Book Sadness
January 17, 2009
I’ve been watching the books come through Eisenbrauns’ used books with idle curiosity. The windfall consisted mostly of Assyriological works; and the few Northwest Semitic titles I had seen were all ones I already owned.
The only volume I was really interested in was La langue de Ya’udi by Paul-Eugène Dion. The title came up earlier this week, but at a price of $75 dollars. Alas, for that price I had to pass yet again. Someone picked up a sweet and rare find. I’ll have to continue to rely on the kindness of strangers libraries.
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Ketuvim: the Writings of James R. Getz Jr. 
I share your pain. I too had to pass on Dion given that I’d spent much of my annual book budget there already . . .
Jay, it wasn’t a matter of blowing my book budget. I picked up two books at SBL in November and grabbed only a leather-bound copy of Borger’s Babylonisch-assyrische Lesestucke during the Assyriological used-book melee we’ve been having during January. The book wasn’t beyond my means, just too expensive for what it was.