G
ARY BECKMAN

Chair, Department of Near Eastern Studies
Professor of Hittite and Mesopotamian Studies
4127 Thayer Academic Building  -  Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608
(734) 764-0314 -  fax (734) 936-2679
sidd@umich.edu

 

EDUCATION
B.A. - Pomona College, 6/1970 (Classics - Greek and Hebrew)

M.A. - Yale University, 3/1973

M.Phil. - Yale University, 4/1974

Ph.D. - Yale University, 5/1977 (Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Ph.D. Program in Hittite Language, Literature, and History)


HONORS

1970 - Phi Beta Kappa

1970-1974 - Yale University Graduate Fellowship

1975-1977 - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Dankstipendium (for study at the Altorientalisches Seminar, Philipps-Universität, Marburg/Lahn)

1983-1984 - Morse Junior Faculty Fellowship, Yale University

1997-1998 - Fellowship, Center for Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania


TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

7/1998-present - Professor of Hittite and Mesopotamian Studies, Department of Near Eastern Studies (NES), University of Michigan.

9/1996-5/1997 - Adjunct Professor of Ancient History, NES, University of Michigan.

9/1992-5/1996 - Visiting Associate Professor of Ancient History, NES, University of Michigan.

7/1988-8/1992 - Associate Curator, Yale Babylonian Collection.

7/1984-6/1988 - Associate Professor of Hittite, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC), Yale University.

8/1978-6/1988 - Assistant Curator, Yale Babylonian Collection.

9/1979-6/1987 - Director of Undergraduate Studies, NELC.

9/1978-6/1984 - Assistant Professor of Hittite, NELC, Yale University.

Summers 1981, 1982, 1984, and 1985; 1989-present - Consultant, Hittite Dictionary Project, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.

6/1978-8/1978 - Visiting Assistant Professor, Portland State University Summer Middle East Mosaic Program, Portland, OR.


OTHER

2003-present - Vice President, American Oriental Society

3/2003-present - Research Associate, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

9/2002-present - Executive Board, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

2002-present - Consulting Editor, Journal of Ancient Civilizations

1999-present - Associate Editor for the ancient Near East, Journal of the American Oriental Society.

1997-1999 - Director-at-Large, American Oriental Society.

1992-1994 - Director-at-Large, American Oriental Society.

1991-present - Associate Editor, Journal of Cuneiform Studies.

1990-1992 - Member, Committee on Nominations, American Oriental Society.

1988-1989 - President, Oriental Club of New Haven.

1987-1993 - Member, Editorial Board, Writings from the Ancient World, sponsored by the Society of Biblical Literature.

1984-1985 - Acting Secretary, American Oriental Society.


PUBLICATIONS

Monographs
Hittite Birth Rituals: An Introduction, Sources from the Ancient Near East, Volume 1, Fascicle 4 (Malibu, CA: Undena Publications, 1978).

Hittite Birth Rituals, Studien zu den Boğazköy-Texten, Heft 29 (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1983).

Hittite Fragments in American Collections, with Harry A. Hoffner, Jr. (New Haven: Yale Babylonian Collection, 1986) = Journal of Cuneiform Studies 37, 1985, 1-60.

Texts from the Vicinity of Emar in the Collection of Jonathan Rosen, (Padova: Sargon, 1996).

Catalogue of the Babylonian Collections at Yale. II. Old Babylonian Archival Texts in the Nies Babylonian Collection. (Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 1995).

Hittite Diplomatic Texts. Writings from the Ancient World, Volume 7. (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1996) [second edition, 1999].

Catalogue of the Babylonian Collections at Yale. 4.Old Babylonian Archival Texts in the Yale Babylonian Collection (Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 2000).

The Epic of Gilgamesh (Norton Critical Editions), with Benjamin R. Foster and Douglas Frayne (New York: W. W. Norton, 2001).

Articles
"The Ancient Near East," in "News and Views of Ancient History," ed. A. Ward, Newsletter of the New England Historical Association 8/1, 1980, 6-9.

"A Hittite Cylinder Seal in the Yale Babylonian Collection," Anatolian Studies 31, 1981, 129-35.

"The Hittite Assembly," Journal of the American Oriental Society 102, 1982, 435-42.

"A Contribution to Hittite Onomastic Studies," Journal of the American Oriental Society 103, 1983, 623-27.

