colin, 37Gelfer, Joseph, 4421Buckley, Jorunn, 42, 63, 76 Gerd, De Ley, 76Kraus, Matthew, 65, 76iiiGorgias Press, P.O. Box 6939 Piscataway, NJ 08855-6939 Tel: (732) 885-8900 Fax: (732) 885-8908

80 INDEX OF AUTHORSLahn, Kristina, 12, 66Langton, Daniel, 50Leavins, Daniel, 67Lee, Bernon, 23, 57Lee, Peter, 78Lehto, Adam, 46, 61Lenaers, Roger, 78Lenzi, Alan, 74Lier, Gudrun, 23, 57Livanos, Christopher, 75Lloyd, Trevor, 40Lourié, Basil, 66, 69, 70, 74,75Mack, Russell, 48, 68Mahaney, William, 74Malkin, Yaakov, 76Mathews Jr., Edward G.,72, 77McCollum, Adam, 62, 72,77, 78McKelvey, Michael G., 48,57Menicocci, Marco, 48Menze, Volker, 16, 72, 77Meyer, Mark, 50, 68Miller, Dana, 51, 72Miller, Robert, 16, 61, 75Mirelman, Sam, 42, 64Mitchell, Matthew, 57, 74Modine, Mitchel, 57, 74Monferrer-Sala, Juan Pedro,15, 33, 61, 74, 75Montgomery, James, 54, 76Moosa, Matti, 69, 73Morfesis, Zaharati, 76Naef, Thomas, 54, 74Niculescu, Mihai, 61, 75Nineveh, Isaac of, 78Noldeke, Theodor, 78Nosnitsin, D., 70, 75Odisho, Edward, 64, 76Orlov, Andrei, 67, 75Ortlund, Eric, 47, 65Pagoulatos, Gerasimos, 75Pennacchietti, Fabrizio, 74Perdicoyianni, Helen, 50, 62Petermann, Julius, 63, 77Peters, Bosco, 40Pfoh, Emanuel, 24, 55Phillips, L. Edward, 40Pignot, Hélène, 64Power, David, 40Protopopov, Michael, 75Ramelli, Ilaria, 54, 61, 75,77Rand, Michael, 59, 76Rees, Margo, 63, 77Reiner, Hanan, 60, 78Rich, Melanie, 78Richardson, M. E. J., 62, 76Robertson, Warren, 24, 57Robinson, J., 15Rorem, Paul, 40Rubin, Aaron, 35, 62Russell, Paul, 78Saka, Ishaq, 69, 75Salvesen, Alison, 24, 66Sansom, Michael, 40Satoshi, Toda, 49, 56Schumann, Andrew, 34, 65Seaich, Eugene, 73Sebastian, J. Jayakiran, 64,77Shemunkasho, Aho, 55, 76Sherry, Kurt, 49Sidwell, Barbara, 28, 58, 64Simut, Ramona, 43, 64Sokoloff, Michael, 78Soltysiak, Arkadiusz, 10, 55,64, 73Spät, Eszter, 44, 60Sperry-White, Grant, 40Spinks, Bryan, 41Stauffer, S. Anita, 41Stavridis, Stavros, 48, 56, 62Stewart-Sykes, Alistair, 41Stith, D., 57, 74Stone, Lawson, 48, 58Studebaker, Steven, 64, 77Stuhlman, Byron, 61, 76Sun, Chloe, 60, 73Talay, Shabo, 55, 76Tatu, Silviu, 65, 78Taylor, David, 52, 68Terras, Melissa, 28, 54Teugels, Lieve, 35, 65, 66,76Thiselton, Anthony, 41Thomas, Stephen, 61, 76Thomas, Talley, 41Torrance, Iain, 32Tovey, Phillip, 41Trigona-Harany, Benjamin,9, 78Turner, Jr., William, 60, 78Unterseher, Lisa, 59, 77van Peursen, Wido, 53, 61Varghese, Baby, 12, 53, 66Vegas Montaner, Luis, 25,55Vern, Robyn, 25, 68Walter, Donald, 71, 78Walters, J., 47, 62Weeks, Noel, 49Wiggins, Steve, 65, 78Wilkins, Lauress, 25, 55Williams, P. J., 68, 78Winkler, Dietmar, 33, 69Withey, Donald, 42Wyatt, Nicolas, 10, 78Yacoub III, Ignatius, 69, 76Yossa, Kenneth, 61, 76Youssef, Youhanna, 49, 62Zammit, Martin, 62, 78Zucconi, Laura, 26Gorgias Press, P.O. Box 6939 Piscataway, NJ 08855-6939 Tel: (732) 885-8900 Fax: (732)iii885-8908

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