Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – June 2014
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
- La tour de Babylone : Etudes et recherches sur les monuments de Babylone / Béatrice André-Salvini (dir.)
- Apprendre le hourrite / Arnaud Fournet
- Interpretations of Sinuhe : inspired by two passages (proceedings of a workshop held at Leiden University, 27-29 November 2009) / ed. by Harold M. Hays, Frank Federer and Ludwig D. Morenz.
- Personal names in ancient Anatolia / edited by Robert Parker.
- Comment devient-on prophète? : actes du colloque organisé par le Collège de France, Paris, les 4-5 avril 2011 / Jean-Marie Durand, Thomas Römer, Micaël Bürki (éds.).
- The ancient Near East: history, society and economy / Mario Liverani ; translated by Soraia Tabatabai
- The domestication of Equidae in third-millennium Mesopotamia / by Juris Zarins.
- Religion, language and community in the Roman Near East: Constantine to Muhammad / Fergus Millar.
Byzantium
- A short history of the Byzantine Empire / Dionysios Stathakopoulos.
- Architecture and ritual in the churches of Constantinople: ninth to fifteenth centuries / Vasileios Marinis, The Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University.
Hebrew and other Semitic languages
- A Corpus of Syriac incantation bowls: Syriac magical texts from Late-Antique Mesopotamia / by Marco Moriggi.
- Syriac idiosyncrasies: theology and hermeneutics in early Syriac literature / by Serge Ruzer, Aryeh Kofsky.
- Suddenly, love: a novel / Aharon Appelfeld ; translated from Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green.
- Approaching you in English: selected poems of Admiel Kosman / translated from Hebrew by Lisa Katz with Shlomit Naim-Naor.
- Look there / new and selected poems of Agi Mishol ; translated from the Hebrew by Lisa Katz.
- More and more equal: the literary works of Sami Michael / Nancy E. Berg.
Jewish Studies
- Comment devient-on prophète? : actes du colloque organisé par le Collège de France, Paris, les 4-5 avril 2011 / Jean-Marie Durand, Thomas Römer, Micaël Bürki (éds.).
- The Bible’s many voices / Michael Carasik.
CDs
DVDS
Modern Israeli / Palestinian Studies
- The Israel-Palestine conflict: one hundred years of war (3rd edition) / James L. Gelvin.
- A history of modern Israel (2nd edition) / Colin Shindler.
- Wrapped in the flag of Israel: Mizrahi single mothers and bureaucratic torture / Smadar Lavie.
- Palestine in turmoil: the struggle for sovereignty, 1933-1939 / Monty Noam Penkower.
- Cursed victory: a history of Israel and the Occupied Territories / Ahron Bregman.
DVDs
- Bethlehem / produced by Pie Films in co-production with Entre Chien & Loup … [et al.] ; directed by Yuval Adler ; written by Yuval Adler, Ali Waked ; produced by Talia Kleinhendler ; producers, Osnat Handelsman-Keren … [et al.].
- Omar / Hany Abu-Assad, réal., scénario ; Adam Bakri, Leem Lubany, Iyad Hoorani… [et al.], act.
E-books
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