Ancient Near East, Semitics & Judaica: new book acquisitions in October / November 2016
This is a selection of new titles (print and electronic) acquired by SOAS Library for the Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica collections. This section of the Library also includes material on modern Israeli / Palestinian studies.
Please note that only SOAS staff and students will have access to e-books
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
Lettres en akkadien de la “Maison d’urtēnu” : fouilles de 1994 / Sylvie Lackenbacher et Florence Malbran-Labat – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045719
Diwan : studies in the history and culture of the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean / herausgegeben von Carsten Binder, Henning Börm, [and] Andreas Luther = Untersuchungen zu Geschichte und Kultur des Nahen Ostens und des östliche Mittelmeerraumes im Altertum / herausgegeben von Carsten Binder, Henning Börm, [and] Andreas Luther – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10018275
The Ur III seals impressed on documents from Puzriš -Dagān (Drehem) / Christina Tsouparopoulou – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10018649
Nächstenliebe und Gottesfurcht : Beiträge aus alttestamentlicher, semitistischer und altorientalistischer Wissenschaft für Hans-Peter Mathys zum 65. Geburtstag / herausgegeben von Hanna Jenni und Markus Saur ; unter Mitarbeit von Oskar Kaelin, Samuel Sarasin und Stephanie Zellweger. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050764
Making pictures of war: realia et imaginaria in the iconology of the ancient Near East / edited by Laura Battini ; translation from French to English by Nathalie Masure and Steve Leddy. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046056
Envisioning the past through memories: how memory shaped ancient Near Eastern societies / edited by Davide Nadali – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046533
The role of women in work and society in the ancient Near East / edited by Brigitte Lion and Cécile Michel – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10051257
Writings from ancient Egypt / translated by Toby Wilkinson – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046655
Silver, money and credit: a tribute to Robartus J. van der Spek on the occasion of his 65th birthday / edited by Kristin Kleber and Reinhard Pirngruber – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10051584
Kings, Gods and people: establishing monarchies in the Ancient World / edited by Thomas R. Kämmerer, Mait Koiv and Vladimir Sazonov – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050758
Babylonia: a very short introduction / Trevor Bryce – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047501
Tille Hoyuk. 3.2, the Iron Age: pottery, objects and conclusions / by Stuart Blaylock – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10049938
Etudes ougaritiques IV / [edited by] Valérie Matoïan and Michel Al-Maqdissi – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050150
Seals and sealing practices in the Near East: developments in administration and magic from prehistory to the Islamic period: Proceedings of an international workshop at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo on December 2-3, 2009 / edited by Ilona Regulski, Kim Duistermaat and Peter Verkinderen – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046775
Tracking the master scribe: revision through introduction in biblical and Mesopotamian literature / Sara J. Milstein – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046997
d šára-ì-sa 6 und ur-ba-gára : Untersuchungen zu den Verwaltungstexten der neusumerischen Lagaš II-Periode aus Ĝirsu / Ulrich Lehmann – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10052047
Fragmente einer grossen Sprache : Sumerisch im Kontext der Schreiberausbildung des kassitenzeitlichen Babylonien [Vol.1] / Alexa Bartelmus – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047466
Les chants du monde: le paysage sonore de l’ancienne Mésopotamie / Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel ; avec un appendice d’Ariane Thomas – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047468
The reception of Sumerian literature in the Western periphery / by Maurizion Viano – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050149
Habitat et environnement: prospections dans les marges arides de la Syrie du nord / sous la direction de Marie-Odile Rousset, Bernard Geyer, Pierre-Louis Gatier et Nazir Awad – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050691
A political history of the Arameans: from their origins to the end of their polities / K. Lawson Younger, Jr. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050976
Cultures and societies in the Middle Euphrates and Habur areas in the second millennium BC: scribal education and scribal traditions / edited by Daisuke Shibata and Shigeo Yamada – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050978
State formation and state decline in the Near and Middle East / edited by Rainer Kessler, Walter Sommerfeld and Leslie Tramontini. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050979
Byzantium
John of Brienne: King of Jerusalem, Emperor of Constantinople c.1175 – 1237 / Guy Perry – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047057
Epigram, art, and devotion in later Byzantium / Ivan Drpić – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050823
Imperial lineages and legacies in the Eastern Mediterranean: recording the imprint of Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman rule / edited by Rhoads Murphey – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10051011
Interpreting late antiquity: essays on the postclassical world / G.W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, Oleg Grabar (eds.) – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10051560
Hebrew and other Semitic languages
Shetayim dubim = Two she-bears / Meʼir Shaleṿ.
