Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – December 2012

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Ancient Near Eastern civilizations

• A Sumerian chrestomathy / Konrad Volk, with the collaboration of Silvano Votto and Jessica Baldwin

Hebrew studies

• Seride teshuvot : a descriptive catalogue of responsa fragments from the Jacques Mosseri collection, Cambridge University Library / by Shmuel Glick ; with Dotan Arad … [et al.]

Jewish studies

• The lawgiver / by Herman Wouk
• Jewish identity and politics between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba : groups, normativity, and rituals / edited by Benedikt Eckhardt.
• From Balat to Bat Yam: memoirs of a Turkish Jew / Eli Shaul ; edited by Rıfat N. Bali ; translated from Turkish by Michael McGaha.

Modern Israeli / Palestinian studies

• Security and suspicion: an ethnography of everyday life in Israel / Juliana Ochs.
• Messianic religious Zionism confronts Israeli territorial compromises / Motti Inbari.