This is a classic study into the Egyptians' use of the past, focusing on the pictures and texts common in Ancient Egypt showing groupings of kings. The author discusses the genesis and development of the "king list" tradition, following a tradition over three millennia. After taking a chronological approach to "king lists", annals and day lists from the Old to New Kingdoms, the book focuses on the Aegyptiaca of Manetho, perhaps the first truly 'historical' approach to Egyptian sources written during the early Ptolemaic period.

Publishes 875 Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid economic texts, excavated at Abu Hamma, ancient Sippar, and copied by Pinches between 1892 and 1894. This volume reproduces his drawings.

This collection of writings focus on Hebrew, ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian linguistics. Contributions: A 14th Century Polyglot Psalter (Sebastian Brock); Reflections on some obscure Hebrew words in the Biblical Job (EC Clarke); Some notes on the Ugaritic counterpart of the Arabic ghain (J A Emerton); The blunders of an inept scribe (Demotic papyrus Louvre 2414) (George R Hughes); God, Fate and Free Will in Egyptian Wisdom Literature (Frank T Miosi); Cephalon, A New Coptic Martyr (Albert Pietersma and Susan T Comstock); An offering inscription from the 2nd Pylon at Karnak (Donald Redford); A New Kingdom relief of a Harper and his Song (William Kelly Simpson); The textual affinities of the Corrector(s) of B in numbers (John Wm Weevers).