Ancient Near East – New Books (recently published)

Entries shown in red indicate forthcoming publications

• ADAMS, R. (ed.) Jordan: An Archaeological Reader (Equinox 2005) 576pp., 168 b&w plates, — forthcoming, p/b. £29.99
• ADAMS, C. & ROY, J. (eds.) Travel, Geography and Culture in Ancient Greece and the Near East (Oxbow Books 2007) h/b. £40.00
• ADIEGO, I. J. The Carian Language (Brill 2006) h/b. c£132.00
• ALLSEN, T. The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press 2006) ranges from antiquity to 19th century, covering Ancient Egypt, Central Asia, India etc., h/b. £36.00
• ALTHAUS, F. & SUCLIFFE, M. The Road to Byzantium: Luxury Arts of Antiquity (Fontaka 2006) h/b. £32.00
• ANATOLIAN STUDIES 53 (Journal of the British Institute of Archaeology at Amman) p/b. £25.00
• ANGELOV, D. Imperial Ideology and Political Thought in Byzantium 1204-1330 (Cambridge UP 2006) h/b. £60.00
• APERGHIS, G. The Seleukid Royal Economy: the Finances and Financial Administration of the Seleukid Empire (CUP 2005) 378pp. – h/b. £55.00
• ARNOLD, B. T. Who were the Babylonians? (Brill 2005 / Arch. & Biblical Studies SBL 10) h/b. c£56.00
• ASCALONE, E. Mesopotamia: Assyrians, Sumerians, Babylonians (Univ. of California 2007) p/b. £16.95
• ASH, J. A Byzantine Journey (Tauris Books 2006) p/b. £9.99
• AYALON, E. The Assemblage of Bone and Ivory: Artifacts from Caesarea Maritima Israel (BAR S1457 / 2006) p/b. £38.00
• BAKKER, R. DE GROOT, A. HUYGENS, C. & SCHMIDT, J. Istanbul: The City and the Sultan (Thames & Hudson 2007) h/b. £29.95
• BALLOSI RESTELLI, F. The Development of “Cultural Regions” in the Neolithic of the Near East (BAR S1482 / 2006) p/b. £39.00
• BATTINI, L. & VILLARD, P. (eds.) Medecine et medecins au Proche-Orient ancien (BAR S1528 2006) p/b. £45.00
• BAUMER, C. The Church of the East: An Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity (Tauris 2006) h/b. £25.00
• BECKER, L. & KONDOLEON, C. (eds.) The Arts of Antioch: Art Historical and Scientific Approaches to Roman Mosaics and a Catalogue of the Worcester Art Museum Antioch Collection (Princeton Univ. Press 2005) h/b. £48.95
• BELL, C. The Evolution of Long Distance Trading Relationships across the LBA/Iron Age Transition in the Northern Levantine Coast (BAR 1574 2006) p/b. £39.00
• BEN-SHLOMO, D. Decorated Philistine Pottery: An archaeological and archaeometric study (BAR 1541 2006) p/b. £44.00
• BERELOV, I. Occupation and Abandonment of Middle Bronze Age Zahrat adh-Dhra’ 1 Jordan: The behaviour implications of quantitive ceramic analyses (BAR S1493 / 2006) p/b. £40.00
• BERNDT-ERSOZ, S. Phrygian Rock-Cut Shrines: Structure, Function and Cult Practice (Brill 2006) h/b. c£128.00
• BIENKOWSKI, P. and GALOR, K. (eds.) Crossing the Rift: Resources, Settlement Patterns and Interaction in the Wadi Arabah (Oxbow Books / CBRL 2005) now published, h/b. £45.00
• BOELE, V., PIATNITSKY, Y. & ZALESSKAYA, V. Pilgrim Treasures from the Hermitage Byzantium-Jerusalem (includes late Palestinian icons, oil lamps, bronze crosses from early Byzantine period) (Lund Humphries 2006) h/b. £19.99
• BOWERSTOCK, G. W. Mosaics in History: The Near East: from late Antiquity to Islam (Belknap Press 2006) h/b. £14.95
• BRANDT, H. & KOLB, F. Orbis Provinciarum: Lycia et Pamphylia: Eine römische Provinz im Südwestern Kleinasiens (P. von Zabern 2004/2005), h/b. c£38.00
