Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – September and October 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 2, 2015|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations

• Preludes to urbanism: the Late Chalcolithic of Mesopotamia / edited by Augusta McMahon, Harriet Crawford –
• Der Garten in neusumerischer Zeit / Karen Focke –
• Garden administration in the Girsu province during the Neo-Sumerian period / Angela Greco –
• History of ancient Israel, archaeology, and Bible collected essays = Geschichte Israels, Archäologie und Bibel : gesammelte Aufsätze / Hermann Michael Niemann ; herausgegeben von Meik Gerhards
• Nostoi. indigenous culture, migration and integration in the Aegean Islands and Western Anatolia during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age / edited by Nicholas Chr. Stampolidis, Çiğdem Maner, Konstantinos Kopanias
• Harsamna kralı Hurmeli’ye gönderilen mektup ve Kaniš krallari = The letters sent to Hurmeli king of Harsamna and the kings of Kaniš / Cahit Günbattı
• Religion and ideology in Assyria / Beate Pongratz-Leisten
• Erzählungen aus dem Land Sumer / Konrad Volk (Hrsg.); mit Illustrationen von Karl-Heinz Bohny
  

Byzantium

• Myriobiblos : essays on Byzantine literature and culture / edited by Theodora Antonopoulou, Sofia Kotzabassi and Marina Loukaki

Hebrew and other Semitic languages

• Ṭaṿas ba-ḥadar madregot / Galit Disṭel Eṭebaryan = טווס בחדר מדרגות / גלית דיסטל אטבריאן
• Bat ha-maḳom ; Safra / Leʼah Eni. = בת המקום ; ספרא / לאה איני
• Neue Beiträge zur Semitistik : erstes Arbeitstreffen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Semitistik in der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft vom 11. bis 13. September 2000 an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena / herausgegeben von Norbert Nebes
• Linguistic, Oriental and Ethiopian studies in memory of Paolo Marrassini / edited by Alessandro Bausi, Alessandro Gori and Gianfrancesco Lusini
• Genealogical classification of Semitic: the lexical isoglosses / by Leonid Kogan

Jewish Studies

• Entstehung des Judentums : ein Paradigmenwechsel / Oswald Loretz
• From the Maccabees to the Mishnah [3^rd edition]/ Shaye J. D. Cohen –
• Keine Stadt lebt für sich allein : Jerusalem und seine Umgebung vor dem babylonischen Exil / Miklos Köszeghy
• Studies in the history and culture of North African Jewry: proceedings of the symposium at Yale University, April 25, 2010 / editors, Moshe Bar-Asher and Steven D. Fraade
• Intrigue and revolution: chief rabbis in Aleppo, Baghdad, and Damascus, 1744-1914 / Yaron Harel ; translated by Yehonatan Chipman
• Propheten der Epochen : Festschrift für Istvan Karasszon zum 60. Geburtstag = Prophets during the epochs: studies in honour of Istvan Karasszon for his 60th birthday / edited by Viktor Kokai Nagy and Laszlo Sandor Egeresi
• Boundaries, identity and belonging in modern Judaism / edited by Maria Diemling and Larry Ray
• Secularism in question: Jews and Judaism in modern times / edited by Ari Joskowicz and Ethan Katz
• Rabbis, sorcerers, kings, and priests: the culture of the Talmud in ancient Iran / Jason Sion Mokhtarian
  

Modern Israeli / Palestinian studies

• Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the origins of the Arab/Israeli conflict / John B. Judis
• Jaffa shared and shattered: contrived coexistence in Israel/Palestine / Daniel Monterescu
• Political decision making and non-decisions: the case of Israel and the occupied territories / Ronald Ranta
• Colonial Jerusalem: the spatial construction of identity and difference in a city of myth, 1948-2012 / Thomas Philip Abowd
• Jerusalem: conflict & cooperation in a contested city / edited by Madelaine Adelman & Miriam Fendius Elman.

E-books

• Jerusalem: the spatial politics of a divided metropolis / Anne B. Shlay, Gillad Rosen –  [also available in print]
• Lives in common: Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Hebron / Menachem Klein; translated by Haim Watzman –  [also available in print]