"Mesopotamians and Mesopotamian Learning at Hattuša," Journal of Cuneiform Studies 35, 1983, 97-114.

"The Anatolian Myth of Illuyanka," Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 14, 1982, 11- 25.

"Inheritance and Royal Succession among the Hittites," in Kaniššuwar. A Tribute to Hans G. Güterbock, Assyriological Studies 23 (Chicago: Oriental Institute, 1986), pp. 13-31.

"Some New Stamp Seals from the Yale Babylonian Collection," with Alfred Brown, Oriens Antiquus 24, 1985, 241-52.

"Proverbs and Proverbial Allusions in Hittite," Journal of Near Eastern Studies 45, 1986, 19-30.

"A Note on Paragraph 28 of the Hittite Laws," in A Linguistic Happening in Memory of Ben Schwartz, ed. Yoël L. Arbeitman (Louvain-La-Neuve: Peeters, 1988), pp. 99-106.

"The Siege of Uršu Text (CTH 7) and Old Hittite Historiography," Journal of Cuneiform Studies, 47, 1995, 23-34.

"Three Tablets from the Vicinity of Emar," Journal of Cuneiform Studies 40, 1988, 61-68.

"Herding and Herdsmen in Hittite Culture," in Documentum Asiae Minoris Antiquae, Festschrift für Heinrich Otten, ed. E. Neu and C. Rüster (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1988), pp. 33-44.

"Languages (Hittite)," Anchor Bible Dictionary (New York: Doubleday, 1992), Vol. 4, pp. 214-16.

"Three Bricks from Yale," Annual Review of the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project 5, 1987, 1-3.

"Assyrian Scholarly Texts in the Yale Babylonian Collection," with Benjamin R. Foster, in A Scientific Humanist. Studies in Memory of Abraham Sachs, ed. E. Leichty et al. (Philadelphia: University Museum, 1988), pp. 1-26.

"A Join-piece to the Esarhaddon Prism YOS 9.76," Annual Review of the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project 6, 1988, 3-4.

"The Religion of the Hittites," Biblical Archaeologist 52/2-3, 1989, 98-108.

"A Catalogue of Inscribed Bricks in the Yale Babylonian Collection," Annual Review of the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project 6, 1988, 1-2.

"Medizin, hethitisch," Reallexikon der Assyriologie, Band 7 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, (1990), pp. 629-31.

"The Hittite 'Ritual of the Ox' (CTH 760.I.2-3)," Orientalia 59, 1990, 34-55.

"More Anatolian Stamp Seals in America," Oriens Antiquus 28, 1989, 177-82.

"An Anatolian Miscellany," Studi micenei ed egeo-anatolici, 32, 1993, 111-21.

"Royal Ideology and State Administration in Hittite Anatolia," in Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. Sasson et al. (New York: Scribners, 1995), Vol. I, pp. 529-43.

"Some Observations on the Šuppiluliuma-Šattiwazza Treaties (CTH 51-52)," in The Tablet and the Scroll. Near Eastern Studies in Honor of William W. Hallo, ed. M. Cohen et al. (Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 1993), pp. 53-57.

"Historical Chronology of Anatolia," in The Archaeology of Anatolia: An Encyclopedia, ed. G.K. Sams (New York: Garland, forthcoming).

"Hittite Administration in Syria in the Light of the Texts from Hattuša, Ugarit, and Emar," in New Horizons in the Study of Ancient Syria, ed. M. W. Chavalas and J. L. Hayes, Bibliotheca Mesopotamica 25 (Malibu, CA: Undena, 1992), pp. 41-49.

"An Adoption and Inheritance Contract from the Reign of Iggid-Lim of Hana," with Amanda H. Podany and Gudrun Colbow, Journal of Cuneiform Studies 43-45, 1991-93, 39-51.

"From Cradle to Grave: Women's Role in Hittite Medicine and Magic," Journal of Ancient Civilizations 8, 1993, 25-39.

"Hittite Provincial Administration in Anatolia and Syria: the View from Masat and Emar," Atti del II Congresso Internazionale di Hittitologia, ed. O. Carruba et al., Studia Mediterranea 9, (Pavia: Gianni Iuculano Editore, 1995), pp. 19-37.