• BRISCH, G. (ed.) World Enough, and Time: The Travel Chronicles of Mrs J. Theodore Bent Volume 1: Greece and the Levantine Littoral (Archeopress 2006) h/b, £69.50; p/b, £27.50
• BROSIUS, M. The Persians (Routledge 2005) h/b £55.00, p/b £12.99
• BROWN, M. Lawrence of Arabia: The Life, The Legend (Thames & Hudson 2005) h/b. £24.95
• BRYCE, T. The Trojans and their Neighbours (Routledge 2005) including the latest research, h/b. £60.00, p/b £16.99
• BURGH, T. Listening to Artifacts: Music Culture in Ancient Israel/Palestine (T&T Clark 2006) h/b £50.00, p/b £16.99
• BURNS, R. Damascus: A History (Routledge 2005) h/b. £60.00
• BURNS, R. Damascus: A History (Routledge 2006) p/b. £20.99
• BUTTERLIN, P. LEBEAU, M. & PIERRE, B. (eds.) Les espaces syro-mésopotamiens Dimensions de l’experience humaine au Proche-Orient ancien: Volume d’hommage offert à Jean Claude Margueron - SUBART 17 (Brepols 2006) p/b. c£115.00
• CAGMAN, F., OLCER, N & ROXBURGH, D. (eds.) Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years 600-1600 (Royal Academy of Arts 2005) exhibition catalogue, h/b. £50.00
• CANFORA, L. Julius Caesar: The People’s Dictator (Edinburgh University Press 2007) h/b. £29.99
• CARR, A. W. Cyprus and the Devotional Arts of Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades (Ashgate 2005) h/b. c£75
• CESARETTI, P. Theodora: Empress of Byzantium (Thames & Hudson 2005), h/b. £18.95
• CHADWICK, R. First Civilizations: Ancient Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt (Equinox 2005) 256pp., 242 b&w maps, halftones & line drawings & 20 colour plates, h/b £65.00, p/b £17.99
• CHAREYRON, N. Pilgrims to Jerusalem in the Middle Ages (trans. by W. Donald Wilson) (Columbia Univ. Press 2005) h/b. £29.50
• CHESSON, M. S. and DARNELL, J. C. et al. ASOR Annual, Volume 59: Part1: Results of the 2001 Kerak Plateau Early Bronze Age Survey; Part II: Two Early Alphabetic Inscriptions from the Wadi el-Hol (ASOR 2005) h/b. £40.00
• CHOLIDIS, N. & MARTIN, L. Der Tell Halaf und sein Ausgraber Max Freiher von Oppenheim (P. von Zabern 2005). c£24.00
• CHRISTA, P. SAUNDERS, D. & KHAMMASH, A. Jordan: A Timeless Land (Tauris 2005) 256pp., 300 colour illustrations, h/b. £35.00
• CILINGIROGLU, A. & DARBYSHIRE, G. (eds.) Anatolian Iron Ages 5: Proceedings of the 5th Anatolian Iron Ages Colloquium held at Van, 6-10 Aug. 2001 (British Inst. of Arch. at Ankara 2005) p/b. £50.00
• CLARK, J. (ed.) Archaeological Perspectives on the Transmission and Transformation of Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean (Council for British Research in the Levant 2005) h/b. £40.00
• CLELAND, L. HARLOW, M. & LLEWELLYN-JONES, L. (eds.) The Clothed Body in the Ancient World (Oxbow Books 2005) p/b. £28.00
• CLOT, A. Suleiman the Magnificent (Saqi 2005) - new in paperback, p/b. £12.99
• COHEN, A. C. Death, Rituals, Ideology and the Development of early Mesopotamian Kings: Towards a new understanding of Iraq’s Royal Cemetery of Ur (Brill 2005) h/b. c£99.00
• COHEN, G. M. The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin and North Africa (University of California Press 2006) h/b. £55.00
• COLLON, D. & GEORGE, A. (es.) Nineveh: papers of the XLIXe Recontre Assyriologique Internationale, London (British Schoolf of Arachaeology in Iraq 2005) 2 vols. h/b. £75.00
