Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – February 2013
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
- Predicting the past in the ancient Near East: mantic historiography in ancient Mesopotamia, Judah, and the Mediterranean world / by Matthew Neujahr.
- Associated regional chronologies for the ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean. Vol. 2: the chronology of the island of Cyprus in the third millenium BC. (ARCANE 2) / [edited by] Edgar Peltenburg.
- Les texts des saisons 5 à 9 (Terqa Final Reports 2) / by Olivier Rouault.
- Seleucid dissolution: the sinking of the anchor / edited by Kyle Erickson and Gillian Ramsey; [contributors, David Engels … [et al.]].
- The Oxford handbook of late antiquity / edited by Scott Fitzgerald Johnson.
- Das Kanaano-Akkadische der Amarnazeit / Josef Tropper (Hrsg.).
- (Re-)Constructing funerary rituals in the Ancient Near East : proceedings of the first international symposium of the Tübingen Post-Graduate School “Symbols of the Dead” in May 2009 / edited by Peter Pfälzner … [et al.]
Byzantium
- The Oxford handbook of late antiquity / edited by Scott Fitzgerald Johnson.
- Byzantines, Latins, and Turks in the eastern Mediterranean world after 1150 / edited by Jonathan Harris, Catherine Holmes, Eugenia Russell.
Hebrew & Semitic languages
- Semitic languages: features, structures, relations, processes / Gideon Goldenberg
- Jews and words / Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger
- Althebräische Personennamen / Hans Rechenmacher
- An introduction to Egyptian Aramaic / Takamitsu Muraoka
- Vom Status pendens zum Satzsubjekt : Studien zur Topikalisierung in neueren semitischen Sprachen / Werner Diem.
Jewish Studies
- Bukharan Jews and the dynamics of global Judaism / Alanna E. Cooper.
- Singer’s typewriter and mine: reflections on Jewish culture / Ilan Stavans.
- Baghdad, yesterday: the making of an Arab Jew / Sasson Somekh.
- Jews and words / Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger
- Handbook of Jewish literature from late antiquity, 135-700 CE / Fergus Millar, Eyal Ben-Eliyahu, Yehuda Cohn.
- A genealogy of evil: anti-Semitism from Nazism to Islamic Jihad / David Patterson.
- The healthy Jew: the symbiosis of Judaism and modern medicine / Mitchell B. Hart.
Modern Israel / Palestine
- The one-state condition: occupation and democracy in Israel/Palestine / Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir ; translated by Tal Haran.
- Beyond the two-state solution: a Jewish political essay / Yehouda Shenhav.
- The global offensive: the United States, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the making of the post-cold war order / Paul Thomas Chamberlin.
- The people of forever are not afraid: a novel / Shani Boianjiu.
- Arthur Ruppin and the production of pre-Israeli culture / by Etan Bloom
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