Selected contents of this volume (1998), collected in honor of Anson F. Rainey, include: Daniel Sivan, The Use of QTL and YQTL Forms in the Ugaritic Verbal System ; Edward L. Greenstein, New Readings in the Kirta Epic ; Alan Millard, Books in the Late Bronze Age in the Levant ; Richard S. Hess, Occurences of Canaan in Late Bronze Age Archives of the West Semitic World ; Gershon Galil, Ashtaroth in the Amarna Period ; Jun Ikeda, The Akkadian Language of Emar: Texts Related to a Diviner’s Family ; Agustinus Gianto, Mood and Modality in Classical Hebrew ; Masamichi Yamada, The Family of Zu-Ba la the Diviner and the Hittites ; Mario Liverani, How to Kill Abdi-Ashirta: EA 101, Once Again ; M. Dietrich and O. Loretz, Amurru, Yaman, und die Agaischen Inseln nach den Ugaritischen Texten ; Ran Zadok, Notes on Borsippean Documentation of the 8th-5th Centuries B. C. ; Zipora Cochavi-Rainey, A Note on the Coordinating Particle -ma in the Old Akkadian Letter Greeting Formula ; Ignacio Marquez Rowe, Notes on the Hurro-Akkadian of Alalah in the Mid-Second Millennium B.C.E.

Israel Oriental Studies has ceased publication with volume 20.