This SBL Press edition of an essential Brill reference work deals with the religious practices of the family in the ancient Babylonian, Syrian, and Israelite ci

This study of family religion in the Babylonian, Ugaritic and Israelite civilizations opens up a little studied province of ancient Near Eastern religion. By fo

During the past several decades, family and household religion has become a topic of Old Testament scholarship in its own right, fed by what were initially thre

The historical and literary questions about ancient Israel that traditionally have preoccupied biblical scholars have often overlooked the social realities of l

“My Lord! There is no one like you among the gods!” Attempting to describe the nature of God often prompts the exclamation of the psalmist—that God is unl