Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – June and July 2015
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
- Altbabylonisches Lehrbuch [2nd edition] / Michael P. Streck
- The witchcraft series Maqlû / by Tzvi Abusch
- The gods rich in praise: early Greek and Mesopotamian religious poetry / Christopher Metcalf
- Following the Man of Yamhad: settlement and territory at Old Babylonian Alalah / by Jacob Lauinger
- Ancient Assyria: a very short introduction / Karen Radner
- Incantation and anti-witchcraft texts from Ugarit / Gregorio del Olmo Lete ; with a contribution by Ignacio Márquez Rowe.
- Administrative texts from Tello from the Ur III period / B. Perlov , Yu. Saveliev
- Göttliche Körper – Göttliche Gefühle : Was leisten anthropomorphe und anthropopathische Götterkonzepte im Alten Orient und im Alten Testament? / Andreas Wagner (Hg.).
- Edith Porada : Zum 100. Geburtstag, A Centenary Volume / Erika Bleibtreu, Hans Ulrich Steymans (Hrsg.)
- Tradition and innovation in the ancient Near East: proceedings of the 57th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Rome 4-8 July 2011 / edited by Alfonso Archi in collaboration with Armando Bremanti.
- Women’s divination in biblical literature: prophecy, necromancy, and other arts of knowledge / Esther J. Hamori.
- Mesopotamia in the Ancient World: impact, continuities, parallels. Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium of the Melammu Project Held in Obergurgl, Austria, November 4–8, 2013 / Robert Rollinger und Erik van Dongen (Hgg.)
- Light from the East: or The witness of the monuments; an introduction to the study of Biblical archaeology [reprint of book first published in 1899] / by C.J. Ball.
- Devins et lettrés dans l’orbite de Babylone : travaux réalisés dans le cadre du projet ANR Mespériph 2007-2011 / Carole Roche-Hawley.
- Proceedings of the 1st Kültepe International Meeting. Kültepe, 19-23 September 2013. Studies dedicated to Kutlu Emre. KIM 1 / Fikri Kulakoǧlu & Cécile Michel (editors)
- Defining the sacred: approaches to the archaeology of religion in the Near East / edited by Nicola Laneri.
Byzantium
- Byzantium and the Crusades [2nd edition] / Jonathan Harris
- The Emperor Theophilos and the East, 829-842: court and frontier in Byzantium during the last phase of iconoclasm / Juan Signes Codoñer
- Between personal and institutional religion: self, doctrine, and practice in late antique Eastern Christianity / edited by Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony and Lorenzo Perrone.
- Holy sites encircled. The early Byzantine concentric churches of Jerusalem. Vered Shalev-Hurvitz.
- Byzantium: a very short introduction / Peter Sarris
Hebrew and other Semitic languages
- The Book of conviviality in exile (Kitab al-inas bi-‘l-jalwa) : the Judaeo-Arabic translation and commentary of Saadia Gaon on the Book of Esther / by Michael G. Wechsler.
- Dictionary of Qumran Aramaic / Edward M. Cook
- המאחרים = The latecomers / אגור שיף –
- הבית אשר נחרב = The Ruined House / ראובן נמדר
- Galuyot Yeśrʼeliyot / ʻorekh: ʻOfer Shif = גלויות ישראליות : מולדות וגלות בשיח הישראלי / עורך: עופר שיף
- The seven good years: a memoir / Etgar Keret ; translated by Sondra Silverston, Miriam Shlesinger, Jessica Cohen, Anthony Berris.
- The mirage of the Saracen: Christians and nomads in the Sinai Peninsula in late antiquity / Walter D. Ward.
- Studies in common and comparative Semitics: selected papers / by G. del Olmo Lete
- Archaism and innovation in the Semitic languages: selected papers / edited by Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala & Wilfred G.E. Watson
Jewish Studies
- Digital Judaism: Jewish negotiations with digital media and culture / edited by Heidi A. Campbell
- Becoming un-Orthodox: stories of ex-Hasidic Jews / Lynn Davidman
- Encounters by the rivers of Babylon: scholarly conversations between Jews, Iranians, and Babylonians in Antiquity / edited by Uri Gabbay and Shai Secunda
- Survivors and exiles: Yiddish culture after the Holocaust / Jan Schwarz
- Early Christian monastic literature and the Babylonian Talmud / Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
- Identité séfarade et littérature francophone au XXe siècle : A. Cohen, A. Memmi et N. Kattan : déconstruction et assimilation / Élisabeth Schulz.
- Les Juifs de France et l’État d’Israël : 1948-1982 / Ariel Danan
- Dressing Judeans and Christians in antiquity / Kristi Upson-Saia, Carly Daniel-Hughes,, Alicia J. Batten, Conrad Grebel
- Jewish-Christian difference and modern Jewish identity: seven twentieth-century converts / Shalom Goldman.
- Creation, covenant, and the beginnings of Judaism: reconceiving historical time in the Second Temple period / by Ari Mermelstein.
Modern Israeli and Palestinian Studies
- Galuyot Yeśrʼeliyot / ʻorekh: ʻOfer Shif = גלויות ישראליות : מולדות וגלות בשיח הישראלי / עורך: עופר שיף
- The seven good years: a memoir / Etgar Keret ; translated by Sondra Silverston, Miriam Shlesinger, Jessica Cohen, Anthony Berris.
Sound recordings
E-books
- A city from the dawn of history: Erbil in the cuneiform sources / by John MacGinnis [also available in print]
- The Middle Byzantine historians [electronic resource] / Warren Treadgold
- Likud leaders: [electronic resource] the lives and careers of Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Ariel Sharon / Thomas G. Mitchell.
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