Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – April 2014
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
- State correspondence from the New Kingdom to the Roman Empire: the role of long-distance communication in the cohesion of early empires / edited by Karen Radner.
- Hittites: an Anatolian Empire / Metin Alparslan, Meltem Alparslan-Dogan (eds.) = Hititler : bir Anadolu imparatorlugu / Metin Alparslan, Meltem Alparslan-Dogan (eds.)
- Götterwort in Menschenmund : Studien zur Prophetie in Assyrien, Israel und Juda / Manfred Weippert.
- Neo-Babylonian trial records / by Shalom E. Holtz.
Byzantium
Hebrew and other Semitic languages
- Language and textual history of the Syriac Bible: collected studies / by Jan Joosten.
- Studies in classical Hebrew / Moshe Bar-Asher; edited by Aaron Koller.
- Qumran Hebrew: an overview of orthography, phonology, and morphology / Eric D. Reymond.
- Introduction to the grammar of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic / Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal.
- Samaritan Aramaic / Abraham Tal
- Jewish Aramaic curse texts from late-antique Mesopotamia: “May these curses go out and flee” / by Dan Levene.
- A trumpet in the wadi / Sami Michael; translation by Yael Lotan.
Jewish Studies
- Well begun is only half done: tracing Aristotle’s political ideas in Medieval Arabic, Syriac, Byzantine, and Jewish sources / edited by Vasileios Syros.
- Midrash unbound: transformations and innovations / edited by Michael Fishbane and Joanna Weinberg.
- Revisiting the Jewish question / Élisabeth Roudinesco ; translated by Andrew Brown.
- The business of identity: Jews, Muslims, and economic life in medieval Egypt / Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman.
- A life in parables and poetry: Mishael Maswari Caspi : essays in memory of a pedagogue, poet, and scholar / John Tracy Greene (ed.).
- Anti-Judaism: the Western tradition / David Nirenberg
Modern Israeli / Palestinian Studies
- The illusion of return: a novel / by Samir El-Youssef.
- The Habad Movement in Israel: religious arguments in politics / Josef Herbasch.
- Menachem Begin: the battle for Israel’s soul / Daniel Gordis.
- Israel and the Palestinian refugee issue: the formulation of policy, 1948-1956 / Jacob Tovy.
- Literature of the Holocaust: a critical introduction / edited by Alan Rosen.
E-books
- The challenge of ethnic democracy [electronic resource]: the state and minority groups in Israel, Poland and Northern Ireland / Yoav Peled
- Labour migration and the Palestinian state: labour, land and occupation / Leila Farsakh
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