Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – March 2015
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
- A city from the dawn of history: Erbil in the cuneiform sources / by John MacGinnis.
- Présence et pouvoir hittites à Ougarit : le cas des DUMU.LUGAL / Charlotte Lebrun.
- Documents of Judean exiles and West Semites in Babylonia in the collection of David Sofer / by Laurie E. Pearce and Cornelia Wunsch.
- Life, death, and coming of age in Antiquity: individual rites of passage in the Ancient Near East and adjacent regions = Vivre, grandir et mourir dans l’Antiquité : rites de passage individuels au Proche-Orient Ancien et ses environs / edited by Alice Mouton and Julie Pater.
- Associated regional chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean. Vol.4 Middle Euphrates / Uwe Finkbeiner, Mirko Novák, Ferhan Sakal, and Paolo Sconzo (eds.) with contributions by M. Bouso .. [et al.].
- Mari: capital of northern Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC : the archaeology of Tell Hariri on the Euphrates / Jean-Claude Margueron.
- Case studies in transmission / Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, Ilkka Lindstedt, Robert Rollinger und Raija Mattila (Hgg.)
- A dictionary of the Ugaritic language in the alphabetic tradition [3rd revised edn.] / by Gregorio del Olmo Lete, Joaquin Sanmartin ; translated and edited by Wilfred G.E. Watson
Byzantium
- Liturgical subjects: Christian ritual, biblical narrative, and the formation of the self in Byzantium / Derek Krueger.
- The Byzantine Republic: people and power in New Rome / Anthony Kaldellis.
- Diplomacy in the early Islamic world: a tenth-century treatise on Arab-Byzantine relations / Maria Vaiou
Hebrew and other Semitic languages
- Qisharim : a textbook for advanced learners of Hebrew / by Avital Feuer, Tal Norman, Shirly Malichi, Rina Kreitman, Michal Cohen.
- On forms and functions: studies in ancient Egyptian grammar / edited by Eitan Grossman, Stéphane Polis, Andréas Stauder & Jean Winand.
- A question of tradition: women poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987 / Kathryn Hellerstein
- Strategies of clause linking in Semitic languages : proceedings of the International Symposium on Clause Linking in Semitic Languages, Kivik, Sweden, 5-7 August 2012 / edited by Bo Isaksson and Maria Persson.
- A dictionary of Christian Palestinian Aramaic / Michael Sokoloff
- Texts of various contents in Christian Palestinian Aramaic / by Michael Sokoloff.
- Comparative oriental manuscript studies: an introduction / edited by Alessandro Bausi (general editor) and nine others; project editor, Eugenia Sokolinski.
- Lies, first person / by Gail Hareven ; translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu.
- Ha-roman ha-Mistri / Orli Kastel-Blum.
- The languages of the Jews / Bernard Spolsky
Jewish Studies
- Glimpses into the Jewish world of Calcutta, 1798-1948 / Kaustav Chakrabarti.
- Between Jewish tradition and modernity: rethinking an old opposition: essays in honor of David Ellenson / edited by Michael A. Meyer and David N. Myers.
- A question of tradition: women poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987 / Kathryn Hellerstein
- Jewish women writers in Britain / edited by Nadia Valman.
- The new diaspora: the changing landscape of American Jewish fiction / edited by Mark Shechner, Victoria Aarons and Avinoam J. Patt.
- Text – Textgeschichte – Textwirkung : Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Siegfried Kreuzer / herausgegeben von Thomas Wagner, Jonathan M. Robker und Frank Ueberschaer.
- Documents of Judean exiles and West Semites in Babylonia in the collection of David Sofer / by Laurie E. Pearce and Cornelia Wunsch.
- By the rivers of Babylon: the story of the Babylonian exile / Filip Vukosavovic
- Zionism in Damascus: ideology and activity in the Jewish community at the beginning of the twentieth century / Yaron Harel.
- The languages of the Jews / Bernard Spolsky
- Maimonides : life and thought / Moshe Halbertal ; translated from the Hebrew by Joel Linsider.
- Gett : the trial of Viviane Amsalem / a film by Ronit + Shlomi Elkabetz.
Modern Israeli / Palestinian Studies
- White city, black city: architecture and war in Tel Aviv and Jaffa / Sharon Rotbard.
- Comprehending Christian Zionism: perspectives in comparison / Göran Gunner and Robert O. Smith, eds. –
- The iron wall: Israel and the Arab world / Avi Shlaim. (2nd edn.)
- Hostages. season 1 [videorecording] / Omri Givon, Rotem Shamir.
E-books
DVDs
- Hostages. season 1 [videorecording] / Omri Givon, Rotem Shamir.
- Gett: the trial of Viviane Amsalem / a film by Ronit + Shlomi Elkabetz.
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