Some recent reviews of new books in SOAS Library
Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica
- QLB415 / 755495 – An introduction to Ugaritic / John Huehnergard (reviewed in Marginalia)
- QI221.12 / 743308 – The formation of the Jewish canon / Timothy H. Lim (reviewed in Marginalia)
- QB930 / 737342 – Predicting the past in the ancient Near East : mantic historiography in ancient Mesopotamia, Judah, and the Mediterranean world / by Matthew Neujahr (reviewed in Review of Biblical Literature)
- [ON ORDER] – Anti-Judaism : the Western tradition / David Nirenberg (reviewed in the Institute of Historical Research’s Reviews in History)
History
- A306.362 /756941 – Crossings : Africa, the Americas and the Atlantic slave trade / James Walvin (reviewed in the Institute of Historical Research’s Reviews in History)
- JA338.17 / 737483 – Indigo plantations and science in colonial India / Prakash Kumar (reviewed in the Institute of Historical Research’s Reviews in History)
- A306.4 / 743318 – Early modern things : objects and their histories, 1500-1800 / edited by Paula Findlen (reviewed in the Institute of Historical Research’s Reviews in History)
- A937 / 747396 – Oxford handbook of Late Antiquity / edited by Scott Fitzgerald Johnson.(reviewed in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review)
- A338.4767721 – Cotton : the fabric that made the modern world / Giorgio Riello.(reviewed in the Institute of Historical Research’s Reviews in History)
- NT935.05 / 755056 – Aspects of history and epic in ancient Iran : from Gaumāta to Wahnām / M. Rahim Shayegan (reviewed in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review)
Religions
- FXA / 756628 – The end of the pagan city : religion, economy, and urbanism in late antique North Africa / Anna Leone. (reviewed in Bryn Mawr Classical Review)
- A394 / 755486 – The gift in antiquity / edited by Michael L. Satlow.(reviewed in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review)
- A223.9 / 736967 – Homilies on the Song of songs / Gregory of Nyssa ; translated with an introduction and notes by Richard A. Norris Jr.(reviewed in Review of Biblical Literature)