"An Old Babylonian Plaint Against Black Magic," with Benjamin R. Foster, Acta Sumerologica, 18, 1996, 19-21.

"Emar and its Archives," in Emar: The History, Religion, and Culture of a Syrian Town in the Late Bronze Age, ed. M. W. Chavalas (Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, Press 1996), pp. 1-12.

"Family Values on the Middle Euphrates in the Thirteenth Century BCE," in Emar: The History, Religion, and Culture of a Syrian Town in the Late Bronze Age, ed. M. W. Chavalas (Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 1996), pp. 57-79.

"The Hittite Language and its Decipherment," Bulletin of the Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies, 31, 1996, 23-30.

"Mythologie A. II. Bei den Hethitern," Reallexikon der Assyriologie, Band 8 (Berlin Walter de Gruyter, 1997), pp. 564-72.

"Real Property Sales at Emar," Crossing Boundaries and Linking Horizons: Studies in Honor of Michael C. Astour on His 80th Birthday, ed. G.D. Young, M.W. Chavalas, and R.E. Averbeck (Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 1997), pp. 95-120.

"News Joins to Hittite Treaties," Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, 87, 1997, 96-100.

"Anatolian Stamp Seals from a California Collection," Studi Micenei ed egeo-anatolici 40, 1998, 83-86.

"Ištar of Nineveh Reconsidered," Journal of Cuneiform Studies 50, 1998, 1-10.

"The City and the Country in Hatti," in Landwirtschaft im Alten Orient: ausgewählte Vorträge de 41. Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Berlin, 4.-8.7 1994, ed. H. Klengel and Johannes Renger (Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1999), pp. 161-69.

"The Goddess Pirinkir and Her Ritual from Nattuša (CTH 644)," Ktema 24, 1999, 25-39.

"'The Tongue is a Bridge': Communication between Humans and Gods in Hittite Anatolia," Archív Orientální,67, 1999, 519-34.

"Hittite Chronology," Akkadica 119-20, 2000, 19-32.

"Goddess Worship -- Ancient and Modern," in "A Wise and Discerning Mind" Essays in Honor of Burke O. Long, ed. Saul M. Olyan and Robert C. Culley (Providence: Brown Judaic Studies, 2000), pp. 11-23.

"Babylonica Hethitica: the 'pabilili - Rituals from Boğazköy (CTH 718)" in Recent Developments in Hittite Archaeology and History, ed. H. G. Güterbock, H. A. Hoffner, Jr., and K. Aslihan Yener (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2001).

"Sargon and Naram-Sin in Ñatti: Reflections of Mesopotamian Antiquity among the Hittites," Die Gegenwart des Altertums (Heidelberg: Edition Forum, 2001), pp. 85-91.

"Ñantili I," in Kulturgeschichten. Altorientalisticsche Studien für Volkert Haas zum 65. Geburtstag, ed. Th. Richter et al. (Saarbrücken: SDv, 2002), pp. 51-58.

"The Pantheon of Emar," in Silva Anatolica (Festschrift M. Popko), ed. P. Taracha (Warsaw: Agade, 2002), pp. 39-54.

"'My Sun-God'-Reflections of Mesopotamian Conceptions of Kingship Among the Hittites," in MELAMMU Symposia III, ed. A. Panaino and G. Pettinato (Milan, 2003), pp. 37-43.

"Gilgamesh in Ñatti," in Hittite Studies in Honor of Harry A. Hoffner, Jr. on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday(forthcoming).

"Blood in Hittite Ritual," in Text, Artifact, and Image: Revealing Ancient israelite Religion, ed. G. Beckman and T.J. Lewis (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming).

"Opfer, Hethitisch," Reallexikon der Assyriologie, forthcoming.

"The Religion of Emar," in Mitología y Religión del Oriente Antiguo ed. D. G. del Olmo Lete (Barcelona: Editorial AUSA, forthcoming).

"International Law in the Second Millennium: Late Bronze Age," in A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law, ed. R. Westbrook, (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming), pp. 753-74.

"Rīm-Anum," with Piotr Michalowski, Journal of Cuneiform Studies (forthcoming).

"Three Hittite Seals," forthcoming.

"CTH 432, Rituel contre l'insomnie," in a forthcoming Festschrift.

"A Small Town in Syria" (review article of W. Mayer, Tall Munbāqa-Ekalte-II. Die Texte). Zeitschrift ür Assyriologie, forthcoming.

