Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – May 2015

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Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations

• “From Gilead to Edom”: studies in the archaeology and history of Jordan in honor of Denyse Homès-Fredericq on the occasion of her eightieth birthday / edited by Ingrid Moriah Swinnen and Eric Gubel.
• Ur: the city of the moon god / by Harriet Crawford
• Cultures in comparison: religion and politics in ancient Mediterranean regions / edited by Thomas R. Kämmerer and Mait Koiv.
• Traditions of written knowledge in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia: proceedings of two workshops held at Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main in December 2011 and May 2012 / edited by Daliah Bawanypeck and Annette Imhausen
• Trattati internazionali ittiti / Elena Devecchi.
• Middle Sargonic tablets chiefly from Adab in the Cornell University collections / by Francesco Pomponio and Giuseppi Visicato.
• Studies on magic and divination in the biblical world / Edited by Helen R. Jacobus, Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme, Philippe Guillaume.

Byzantium

• Historical writing in Byzantium / James Howard-Johnston.

Hebrew and other Semitic languages

• Li-shekoaḥ rishonah / Ṭal Nitsan
• The eloquent peasant / [translated] by Loren R. Fisher
• The Syriac writers of Qatar in the seventh century / edited by Mario Kozah, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Saif Shaheen Al-Murikhi, Haya Al Thani
• Neo-Aramaic in its linguistic context / edited by Geoffrey Khan, Lidia Napiorkowska

Jewish Studies

• Visualizing Jews through the ages: literary and material representations of Jewishness and Judaism / edited by Hannah Ewence and Helen Spurling.
• The Oxford encyclopedia of the Bible and law / Brent A. Strawn, editor in chief

Modern Israeli and Palestinian Studies

• The Mandelbaum Gate / Muriel Spark
• Yusif Sayigh : Arab economist and Palestinian patriot: a fractured life story / edited by Rosemary Sayigh –
• Return: a Palestinian memoir / Ghada Karmi