שתיים דובים = Two she-bears / מאיר שלו – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047116
Two she-bears: a novel / Meir Shalev ; translated from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047113
Between life and death / Yoram Kaniuk ; translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Harshav – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047115
Comprehensive English-Yiddish dictionary (based on the lexical research of Mordkhe Schaechter) = פולשטענדיק ענגליש-ייִדיש ווערטערבוך (באזירט אויף די לעקסיש פאָרשונג פון מרדכי סטשאַעטשטער) / Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, Paul Glasser, editors-in-chief ; Chava Lapin, associate editor – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050640
Coptic society, literature and religion from late Antiquity to modern times : Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Coptic Studies, Rome, September 17th-22nd, 2012, and Plenary Reports of the Ninth International Congress of Coptic Studies, Cairo, September 15th-19th, 2008 / Editors: Buzi P., Camplani A., Contardi F. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045720
Jewish Studies
Preserving the Shanghai Ghetto: memories of Jewish refugees in 1940s China / by Zhang Yanhua and Wang Jian – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10042537
Identity of the diaspora: Jews in Asia Minor in the Roman imperial period / Krystyna Stebnicka ; English translation by Maria Kantor – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10043160
Transnationalism and the Jews: transnationalism and the Jews: culture, history, and prophecy / Jakob Egholm Feldt – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045942
Jacob Neusner : an American Jewish iconoclast / Aaron W. Hughes – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046224
The man in the white sharkskin suit: my family’s exodus from Old Cairo to the New World / Lucette Lagnado – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046225
Jewish Salonica: between the Ottoman Empire and modern Greece / Devin E. Naar – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046471
Bigger than Ben-Hur: the book, its adaptations, and their audiences / edited by Barbara Ryan & Milette Shamir – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046620
What ifs of Jewish history: from Abraham to Zionism / edited by Gavriel Rosenfeld – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047064
Sexuality in the Babylonian Talmud: Christian and Sasanian contexts in late antiquity / Yishai Kiel – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050508
The people and the books: 18 classics of Jewish literature / Adam Kirsch – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050110
Mystical resistance: uncovering the Zohar’s conversations with Christianity / Ellen D. Haskell – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050509
Aphrodite and the rabbis: how the Jews adapted Roman culture to create Judaism as we know it / Burton L. Visotzky – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050783
Exegesis and poetry in medieval Karaite and rabbanite texts: Karaite texts and studies / edited by Joachim Yeshaya (Ghent University), Elisabeth Hollender (Goethe University, Frankfurt) – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050980
The Left’s Jewish problem: Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and anti-Semitism / Dave Rich – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10051997
Modern Israeli / Palestinian studies
Dreams deferred: a concise guide to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the movement to boycott Israel / edited by Cary Nelson – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045519
Israel and Palestine: alternative perspectives on statehood / edited by John Ehrenberg and Yoav Peled – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047056
Contemporary Israel: new insights and scholarship / edited by Frederick E. Greenspahn – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047058
E-books
The literary imagination in Jewish antiquity / Eva Mroczek – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10051614
Meals in early Judaism: social formation at the table / edited by Susan Marks and Hal Taussig – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10052025
The Arab-Israeli conflict [electronic resource] / Kirsten E. Schulze [3rd edn] – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10052039
The Palestinians [electronic resource]: from peasants to revolutionaries / Rosemary Sayigh – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10052041