The latest publications from the Society of Biblical Literature include: Yitzhaq Feder, Blood Expiation in Hittite and Biblical Ritual: Origins, Context, and Meaning Itamar Singer, The Calm before the Storm: Selected Writings of Itamar Singer on the End of the Late Bronze Age in Anatolia and the Levant Alan Lenzi, ed., Reading Akkadian Prayers and Hymns: An Introduction