Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – February 2014
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
- Critical approaches to ancient Near Eastern art / edited by Brian A. Brown and Marian H. Feldman.
- Exploring the narrative: Jerusalem and Jordan in the Bronze and Iron Ages / edited by Eveline van der Steen, Jeanette Boertien, Noor Mulder-Hymans.
- Ancient Iran and its neighbours: local developments and long-range interactions in the fourth millennium BC / edited by Cameron A. Petrie.
- L’economia dell’antica Mesopotamia (III-I millennio a.C.): per un dialogo interdisciplinare / Franco D’Agostino (a cura di)
- The primeval flood catastrophe: origins and early development in Mesopotamian traditions / Y.S. Chen.
- The Eteocypriot languages and Hurrian / Arnaud Fournet
- Gelgamis in Hurrian / Arnaud Fournet.
- The Phaistos Disc and Hurrian / Arnaud Fournet
- The Oxford handbook of the archaeology of the Levant. c. 8000-332 BCE. / Margreet L. Steiner; Ann E. Killebrew.
Byzantium
Hebrew and other Semitic languages
- Jacob of Sarug’s Homily on the sinful woman / translation and introduction by Scott Johnson.
- Judeo-Spanish in the time of clamoring nationalisms / edited by Mahir Şaul.
- A social history of Hebrew: its origins through the Rabbinic period / William M. Schniedewind.
Jewish Studies
- Divine service? : Judaism and Israel’s armed forces / by Stuart A Cohen.
- Trade and institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean: the Geniza merchants and their business world / Jessica L. Goldberg.
- Armenian apocrypha relating to Abraham / Michael E. Stone
- Judeo-Spanish in the time of clamoring nationalisms / edited by Mahir Şaul.
Modern Israeli / Palestinian studies
- The European Union and Occupied Palestinian Territories: state-building without a state / Dimitris Bouris.
- Petitioning the Sultan: protests and justice in late Ottoman Palestine / Yuval Ben-Bassat
- Divine service? : Judaism and Israel’s armed forces / by Stuart A Cohen.
- Social mobilization in the Arab-Israeli War of 1948: on the Israeli home front / Moshe Naor ; translated by Shaul Vardi.
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