Ancient Near East, Semitics & Judaica : new acquisitions February & March 2017
This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library in the field of Ancient Near Eastern studies, Semitics and Judaica during February and March 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
Ships of the desert and ships of the sea: Palmyra in the world trade of the first three centuries CE / Eivind Heldaas Seland – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10213643
Kakkēka rukusma (“Ceins tes armes !”) : 2e Rencontre d’Histoire militaire du Proche-Orient ancien (Lyon, 17-18 octobre 2013) / textes édités par Philippe Abrahami et Catherine Wolff. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215419
Fortune and misfortune in the Ancient Near East : proceedings of the 60th Rencontre assyriologique internationale at Warsaw 21-25 July 2014 / edited by Olga Drewnowska and Małgorzata Sandowicz. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10213276
Sea peoples of the Northern Levant? : Aegean-style pottery from early Iron Age Tell Tayinat / by Brian Janeway. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10213277
Das Beerscheba-Tal zur Zeit der Könige Judas Stefan Höhn. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215872
Byzantium
Jewish messiahs in a Christian empire: a history of the Book of Zerubbabel / Martha Himmelfarb. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10214896
Hebrew and other Semitic Languages
Guide to Hebrew manuscript collections [2nd edn.] / by Benjamin Richler – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10052024
Introduction to the Grammar of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic [2nd edn.] / Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10052674
Vulture in a cage: poems by Solomon Ibn Gabirol / translated and introduced by Raymond P. Scheindlin – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10206631
Have I got a story for you: more than a century of fiction from the Forward / edited by Ezra Glinter ; introduction by Dara Horn. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10213615
The story of Hebrew / Lewis Glinert. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215308
Jewish Studies
American Jewry: a new history / Eli Lederhendler – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10055306
The formation of the Pentateuch: bridging the academic cultures of Europe, Israel, and North America ? edited by Jan C. Gertz, Bernard M. Levinson, Dalit Rom-Shiloni and Konrad Schmid – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10206862
Changing the immutable: how Orthodox Judaism rewrites its history / Marc B. Shapiro. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10213766
Religion in the Achaemenid Persian empire: emerging Judaisms and trends / edited by Diana Edelman, Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley, and Philippe Guillaume. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10206777
The Jew as legitimation: Jewish-Gentile relations beyond antisemitism and philosemitism / edited by David J. Wertheim – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10206792
The Jewish dietary laws in the ancient world / Jordan D. Rosenblum, University of Wisconsin, Madison. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10214050
My Jewish year: 18 holidays, 1 wondering Jew / Abigail Pogrebin; foreword by A,. J. Jacobs – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10214798
Antisemitism and the Left: on the return of the Jewish Question / Robert Fine and Philip Spencer – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10214859
Jewish messiahs in a Christian empire: a history of the Book of Zerubbabel / Martha Himmelfarb. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10214896
The Dead Sea Scrolls: a very short introduction [2nd edn] / Timothy Lim – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10214915
Judaism, Sufism, and the pietists of medieval Egypt: a study of Abraham Maimonides and his times / Elisha Russ-Fishbane. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215469
Modern Israel / Palestine Studies
Days of Ticho: empire, mandate, medicine, and art in the Holy Land / David M. Reifler. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/
Israel: a concise history of a nation reborn / Daniel Gordis. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10213288
Islam under the Palestine Mandate: colonialism and the Supreme Muslim Council / Nicholas E. Roberts. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10052239
Track two diplomacy and Jerusalem: the Jerusalem Old City Initiative / edited by Tom Najem, Michael Molloy, Michael Bell, John Bell. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10214218
The Israeli republic: Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Islam, and the Jewish state / Jalal Al-e Ahmad and Simin Daneshvar ; translated from the Persian by Samuel Thrope, with essays by Samuel Thrope and Bernard Avishai. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215061
DVDS
Bird in the room / an Ari Davidovich film – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10206925
Through the wall [videorecording] – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10055299
E-books
Dynamics of the Arab-Israel Conflict: Past and Present: Intellectual Odyssey II. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10214324
Normalizing Occupation: The Politics of Everyday Life in the West Bank Settlements – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10214323
What ifs of Jewish history: from Abraham to Zionism / edited by Gavriel Rosenfeld – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10214540
St. John Damascene [electronic resource] : tradition and originality in Byzantine theology / Andrew Louth. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10213912
Luther’s Jews: a journey into Anti-Semitism / Thomas Kaufman – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10214865
Haters, baiters, and would-be dictators: anti-Semitism and the UK far-right / Nick Toczek – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10214867
Localized law: the Babatha and Salome Komaise archives / Kimberley Czajkowski.- https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215113
No End of Conflict: Rethinking Israel-Palestine – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215184
Continental philosophy and the Palestinian question: beyond the Jew and the Greek / Zahi Zalloua – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215343
The Hebrew Bible: a critical companion / edited by John Barton – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215681
Anna Komnene: the life and work of a medieval historian / Leonora Neville. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215298
A History of the Jewish War: AD 66-74 / Steve Mason. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215268
Fleeing the hijab: a Jewish woman’s escape from Iran / Sima Goel. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215679
Syria-Palestine in the late Bronze Age: an anthropology of politics and power / Emanuel Pfoh – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215917
Moynihan’s moment: America’s fight against Zionism as racism / Gil Troy – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215990
The empire that would not die: the paradox of eastern Roman survival, 640-740 / John Haldon. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10216158
A history of the Hasmonean state: Josephus and beyond / Kenneth Atkinson – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10214818
Classifying the Aramaic texts from Qumran : a statistical analysis of linguistic features / John Starr. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10216315