"The recovery of numerous narratives of many types from throughout the Near East has encouraged scholars to compare these texts with those found in scripture. Most such comparisons have set biblical stories up against various Near Eastern mythic-epic poems."--BOOK JACKET. "In or…
This book compares a variety of biblical narratives with the stories found in several Northwest Semitic inscriptions from the ancient kingdom of Judah and its contemporary Syro-Palestinian neighbors. In genre, language, and cultural context, these epigraphic stories are closer t…
Provides information on Carian, one of the Indo-European languages spoken in ancient Anatolia. This book covers the major topics of research on Carian: the direct and indirect sources of Carian inscriptions, the history of the decipherment, the Carian alphabet, and the phonologi…
Greek inscriptions form a valuable resource for the study of every aspect of life and death in the Greco-Roman world. They are primary witnesses to society's laws and institutions; social structures; public cults and private associations; and, of course, language. An Introductio…
