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Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen: Women in Judges and Biblical Israel Ackerman, Susan 368 AYBRL 1998
From Babel to Babylon: Essays on Biblical History and Literature in Honor of Brian Peckham eds. Wood, Joyce Rilett; Harvey, John D.; Leuchter, Mark A. 400 LHBOTS 2006
Education in Ancient Israel: Across the Deadening Silence Crenshaw, James L. 320 AYBRL 1998
History and Prophecy: The Development of Late Judean Literary Traditions Peckham, Brian 832 AYBRL 1993
Show Them No Mercy: 4 Views on God and Canaanite Genocide Gundry, Stanley N.; Cowles, C. S.; Merrill, Eugene H.; Gard, Daniel L.; Longman III, Tremper 224 CP 2003
 Covenant and Creation: A Theology of the Old Testament Covenants Dumbrell, William J. 217 BTCL 2002
God's People in God's Land: Family, Land and Property in the Old Testament Wright, Christopher J. H. 284 BTCL 1997
A History of Israelite Religion in the Old Testament Period, Volume 1: From the Beginnings to the End of the Monarchy Albertz, Rainer 384 OTLM 1994
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A History of Israelite Religion in the Old Testament Period, Volume 2: From the Exile to the Maccabees Albertz, Rainer 384 OTLM 1994
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A Social History of Hebrew: Its Origins Through the Rabbinic Period Schniedewind, William M. 280 AYBRL 2013
The Empty Men: The Heroic Tradition of Ancient Israel Mobley, Gregory 320 AYBRL 2005
By the Irrigation Canals of Babylon: Approaches to the Study of the Exile eds. Ahn, John J.; Middlemas, Jill A. 208 LHBOTS 2014
Qumran and Jerusalem: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of Judaism Schiffman, Lawrence H. 500 SDSSRL 2010
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hasmonean State Eshel, Hanan 220 SDSSRL 2008
Religion in the Dead Sea Scrolls Collins, John J.; Kugler, Robert A. 177 SDSSRL 2000
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of the Bible Ulrich, Eugene 327 SDSSRL 1999
Gibeon and Israel: The Role of Gibeon and the Gibeonites in the Political and Religious History of Early Israel Blenkinsopp, Joseph 168 SOTSMS 2009
The Meaning of Būmâ in the Old Testament: A Study of Etymological, Textual and Archaeological Evidence Vaughan, Patrick H. 108 SOTSMS 2009
The Way of the Wilderness A Geographical Study of the Wilderness Itineraries in the Old Testament Davies, Graham I. 152 SOTSMS 2012
Hebrew Life and Literature: Selected Essays of Bernhard Lang  Lang, Bernhard 252 SOTSMS 2008
'There's such Divinity doth Hedge a King' 'There's such Divinity doth Hedge a King' Selected Essays of Nicolas Wyatt on Royal Ideology in Ugaritic and Old Testament Literature  Wyatt, Nicolas 312 SOTSMS 2005
Exclusive Inclusivity: Identity Conflicts between the Exiles and the People who Remained (6th-5th Centuries BCE) Rom-Shiloni, Dalit 256 LHBOTS 2015
Women's Divination in Biblical Literature: Prophecy, Necromancy, and Other Arts of Knowledge Hamori, Esther J. 272 AYBRL 2015
Exploring the Narrative: Jerusalem and Jordan in the Bronze and Iron Ages: Papers in Honour of Margreet Steiner Dijkstra, Meindert; Vriezen, Karel; Kaptijn, Eva; London, Gloria; Schuster, Robert; Groot, Niels; Routledge, Bruce; Herr, Larry; Daviau, Michele; Boertien, Jeannette; Mulder, Noor; Petit, Lucas; Boas, Dinie; Bienkowski, Piotr; van Bekkum, Koert; Kafafi, Zeidan; Faust, Avraham; Franklin, Norma; de Hulster, Izaak J.; de Vos, Cor; van der Steen, Eveline; Gibson, Shimon; Kletter, Raz 464 LHBOTS 2015