• CONNELLY, B. J. Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece (Princeton UP 2007) h/b. 26.95
• COOPER, L. Early Urbanisation on the Syrian Euphrates (Routledge 2006) — now published (formerly advertised as Ancient Cities of the Euphrates) h/b. £60.00
• CORMACK, R. Icons (British Museum Press 2007) h/b. £14.99
• Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae, Volume Addendum:Squeezes in the Max van Berchem Collection (Palestine, Trans-Jordan, Northern Syria) Squeezes 1 - 84 , Registered, photographed and studied by Moshe Sharon (Brill 2007) h/b. c£108.00
• COULANGE, P. Dieu, ami des pauvres: Etude sur la connivence entre le Tres-Haut et les petits (OBO 223) h/b. c£45.00
• CRIBIORE, R. The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch (Princeton UP 2007) h/b. £29.95
• CURATOLA, G. Persian Ceramics: From the 9th to the 14th Century (Skira 2007) h/b. £27.50
• CURRAN, J. Roman Judea (Routledge 2006). h/b £45.00, p/b £15.99
• CURTIS, V. S. & CANBY, S. R. The British Museum Persian Love Poetry (British Museum Press 2005), h/b. £9.99
• CURTIS, V. S. & STEWART, S. Birth of the Persian Empire: The Idea of Iran, Volume 1 (Tauris 2005) 192pp., illustrated. The book brings together a multi-disciplinary view of ancient Iran in the first millennium BC, giving a critical approach to some traditional interpretations, from two experts, h/b. £39.50
• CUSSINI, E. (ed.) A Journey to Palmyra: Collected Essays to Remember Delbert R. Hillers (Brill 2005), h/b. c£96.00
• DE BLOIS, F. & SIMS-WILLIAMS, N. Dictionary of Manichaean Texts Vol. II: Texts from Iraq and Iran (Texts in Syriac, Arabic, Persian & Zorastrian Middle Persian) (Brepols 2006) h/b. c£73.00
• DE PONTCHARRA-POSTNIKOWA, N. A Vision of Yemen / Regard sur le Yemen — photographs by Sheikh Hasan Al Tharin - English & French text (Skira 2007) h/b. £34.95
• DEGER-JALKOTZY, S. & PANAGL, O. Die nuen Linear B-Texte aus Theben: Ihr Aufschusswert für die Mykenische Sprache und Kultur (Austrian Academy of Sciences 2006). c£87.00
• DEL MEDICO, H. E. The Riddle of the Scrolls (background to the continuing riddle of the scrolls) (Kegan Paul 2006) — due October, h/b. £85.00
• DEL OLMO LETE, G. Canaanite Religion according to the Liturgical Texts of Ugarit (Eisenbrauns 2005) p/b. c£39.00
• DURKIN-MEISTERERNST, D. The Hymns to the Living Soul: Middle Persian and Parthian Texts in the Turfan Collection (Brepols 2006) p/b. c£55.00
• DURRANI, N. The Tihamah Coastal Plain of South-West Arabia in its Regional Context c600BC - AD600 (BAR S1456 / 2006) p/b. £34.00
• DVORJETSKI, E. Leisure, Pleasure and Healing: Spa Culture and Medicine in Ancient Eastern Mediterranean (Brill 2007) h/b. c£125.00
• EAGLETON, C. & WILLIAMS, J. Money: A History (British Museum Press 2007) p/b. £14.99
• ECKSTEIN, A. M. Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War and the Rise of Rome (Univ. of California Press 2007) h/b. £32.50
• EDELMAN, D. The Origins of the ‘Second’ Temple: Persian Imperial Policy and the Rebuilding of Jerusalem (Equinox 2005). h/b £60.00, p/b £18.99
• EGGLER, J. & KEEL, O. Corpus der Siegel-Amulette aus Jordanien: Vom Neolithikum bis zur Perserzeit (Fribourg 2006 OBO SA) h/b. c£84.00
