Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica: new acquisitions December 2016 and January 2017
This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library in the field of Ancient Near Eastern studies, Semitics and Judaica during December 2016 and January 2017. Please note that this section of the Library also includes material on the history and politics of modern Israel / Palestine.
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Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
From Hittite to Homer: the Anatolian background of ancient Greek epic / Mary R. Bachvarova – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10053163
The Luwian civilization: the missing link in the Aegean Bronze Age / Eberhard Zangger – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050754
Cross-cultural studies in Near Eastern history and literature / edited by Saana Svärd and Robert Rollinger – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10051128
Da Kussara a Karkemish. Storia del regno ittita / Stefano de Martino – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10052144
Benjamin Whorf, die Sumerer und der Einfluss der Sprache auf das Denken Sebastian Fink.- https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10006417
Hellenistic seal impressions in the Yale Babylonian collection: ring-bullae and other clay sealings / by Ronald Wallenfels – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10051704
Early Dynastic and Early Argonic administrative texts mainly from the Umma Region in the Cornell University cuneiform collections by Palmiro Notizia and Giuseppe Visicato – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10135213
Athtart: the transmission and transformation of a goddess in the Late Bronze Age / Aren M. Wilson-Wright – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10052189
Akkadian love literature of the third and second millennium BCE / Nathan Wasserman – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10053110
The Old Babylonian administrative texts in the Hilprecht Collection Jena: with a contribution by Ursula Seidl / Anne Goddeeris – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10053117
Reading rubbish : using object assemblages to reconstruct activities, modes of deposition and abandonment at the Late Bronze Age dunnu of Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria : (consolidating empire project, volume 2) / by Victor Klinkenberg. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10213286
Babylon under western eyes: a study of allusion and myth / Andrew Scheil – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10135165
Byzantium
Byzantium’s other empire: Trebizond / edited by Anthony Eastmond ; project manager Buket Coşkuner ; translation Egemen Demircioğlu, Yiğit Adam – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050755
The ways of Byzantine philosophy / edited by Mikonja Knez̆ević – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10052664
Hebrew and other Semitic languages
Mi-Po Le-Sham: a companion to Hebrew From Scratch, Part 1 / by Ester Simons – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047159
Isra Isle : a novel / Nava Semel ; translated by Jessica Cohen – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10052809
A horse walks into a bar / David Grossman; translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10055144
Les controverses religieuses en syriaque / Flavia Ruani – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10053792
Introduction to the Grammar of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic [2nd edn] / Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10052674
Jewish studies
Jerusalem, 1000-1400: every people under heaven / edited by Barbara Drake Boehm and Melanie Holcomb – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046990
Jews, Judaizing movements and the traditions of Israelite descent in South Asia / Navras Jaat Aafreedi. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047598
Judaism: a contemporary philosophical investigation / Lenn Goodman – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10052228
The menorah: from the Bible to modern Israel / Steven Fine – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10052506
Modern Israel and Palestinian studies
The land is full: addressing overpopulation in Israel / Alon Tal – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10053224
Zionism: the birth and transformation of an ideal / Milton Viorst – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045568
A history of Palestine: from the Ottoman conquest to the founding of the state of Israel / Gudrun Krämer ; translated by Graham Harman and Gudrun Krämer- https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050701
Handbook of Israel: the major debates / edited by Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Julius H. Schoeps, Yitzhak Sternberg [and] Olaf Glöckner – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10051934
The Arab-Israeli conflict [3rd edn] / Kirsten E. Schulze. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10052038
The yellow wind / David Grossman; translated from the Hebrew by Haim Watzman – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10052040
We were the future: a memoir of the kibbutz / Yael Neeman; translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston ; poems and songs translated by Jessica Cohen. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10052773
A home for all Jews: citizenship, rights, and national identity in the new Israeli state / Orit Rozin ; translated by Haim Watzman. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10052811
E-books
A future for the past [electronic resource]: Petrie’s Palestinian collection / [curator: Rachael Thyrza Sparks ; photographs: Stuart Laidlaw] – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10053692
Women in the Hebrew Bible : a reader / edited by Alice Bach – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10055282
Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer: structure, coherence, intertextuality / by Katharina E. Keim – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10206779
Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and imperial citizenship in the modern era / Julia Phillips Cohen. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10206652
Extraterritorial dreams: European citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman twentieth century / Sarah Abrevaya Stein. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10213289