"Visual Representation of Hittite Religion," in Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide, ed. Sarah Iles Johnston (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, forthcoming).

"Offerings, Sacrifice, and Votives: Anatolia," in Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide, ed. Sarah Iles Johnston (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, forthcoming).

"Sacred Times and Spaces: Anatolia." in Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide, ed. Sarah Iles Johnston (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, forthcoming).

"Hurrian/Hittite Epic," in Blackwell Companion to Ancient Epic, ed. J. M. Foley (London: Blackwell, forthcoming).

"How Religion Was Done," in Blackwell Companion to the Ancient Near East, ed. D. C. Snell (London: Blackwell, forthcoming).

"The Old Babylonian tablets from Chogha Gavaneh," with Kamyar Abdi, Journal of Cuneiform Studies (forthcoming).

"Pantheon. II. Bei den Hethitern," Reallexikon der Assyriologie, forthcoming.

Notes
"A New Tag from the Reign of Nūr-Adad," NABU 1988/13.

"A Draft for an OB Seal Inscription," NABU 1988/72.

"Texts and Fragments [A Hittite Fragment]," Journal of Cuneiform Studies 41, 1989, 115-16.

"A Stray Tablet from Haft Tépé," Iranica Antiqua 26, 1991, 81-83.

"Emar Notes, 1: Arana--A Phantom Ruler," NABU 1996/121.

"Emar Notes, 2: A Politic Intervention?," NABU 1996/122.

"New Examples of an Inscription of Sîn-iddinam," NABU, 1997/85.

"Tablet Fragments from Sepphoris," NABU, 1997/86.

Obituary of Hans Gustav Güterbock, Archaeological Odyssey, July/August 2000, 12.

"A Scrap from Emar," NABU, 2000/45.

"Month XII," NABU, 2000/46.

Reviews
S. R. Bin-Nun, The Tawananna in the Hittite Kingdom, Journal of the American Oriental Society 98, 1978, 513-14.

O. R. Gurney, Some Aspects of Hittite Religion, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 41, 1982, 76-78.

A. Ünal, Ein Orakeltext über die Intrigen am hethitischen Hof, Journal of the American Oriental Society 101, 1981, 410-11.

W. Burkert, Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual, Journal of the American Oriental Society 102, 1982, 207-09.

H.A. Hoffner and H.G. Güterbock, eds. The Chicago Hittite Dictionary, Volume 3, Fascicle 1, Journal of Biblical Literature 101, 1982, 428-29.

V. Haas and H.J. Thiel, Die Beschwörungsrituale der Allaiturah(h)i und verwandte Texte, Bibliotheca Orientalis 40, 1983, 111-14.

S. Alp. Beiträge zur Erforschung des hethitischen Tempels, Journal of the American Oriental Society 104, 1984, 583-84.

Keilschrifturkunden aus Boghazköi, Bd. LII and LIII, Bibliotheca Orientalis 42, 1985, 138- 44.

V. Haas, Hethitische Berggötter und hurritische Steindämonen, Bibliotheca Orientalis 42, 1985, 145-47.

I. Hoffmann, Der Erlass Telipinus, Journal of the American Oriental Society 106, 1986, 570- 72.

I. Singer, The Hittite KI.LAM Festival, Bibliotheca Orientalis 43, 1986 168-71.

Hethitica VI, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 47, 1988, 141-43.

V. Haas, Die Serien itkahi und itkalzi des AZU-Priesters, Rituale für Tašmišarri und Tatuhepa sowie weitere Texte mit Bezug auf Tašmišarri, Bibliotheca Orientalis 44, 1987, 197-99.

J. V. Canby et al., eds., Ancient Anatolia, Essays in Honor of Machteld J. Mellink, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 47, 1988, 290-91.

J. G. Macqueen, The Hittites, second edition, Biblical Archaeologist 52/1, March 1989, 46-47.

J. Friedrich and A. Kammenhuber, Hethitisches Wörterbuch, 2. Auflage, Lieferungen 8 and 9- 10, Bibliotheca Orientalis 48, 1991, 210-15.

C. Girbal, Beiträge zur Grammatik des Hattischen, Bibliotheca Orientalis 46, 1989, 669-71.

N. Boysan-Dietrich, Das hethitische Lehmhaus aus der Sicht der Keilschriftquellen, Journal of the American Oriental Society 109, 1989, 689.

