Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – May 2013
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
- Perché il male? : il problema della Mesopotamia antica / Claudio Saporetti ; con un contributo bibliografico di Giovanna Matini.
- Wissenskultur im Alten Orient Weltanschauung, Wissenschaften, Techniken, Technologien : 4. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 20.-22. Februar 2002, Münster Im Auftrag des Vorstands der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft / unter Mitarbeit von Susanne Paulus [and] Hans Neumann.
- A manual of Hurrian / by Arnaud Fournet.
- La collezione orientale del Museo archeologico nazionale di Firenze / Stefano Anastasio, Giovanni Conti, Laura Ulivieri.
- An examination of late Assyrian metalwork: with special reference to Nimrud / John Curtis ; with an appendix on scientific analysis by Matthew J. Ponting.
Byzantium
- Visions of community in the post-Roman world: the West, Byzantium and the Islamic world, 300-1100 / edited by Walter Pohl, Clemens Gantner, and Richard Payne.
- Nectar and illusion: nature in Byzantine art and literature / Henry Maguire.
Jewish studies
- Philo of Alexandria: a thinker in the Jewish diaspora / by Mireille Hadas-Lebel ; translated by Robyn Fréchet.
- A Jew’s best friend? : the image of the dog throughout Jewish history / edited by Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman and Rakefet Zalashik.
- Holocaust drama: the theater of atrocity / Gene A. Plunka.
Modern Israeli & Palestinian Studies
- Tested by Zion: the Bush administration and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / Elliott Abrams
- State practices and Zionist images: shaping economic development in Arab towns in Israel / by David A. Wesley. [new and revised edition]
- War in contemporary Israeli arts and culture: narratives of dissent / edited by Rachel S. Harris and Ranen Omer-Sherman.
- Palestinian ethnonationalism in Israel / Oded Haklai.
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