• EHRINGHAUS, H. Gotter, Herrscher, Inschriften: Die Felsreliefs der hethitischen Grossreichszeit in der Turkei (P. von Zabern 2006) h/b. c£38.00
• ELEDGE, C. D. The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Brill 2006) h/b. c£52.00
• ERCIYAS BURCU, D. Wealth, Aristocracy and Royal Propaganda under the Hellenistic Kingdom of the Mithradatids in the Central Black Sea Region of Turkey (Brill 2005) h/b. c£95.00
• EVANS, A. Ancient Illyria: An Archaeological Exploration (Tauris 2007) h/b. £45.00
• FAIENCES: Faïence de l’Antiquité de l’Égypte a Iran – Catalogue Musée du Louvre 2005 – 10/06/05 – 12/09/05 (Paris 2005). c£42.00
• FAUST, A. Israel’s Ethnogenesis: Settlement, Interaction, Expansion and Resistance (Equinox 2005) h/b. £75.00
• FELDMAN, M. & CHENG, J. Ancient Near Eastern Art in Context: Studies in Honour of Irene J. Winter by her students (Brill 2007) h/b. c£110.00
• FIELDS, N. Troy c.1700-1250BC (Osprey 2004) p/b. £10.99
• FIELDS, W. Dead Sea Scrolls: A Short History (Brill 2006) p/b. c£17.00
• FINKEL, I. L. (ed.) Ancient Board Games in Perspective (British Museum Press 2006) h/b. £50.00
• FINKEL, I. L. & GELLER, M. J. (eds.) Disease in Babylonia (Brill 2006 / Cuneiform Monographs 36) h/b.c£69.00
• FINLAYSON, W. & MITHEN, S. The Early Prehistory of Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan: Excavations at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Site of WF16 and Archaeological Survey of Wadis Faynam, Ghuwayr and Al Bustan (Oxbow Books / CBRL 2006) h/b. £75.00
• FLETCHER, R. Moorish Spain (University of California Press 2006) now in paperback. £13.95
• FOSTER, B. R. (ed.) Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature (University of Maryland 2005) new Third Edition, 2 Volumes in 1, p/b. £48.00

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• FRANKEN, H. J. A History of Pottery and Potters in Ancient Jerusalem: Excavated by K.M.Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961-1967 (Equinox 2005) h/b. £85.00
• FRENCH, D. Canhasan Sites 2: Canhasan 1: The Pottery (British Institute at Ankara 2005), h/b. £45.00
• FREU, J. Suppiluliuma et la veuve du pharaon Histoire d’un marriage manqué. Essai sur les relations egypto-hittites, Collection Kubaba Serie Antiquite (Paris 2005). c£19.50
• FRIBERG, J. Unexpected links between Egyptian and Babylonian Mathematics (World Scientific Publishing 2005) – academic from Gothenburg, Sweden, shows methods used for study of mathematical cuneiform texts can be applied to Egyptian mathematical texts, h/b. £34.00
• GALOR, K. HUMBERT, J. B. & ZANGENBERG, J. (eds.) The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Archaeological Interpretations and Debates (Proceedings of Conference held at Brown Univ. 2002) (Brill 2005) h/b. c£92.00
• GARDNER, I., LIEU, S. & PARRY, K. From Palmyra to Zayton: Epigraphy and Iconography (Silk Road Studies vol 10) (Brepols 2005) p/b. c£56.00
• GARSTANG, J. The Land of the Hittites: An Account of Recent Explorations and Discoveries in Asia Minor (Kegan Paul 2007) h/b. £85.00
• GIBSON, S. The Cave of John the Baptist (Arrow 2005) new in paperback. £7.99
• GILHUS, I. S. Animals Gods and Humans: Changing Attitudes to Animals in Greek, Roman and Early Christian Thought (Routledge 2006). h/b £75.00, p/b £19.99