P. Albenda, The Palace of Sargon King of Assyria, American Journal of Archaeology 93, 1989, 144-45.

Prince T. Mikasa, ed., Essays on Anatolian Studies in the Second Millennium B.C., Journal of Near Eastern Studies 50, 1991, 76.

M. Hutter, Behexung, Entsühnung und Heilung. Das Ritual der Tunnawiya für ein Königspaar aus mittelhethitischer Zeit, Bibliotheca Orientalis 47, 1990, 159-62.

V. Haas and I. Wegner, Die Rituale der Beschwörerinnen SALŠU.GI, Bibliotheca Orientalis 48,1991, 585-89.

H. Otten, Die Bronzetafel aus Boğazköy, Welt des Orients 20-21, 1989-90, 289-94.

R. Boehmer and H.G. Güterbock, Glyptik aus dem Stadtsgebiet von Boğazköy, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 51, 1991, 73-74.

W. Held, W.R. Schmalstieg, and J.E. Gertz, Beginning Hittite, Journal of the American Oriental Society 111, 1991, 658-59.

A. Hagenbuchner, Die Korrespondenz der Hethiter, I. und II. Teil, Welt des Orients 23, 1992, 174-79.

S.Izre'el and I. Singer, The General's Letter Ugarit, Archiv für Orientforschung, forthcoming.

G. McMahon, The Hittite Cult of the Tutelary Deities, Journal of Cuneiform Studies, 43-45, 1991-93, 121-24.

F. Starke, Untersuchung zur Stammbildung des keilschrift-luwischen Nomens, Journal of the American Oriental Society, forthcoming.

D. Fleming, The Installation of Baal's High Priestess at Emar, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 293, 1994, 87-88.

P. Neve, Nattuša-Stadt der Götter und Tempel, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 114, 1994, 517.

B. Janowski, K. Koch, and G. Wilhelm, eds., Religionsgeschichtliche Beziehungen zwischen Kleinasien, Nordsyrien und dem Alten Testament, Newsletter for Anatolian Studies, 10, 1994, 18-21.

H. C. Melchert, Anatolian Historical Phonology, Journal of the American Oriental Society, forthcoming.

V. Haas, Geschichte der hethitischen Religion, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, 87, 1997, 281-286.

E. Edel, Die ägyptisch-hethitische Korrespondenz aus Boghazköi, Bibliotheca Orientalis, 54, 1997, 423-27.

Th. Van den Hout, ed., Studio Historiae Ardens: Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented to Philo H. J. Houwink ten Cate on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 117, 1997, 213-14.

H. Otten, Zu einigen Neufunden hethitischer Königssiegel, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 117, 1997, 214-15.

S. de Martino, L'Anatolia occidentale nel medio regno ittita, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 118, 1998, 592.

E. Neu, Das hurritische Epos der Freilassung I, Bibliotheca Orientalis, forthcoming.

E. Edel, Der Vertrag zwischen Ramses II. von Ägypten und Hattušili III. von Hatti, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 89, 1999, 149-52.

B.H.L. van Gessel, Onomasticon of the Hittite Pantheon, Journal of Biblical Literature 118, 1999, 575-6.

M. Van De Mieroop, The Ancient Mesopotamian City, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 98.10.9.

Th. van den Hout, The Purity of Kingship, Journal of the American Oriental Society 119, 1999, 684-86.

J. Klinger, Untersuchungen zur Rekonstruktion der hattischen Kultschicht, Bibliotheca Orientalis, forthcoming.

V. Souček and J. Siegelová, Systematische Bibliographie der Hethitologie 1915-1995, American Journal of Archaeology 103, 1999, 551-52.

T. Bryce, The Kingdom of the Hittites, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 99.4.18.

H. Klengel, Geschichte des Hethitischen Reiches, Journal of the American Oriental Society 120, 2000, 260-61.

S. Košak, Konkordanz der Keilschrifttafeln. III/1. Die Texte der Grabung 1933: 1/c-1300/c, Journal of the American Oriental Society 120, 2000, 493.

