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The Department has enjoyed an exceptional period of scholarly productivity over the past few years.
Prof. Philip Baldi's Studies in Baltic and Indo-European (John Benjamins, Amsterdam 2004) was presented to William R. Schmalstieg on the occasion of his 75th birthday, which Prof. Baldi edited with Pietro U. Dini (Univ. of Pisa).
Prof. Baldi's The Foundations of Latin is now available in paper back (Mouton de Gruyter 2002). Also Prof. Baldi's New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax, edited with Pierluigi Cuzzolin, a multi-authored work, will be published in four volumes by Mouton de Gruyter beginning in 2007 and concluding in 2008/9.
Prof. Daniel Berman's Myth and Culture in Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes has been published by edizioni dell'Ateneo, Roma (2007). In addition, he has recently published articles on the myths of Thebes and Theocritean bucolic poetry.
Prof. Garrett Fagan's recent publications include (ed.) Archaeologcal Fantasies: How Pseudoarchaeology Misrepresents the Past and Misleads the Public (Oxford: Routledge, 2006) and Professor Garrett Fagan and P. Murgatroyed, From Augustus to Nero: An Intermediate Latin Reader (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Prof. Fagan has also published Bathing in Public in the Roman World with the University of Michigan Press. The book was made a History Book Club main selection.
The Department is also pleased to announce that it is the host for a WWW page devoted to ancient baths managed by Prof. Fagan. It is a clearing house for information and discussion of baths in the ancient Medditerranean (Ancient Baths Resourse Site). In addition, Prof. Fagan is an editor for, and contributor to, the on-line database on the Roman emperors, De Imperatoribus Romanis.
Prof. Baruch Halpern's latest book, David's Secret Demons: Messiah, Murderer, Traitor, King (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001) has received the Frank Moore Cross Award from the American Schools of Oriental Research and the R.B.Y. Scott Award from the Canadian Society for Biblical Studies.
Prof. Paul Harvey collaborated with a former Penn State Classics Honors graduate (1992), Celia E. Schultz, in editing Religion in Republican Italy ("Yale Classical Studies vol. 33"; Cambridge University Press 2006). The volume includes Harvey's study, "Religion and memory at Pisaurum".
Prof. Ann Killebrew (with D. Callebaut and N.A. Silberman), ed., has published Interpreting the Past: Presenting Archaeological Sites to the Public (Brussels: Institute for the Archaeological Heritage of the Flemish Community, 2004). Also, The Archaeology of Ethnicity in the Biblical World: Canaanites, Egyptians, Philistines, and Early Israel (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature Press/Leiden: E.J. Brill) was published in early 2005.
Prof. Gary Knoppers has recently published, in collaboration with Oded Lipschits and Rainer Albertz, Judah and the Judeans in the Fourth Century B.C.E. (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns 2007). The volume includes Knopper's study, "Nehemiah and Sanballat: The Enemy Without or Within?".
Prof. Mark Munn has published his latest book, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (University of California Press, 2006). A description is on line at http://www.ucpress.edu/books/sale/pages/10217.html. Also appearing in 2006 was Munn's article, "KTHMA ES AIEI: The Occasion of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War," in Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels Lecutes, Bryn Mawr College.
Prof. Donald Redford has published his The Excavations at Mendes, I. The Royal Necropolis and the Temenos Walls. SHCANE. Leiden: Brill, 2004. Also fresh off the press is his From Slave to Pharaoh: The Black Experience of ancient Egypt (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004).
Prof. Aaron Rubin's recent publications include two books, Studies in Semitic Grammaticalization (Harvard Semitic Series, Eisenbrauns, 2005) and Samuel D. Luzzatto, Prolegomena to a Grammar of the Hebrew Language. (Gorgias, 2005).
Wilma O. Stern, Lecturer Emerita, has published Kenchreai. Eastern Port of Corinth. Vol. VI. Ivory, Bone, and Related Wood Finds (Leiden: Brill 2007).
Prof. Stephen Wheeler has recently published with W.W. Ehlers, F. Felgentreu, ed., Aetas Claudianea: Claudian und die lateinische Literatur (Munich: K.G. Sure, 2004).
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