• GILLIS, C. & NOSCH, M-L. B. (eds.) Ancient Textiles (Oxbow Books 2007) h/b. £35.00
• GLASSNER, J-J. Mesopotamian Chronicles (Brill 2004) — all chronicle literature from early 2nd millennium to Seleucid times, revised & supplemented. h/b c£105.00, (SBL Series) p/b £39.50

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• GOFFART, W. Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age and the later Roman Empire (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press 2006) — due June, h/b. £45.50
• GOLDHILL, S. The Temple of Jerusalem (Profile Books 2005) h/b. £15.95
• GOLDSTEIN, S. M. Glass: From Sasanian Antecedents to European Imitations (Tauris 2005), h/b. £135.00
• GONLIN, N. & LOHSE, J. (eds.) Commoner Ritual and ideology in Ancient Mesopotamia (Univ. of Colorado 2007) h/b. £52.50
• GOODWIN, A. Arab-Byzantine Coinage: Studies in the Khalili Collections Volume IV (The Khalili Collections 2005) h/b. £35.00
• GRABAR, O. Jerusalem: Constructing the Study of Islamic Art, Vol. IV (Variorum Collected Studies) (Ashgate Press 2005) h/b. £65.00
• GRABAR, O. The Dome of the Rock (Belknap Press 2006) h/b. £14.95
• GREGORY, T. E. A History of Byzantium (Blackwell 2005) h/b £55.00, p/b £15.99
• GUINAN, A. K. et al. If a Man Builds a Joyful House: Assyriological Studies in Honour of Erle Verdun Leichty (Brill 2005) h/b. c£116.00
• GUINEAU, B. Glossaire des matériaux de la couleur et des termes techniques employes dans les recettes de couleurs anciennes (Brepols 2005), h/b. c£78.00
• GULDAGER, B. & STOLBA, V. (eds.) Surveying the Greek Chora: the Black Sea Region in a Comparative Perspective (Aarhus UP. 2007) £26.95
• HAAS, V. Die hethitische Literatur: Texte, Stilistik, Motive (W. de Gruyter 2006) c£50.00
• HAERINCK, E. & OVERLAET, B. Luristan Excavation Documents Vol. V: The Iron Age III Graveyard at War Kabud, Pusht-I kuhn, Luristan (Textes et Memoires XXVII) (Peeters 2004 / Acta Iranica 42). c£90.00
• HAERINCK, E. & OVERLAET, B. Luristan Excavation Documents Vol. VI: Bani Surmah: An early Bronze Age Graveyard in Pusht-I Kuhn, Luristan (Textes et Memoires XXVIII) (Peeters 2006 / Acta Iranica 43). c£90.00
• HALLORAN, J. (ed.) Sumerian Lexicon: A Dictionary Guide to the Ancient Sumerian Language (Logogram Pub. 2007) h/b £ 70.00; p/b £50.00
• HAMBLIN, W. J. Warfare in the Ancient Near East to 1600BC: Holy Warrior at the Dawn of History (Routledge 2005). h/b £75.00, p/b £29.99
• HAMBLIN, W. & SEELY, D. Solomon’s Temple: Myth and History (Thames & Hudson 2007) h/b. £19.95
• HANNAH, R. Time in Antiquity (Routledge 2006). h/b £55.00, p/b £18.99
• HARDY, G. Ancient Botany (Routledge 2006). h/b £50.00, p/b £17.99
• HARRIS, J. Byzantium and the Crusades (Hambledon 2006) p/b. £12.99
• HERRMANN, C. Formen fuer aegyptische Fayencen aus Qantir Band II: Katalog der Sammlung des Franciscan Biblical Museum, Jerusalem und zweier Privatsammlungen (OBO 225 Fribourg 2007) h/b. c£30.00
• HIRSCHFELD, Y. Qumran in Context: Reassessing the Archaeological Evidence (Hendrickson 2005) h/b. c£25.00
• HODDER, I. (ed.) Catalhöyük Perspectives: Themes from the 1995-99 Seasons (MacDonald Institute for Archeological Research) h/b. £39.00
• HODDER, I. Catalhöyük: The Leopard’s Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of Turkey’s Ancient Town (Thames and Hudson 2006) — due Many/June, h/b. £24.95
