Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – April 2015

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Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations

• Canaanite religion according to the liturgical text of Ugarit [2^nd edn ] / Gregorio del Olmo Lete. Transl. by W. G. E. Watson.
• Knowledge and wisdom: archaeological and historical essays in honour of Leah Di Segni / edited by Giovanni C. Bottini, L. Daniel Chrupcala, Joseph Patrich
• Memory and the city in ancient Israel / edited by Diana V. Edelman and Ehud Ben Zvi.
• Prophétisme et alliance: des Archives royales de Mari à la Bible hébraïque / Jean-Georges Heintz. Mit einem “Vorwort” von Manfred Weippert. Recueil d’études édité par Stephan Lauber, Othmar Keel et Hans Ulrich Steymans
• Associated regional chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean. Vol.3 : History & philology / [edited by ] Walther Sallaberger; Ingo Schrakamp.
• Marduk-remanni : local networks and imperial politics in Achaemenid Babylonia / by Caroline Waerzeggers.
• Babylonian poems of pious sufferers : Ludlul Bēl Nēmeqi and the Babylonian Theodicy / Takayoshi Oshima.

Hebrew and other Semitic Languages

• With an iron pen: twenty years of Hebrew protest poetry / edited by Tal Nitzan and Rachel Tzvia Back.
• Agasim ṿe-ʻod devarim / Yiśraʼel Eliraz
• The gender challenge of Hebrew / by Malka Muchnik
• Acquisition of Hebrew phonology and morphology / edited by Outi Bat-El
• A grammar of the Christian Neo-Aramaic dialect of Diyana-Zariwaw / by Lidia Napiorkowska
• The martyrs of Mount Ber’ain / edited and translated by Sebastian Brock; introduction by Paul Dilley
• The Syriac Pseudo-Clementines : an early version of the first Christian novel / translated into English by F. Stanley Jones. 
  

Jewish Studies

• Louis Ginzberg’s Legends of the Jews: ancient Jewish folk literature reconsidered / edited by Galit Hasan-Rokem and Ithamar Gruenwald.

Modern Israeli and Palestinian Studies

• With an iron pen: twenty years of Hebrew protest poetry / edited by Tal Nitzan and Rachel Tzvia Back.
• Anonymous soldiers: the struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 / Bruce Hoffman.