Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica: new acquisitions in SOAS Library: November 2017
This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library in the field of Ancient Near Eastern studies, Semitics and Judaica during November 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 solar deities of Bronze Age Anatolia: studies in texts of the early Hittite kingdom / Charles W. Steitler. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10241721
An ox of one’s own: royal wives and religion at the court of the third dynasty of Ur / T.M. Sharlach – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10240765
Overturning certainties in Near Eastern archaeology: a festschrift in honor of K. Aslihan Yener / edited by Cigdem Maner, Mara T. Horowitz, Allan S. Gilbert. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10241868
A year of vengeance / Edward Stratford. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10241866
The first ninety years: a Sumerian celebration in honor of Miguel Civil / edited by Lluís Feliu, Fumi Karahashi and Gonzalo Rubio. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10240766
La Mésopotamie: de Gilgamesh à Artaban : 3300 -120 av. J.-C / Bertrand Lafont, Aline Tenu, Francis Joannès et Phlippe Clancier – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10241674
Le feste ittite del Tuono : edizione critica di CTH 631 / Francesco G Barsacchi – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10242000
Baal and the politics of poetry / Aaron Tugendhaft. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10242183
Byzantium
Visualizing community: art, material culture, and settlement in Byzantine Cappadocia / Robert G. Ousterhout. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10242270
Hebrew and other Semitic Languages
Pocket Gorgias Syriac-English dicitonary / Sebastian P. Brock and George Anton Kiraz – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10236288
Modern Israel / Palestine Studies
Lioness: Golda Meir and the nation of Israel / Francine Klagsbrun – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10240445
Jerusalem without God : portrait of a cruel city / Paola Caridi. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10242235
E-books
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
Women’s Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Anthology of the Earliest Female Authors / edited and translated by Charles Halton, Saana Svärd – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10242403
Byzantium
Brother-making in late Antiquity and Byzantium: monks, laymen and Christian ritual / Claudia Rapp – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10242409
Insanity and sanctity in Byzantium: the ambiguity of religious experience / Youval Rotman. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10242484
Jewish Studies
“And they shall be one flesh”: on the language of mystical union in Judaism / by Adam Afterman – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10240431
Heresy and the formation of the rabbinic community / David M. Grossberg. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10242378
Shared identities: medieval and modern imaginings of Judeo-Islam / Aaron W. Hughes. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10242604
Rabbinic body language: non-verbal communication in Palestinian rabbinic literature of late antiquity / by Catherine Hezser – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10242923
Jews, Gentiles, and other animals: the Talmud after the humanities / Mira Beth Wasserman. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10243038
Jewish Religious and Philosophical Ethics / Curtis Hutt- https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10242357
Modern Israeli / Palestinian studies
The Palestine-Israel conflict: a basic introduction / Gregory Harms ; with Todd M. Ferry. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10243031