Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – August 2014
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
- Divination in the Ancient Near East: a workshop on divination conducted during the 54th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Wurzburg, 2008 / edited by Jeanette C. Fincke
- Divination, politics, and ancient Near Eastern empires / edited by Alan Lenzi and Jonathan Støkl.
- Sacred ritual: a study of the West Semitic ritual calendars in Leviticus 23 and the Akkadian text Emar 446 / Bryan C. Babcock.
- Incantation and anti-witchcraft texts from Ugarit / Gregorio del Olmo Lete ; with a contribution by Ignacio Márquez Rowe.
- Redefining the sacred: religious architecture and text in the Near East and Egypt, 1000 BC – AD 300 / edited by Elizabeth Frood and R. Raja
- Le culte des pierres a Emar a l’epoque hittite / Patrick M. Michel
- The other face of the battle: the impact of war on civilians in the ancient Near East / edited by Davide Nadali and Jordi Vidal.
- A third-millennium miscellany of cuneiform texts / by Aage Westenholz.
Byzantium
- Byzantine Constantinople: monuments, topography, and everyday life / edited by Nevra Necipoğlu.
- Walking corpses: leprosy in Byzantium and the medieval West / Timothy S. Miller and John W. Nesbitt.
- The Armenian military in the Byzantine Empire: conflict and alliance under Justinian and Maurice / Armen Ayvazyan.
Hebrew & other Semitic languages
Sound recordings
Jewish studies
- Sacred ritual: a study of the West Semitic ritual calendars in Leviticus 23 and the Akkadian text Emar 446 / Bryan C. Babcock.
- The study of Judaism: authenticity, identity, scholarship / Aaron W. Hughes
- The emergence of Judaism: classical traditions in contemporary perspective / Christine Hayes
- How the Bible became holy / Michael L. Satlow.
Modern Israeli / Palestinian studies
Sound recordings
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