Telling Contexts

Archaeological and Textual Studies in Honor of Elizabeth Bloch-Smith and Mark S. Smith

Edited by Julie B. Deluty Edited by Heath D. Dewrell Edited by F. W. Dobbs-Allsop

Book cover: Telling Contexts

Extent: 312 pages

Publisher: Lockwood Press

Subjects: Ancient Near East

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(July 2026)

ISBN: 9781957454634

7.01 x 10 inches

Price: $75.00

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(July 2026)

ISBN: 9781957454627

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This volume honors the careers of Mark S. Smith (Helena Professor of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis, Princeton Theological Seminary) and Elizabeth Bloch-Smith (Princeton Theological Seminary) with contributions on the Hebrew Bible and Near Eastern archaeology by colleagues and students.

Julie B. Deluty is Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Saint Joseph’s University. She is the author of Prophet, Intermediary, King: The Dynamics of Mediation in the Biblical World and Old Babylonian Mari (Brill, 2024).
 
Heath D. Dewrell is Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Child Sacrifice in Ancient Israel.

F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp is the James Lenox Librarian and Professor of Old Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary. His most recent book is Divine Style: Walt Whitman and the King James Bible (Cambridge: OBP, 2024).

  • Edited by Julie B. Deluty
  • Edited by Heath D. Dewrell
  • Edited by F. W. Dobbs-Allsop