Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – July 2012
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
- The Ugaritic texts and the origins of West-Semitic literary composition / by Dennis Pardee
- Picturing the past: imaging and imagining the ancient Middle East / edited by Jack Green, Emily Teeter and John A. Larson
- Hammurabi of Babylon / Dominique Charpin
- Methoden zur Restaurierung von ungebrannten und gebrannten Keilschrifttafeln : gestern und heute / Carmen Gütschow
- Disaster and relief management = Katastrophen und ihre Bewältigung / edited by Angelika Berlejung
- Climate, environment and agriculture in Assyria in the 2nd half of the 2nd millennium BCE / Hervé Reculeau
- Death and dying in the neolithic Near East / by Karina Croucher
- Aphrahat’s demonstrations: a conversation with the Jews of Mesopotamia / by Eliyahu Lizorkin
Byzantium
- The emperor and the world: exotic elements and the imagining of Byzantine imperial power, ninth to thirteenth century CE / Alicia Walker
- Byzantium and Islam: age of transition, 7th-9th century / edited by Helen C. Evans, with Brandie Ratlif
Jews and Judaism
- The birth of conservative Judaism: Solomon Schechter’s disciples and the creation of an American religious movement / Michael R. Cohen.
- The modern Jewish experience in world cinema / Lawrence Baron, editor
- Genocide in Jewish thought / David Patterson
- Aphrahat’s demonstrations: a conversation with the Jews of Mesopotamia / by Eliyahu Lizorkin
Modern Israeli Studies
- A battle for survival: the struggle of the Jewish Yishuv for existence in Palestine during World War I, 1914-1918 / Oded Neumann.
- The modern Jewish experience in world cinema / Lawrence Baron, editor
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