One of the most detailed and accessible grammars of the Syriac language written in Arabic, covering both morphology and syntax.

A translation (from the Syriac) of the West Syriac Daily Offices, known as the book of shhimo.

Leopold Zunz was the founding father of the "Wissenschaft des Judentums." This book deals with biblical interpretation and homiletics from the Bible up to his own time. It is still a standard work.

A contemporaneous and religiously meaningful retelling of biblical stories by a feminist who looks at intimate lives of people inhabiting the Bible. She rediscovers a past in which biblical women actively participated and suggests women’s leadership might lead to a better world.

This reference book makes the 3284 administrative and economic Ur III texts accessible to Sumerologists and scholars from related fields.

The companion volume to Nineveh and Its Remains. This large (11x17), handsome volume, carefully reproduced from the original edition of 1849-53, and bound in deluxe cloth, contains 170 drawings made by Layard of sculptures, bas-reliefs, and other objects discovered by him among the ruins of Nineveh.