Book reviews 2014

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Charles Méla et Frédéric Möri en collaboration avec Sydney H. Aufrère, Gilles Dorival, Alain Le Boulluec, Alexandrie la divine. (2 vols).
(Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski)

Michael D. Press, Ashkelon 4: The Iron Age Figurines of Ashkelon and Philistia: Final Reports of the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon 4.
(Josef Mario Briffa)

Irving Finkel, The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood.
(Stephanie Dalley)

Margreet L. Steiner and Ann E. Killebrew (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant, c. 8000–332 BCE.
(Lester L. Grabbe)

Eliot Braun with David Ilan, Ofer Marder, Yael Braun, and Sariel Shalev, Early Megiddo on the East Slope (the ‘Megiddo Stages”): A Report on the Early Occupation of the East Slope of Megiddo.
(Robert S. Homsher)

Esther Eshel, and Yigal Levin (eds.), ‘See, I will bring a scroll recounting what befell me’ (Ps 40:8) Epigraphy and Daily Life from the Bible to the Talmud Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Hanan Eshel.
(Sandra Jacobs)

Nicholas Postgate, Bronze Age Bureaucracy: Writing and the Practice of Government in Assyria. 
(Sandra Jacobs)

Andreas J.M. Kropp, Images and Monuments of Near Eastern Dynasts:100 BC-AD 100.
(David M. Jacobson)

William G. Dever, Excavations at the Early Bronze IV Sites of Jebel Qa’aqir and Be’er Resisim.
(Aren Maeir)

Edward Adams, The Earliest Christian Meeting Places: Almost Exclusively Houses?
(Eric Meyers)

Y. Samuel Chen, The Primeval Flood Catastrophe: Origins and Early Development in Mesopotamian Traditions.
(Alan R. Millard)

Isaac Kalimi, and Seth Richardson (eds.), Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem: Story, History and Historiography.
(Alan R. Millard)

Vasile Babota, The Institution of the Hasmonean High Priesthood.
(Deborah W. Rooke)

Dan Bahat, The Jerusalem Western Wall Tunnel.
(Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg)

Zeʼev Meshel, with A. Aḥituv, Liora Freud et al., Kuntillet `Ajrud (orvat Teman): An Iron Age Ii Religious Site on the Judah-Sinai Border.
(Joan E. Taylor)

David Stacey and Greg Doudna, with Gideon Avni, Qumran Revisited: A Reassessment of the Archaeology of the Site and its Texts.
(Joan E. Taylor and Philip R. Davies) 165

Peter Alpass, The Religious Life of Nabataea. 
(Lucy Wadeson)

Manfred Weippert, Götterwort in Menschenmund: Studien zur Prophetie in Assyrien, Israel und Juda.
(H. G. M. Williamson)

Adam Zertal (ed.), El-Ahwat, A Fortified Site from the Early Iron Age Near Nahal ‘Iron, Israel: Excavations 1993–2000.
(Samuel Wolff)