Poets, Prophets, and Texts in Play: Studies in Biblical Poetry and Prophecy in Honour of Francis Landy Exum, J. Cheryl; Sabo, Peter; Hughes, Aaron W.; Black, Fiona; Chomyn, Lauren; Arbel, Daphna; Clines, David J. A.; Berge, Kåre; Ben Zvi, Ehud; Edelman, Diana Vikander; Davies, Philip R.; Gow, Andrew; Sawyer, John F. A.; Linville, James R.; Camp, Claudia V.; Pyper, Hugh; Berger, Benjamin 272 LHBOTS 2015
The Prophets of Israel Kratz, Reinhard G. 120 CSHB 2014
Judah Between East and West: The Transition from Persian to Greek Rule (ca. 400-200 BCE) Aitken, James K.; Finkelstein, Israel; Grabbe, Lester L.; Honigman, Sylvie; Kasher, Aryeh; Kloner, Amos; Lipschits, Oded; Mor, Menachem; Ray, John; van der Steen, Eveline; Stuckenbruck, Loren T.; Tal, Oren; Tiemeyer, Lena-Sofia 336 LSTS 2012
A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period: Volume 2: The Coming of the Greeks: The Early Hellenistic Period (335-175 BCE) Grabbe, Lester L. 458 LSTS 2011
A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period: Volume 1: Yehud, a History of the Persian Province of Judah Grabbe, Lester L. 480 LSTS 2004
Exile and Restoration Revisited: Essays on the Babylonian and Persian Periods in Memory of Peter R. Ackroyd Becking, Bob; Bergsma, John S.; Blenkinsopp, Joseph; Eskenazi, Tamara Cohn; Fulton, Deirdre N.; Grabbe, Lester L.; Grabbe, Lester L.; Jigoulov, Vadim S.; Kratz, Reinhard G.; Meyers, Eric M.; Middlemas, Jill A.; Ristau, Kenneth A. 237 LSTS 2011
Envisioning Writing: Texts and Power in Early Judaism Polaski, Donald C. 256 LHBOTS 2016
Colonial Education and Class Formation in Early Judaism: A Postcolonial Reading Victor, Royce M. 224 LSTS 2010
A Time of Change: Judah and its Neighbours in the Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods Ambar-Armon, Einat; Kloner, Amos; Faust, Avraham; Edelman, Diana Vikander; Avissar, Rona S.; Uziel, Joe; Maeir, Aren M.; Eshel, Hanan; Porten, Bezalel; Yardeni, Ada; Eshel, Esther; Fried, Lisbeth S.; Stern, Ian; Levin, Yigal 288 LSTS 2007
History, Politics and the Bible from the Iron Age to the Media Age Hjelm, Ingrid; Coote, Robert B.; Pfoh, Emanuel; Davies, Philip R.; Lemche, Niels Peter; West, Jim; Van Seters, John; Galbraith, Deane; Clines, David J. A.; Crossley, James G. 192 LHBOTS 2016
Revealed Histories: Techniques for Ancient Jewish and Christian Historiography Hall, Robert G. 288 LSTS 2015
Midian, Moab and Edom: The History and Archaeology of Late Bronze and Iron Age Jordan and North-West Arabia Bennett, Crystal-Margaret; MacDonald, Burton; Yassine, Khair; Bawden, Garth; Oakeshott, M. F.; Rothenberg, Beno; Glass, Jonathan; Merkel, John F.; Sawyer, John F. A.; Bartlett, John R.; Knauf, Ernst Axel; Payne, Elizabeth J. 172 LHBOTS 1983
Threshing Floors in Ancient Israel Waters, Jaime L. 192 ES 2015
Redating the Exodus and Conquest Bimson, John J. 351 LHBOTS 1978
Cult of Molek: A Reassessment Heider, George C. 466 LHBOTS 1987
The Old Testament and Folklore Study Kirkpatrick, Patricia G. 152 LHBOTS 1988
Five Views on the Exodus: Historicity, Chronology, and Theological Implications Hoffmeier, James K.; Rendsburg, Gary A.; Stripling, Scott; Feinman, Peter; Hendel, Ronald S. 288 CP 2021
The Spirit within Me: Self and Agency in Ancient Israel and Second Temple Judaism Newsom, Carol A. 296 AYBRL 2021
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