• HODDER, I. (ed.) Inhabiting Çatalhöyük: Reports from the 1995-99 Seasons (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 2005) h/b. £75.00
• HODOS, T. Responses to Colonization in the Iron-Age Mediterranean (Routledge 2006) h/b. £65.00
• HOHLEFELDER, R. L. (ed) The Maritime World of Ancient Rome (Univ. of Michigan 2007) — due June, h/b. £59.95
• HOLLAND, T. Archaeology of the Bronze Age, Hellenistic and Roman Remains at an Ancient Town on the Euphrates River: Excavations at Tell Es-Sweyhat, Syria Volume 2. Large 2 Volume set, Text and Plates (Oriental Institute, Chicago 2005), h/b. £90.00
• HOLLAND, T. Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (Little & Brown 2005), h/b. £20.00
• HOLMES, McNEAL, E. (trans.) The Conquest of Constantinople: Robert of Clari (Columbia U.P. 2005) h/b £42.00, p/b £15.00
• HOLT, F. L. Alexander the Great and the Mystery of the Elephant Medallions (Univ. of California 2005) - new in paperback, p/b. £11.95
• HOLT, F. Into the Land of Bones: Alexander the Great in Afghanistan (Univ. of California 2006). h/b, £16.95; p/b, £10.95
• HOSS, S. Baths and Bathing: The culture of bathing and the baths and thermae in Palestine from the Hasmoneans to the Moslem conquest (BAR 2005), p/b. £45.00
• HOWARD-JOHNSTON, J. East Rome: Sasanian Persia and the End of Antiquity (Ashgate 2006) h/b. £68.00
• ILES JOHNSON, S. & STRUCK, P. T. Mantike: Studies in Ancient Divination (Brill 2005) h/b. c£86.00
• INSOLL, T. The Land of Enki in the Islamic Era: Pearls, Palms and Religious identity in Bahrain (Kegan Paul 2005), h/b. £95.00
• JACOBSEN, T. The Harp that Once&…Sumerian Poetry in Translation (Yale Univ. Press 1997) p/b. £16.99
• JACOBSON, D. M. The Hellenistic Tomb Paintings of Marisa – Palestine Exploration Fund Annual VII 2002 (Aris & Phillips 2005), h/b. £45.00
• JASMIN, M. L’étude de la transition du Bronze récent II au Fer I en Palestine méridionale (BAR S1495 / 2006) p/b. £49.00
• JASPERS, N. (trans. from German) The Crusades (Routledge 2006). h/b £50.00, p/b £16.99
• JEFFREYS, E.M. (ed.) Byzantine Style, Religion and Civilization: In Honour of Sir Steven Runciman (Cambridge UP 2006) h/b. £80.00
• JENKINS-MADINA, M. Raqqa Revisited: Ceramics of Ayyubid Syria (MET/Yale UP 2006) h/b. £35.00
• JOHNS, C. Horses: History, Myth, Art (British Museum Press 2006) — due October, includes Egyptian paintings / Assyrian stone reliefs etc.) h/b. £16.99
• JURSA, M. Neo-Babylonian Legal and Administrative Documents: Typology, Contents and Archives (Ugarit-Verlag Munster 2005 / GMTR1) p/b. £35.00
• KAELIN, O. “Modell Ägypten”: Adoption von Innovation im Mesopotamien des 3.Jahrtausends v. Chr. (Fribourg 2006 / OBO SA) h/b. c£47.00
• KALLIGAS, H. Monemvasia: A Byzantine City State (Routledge 2006) h/b. £50.00
• KEALHOFER, L. (ed.) The Archaeology of Midas and the Phrygians: Recent work at Gordian (Univ. of Pennsylvania Museum of Arch. & Anthropology 2005), h/b. £38.50
• KEAY, J. The Spice Route (John Murray 2005) h/b. £20.00
• KENNEDY, D. Gerasa and the Decapolis: A ‘virtual island’ in Northwest Jordan (Duckworth 2007) p/b. £12.99
• KERVRAN, M. HIEBERT, F. & ROUGEULLE, A. Qal’at al-Bahrain. A Trading and Military Outpost 3rd Millennium B.C. – 17th Century AD (Brepols 2006) p/b. c£86.00
