Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – February 2015
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
- Engraved on stone: Mesopotamian cylinder seals and seal inscriptions in the old Babylonian period / by Rony Feingold. –
- Nineveh and its remains: the gripping journals of the man who discovered the buried Assyrian cities / Austen Henry Layard. [reprint of work originally published in 1849]
- Remembering the dead in the ancient Near East: recent contributions from bioarchaeology and mortuary archaeology / [edited by] Benjamin W. Porter & Alexis T. Boutin.
- Introduction à la langue hittite / Arnaud Fournet
- Pacifying the hearts of the gods: Sumerian Emesal prayers of the first millenium BC / Uri Gabbey –
- Altakkadisches Elementarbuch / Francis Breyer
Byzantium
- Writing and reading Byzantine secular poetry, 1025-1081 / Floris Bernard
- Medieval and early modern performance in the Eastern Mediterranean / edited by Arzu Öztürkmen and Evelyn Birge Vitz
Hebrew and other Semitic languages
- Die aramäischen Texte aus Tall Šēḫ Ḥamad, Dūr-Katlimmu, Magdalu / von Wolfgang Röllig = al-Nuṣūṣ al-Ārāmīyah min Tal al-Shaykh Ḥamad, Dawr Katlīmmū / taʼlīf Vūlfghāngh Rūlīgh.
- Synthetische Körperauffassung im Hebräischen und den Sprachen der Nachbarkulturen / herausgegeben von Katrin Müller und Andreas Wagner.
- “To tread on new ground”: selected Hebrew writings of Hava Shapiro / edited by Carole B. Balin and Wendy I. Zierler
- Tel Aviv noir / edited by Etgar Keret and Assaf Gavron translated by Yardenne Greenspan
- הריבון הישראלי : השיח והרומן, 1967-1973 : עיון ביצירותיהם של עמוס עוז, יצחק אורפז, בנימין תמוז, דוד שחר, שמעון בלס, סמי מיכאל, יצחק בן-נר, שולמית הראבן, יהודית הנדל, עמליה כהנא-כרמון, יורם קניוק, פנחס שדה ואהרן אפלפלד
ha-Ribon ha-Yiśreʼeli./ Shimrit Peled
Jewish Studies
- “To tread on new ground”: selected Hebrew writings of Hava Shapiro / edited by Carole B. Balin and Wendy I. Zierler
- Babel in Zion: Jews, nationalism, and language diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948 / Liora R. Halperin
Modern Israeli / Palestinian studies
- Tel Aviv noir / edited by Etgar Keret and Assaf Gavron translated by Yardenne Greenspan
- Ben-Gurion: father of modern Israel / Anita Shapira translated from the Hebrew by Anthony Berris
- The case against academic boycotts of Israel / edited by Cary Nelson & Gabriel Noah Brahm preface by Paul Berman
- Israeli peacemaking since 1967: behind the breakthroughs and failures / Galia Golan
- Babel in Zion: Jews, nationalism, and language diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948 / Liora R. Halperin
- Israël-Palestine: le conflit dans les manuels scolaires / Roland Lombard, Marilyn Pacouret, coord. [avec les contributions de Samira Alayan, Bernard Albert, Dominique Comelli, et al.]
- Emotional state theory: friendship and fear in Israeli foreign policy / Christopher L. Schilling
- The reckoning: death and intrigue in the Promised Land / Patrick Bishop
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