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Books in Brief–Historical Essays; The Early Biblical Period, Philip J. King, BAR 12:06, Nov-Dec 1986.
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Books in Brief–Historical Essays; The Early Biblical Period, Philip J. King, BAR 12:06, Nov-Dec 1986.

Bible and Beyond Click here to view the original article. The Early Biblical Period Benjamin Mazar (Jerusalem- Israel Exploration Society, 1986) 266 pp., $24.00 The International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament held its 1986 Congress in Jerusalem to honor its President, Benjamin Mazar, on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. The impressive […]

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Sumerian “Firsts,” BAR 10:05, Sep-Oct 1984.
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Sumerian “Firsts,” BAR 10:05, Sep-Oct 1984.

Bible and Beyond Click here to view the original article. For thousands of years, the Sumerians were a forgotten people. No book recorded their achievements; no spade unearthed their treasures. The Sumerians had passed out of history, until, in the mid-19th century, linguists studying Assyrian cuneiform writing discovered cuneiform tablets written in another language. Linguists […]

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Inanna—The Quintessential Femme Fatale, Tikva Frymer-Kensky, BAR 10:05, Sep-Oct 1984.
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Inanna—The Quintessential Femme Fatale, Tikva Frymer-Kensky, BAR 10:05, Sep-Oct 1984.

Bible and Beyond Click here to view the original article. Diane Wolkstein’s Inanna–Queen of Heaven and Eartha is a retelling, with commentary, of one of the major texts about the Sumerian goddess Inanna. This is a difficult book for me to review. I could not possibly be more in sympathy with its aims. As a […]

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