• KHROUSHKOVA, L. Les monuments chretiens de la cote orientale de la Mer Noire. Abkhazie (Brepols 2006/7) c£88.00
• KILLEBREW, A. E. Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity: An Archaeological Study of Egyptians, Canaanites and early Israel 1300-1100 B.C.E. (Brill 2006). h/b c£ 105.00, (SBL Series 9) p/b £39.50

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• KING, H. (ed.) Health in Antiquity (Routledge 2005) h/b. £50.00
• KING, K. What is Gnosticism? (Belknap Press / Harvard U.P. Press 2005), p/b. £10.95
• KINGSHIRN, W. Divination in Late Antiquity (Routledge 2006) h/b £60.00, p/b £20.99
• KISS, K. (ed.) Universal Grammar in the Reconstruction of Ancient Languages (Walter de Gruyter 2005) h/b. c£85.00
• KLETTER, R. Just Past? The Making of Israeli Archaeology (Equinox 2005) — tells the story from 1950s & 1960s using original documents/archival material previously unpublished, h/b. £35.00
• KLENGEL, H. Hattuschili und Ramses: Hethiter und Ägypter – ihr langer weg zum Frieden (P. von Zabern 2006) h/b. c£38.00
• KOCHER, F. Die Babylonische-Assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen, Text 1: Keilsschrifttexte (Band 7: M. J. Geller: Renal and Rectal Disease Texts) (Walter de Gruyter 2005), h/b. c£95
• KORFMANN, M. O. Troia: Archäologie eines Siedlungshügels und seiner Landschaft (P. von Zabern 2006) h/b. c£49.00

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• KOVELMAN, A. Between Alexandria and Jerusalem: The Dynamics of Jewish and Hellenistic Culture (Brill 2005), h/b. £c88.00
• KOWERSKI, L. Simonides on the Persian Wars (Routledge 2006) — due June, h/b. £45.00
• KOZWSKI, S. & AURENCHE, O. Territories, Boundaries and Cultures in the Neolithic Near East (BAR 2005), p/b. £35.00
• KRISTIANSEN, K. & LARSSON, T. The Rise of Bronze Age Society: Travels, Transmissions and Transformations (Cambridge University Press 2005) h/b c£55.00, p/b c£24.99
• KUBBA, S. A. Mesopotamian Furniture: from the Mesolithic to the Neo-Assyrian Period (c10000BC-600BC) (BAR 1566 2006) p/b. £45.00
• KUHRT, A. The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources of the Achaemenid Period (Routledge 2007) lavishly illustrated, h/b. £160.00
• LEBEAU, M. AND SULEIMAN, A (eds.) Tell Beydar, the 2000-2002 Seasons of Excavations, the 2003-2004 Seasons of Architectural Restoration. A Preliminary Report Tell Beydar, Rapport préliminaire sur les campagnes de fouilles 2000-2003 et les campagnes de restauration architecturale 2003-2004 (SUBARTU XV / Brepols 2007) p/b. c£86.00
• LEICK, G. (ed.) The Babylonian World (Routledge 2007) h/b. £135.00
• LEICK, G. Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature (Routledge 2003). h/b, £75.00; p/b, £22.99
• LENDON, J. E. Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity (Yale Univ. Press 2006) h/b. £12.50
• LEVANT 38 (2006) - edited by B. Routledge (Council for British Research in the Levant 2006) p/b. £37.50
• LEVENE, D. & ROTHENBERG, B. A Metallurgical Gemara: Metals in the Jewish Sources (Thames & Hudson 2007) h/b. £39.95
• LEVICK, B. Julia Domna: Syrian Princess (Routledge 2006). h/b £60.00, p/b £19.99
• LEVINE, L. The Ancient Synagogue: The First Thousand Years (Yale University Press 2005) new paperback edition. £27.50
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