Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – November 2012
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
- The Sumerian poem Enmerkar and En-suhkes-ana: epic, play, stage craft at the turn from the third to the second millennium B.C., with a score-edition and a translation of the text / by Claus Wilcke
- Mangiare divinamente : pratiche e simbologie alimentari nell’antico Oriente / a cura di Lucio Milano.
- Altorientalische Studien zu Ehren von Pascal Attinger : mu-ni u4 ul-li2-a-as ga2-ga2-de3 / herausgegeben von Catherine Mittermayer und Sabine Ecklin
Jewish Studies
- Zadok’s heirs: the role and development of the high priesthood in ancient Israel / Deborah W. Rooke
- Hollywood’s chosen people: the Jewish experience in American cinema / edited by Daniel Bernardi, Murray Pomerance, and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
- Wrestling with an angel: power, morality, and Jewish identity / Ehud Luz ; translated from the Hebrew by Michael Swirsy.
- Dark mirrors: Azazel and Satanael in early Jewish demonology / Andrei A. Orlov.
- Parting ways: Jewishness and the critique of Zionism / Judith Butler.
Modern Israel / Palestine
- Literature and war: conversations with Israeli and Palestinian writers / Runo Isaksen ; translated by Kari Dickson
- Wrestling with an angel: power, morality, and Jewish identity / Ehud Luz ; translated from the Hebrew by Michael Swirsy.
- Place, memory and myth in contemporary Israeli cinema / Anat Y. Zanger.
- Parting ways: Jewishness and the critique of Zionism / Judith Butler.
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