G. Wilhelm, ed., Zwischen Tigris und Nil, Journal of the American Oriental Society 120, 2000, 146.

R.L. Litke, A Reconstruction of the Assyro-Babylonian God-Lists, AN: dA-nu-um and AN: Anu ša amēli, Journal of the American Oriental Society 120, 2000, 493.

G. Wilhelm, Kusakli-Sarissa. Keilschrifttexte aus Gebäude A., Bibliotheca Orientalis, forthcoming.

A. Carmel and E.J. Eisler, Der Kaiser reist ins Heilige Land, Journal of the American Oriental Society 120, 2000, 268-69.

P.H. Alexander, et al., eds., The SBL Handbook of Style, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 121, 2001, 529.

A. Jones, ed., Weltende, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 121, 2001, 530-531.

B. Lincoln, Theorizing Myth, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 121, 2001, 529-530.

S. Koaak, Konkordanz der Keilschrifttafeln. III/2. Die Texte der Grabung 1933: 1301/c - 2809/c. Journal of Cuneiform Studies, forthcoming.

J. Bottéro, C. Herrenschmidt, and J.P. Vernant, Ancestor of the West, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 121, 2001, 309-310.

M. van Ess and Th. Weber, eds., Baalbek, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 121, 2001, 530-531.

T. Mikasa, ed., Essays on Ancient Anatolia, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 121, 2001, 497-498.

D. Bonatz, Das syro-hethitische Grabdenkmal, Journal of the American Oriental Society, forthcoming.

P. Taracha, Ersetzen und Entsühnen, Journal of the American Oriental Society, forthcoming.

J.M. Hadley, The Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel and Judah, Association for Jewish Studies Review, forthcoming.

Barbara Nevling Porter, ed., One God or Many? Concepts of Divinity in the Ancient World, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 121, 2001, 683-685.

Reallexikon der Assyriologie, Band 9, 1./2., 3./4., 5./6. Lieferungen, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 122, 2002, 176-177.

Wisdom, Gods and Literature. Studies in Assyriology in Honour of W.G. Lambert, Journal of the American Oriental Society,forthcoming.

E. Rova, ed., Patavina Orientalia Selecta, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 122, 2002, 175-176.

M. Nissinen, ed., Prophesy in its Ancient Near Eastern Context, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 122, 2002, 177-178.

Ch. Uehlinger, ed., Images as Media, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 122, 2002, 177.

B.I. Faist, Der Fernhandel des assyrischen Reiches zwischen dem 14. und 11. Jh. V. Chr., Journal of the American Oriental Society, forthcoming.

M.G. Masetti-Rouault, Cultures locales du Moyen-Euphrate. Modeles et événements IIe-Ier mill. av. J.-C., Journal of the American Oriental Society, forthcoming.

J. Bottéro, Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia, Journal of the American Oriental Society, forthcoming.

J. Day, Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan, Journal of the American Oriental Society, forthcoming.

J. G. Westenholz, et al., Cuneiform Inscriptions in the Collection of the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem. The Emar Tablets. Bibliotheca Orientalis 58, 2001, 193-97.

M. E. J. Richardson, Hammurabi's Laws. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 122, 2002, 178.

R. M. Whiting, ed., Mythologies and Mythologies. Journal of the American Oriental Society, forthcoming.

M. R. Adamthwaite, Late Hittite Emar. Journal of Cuneiform Studies, forthcoming.

D. Schwerner, Wettergottgestalten. Journal of the American Oriental Society , forthcoming.

N. Cholidis and L. Martin, Der Tell Halaf und sein Ausgräber Max Freiherr von Oppenheim, Journal of the American Oriental Society, forthcoming.

E. Fox, Sacred Geography. A Tale of Murder and Archaeology in the Holy Land. Journal of the American Oriental Society, forthcoming.

P. Mirecki and M. Meyer, eds., Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2003.01.08.

M. Liverani, International Relations in the Ancient Near East, 1600-1100 BC. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 122, 2002.

D. Warburton, Egypt and the Near East. Politics in the Bronze Age. Journal of the American Oriental Society, forthcoming.

Reallexikon der Assyriologie,
Band 9. Journal of the American Oriental Society, forthcoming.

