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SBL Press simultaneously publishes hardcover, paperback, and ebook editions of essential research in the fields of biblical studies and related disciplines.
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Yosef Garfinkel's The Archaeology of the Kingdom of Judah is 30% off through 31 December during the #AARSBL2025 sale. Order your copy with code AM2025! buff.ly/wCFbc7R
Quote: “Scholars do not generally deal with the archaeology of the kingdom of Judah as an independent subject. At the beginning of research, it was common to discuss the archaeology of the Iron Age kingdoms of Judah and of Israel together.” —Yosef Garfinkel
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Lot’s Wife in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Traditions by Josey Bridges Snyder is 30% off between now and 31 December during the #AARSBL2025 sale! Use code AM2025 at checkout!
Quote: “She is remembered for her fateful act of looking back at the destruction of Sodom, but even the report of this act is full of unanswered questions. Why did she look back? Was she aware of the warning (directed only to Lot in Gen 19:17) against doing so? Should her transformation into a salt pillar be understood as a punishment? ” —Josey Bridges Snyder
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Its almost time for #AARSBL2025! Your badge printing instructions have been emailed—be sure to print your badge before arriving to the Annual Meetings! By printing in advance, you’ll save time and skip the long registration lines. We look forward to seeing you all in booth 301!
The badges are coming! image of Paul Revere holding an Annual Meetings badge
November 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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All SBL Press and Brown Judaic Studies books are on sale through 31 December! Use code AM2025 at checkout for 30% off. cart.sbl-site.org/books
Use code AM2025 1 Nov to 31 Dec for 30% off at the SBL Press store
November 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Read about SBL Press author Omer Sergi's recent work in the article "Archaeologists Stunned by Lavish Assyrian-period Tomb in Northern Israel" buff.ly/dOTYOAq. His book The Two Houses of Israel: State Formation and the Origins of Pan-Israelite Identity is available now. buff.ly/eHO4o4f
Image of three burial urns from Horvat Tevet. Credit Sasha Flit, the Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University. The Two Houses of Israel by Omer Sergi book cover.
October 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Harry A. Hoffner Jr. covers Hittite, Charles R. Krahmalkov introduces Phoenician, and Peggy L. Day presents Ugaritic in Beyond Babel: A Handbook for Biblical Hebrew and Related Languages. The ebook is $5 through 19 October when you use OCTRBS buff.ly/B5YcPsi
October 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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The ebook of Intermediate Biblical Hebrew Grammar: A Student's Guide to Phonology and Morphology by Eric D. Reymond is $5 today when you use code OCTRBS. buff.ly/i6hBOZM
October 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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The ebook of A Grammar of Ugaritic by John Screnock with Vladimir Olivero is $5 today when you use code OCTRBS buff.ly/xvEc0WK
October 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Jo Ann Hackett introduces biblical and epigraphic Hebrew and Baruch A. Levine presents postbiblical Hebrew in Beyond Babel: A Handbook for Biblical Hebrew and Related Languages. The ebook is $5 today when you use OCTRBS buff.ly/B5YcPsi
October 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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John Kaltner covers Arabic, Frederick E. Greenspahn introduces Aramaic, and Donald B. Redford presents Egyptian in Beyond Babel: A Handbook for Biblical Hebrew and Related Languages. The ebook is $5 through 19 October when you use OCTRBS buff.ly/B5YcPsi
October 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Intermediate Biblical Hebrew Grammar: A Student's Guide to Phonology and Morphology by Eric D. Reymond includes information about the history of the Hebrew language. The ebook is $5 through 19 October when you use code OCTRBS. buff.ly/i6hBOZM
October 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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A Grammar of Ugaritic by John Screnock with Vladimir Olivero includes short stories for translation. The ebook is $5 through 19 October when you use code OCTRBS buff.ly/xvEc0WK
