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Miriam is a Hebrew-Egyptian girl who lived through the events leading up to the departure of the Israelites from Egypt. She lives on a country estate, and when Pharaoh agrees to "let the people go," her family has to decide whether to remain in Egypt, where they have made themselves quite comfortable, or throw their lot in with the larger Israelite community. Since Miriam's family is outside the protected area where most of the Israelites live, they experience the plagues as the Egyptians did, and they learn of momentous events through messengers and rumors. Adults don't offer Miriam many...

Life among the rolling hills of northwest New Jersey and in the three small towns that became centers of that areas population has been faithfully recorded by residents since the Civil War, capturing the rural character of their landscape. The rich heritage of descendants of English, Dutch, and German settlers in the Hunderton County population centers of Clinton, Flemington, and Lambertville is presented here.

This volume continues the publication of the important Mesopotamian omen collection Shumma Alu, with text editions of Tablets 41 through 63. After the omen texts dealing with the examination of entrails of sacrifical animals and the omens dealing with astrological phenomena, this collection ranks as next in importance. This book thus constitutes the presentation of a primary edition of an important portion of ancient Mesopotamian religious and social literature. The first two volumes of this publication appeared in 1998 and 2006 and are still in print and available from Eisenbrauns.