G. Bunnens, ed., Essays on Syria in the Iron Age. Journal of the American Oriental Society, forthcoming.

B. Salje, ed., Vorderasiatische Museen. Gestern, Heute, Morgen, Berlin, Paris, London, New York. Eine Standortsbestimmung. Journal of the American Oriental Society, forthcoming

Nicola Crüsemann, Vorn Zweistromland zum Kupfergraben. Vorgeschichte und Entstehungsjahre (1899-1918) der Vorderasiatischen Abteilung der Berliner Museen vor fach- und kulturpolitischen Hintergründen (Berlin, 2001). Journal of the American Oriental Society, forthcoming.

S. Lackenbacher, Textes akkadiennes d'Ugarit, Journal of the American Oriental Society, forthcoming.

G. Wilhelm, ed., Akten des IV. Internationalen Kongresses für Hethitologie, Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, forthcoming.

D. Berndt, Midasstadt in Phrygien. Journal of the American Oriental Society, forthcoming.

Leda Ciraolo and Jonathan Seidel, eds. Magic and Divination in the Ancient World. Journal
of the American Oriental Society
, forthcoming.

Suzanne L. Marchand, Down from Olympus. Archaeology and Philhelenism in Germany,1750-1970. H-Net Reviews, forthcoming.

Wendy M. K. Shaw, Possessors and Possessed. Museums, Archaeology, and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire. Journal of the AmericanOriental Society, forthcoming.

Gregory Schrempp and William Hansen, eds., Myth. A New Symposium. Bryn MawrClassical Review, forthcoming.

T. R. Bryce, Life and Society in the Hittite World. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, forthcoming.

M. Heinz, Altsyrien und Lebanon. Archiv für Orientforschung, forthcoming.

H. Klengel, Hattuschili und Ramses. Hethiter und Ägypter—ihr langer Weg zum Frieden. Archiv für Orientforschung, forthcoming.

H. C. Melchert, ed., The Luwians. Journal of the American Archaeological Society, forthcoming.

Volumes edited
Kaniššuwar. A Tribute to Hans G. Güterbock on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday, Assyriological Studies 23 (Chicago: Oriental Institute, 1986), with H. A. Hoffner, Jr.

H. A. Hoffner, Jr., Hittite Myths, Writings from the Ancient World (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1991) [second edition, 1998].

Civilizations of the Ancient Near East (New York: Scribners, 1995), Associate Editor. [The publication received the 1995 R. Hawkins Award for "most outstanding professional, reference, or scholarly work published by a member of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division" of the Association of American Publishers.][Reprinted, Peabody, Mass.:Hendrickson Publishers, 2000.]

A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming), Associate Editor.

Text, Artifact, and Image: Revealing Ancient Israelite Religion, with T.J. Lewis (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming, 2001).

Hittite Studies in Honor of Harry A. Hoffner, Jr. on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, forthcoming, 2003).

Materials translated
R.M. Sigrist, Neo-Sumerian Texts from the Royal Ontario Museum. I. The Administration at Drehem (Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 1995), from the French.

Contributions of G. Frantz-Szabó, V. Haas, K. Kohlmeyer, and G. Wilhelm to Civilizations of the Ancient Near East (New York: Scribners, 1995), from the German.

"Elkunirša and Ašertu," "The Storm-god and the Serpent," "The Wrath of Telipinu," "Plague Prayers of Muršili II," "Excerpt from an Oracle Report," "Hittite Proverbs," "Excerpt from the Hurro-Hittite Bilingual Wisdom Text," and "The Bilingual Edict of Hattušili I," for W. W. Hallo and K. Lawson Younger, Jr., eds., The Context of Scripture (Leiden: Brill, 1997), from the Hittite and Akkadian.

Texts from Hattuša and Ugarit for Sources for the History of Cyprus II, Documenta Mundi, ed. B. Knapp (Altamont, NY: Greece and Cyprus Research Center, 1996), pp. 26-29, 31-35, from the Hittite and Akkadian.

"The Anitta Text" and "The Annals of Ñattuåili I," in The Ancient Near East: Historical
Sources in Translation, ed. M. W. Chavalas (London: Blackwell, forthcoming).

Works in Progress
The Hittite Gilgamesh. Edition, translation, and commentary to CTH 341 (Akkadian, Hurrian, and Hittite).

Edition of CTH 718, the babilili-rituals.

Hittite Incantations: A Religio-historical and Literary-critical Study.

The Old Babylonian Tablets from Chogha Gavaneh.