Oriental Institute Seminars (OIS)

http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/ois/

Several freely downloadable monographs from the OI:

• OIS 9. Heaven on Earth: Temples, Ritual, and Cosmic Symbolism in the Ancient World. Edited by Deena Ragavan. 2013.
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• OIS 8. Iconoclasm and Text Destruction in the Ancient Near East and Beyond. Edited by Natalie Naomi May. 2012.
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• OIS 7. Slaves and Households in the Near East. Edited by Laura Culbertson. 2011.
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• OIS 6. Divination and Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient World. Edited by Amar Annus. 2010.
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• OIS 5. Nomads, Tribes, and the State in the Ancient Near East: Cross-disciplinary Perspective. Jeffrey Szuchman, ed. 2009.
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• OIS 4. Religion and Power: Divine Kingship in the Ancient World and Beyond Nicole Brisch, ed. 2008. Second printing with minor corrections, 2012.
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• OIS 3. Performing Death: Social Analyses of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean Nicola Laneri, ed. 2007.
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• OIS 2. Margins of Writing, Origins of Cultures. (second printing) Seth L. Sanders, ed. 2007. Purchase Book
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• OIS 1. Changing Social Identity with the Spread of Islam: Archaeological Perspectives. Donald Whitcomb, ed. 2004.
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