Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – October 2014
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
- The ark before Noah: decoding the story of the flood / Irving Finkel.
- Legend, history and the ancient city: Babylon / Michael Seymour.
- Die babylonischen Kudurru-Inschriften von der kassitischen bis zur frühneubabylonischen Zeit : untersucht unter besonderer Berücksichtigung gesellschafts- und rechtshistorischer Fragestellungen / Susanne Paulus.
- Le droit de la vente a Emar / Lena Fijalkowska.
- Orient und Okzident in hellenistischer Zeit : Beiträge zur Tagung “Orient und Okzident – Antagonismus oder Konstrukt? Machtstrukturen, Ideologien und Kulturtransfer in hellenistischer Zeit”. Würzburg 10.-13. April 2008 / Herausgegeben von Friedhelm Hoffmann und Karin Stella Schmidt
- Constituent, confederate, and conquered space: the case of the Mittani transition / edited by Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum and Nicole Brisch
- Das Archiv des assyrischen Statthalters Mannu-kī-Aššūr von Gūzāna/Tall Ḥalaf / Aron Dornaue
- Copular clauses and focus marking in Sumerian / Gábor Zólyomi
- Spätbabylonische Briefe / herausgegeben von Michael Jursa.
- Babylonien und seine Nachbarn in neu- und spätbabylonischer Zeit : wissenschaftliches Kolloquium aus Anlass des 75. Geburtstages von Joachim Oelsner, Jena, 2. und 3. März 2007 / Manfred Krebernik … (Hrsg.).
- Krieg und Frieden im Alten Vorderasien : 52e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale ; International Congress of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology Münster, 17. – 21. Juli 2006 / hrsg. von Hans Neumann
- The final phase of Iron Age II in Judah, Ammon, and Edom: a study of provenanced official seals and bullae as chronological markers / Pieter Gert van der Veen.
Byzantium
- The Red Sea from Byzantium to the Caliphate: AD 500-1000 / Timothy Power.
- Experiencing Byzantium: papers from the 44th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Newcastle and Durham, April 2011 / edited by Claire Nesbitt and Mark Jackson.
- Byzantium and the Turks in the thirteenth century / Dimitri Korobeĭnikov
Hebrew and other Semitic languages
- Outcast / Shimon Ballas ; translated from Hebrew by Ammiel Alcalay and Oz Shelach.
- Our Holocaust / Amir Gutfreund ; translated by Jessica Cohen.
- Let the words: selected poems / Yona Wallach ; translated by Linda Stern Zisquit.
Jewish Studies
- Rabbinic traditions between Palestine and Babylonia / edited by Ronit Nikolsky and Tal Ilan.
- The Targums in the light of traditions of the Second Temple period / edited by Thierry Legrand and Jan Joosten.
- Apocalyptic and Merkavah mysticism [2nd edn.] / by Ithamar Gruenwald
- Jewish women in historical perspective [2nd edn] / edited by Judith R. Baskin
- The Jews of Iran: the history, religion and culture of a community in the Islamic World / Houman M. Sarshar.
- Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians: religious dynamics in a Sasanian context / edited by Geoffrey Herman.
- Where Islam and Judaism join together: a perspective on reconciliation / Shai Har-El.
- The grammar of sacrifice: a generativist study of the Israelite sacrificial system in the Priestly writings with the grammar of [sigma] / Naphtali S. Meshel
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