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Albertz, Rainer, Israel in Exile: The History and Literature of the Sixth Century B.C.E.Studies in Biblical Literature 3. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.
 
Bailey, Randall C., ed. Yet With a Steady Beat: Contemporary U. S. Afrocentric Biblical Interpretation. Semeia Studies 42. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.
 
Barr, David L., ed., Reading the Book of Revelation: A Resource for Students. Resourcesfor Biblical Study 44. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

 
Barr, David L., ed. The Reality of Apocalypse: Rhetoric and Politics in the Book of Revelation. Symposium 39, Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2006. 


Boda, Mark J., Daniel K. Falk, and Rodney A. Werline, eds. Seeking the Favor of God: Volume I, The Origins of Penitential Prayer in Second Temple Judaism. Early Judaism and Its Literature, 21. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.   


Brant, Jo-Ann A., Charles W. Hedrick, and Chris Shea, eds., Ancient Fiction: The Matrix of Early Christian and Jewish Narrative. Symposium 32. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

 
Cameron, Ron and Merrill P. Miller, eds. Redescribing Christian Origins. Symposium 28. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.
 

Clarke, Emma C., John M. Dillon, and Jackson P. Hershbell, eds., Iamblichus: On the Mysteries. Writings from the Greco-Roman World 4. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

 
Cook, Stephen L. The Social Roots of Biblical Yahwism. Studies in Biblical Literature 8. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.
 

Cook, Stephen L. and Corrine L. Patton, eds., Ezekiel’s Hierarchical World: Wrestlingwith a Tiered Reality. Symposium 31. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.


De Troyer, Kristin and Armin Lange, eds., Reading the Present in the Qumran Library: The Perception of the Contemporary by Means of Spiritual Interpretation. Symposium 30. Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.


DeConick, April D. ed. Paradise Now: Essays on Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism. Symposium 11. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.
 

Dozeman, Thomas B. and Konrad Schmid, eds. A Farewell to the Yahwist?:The Composition of the Pentateuch in Recent European Interpretation. Symposium 34, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.

 
Draper, Jonathan A., ed., Orality and Colonialism in Southern Africa. Semeia Studies 46. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.
 
 
Draper, Jonathan A., Orality, Literacy, and Colonialism in Antiquity. Semeia Studies 47. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.

 
Finlan, Stephen. The Background and Content of Paul’s Cultic Atonement Metaphors. Academia Biblica 19. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.

 
Foster, John L. Hymns, Prayers, and Songs: An Anthology of Ancient Egyptian Lyric Poetry. Writings from the Ancient World 8. Atlanta, Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature, 1996. 

 
Gaines, Janet Howe, Forgiveness in a Wounded World: Jonah’s Dilemma. Studies in Biblical Literature 5. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.


Georgi, Dieter, The City in the Valley: Biblical Interpretation and Urban Theology. Studies in Biblical Literature 7. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.


Heil, John Paul, The Rhetorical Role of Scripture in 1 Corinthians. Studies in Biblical Literature 15. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

 
Hill, Robert C. Translator, Diodore of Tarsus: Commentary on Psalms 1–51, with an Introduction and Notes by Robert C. Hill. Writings from the Greco-Roman World 9. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

 
Horsley, Richard A., ed Oral Performance, Popular Tradition, and Hidden Transcript in Q. Semeia Studies 60. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.

 
Isser, Stanley. The Sword of Goliath: David in Heroic Literature. Studies in Biblical Literature, 6. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003. 

 
Jones, F. Stanley, ed., Which Mary?: The Marys of Early Christian Tradition. Symposium 19. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002.

 
Kannaday, Wayne C., Apologetic Discourse and the Scribal Tradition: Evidence of the Influence of Apologetic Interests on the Text of the Canonical Gospels. Text-Critical Studies 5. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.

 
Kelle, Brad E. Hosea 2: Metaphor and Rhetoric in Historical Perspective. Academia Biblica, 20. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

  
Kennedy, George A., Invention and Method: Two Rhetorical Treatises from the Hermogenic Corpus. Writings from the Greco-Roman World 15. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.


Kinlaw, Pamela E. The Christ Is Jesus: Metamorphosis, Possession, and Johannine Christology. Academia Biblica 18. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.


Kirk-Duggan, Cheryl A., ed. Pregnant Passion: Gender, Sex, and Violence in the Bible. Semeia Studies 44. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.
 

Konstan, David, Clay Diskin, Clarence E. Glad, Johan C. Thom, and James Ware, trans., Philodemus: On Frank Criticism. Texts and Translations 43. Atlanta, Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature, 1998.

 
Kraus, Wolfgang and R. Glenn Wooden, eds. Septuagint Research: Issues and Challenges in the Study of the Greek Jewish Scriptures. Septuagint and Cognate Studies, 53. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.

 
Landes, George M., Building Your Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary: Learning Words by Frequency and Cognate. Resources for Biblical Study 41. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2001.


Lindenberger,, James M., Ancient Aramaic and Hebrew Letters, Second Edition. Writings from the Ancient World 14. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.


