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The adventures of Gilgamesh were well known throughout Babylonia and Assyria. This is a new edition of the material from Bogazkoy, of particular importance to modern scholars in reconstructing the epic. It documents a period in the history of the narrative's progressive restructuring and elaboration.

Palamedes: A Journal of Ancient History is published on behalf of the University of Warsaw. It seeks to provide a forum where all those who study Greek and Roman antiquity in its material, linguistic or intellectual manifestations can meet with their Orientalist and Egyptological counterparts.

Reflects the work of the joint expedition of Cairo University and Brown University to record and publish the tombs uncovered on behalf of Cairo University by Prof. Abdel-Moneim Abu Bakr from 1949 through 1953, but never published.

In the years 2004-2006 excavations were conducted in the plain west of the walls of the ancient Greek colony of Apollonia, southwest of the modern village of Pojan, Albania. The site lies within a complex of farm buildings known locally as Bonjaket. This volume represents the publication of the results of three campaigns of excavation at the site.

Michael Cuypers applies the principles of Semitic rhetoric - a method of textual analysis developed in the field of biblical studies - to the thirty-three small suras (81 to 114) of the Qur'an, making it possible to grasp the internal coherence of the suras, and the semantic links between them.

Palamedes: A Journal of Ancient History is published on behalf of the University of Warsaw. It seeks to provide a forum where all those who study Greek and Roman antiquity in its material, linguistic, or intellectual manifestations can meet with their Orientalist and Egyptological counterparts.

The Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is an organization whose purpose is to bring together individuals interested in Coptic studies and to promote the dissemination of scholarly information on Coptic Studies through the organization of meetings and conferences and through the preparation of scholarly works for publication.

The Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE) was established in 1962 to foster research into the history, languages, social systems and archaeology of the Egyptian people. The journal welcomes article submissions on all periods and aspects of Egyptian civilization. JARCE publishes articles in English, French or German.

This new journal from the International Qur'anic Studies Association will support of the association's mission of fostering scholarship on the Qur'an.

The present volume brings together sixteen of Roger Allen's articles on modern Arabic narrative, with a focus on genre, translation and literary history, and features analyses of the works of Rashid Abu Jadrah, Bensalem Himmich, Yusuf Idris, Naguib Mahfouz, and Tayeb Salih.

Brian Hesse was Professor of Jewish Studies, Anthropology and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Pennsylvania State University and a leading specialist on ancient animal bones and the zooarchaeology of the Levant. This volume honours his memory and reflects the wide range of his interests.

The second half of the seventh millennium BC saw the previously affluent and dynamic Neolithic way of life end. The significant social and economic transformations of local communities, as shown in new patterns of architecture and burial practices, and in pottery manufacture. Sets the changes in context and discusses the impact in detail.

Uses case studies from Israel, Athens, Rome, Sicily and North Africa to explore how scholars are incorporating study of material culture into study of religion in the ancient Meditteranean. First volume in new series - Studies in Ancient Mediteranean Religions.

The Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE) was established in 1962 to foster research into the history, languages, social systems, and archaeology of the Egyptian people. The journal welcomes article submissions on all periods and aspects of Egyptian civilization. JARCE publishes articles in English, French or German.

This new journal from the International Qur'anic Studies Association will support the association's mission of fostering scholarship on the Qur'an.

The Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association is a peer reviewed annual journal published on behalf of the International Qur'anic Studies Association, a nonprofit learned society for scholars of the Qur'an.

Latest volume of The Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies(JCSCS) is published annually on behalf of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studie.

Volume 53 of Journal of the AMerican Research Center in Egypt (JARCE), published by Lockwood Press. C. 30 b&W illustrations.

Collected essays in honour of Mark J. Smith, Professor of Egyptology, University of Oxford, focussing on his research interests including Egyptian religion, language and texts, incl. demotic. Exceptional list of international contributors, majority European. 25 colour, c.100 b&w illustrations.

Some thirty years have passed since the original publication of M. M. Ahsan's Social Life Under the Abbasids, but it remains an invaluable resource for the study of the material culture of Abbasid life in the ninth and tenth centuries. Ahsan arranges his material thematically-costume, food, housing, hunting, indoor and outdoor games, and festivities and festivals. Moreover, that arrangement together with the eclectic mix of citations, also give readers a taste of what it is like to browse through the many kinds of adab works that are Ahsan's main sources, including, among numerous others, anecdotal, biographical, culinary, geographical, and literary texts.

The Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is a Toronto-based nonprofit organization whose purpose is to bring together individuals interested in Coptic studies and to promote the dissemination of scholarly information on Coptic Studies through the organization of meetings and conferences and through the preparation of scholarly works for publication.

This volume presents the findings of the excavation at Kom el-Hisn in the northwest Nile Delta. This provincial community was often in the orbit of Memphis, the capital and administrative centre of Egypt's Old Kingdom Period. Kom el-Hisn's faunal, floral, lithic and architectural remains are presented and discussed in detail.