Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica collections: March additions
This is a selection of titles (print and electronic) added to the Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica collections during March 2016. Click on the hyperlink to go through to the Library catalogue record for each item
Please note that this subject division also includes books on contemporary Israel and Palestine
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
Mon dieu qu’ai-je fait? : Les diĝir-šà-dab-ba et la piété privée en Mésopotamie / Margaret Jacques; avec une contribution de Daniel Schwemer – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10010612
- Akkadian language, Sumerian language, Hittite language, cuneiform texts, Assyro-Babylonian religion, prayers (Assyro-Babylonian)
Mujeres y derecho en el Próximo Oriente antiguo : la presencia de mujeres en los textos jurídicos cuneiformes del segundo y primer milenios a.C. / Josué J. Justel – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10010645
- Cuneiform inscriptions, women and law (Babylonia), legal documents (Babylonia), social history, women’s history, gender studies
Current research in cuneiform palaeography proceedings of the workshop organized at the 60th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Warsaw 2014 / edited by Elena Devecchi, Gerfried G.W. Müller, Jana Mynarova – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10012211
- Cuneiform inscriptions, cuneiform texts, congresses
Die Kültepetexte aus der Sammlung Frida Hahn, Berlin / hrsg., übersetzt und erklärt von Julius Lewy – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10012917 [published 1930]
- Akkadian language (texts)
The splintered divine: a study of Ishtar, Baal, and Yahweh divine names and divine multiplicity in the ancient Near East / by Spencer Allen – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/982178
- Gods (Assyro-Babylonian), Gods (Canaanite), God (Judaism), Ishtar (Assyro-Babylonian deity), Baal (Canaanite deity), name of God, comparative religious studies
Écrire la magie dans l’antiquité. Actes du colloque international (Liège, 13-15 octobre 2011). Magali De Haro Sanchez – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10007924
- Magic (ancient), comparative studies, congresses
Hebrew and other Semitic languages
Ben ha-Arets = Native / Sayed Ḳashuʻa. [also available in English]
בן הארץ = Native / סייד קשוע – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10012469
- Modern Hebrew, journalism (Hebrew), wit and humour (Hebrew), satire (Hebrew), Palestinian Arabs, Jewish-Arab relations, Sayed Qashu
In the demon’s bedroom: Yiddish literature and the early modern / Jeremy Dauber – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10012728
- Yiddish, Yiddish literature
Jewish Studies
Two Arabs, a Berber, and a Jew: entangled lives in Morocco / Lawrence Rosen – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10011136
- Jewish diaspora (Morocco), Jews (Morocco), Berbers (Morocco), Arabs (Morocco), social conditions (Morocco)
The burdens of brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France / Ethan B. Katz – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10012494
- Jewish diaspora (France), Muslim diaspora (France), Jews (France), Muslims (France), cultural assimilation (France), social integration (France), ethnic relations (France)
Modern Israeli and Palestinian Studies
Hamas, popular support and war in the Middle East: insurgency in the Holy Land / Richard Davis – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10012339 [also available as an e-book]
- Arab-Israeli conflict, Gaza Strip, terrorism (Middle East), Hamas, Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-Islāmīyah
Late modern Palestine: the subject and representation of the second intifada / Laura Junka-Aikio – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10012358
- Palestinian Arabs, Al-Aqsa Intifada, war and society (Israel)
Native : dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian life / Sayed Kashua ; translated form the Hebrew by Ralph Mandel – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10012450 [also available in Hebrew]
- Palestinian Arabs (Israel), Jewish-Arab relations, wit and humour (Israeli), wit and humour (Hebrew), social conditions (Israel), journalism (Israel), Sayed Qashu
Dear brothers: the West Bank Jewish underground / Haggai Segal. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10007419
- West Bank, Jewish-Arab relations, Gush emunim (Israel), political movements (West Bank), political movements (Jewish)
Small state mediation in international conflicts: diplomacy and negotiation in Israel-Palestine / Jacob Eriksson. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10012942
- Israeli-Arab conflict, diplomatic history, international mediation, international relations
Muslim-Christian relations in late Ottoman Palestine: where nationalism and religion intersect / by Erik Freas – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10013341
- Palestine, history (19th century), history (20th century), Ottoman Empire, interfaith relations, missionaries (Christian), missionaries (Palestine), Islam, religion and politics, nationalism
Laughter in Occupied Palestine: comedy and identity in art and film / Christoula Lionis – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10013524
- Gaza Strip, West Bank, Israeli-Arab conflict, social conflict. politics and culture, motion pictures and politics, social conflict and art, social conflict and literature,
E-books
Legal pluralism in the Holy City: competing courts, forum shopping, and institutional dynamics in Jerusalem / Ido Shahar, University of Haifa, Israel – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10013394
- Jerusalem, Islamic courts (Jerusalem), Palestinian Arabs (legal status), e-books, Dawsonera
Hamas, popular support and war in the Middle East: insurgency in the Holy Land / Richard Davis – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10013343 [also available in print]
- Arab-Israeli conflict, Gaza Strip, terrorism (Middle East), Hamas, Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-Islāmīyah, e-books, Dawsonera
Israel’s wars [electronic resource]: a history since 1947 [4th edn] / Ahron Bregman – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10013439 [also available in print]
- Israel, history (20th century), contemporary history, Arab-Israeli conflict, e-books, Dawsonera
Jews and their foodways / edited by Anat Helman – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10013583
- Judaism, food (religious aspects), history of food, anthropology of food, Jewish cooking, e-books, Dawsonera