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Books By Charles (Houston Baptist University) Halton - Author

Charles Halton (Ph.D., Hebrew Union College) taught biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies at Southern Seminary and Hebrew Union College. He translated the cuneiform collection of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh and has contributed to various assyriological publications including the monograph Reading Akkadian Hymns and Prayers (2011) and the journal Cuneiform Digital Library Notes. He was a fellow of the Advanced Seminar in the Humanities in Venice, Italy. He is currently the managing editor of Marginalia, a magazine of intellectual culture and a channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Saana Svärd holds the title of a docent of Assyriology in the University of Helsinki. She has written extensively on the topic of women and gender in the first millennium BCE Mesopotamia, including a monograph: Women and Power in Neo-Assyrian Palaces (2015). In addition to gender, her research interests relate lexical semantics and continuity/change from first millennium Mesopotamia to later histori