"A practical application of orality-literacy interplay is found in Simon Parker's Stories in Scripture and Inscriptions. This work deftly examines several inscriptions that bear on orality and literacy--including a worker's petition, a civil engineer's inscription, and several royal monumental inscriptions dealing with military campaigns, appeals to divine intervention and descriptions of a miraculous deliverance."--Religious Studies Review

"An essential volume for all those with a serious interest in biblical narrative and historiography as well as the corpus of contemporary Northwest Semitic inscriptions."--Choice "Stories in Scripture and Inscriptions is a rewarding book, both for its insights into the storytelling techniques of ancient authors and for its suggestions of how we can use inscriptional materials in our study of the ancient Semitic world."--Bible Review "A practical application of orality-literacy interplay is found in Simon Parker's Stories in Scripture and Inscriptions. This work deftly examines several inscriptions that bear on orality and literacy--including a worker's petition, a civil engineer's inscription, and several royal monumental inscriptions dealing with military campaigns, appeals to divine intervention and descriptions of a miraculous deliverance."--Religious Studies Review "Parker's fine work goes a long way toward filling [a] void..."--Bibliotheca Sacra "An essential volume for all those with a serious interest in biblical narrative and historiography as well as the corpus of contemporary Northwest Semitic inscriptions."--Choice "Stories in Scripture and Inscriptions is a rewarding book, both for its insights into the storytelling techniques of ancient authors and for its suggestions of how we can use inscriptional materials in our study of the ancient Semitic world."--Bible Review "This is a useful and important discussion of types of literature as found in the Northwest Semitic world."--Denver Journal