Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – December 2013 and January 2014
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
- Cyrus the Great: an ancient Iranian king / edited by Touraj Daryaee
- “Thus speaks Ishtar of Arbela”: prophecy in Israel, Assyria, and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian period / edited by Robert P. Gordon and Hans M. Barstad.
- Models of Mesopotamian landscapes: how small-scale processes contributed to the growth of early civilizations / edited by T.J. Wilkinson, McGuire Gibson and Magnus Widell
- Literature as politics, politics as literature: essays on the ancient Near East in honor of Peter Machinist / edited by David S. Vanderhooft and Abraham Winitzer.
- Rediscovering the silver lyre of Ur: an analysis of the silver lyre at the British Museum and it replication. / Richard Dumbrill, with contributions by Myriam Marcetteau
- Garments of the Gods/ Stefan Zawadzki. 2, Texts.
- The Ancient Near East: a very short introduction / Amanda Podany.
- Gods in dwellings: temples and divine presence in the ancient Near East / Michael B. Hundley.
- Three kings of Warka : Enmerkar, Lugalbanda, Gilgamesh : myths from Mesopotamia / retold by Fran Hazelton ; introduction by Stephanie Dalley ; illustrations by Eleanor Allitt ; editor Ros Sales.
- New research on Late Assyrian Palaces: conference at Heidelberg January 22nd, 2011 / edited by David Kertai & Peter A. Miglus
- Schrijvend verleden : documenten uit het Oude Nabije Oosten : vertaald en toegelicht / uitgegeven door K.R. Veenhof.
Byzantium
- The Byzantine court : source of power and culture ; papers from the Second International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Symposium, Istanbul 21 – 23 June 2010 / edited by Ayla Ödelam, Nevra Necipoğlu, Engin Akyürek.
- The war of the three gods: Romans, Persians and the rise of Islam / Peter Crawford.
- Ethnography after antiquity: foreign lands and peoples in Byzantine literature / Anthony Kaldellis.
- Painting in Cappadocia: a guide to the sites and Byzantine church decoration / Cecily Hennessy
- The world of Kosmas: illustrated Byzantine codices of the Christian topography / Maja Kominko
Hebrew and other Semitic languages
- L’hagiographie syriaque / volume édité par André Binggeli.
- Les liturgies syriaques / volume édité par F. Cassingena-Trévédy et I. Jurasz.
- Les pères grecs dans la tradition syriaque / volume édité par A. Schmidt et D. Gonnet.
Jewish Studies
- The dynamics of coexistence in the Middle East: negotiating boundaries between Christians, Muslims, Jews and Samaritans in Palestine / Julia Droeber.
- The formation of the Jewish canon / Timothy H. Lim.
- Farewell to Salonika: city at the crossroads / Leon Sciaky.
- Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire: the poetics of power in late antiquity / edited by Natalie B. Dohrmann and Annette Yoshiko Reed.
- The legacy of liberal Judaism: Ernst Cassirer and Hannah Arendt’s hidden conversation / Ned Curthoys.
- Embodying Hebrew culture: aesthetics, athletics, and dance in the Jewish community of mandate Palestine / Nina S. Spiegel.
- The Iranian Talmud: reading the Bavli in its Sasanian context / Shai Secunda.
Modern Israeli / Palestinian Studies
- Tourists, travellers and hotels in 19th-century Jerusalem: on Mark Twain and Charles Warren at the Mediterranean Hotel / by Rupert L. Chapman III, Shimon Gibson & Yoni Shapira.
- The dynamics of coexistence in the Middle East: negotiating boundaries between Christians, Muslims, Jews and Samaritans in Palestine / Julia Droeber.
- Memory and ethnicity: ethnic museums in Israel and the Diaspora / edited by Emanuela Trevisan Semi, Dario Miccoli and Tudor Parfitt
- Struggle and survival in Palestine/Israel / edited by Mark LeVine and Gershon Shafir.[also available as an e-book via ebrary]
- Thin description: ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem / John L. Jackson, Jr.
- Agency and gender in Gaza: masculinity, femininity and family during the Second Intifada / Aitemad Muhanna
- Women and conflict in the Middle East: Palestinian refugees and the response to violence / Maria Holt
- US policy towards Israel: the role of political culture in defining the ‘special relationship’ / by Elizabeth Stephens.
- Edward Said on the prospects of peace in Palestine and Israel / John Randolph LeBlanc.
- Arab Christians in British Mandate Palestine: communalism and nationalism, 1917-1948 / Noah Haiduc-Dale.
- The Palestinian people: seeking sovereignty and state / Mustafa Kabha.
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