Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – November 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 17, 2015|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations

• Mittelassyrische Urkunden aus dem Archiv Assur 14446 / Hervé Reculeau und Barbara Feller
• Philosophy before the Greeks: the pursuit of truth in ancient Babylonia / Marc Van De Mieroop
• Mesopotamian divination texts: conversing with the gods sources from the first millennium BCE / Ulla Susanne Koch
• Gods, kings, and merchants in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia / Dominique Charpin

Byzantium

• Byzantium/modernism: the Byzantine as method in modernity / Edited by Roland Betancourt, Maria Taroutina

Jewish Studies

• The name of God in Jewish thought: a philosophical analysis of mystical traditions from apocalyptic to Kabbalah / Michael T Miller
• Reckless rites: Purim and the legacy of Jewish violence / Elliott Horowitz
• Anxious Histories: narrating the Holocaust in Jewish communities at the beginning of the twenty-first century / Jordana Silverstein
• Impurity and gender in the Hebrew Bible / Elizabeth W. Goldstein

Modern Israeli / Palestinian Studies

• Letters to Palestine: writers respond to war and occupation / Edited by Vijay Prashad ; Foreword by Junot Díaz

E-books

• The Ammonites [electronic resource]: elites, empires, and sociopolitical change / Craig W. Tyson
• Jewish law and contemporary issues [electronic resource] / J. David Bleich and Arthur J. Jacobson