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Book Giveaway
Made possible by a donation from Dr. David Marcus

After an illustrious career as Professor of Bible and Masorah at the Jewish Theological Seminary, Dr. David Marcus donated his 2,319-book library to the Institute of Biblical Culture to be disseminated as a gift to the public free-of-charge. The library contains many rare and out-of-print books and has six subject areas:

Assyriology (completed)

Semitic Languages (completed)

Hebrew Bible

Bible and Ancient Near East

General Bible Studies

Post-Biblical Studies


Semitic Languages Highlights

We received more than 100 requests for Semitic Languages and all books have been assigned. Stay tuned for our third giveaway, Hebrew Bible. 

All Semitic Languages volumes are listed in this document