Ancient Near East, Semitics & Judaica: new acquisitions April and May 2017
This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library in the field of Ancient Near Eastern studies, Semitics and Judaica during April and May 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
The Uşaklı Höyük Survey Project (2008-2012) / a cura di Stefania Mazzoni e Franca Pecchioli – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047195
The Land before the Kingdom of Israel: a history of the Southern Levant and the people who populated it / Brendon C. Benz. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10055334
Handbook of Neo-Punic inscriptions / Karel Jongeling. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215426
Altorientalische Siegel und Keilschriftdokumente im Archäologischen Museum der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster die Stiftung der Sammlung Tono Eitel / Georg Neumann ; mit Beiträgen von Ingo Kottsieper, Hans Neumann und Annik Wüthrich. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215489
Syria-Palestine in the late Bronze Age: an anthropology of politics and power / Emanuel Pfoh – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215843
The economy of Late Achaemenid and Seleucid Babylonia / Reinhard Pirngruber – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215769
Framing archaeology in the Near East: the application of social theory to fieldwork / edited by Ianir Milevski and Thomas E. Levy. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10216247
Lukka’dan Likya’ya : Sarpedon ve Aziz Nikolaos’un ülkesi = From Lukka to Lycia : the land of Sarpedon and St. Nicholas / editörler/editors Havva İşkan, Erkan Dündar. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10213644
Herrschaftslegitimation in vorderorientalischen Reichen der Eisenzeit / [edited by] Christoph Levin und Reinhard Müller – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10216351
Stone vessels in the Near East during the Iron Age and the Persian Period (c. 1200-330 BCE) / by Andrea Squitieri – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10219001
At the dawn of history: Ancient Near Eastern studies in honour of J.N. Postgate / edited by Yağmur Heffron, Adam Stone, and Martin Worthington. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10219119
Sunlight and shade in the first cities: a sensory archaeology of early Iraq / Mary Shepperson. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10219177
The Babylonian disputation poems: with editions of the series of the Poplar, Palm and vine, the Series of the spider, and the Story of the poor, forlorn wren / by Enrique Jimenez, Yale University. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215539
Audias fabulas veteres: Anatolian studies in honor of Jana Souckova-Siegelova / edited by Sarka Velharticka. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047576
Before nature: cuneiform knowledge and the history of science / Francesca Rochberg. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10219557 [also available as an e-book]
How to cope with death: mourning and funerary practices in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the International Workshop, Firenze, 5-6 December 2013 / edited by Candida Felli – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215738
The late third millennium in the Ancient Near East: chronology, C14, and climate change / edited by Felix Höflmayer ; with contributions by Matthew J. Adams … [and sixteen others] – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10216313
The tablets from the temple precinct at Nuzi / by Brigitte Lion and Diana Stein. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10219118
An introduction to the grammar of Sumerian / Gábor Zólyomi, with the collaboration of Szilvia Jáka-Sövegjártó and Melinda Hagymássy – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10219136
A grammar of Old Assyrian / by N. J. C. Kouwenberg. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220370
Hittitology today: studies on Hittite and neo-Hittite Anatolia in honor of Emmanuel Laroche’s 100th birthday = L’hittitologie aujourd’hui : études sur l’Anatolie hittite et néo-hittite à l’occasion du centenaire de la naissance d’Emmanuel Laroche / Alice Mouton, éd. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10219475
Being a man: negotiating ancient constructs of masculinity / edited by Ilona Zsolnay. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10219817
Byzantium
Les Jafnides: des rois arabes au service de Byzance : VIe siècle de l’ère chrétienne : actes du colloque de Paris, 24-25 novembre 2008 / sous la direction de Denis Genequand, Christian Julien Robin. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215470
Hebrew and other Semitic Languages
ha-Balshanut ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yeme ha-benayim : ṭeḳsṭim u-meḥḳarim = Hebrew language study in the Middle Ages : texts and studies/ Ilan Eldar. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10206633
Ḳeriʼat benayim / Goni Ṭishler ; Daliah Roṭ – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10206634
Ve-eileh divrei David : essays in semitics, Hebrew Bible and history of biblical scholarship / by S. David Sperling. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10216077
Vicarious kingship: a theme in Syriac political theology in Late Antiquity / Manolis Papoutsakis – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215058
Greek Influence on Egyptian-Coptic: contact-induced change in an ancient African language (DDGLC Working Papers 1) / edited by Eitan Grossman, Peter Dils, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Wolfgang Schenkel – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10219000
Persian martyr acts under King Yazdgird I / edited and translated by Geoffrey Herman – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10053685
The history of the ‘Slave of Christ’: from Jewish child to Christian martyr / Michael Aaron Butts, Simcha Gross. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10206635