Lozada Jr., Francisco. and Tom Thatcher, eds. New Currents through John: A Global Perspective. Resources for Biblical Study 54. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.
 

Louw, Johannes P. and Eugene A. Nida. Lexical Semantics of the Greek New Testament. Resources for Biblical Study 25. Atlanta, Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature, 1992. 

 
Maclean, Jennifer K. Berenson and Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, translators and editors, Flavius Philostratus: On Heroes. Writings from the Greco-Roman World 3. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

 
McGinnis, Claire Mathews and Patricia K. Tull, editors. “As Those Who Are Taught”:
The Interpretation of Isaiah from the LXX to the SBL
. Symposium 27. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.

 
Miller, Patrick D., Jr., The Divine Warrior in Early Israel. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2006 (Originally published by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, 1973). 

 
Moore, Stephen D. and Janice Capel Anderson, eds., New Testament Masculinities. Semeia Studies 45. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

 
Moreland, Milton C., Between Text and Artifact: Integrating Archaeology in Biblical Studies Teaching. Archaeology and Biblical Studies 8. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

 
Murnane, William J. Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt. Writings from the Ancient World 5. Atlanta, Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature, 1995. 

 
Mykytiuk, Lawrence J., Identifying Biblical Persons in Northwest Semitic. Academia Biblica 12. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.


Nissinen, Martti, Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East. Writings from the Ancient World 12. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.


Osburn, Carroll D. The Text of the Apostolos in Epiphanius of Salamis. New Testament in the Greek Fathers 6. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.
 

Pardee, Dennis. Ritual and Cult at Ugarit. Writings from the Ancient World 10. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002.

 
Penner, Todd and Caroline Vander Stichele, eds., Contextualizing Acts: Lukan Narrative and Greco-Roman Discourse. Symposium 20. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

 
Person, Raymond F., Jr. The Deuteronomic School: History, Social Setting, and Literature. Studies in Biblical Literature 2. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2002. 

 
Racine, Jean-François, The Text of Matthew in the Writings of Basil of Caesarea. New Testament in the Greek Fathers 5. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.

 
Reeves, John C., ed., Bible and Qur’an: Essays in Scriptural Intertextuality. Symposium Series 24. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature 2003.

 
Reymond, Eric D. Innovations in Hebrew Poetry: Parallelism and the Poems of Sirach. Studies in Biblical Literature 9. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature 2004.
 

Roncace, Mark and Patrick Gray, eds., Teaching the Bible: Practical Strategies for Classroom Instruction. Resources for Biblical Study 49. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

 
Reeves, John C., Trajectories in Near Eastern Apocalyptic: A Postrabbinic Jewish Apocalypse Reader. Resources for Biblical Study 45. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

 
Runia, David T. and Gregory E. Sterling, eds. The Studia Philonica Annual: Studies in Hellenistic Judaism, Volume XVIII (2006). Studia Philonica Annual 18. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.

 
Russell, Donald A. and David Konstan, eds. & trans., Heraclitus: Homeric Problems.
Writings from the Greco-Roman World 14. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.


Shipp, R. Mark, Of Dead Kings and Dirges: Myth and Meaning in Isaiah 14:4b–21. Academia Biblica 11. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002. 


Singer, Itamar, Hittite Prayers. Writings from the Ancient World. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2002.

 
Smith, Richard, A Concise Coptic-English Lexicon: Second Edition. Resources for Biblical Study 35. Atlanta. Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature, 1999.

 
Tauberschmidt, Gerhard. Secondary Parallelism: A Study of Translation Technique in LXX Proverbs. Academia Biblica 15. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.

 
Torrey, Charles C. The Lives of the Prophets: Greek Text and Translation. Monograph Series 1. Philadelphia, Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, 1946. (Reprinted by the Society of Biblical Literature 2006).

 
Van Voorst, Robert E., Building Your New Testament Greek Vocabulary, Third Edition. Resources for Biblical Study 43. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001.

 
Vander Stichele, Caroline and Todd Penner, eds. Her Master’s Tools? Feminist and Postcolonial Engagements of Historical-Critical Discourse. Global Perspectives on Biblical Scholarship 9. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.
 
 
Vanstiphout, Herman. Epics of Sumerian Kings: The Matter of Aratta. Writings from the Ancient World 20. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.
 

Verner, David C. The Household of God: The Social World of the Pastoral Epistles. Dissertation Series 71. Chico, CA, Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature, 1983. 

 
Walker-Jones, Arthur, Hebrew for Biblical Interpretation, Resources for Biblical Study 48. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2003. 

 
Wassen, Cecilia, Women in the Damascus Document. Academia Biblica 21. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

 
Wright, Benjamin G. III and Lawrence M. Wills, eds. Conflicted Boundaries in Wisdom and Apocalypticism. Symposium 35. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

 
Yeivin, Israel. Introduction to the Tiberian Masorah. Masoretic Studies 5. Atlanta, Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature, 1985.

 
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