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This week the English-speaking world gets its first detailed look at the contents of those tablets in The Archives of Ebla (Doubleday; $15.95) by Giovanni Pettinato, the team member originally in charge of deciphering the ancient inscriptions. The book is translated from Italian, as was an earlier 1981 title, Ebla: An Empire Rediscovered (Doubleday; $14.95), an overview by Paolo Matthiae, head of the Ebla dig. Pettinato's translation of the creation hymn sharpens a question that has already tantalized laymen and provoked squabbles among the experts: Do these tablets have any bearing on the Bible...
FATHER'S DAY by Eugene Kennedy Doubleday; 488 pages...
LOST IN AMERICA by Isaac Bashevis Singer Illustrations by Raphael Soyer Doubleday; 259 pages...
Selected by William Abrahams; Doubleday; 404 pages...
...Doubleday; 378 pages...