The Berlin-Strasbourg Apocryphon: a Coptic apostolic memoir / Alin Suciu. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215854
Exodus according to the Syriac Peshitta version with English translation / English translation by Mark Meyer; text prepared by George Anton Kiraz & Joseph Bali – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215654
The works of Cyrillona / edited and translated by Carl Griffin. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10053704
The Julian Romance: a new English translation / edited and translated by Michael Sokoloff. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10053791
Jewish Studies
Rabbinic body language: non-verbal communication in Palestinian rabbinic literature of late antiquity / Catherine Hezser – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215199
Jewish magic: before the rise of Kabbalah / Yuval Harari ; translated by Batya Stein. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215477
Stranger in a strange land: searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem / George Prochnik. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10216104
Ancient tales of giants from Qumran and Turfan: contexts, traditions, and influences / edited by Matthew Goff, Loren T. Stuckenbruck, and Enrico Morano. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215204
Dialogue de Timothée et Aquila: dispute entre un juif et un chrétien / traduction, introduction et notes par Sébastien Morlet. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10216180
King Solomon’s table: a culinary exploration of Jewish cooking from around the world / Joan Nathan ; photographs by Gabriela Herman. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10219034
Modernity, minority, and the public sphere: Jews and Christians in the Middle East / edited by S.R. Goldstein-Sabbah, H.L. Murre-van den Berg. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10216024
Travels in translation: sea tales at the source of Jewish fiction / Ken Frieden. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10219302
Resurrection of the dead in early Judaism, 200 BCE- CE 200 / C. D. Elledge – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220157
Modern Israel / Palestine Studies
Old historians, new historians, no historians: the derailed debate on the genesis of Israel / by Raphael Israeli. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215545
A land without borders: my journey around East Jerusalem and the West Bank / by Nir Baram; translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10214911
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the politics of stalemate / edited by edited by Karl Cordell, Brendan O’Leary, Stefan Wolff. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10219135
Pumpkinflowers : a soldier’s story / Matti Friedman. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10017268
Mapping the Holy Land: the origins of cartography in Palestine / Bruno Schelhaas; Jutta Faehndrich; Halim Goren. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215586
Yitzhak Rabin: soldier, leader, statesman / Itamar Rabinovich.- https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10219814 [also available as an e-book]
E-books
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
Encounters by the rivers of Babylon / edited by Uri Gabbay and Shai Secunda – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10216304
Rising Time Schemes in Babylonian Astronomy / John M. Steele – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10218994
Before nature: cuneiform knowledge and the history of science / Francesca Rochberg. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10219606
Religion, society and culture at Dura-Europos / edited for the Department of Classics by Ted Kaizer (University of Durham). – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220461
Byzantium
The Jewish-Greek Tradition in Antiquity and the Byzantine Empire / edited by James K. Aitken and James N. Carleton Paget. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220373
Hebrew and other Semitic languages
Classifying the Aramaic texts from Qumran: a statistical analysis of linguistic features / John Starr. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10216315
Language change in the wake of empire: Syriac in its Greco-Roman context / Aaron Michael Butts. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220491
Jewish Studies
Tradition and the formation of the Talmud / Moulie Vidas. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10217181
Synagogues in the works of Flavius Josephus: rhetoric, spatiality, and first-century Jewish institutions / by Andrew R. Krause. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10219017
Judaism: history, belief and practice [2nd edn] / Dan Cohn-Sherbok. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10219071
Fighting over the Bible: Jewish Interpretation, Sectarianism and Polemic from Temple to Talmud and Beyond / Isaac Kalimi- https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10219604
Modern Israeli / Palestinian studies
Writing Palestine 1933-1950 / Dorothy Kahn Bar-Adon; edited by Esther Carmel-Hakim, Nancy Rosenfeld. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10218984
Neoliberal apartheid: Palestine/Israel and South Africa after 1994 / Andy Clarno. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10219236
Essential Israel: essays for the 21st century / edited by S. Ilan Troen and Rachel Fish. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10219237
Yitzhak Rabin: soldier, leader, statesman / Itamar Rabinovich – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10219946
Gershom Scholem : an intellectual biography / Amir Engel. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220493
A national home for the Jewish people: the concept in British political thinking and policy making 1917-1923 / Dvorah Barzilay-Yegar. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220496