You should do all assigned reading before each lecture. Be AWARE that there are ca.80+ pages of reading assigned each and every week. This task should not be daunting if you ACTIVELY read ca.25+ before each class. The reading for this course comes in a number of forms — (1) a collection of ancient sources, (2) an atlas, (3) a digital course reader, (4) a digital grammar, and (5) the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible.

REQUIRED • ON-LINE

ANET

J. B. Pritchard, editor. 1950. Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament

• sourcebook

CoS

W. W. Hallo & K. L. Younger, editors. 2003. The Context of Scripture

• sourcebook

CR

Course Reader

• posted weekly on Blackboard, with links in the extended outline

NRSV

Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), New Revised Standard Version (see under "Recommended" below)

• bible.oremus.org

Roaf

M. Roaf. 1990. Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East

STYLE GUIDES

Hacker Pocket Style Manual

see also her related list of resources specific to Classical Studies

The Economist

Chicago Manual of Style

RECOMMENDED

NRSV

M. D. Cogan, et al., eds (2010) New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha.

New Revised Standard Version, 4th edition. Oxford University Press.

[ISBN 978-0195289602]

this edition has useful maps and notes (otherwise use bible.oremus.org)

COURSE READER • SOURCES
The primary source course reader (CR) will be posted on-line weekly, collated from the following and other various sites, all of which have further resources:

J. Black • et al. 2016 • Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature

G. R. Crane • et al. 2017 • Perseus Project

R. K. Englund • et al. 2017 • Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative

J. Lendering • 2017 • Livius: Sources on Ancient History

W. Thayer • 2016 • Lacus Curtius

In addition, an archive of the PowerPoint slides shown in lecture will be posted to Blackboard.

DIGITAL RESOURCES
Please avail yourself of the following whenever possible:

H. Cancik and H. Schneider, eds. (2002- ) Brills New Pauly.

S. Hornblower and A. Spawforth, eds. (1996) Oxford Classical Dictionary.

SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING

J. P. Allen. 2015. Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts. SBL Press.

T. G. Allen. 1974. Book of the Dead. University of Chicago Press.

Y. Cohen. 2013. Wisdom from the Late Bronze Age. SBL Press.

P. A. Clayton. 2006. Chronicle of the Pharaohs. Thames & Hudson.

M. Coogan. 2013. A Reader of Ancient Near Eastern Texts. Oxford University Press.

J. Crenshaw. 1998. Old Testament Wisdom. John Knox.

J. Foster. 1995. Hymns, Prayers, and Songs. SBL Press.

H. Hoffner. 1998. Hittite Myths. SBL Press.

K. A. Kitchen. 1994-2014. Ramesside Inscriptions, I-VII. Wiley Blackwell.

M. Lichtheim. 1973-1980. Ancient Egyptian Literature, I-III. University of California Press.

M. van de Mieroop. 2015. Philosophy before the Greeks. Princeton University Press.

A. Payne. 2012. Iron Age Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions. SBL Press.

W. Simpson. 2003. The Literature of Ancient Egypt. Yale University Press.

I. Singer. 2002. Hittite Prayers. SBL Press.

H. Vanstiphout. 2003. Epics of Sumerian Kings. SBL Press.