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Ancient Near East Monographs

The focus of this ambitious series is on the ancient Near East, including ancient Israel and its literature, from the early Neolithic to the early Hellenistic eras. Studies that are heavily philological or archaeological are both suited to this series, and can take full advantage of the hypertext capabilities of “born digital” publication. The series accepts authored works that make a sustained argument across the volume; ANEM no longer considers edited collections. Proposals and manuscripts may be submitted in either English or Spanish. Manuscripts are peer reviewed by at least two scholars in the area before acceptance. Published volumes will be held to the high scholarly standards of the SBL Press and the Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente. The partnership between the SBL Press and the Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente was initiated under the auspices of SBL’s International Cooperation Initiative (ICI) and represents the type of international scholarly exchange that is the goal of ICI.


For more information about the series’ editorial and peer review process, contact Jeffrey Stackert. For scholars concerned about open-access publishing and tenure or promotion, Jeffrey Stackert can provide a letter that describes the editorial standards and peer-review process for your tenure/promotion dossier.

General Co-Editors

Jeffrey Stackert, University of Chicago Divinity School
Juan Manuel Tebes, Catholic University of Argentina, National Research Council

Editorial Board

Angelika Berlejung, Universität Leipzig
Abraham I. Fernández Pichel, University of Lisbon
Tova Ganzel, Bar-Ilan University
Daniel Justel Vicente, University of Alcalá
Lauren Monroe, Cornell University
Emanuel Pfoh, National University of La Plata, National Research Council
Madadh Richey, Brandeis University
Stephen C. Russell, City University of New York
Andrea Seri, National University of Córdoba

Advantages to publishing in this series include:

  • Increased readership due to unlimited free online availability;
  • Rapid turnaround for editorial approval;
  • Increased visibility and enhanced reader usage through web search engines and fully searchable PDF files;
  • Guaranteed migration of PDF files to any superior archival files that become widely adopted; and
  • Books additionally available in paperback and hardcover editions.

Published Volumes

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2025

La Segunda Estela de Kamose: Un estudio integral en contexto

Roxana Flammini

2024

The Labors of Idrimi: Inscribing the Past, Shaping the Present at Late Bronze Age Alalah

Jacob Lauinger

2024

Los Textos de los Ataúdes del Egipto antiguo: Variabilidad, legitimación y diálogo

Carlos Gracia Zamacona

2023

Hebrew Forms of Address: A Sociolinguistic Analysis

Young Bok Kim

2023

Jeremiah’s Egypt: Prophetic Reflections on the Saite Period

Aren M. Wilson-Wright

2022

YHWH’s Divine Images: A Cognitive Approach

Daniel O. McClellan

2022

The Development of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions

H. H. Hardy II

2022

Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of P. Kyle McCarter Jr.

Christopher Rollston, Susanna Garfein, and Neal H. Walls, eds.

2021

“Wordplay” in Ancient Near Eastern Texts

Scott B. Noegel

2019

Sounding Sensory Profiles in the Ancient Near East

Annette Schellenberg and Thomas Krüger, eds.

2019

A House of Weeping: The Motif of Tears in Akkadian and Hebrew Prayers

David A. Bosworth

2018

Archaeology and History of Eighth-Century Judah

 Zev I. Farber and Jacob L. Wright, eds.

2018

Invention of the First-Century Synagogue

Lidia D. Matassa. Jason M. Silverman, and J. Murray Watson, eds.

2018

Perchance to Dream: Dream Divination in the Bible and the Ancient Near East

Esther J. Hamori and Jonathan Stökl, eds.

2017

Infancia y legalidad en el Próximo Oriente antiguo durante el Bronce Reciente (ca. 1500–1100 a. C.)

Daniel Justel

2017

Reflections of Empire in Isaiah 1–39: Responses to Assyrian Ideology

Shawn Zelig Aster

2017

Household and Family Religion in Persian-Period Judah: An Archaeological Approach

José E. Balcells Gallarreta

2017

Exploring Zechariah, Volume 2: The Development and Role of Biblical Traditions in Zechariah

Mark J. Boda

2017

Exploring Zechariah, Volume 1: The Development of Zechariah and Its Role within the Twelve

Mark J. Boda

2016

Mapping Judah’s Fate in Ezekiel’s Oracles against the Nations

Lydia Lee

2016

Priests and Cults in the Book of the Twelve

Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, ed.

2015

Political Memory in and after the Persian Empire

Jason M. Silverman and Caroline Waerzeggers, eds.

2015

Epigraphy, Philology, and the Hebrew Bible: Methodological Perspectives on Philological and Comparative Study of the Hebrew Bible in Honor of Jo Ann Hackett

Jeremy M. Hutton and Aaron D. Rubin, eds.

2015

Disembodied Souls: The Nefesh in Israel and Kindred Spirits in the Ancient Near East, with an Appendix on the Katumuwa Inscription

Richard C. Steiner

2015

The Book of the Twelve and the New Form Criticism

Mark J. Boda, Michael H. Floyd, and Colin M. Toffelmire, eds.

2014

Historical Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew: Steps Toward an Integrated Approach


Robert Rezetko and Ian Young

2014

Israel and the Assyrians: Deuteronomy, the Succession Treaty of Esarhaddon, and the Nature of Subversion

C. L. Crouch

2014

Divination, Politics, and Ancient Near Eastern Empires

Alan Lenzi and Jonathan Stökl, eds.

2014

Deuteronomy-Kings as Emerging Authoritative Books: A Conversation 

Diana V. Edelman, ed.

2013

The Forgotten Kingdom: The Archaeology and History of Northern Israel 

Israel Finkelstein

2011

Constructs of Prophecy in the Former and Latter Prophets and Other Texts 

Lester L. Grabbe and Martti Nissinen, eds.

2011

Reading Akkadian Prayers and Hymns: An Introduction 

Alan Lenzi

2008

El Intercambio de Bienes entre Egipto y Asia Anterior: Desde el reinado de Tuthmosis III hasta el de Akhenaton

Graciela Gestoso Singer

2008

Centro y periferia en el mundo antiguo: El Negev y sus interacciones con Egipto, Asiria, y el Levante en la Edad del Hierro (1200–586 a.C.)

Juan Manuel Tebes