October 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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David Marcus provides background on Akkadain and Simon B. Parker provides an overview of Ammonite, Edomite, and Moabite in Beyond Babel: A Handbook for Biblical Hebrew and Related Languages. The ebook is $5 through 19 October when you use OCTRBS buff.ly/B5YcPsi
October 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Intermediate Biblical Hebrew Grammar: A Student's Guide to Phonology and Morphology by Eric D. Reymond includes tables with forms not found in the Masoretic Text. The ebook is $5 through 19 October when you use code OCTRBS. buff.ly/i6hBOZM
October 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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A Grammar of Ugaritic by John Screnock with Vladimir Olivero includes exercies for practice. The ebook is $5 through 19 October when you use code OCTRBS buff.ly/xvEc0WK
October 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Beyond Babel: A Handbook for Biblical Hebrew and Related Languages edited by John Kaltner and Steven L. McKenzie includes an introduction by John Huehnergard. The ebook is $5 through19 October when you use OCTRBS buff.ly/B5YcPsi
October 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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The ebook of Beyond Babel: A Handbook for Biblical Hebrew and Related Languages edited by John Kaltner and Steven L. McKenzie is $5 through19 October when you use OCTRBS buff.ly/B5YcPsi
October 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Get the ebook of A Grammar of Ugaritic by John Screnock with Vladimir Olivero through 19 October for $5 when you use code OCTRBS buff.ly/xvEc0WK
October 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Purchase the ebook of Intermediate Biblical Hebrew Grammar: A Student's Guide to Phonology and Morphology by Eric D. Reymond through 19 October for $5 when you use code OCTRBS buff.ly/i6hBOZM
October 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Read the essay “Any Excuse for a Party: Zeus and Hermes and Human-Divine Interactions in Asia Minor and Acts 14:8–20” by Alan H. Cadwallader in First Urban Churches 8: Galatia and Lycaonia. buff.ly/UnJ2TNx
September 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Read the essay “The Augustan Triumphal Arch and Sebasteion at Pisidian Antioch: Imperial Propaganda, the Res gestae divi Augusti, and the Epistle to the Galatians” by James R. Harrison in First Urban Churches 8: Galatia and Lycaonia. buff.ly/UnJ2TNx
“The attraction of the imperial cult cut across the social and economic divide. A fusion of indigenous and Roman gods occurred, whose blessings were mediated by the grace of the Roman ruler as pontifex maximus (high priest), in conjunction with his local imperial priests.” —James R. Harrison
September 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Read the essay “Roman Provincial Coinage and the Epistle to the Galatians” by Michael P. Theophilos in First Urban Churches 8: Galatia and Lycaonia. buff.ly/UnJ2TNx
“Our exploration of ancient coinage and biblical studies has significant points of connection regarding the Galatian milieu, significantly enhancing our reading of Paul’s epistle.” —Michael P. Theophilos
September 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Read the essay “Endangered Benefaction in Galatians” by David Wyman in First Urban Churches 8: Galatia and Lycaonia. buff.ly/UnJ2TNx
“Supply-chain disruptions and price increases to basic food supplies such as grain could put a population at risk....People of means often took it on themselves in such difficult circumstances to ensure the population had access to a sufficient food supply.—David Wyman
September 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Check out the essay “Benefaction in Galatia: A Proposed Solution to the Galatian Problem” by Wesley Redgen in First Urban Churches 8: Galatia and Lycaonia. buff.ly/UnJ2TNx
“While few first-century inscriptions have survived, enough exist to conclude that by the time Paul wrote to the Galatian churches the Greco-Roman benefaction system was firmly in place in both the north and the south of the province.” —Wesley Redgen
September 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Check out the essay “ὠδίνω in Greek Epigraphy and Galatians 4:19” by D. Clint Burnett in First Urban Churches 8: Galatia and Lycaonia. buff.ly/UnJ2TNx
“Metaphoric birth pangs are not used exclusively with apocalyptic conventions in the Jewish Scriptures. Often the Greek translators of the Hebrew Bible and those Jews who composed documents that became part of the church’s Greek Old Testament employed them as a metaphor for a life threatening, painful crisis” —D. Clint Burnett
September 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM