Ancient Near East, Semitics & Judaica: new acquisitions for December 2017 & January 2018
This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library in the field of Ancient Near Eastern studies, Semitics and Judaica during December 2017 and January 2018. 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
Studies in Ugaritic linguistics: selected papers / Gregorio del Olmo Lete. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10243899
Book of the Dead: becoming god in ancient Egypt / edited by Foy Scalf – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10240859
Kardunias Babylonia under the Kassites : the proceedings of the symposium held in Munich, 30 June to 2 July 2011 = Tagungsbericht des Münchener Symposiums, 30. Juni bis 2. Juli 2011 / edited by Alexa Bartelmus and Katja Sternitzke. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10241272
Entre dieux et hommes : anges, demons et autres figures intermediaires : actes du colloque organise par le College de France, Paris, les 19 et 20 mai 2014 / Thomas Römer, Bertrand Dufour, Fabian Pfitzmann, Christoph Uehlinger (eds.). – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10242355
Women’s writing of ancient Mesopotamia: an anthology of the earliest female authors / edited and translated by Charles Halton and Saana Svärd. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10242374
The city of Ebla: a complete bibliography of its archaeological and textual remains / by Erica Scarpa – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10239455
From Adapa to Enoch: scribal culture and religious vision in Judea and Babylon / Seth L. Sanders. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10243432
Studies in Sumerian civilization: selected writings of Miguel Civil / edited by Lluís Feliu – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10243572
Byzantium
Cataphracts : knights of the ancient Eastern Empires / Erich B. Anderson. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10242578
Other icons: art and power in Byzantine secular culture / Eunice Dauterman Maguire & Henry Maguire. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244317
Byzance : la secrète / Pascal Dayez-Burgeon – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10242579
Hebrew and other Semitic Languages
Le Nouveau Testament en syriaque / Jean-Claude Haelewyck (editeur) – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10243444
Jewish Studies
The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 8. The modern world, 1815-2000 / volume editors Mitchell B. Hart and Tony Michels – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10236400
A Grace Paley reader: stories, essays, and poetry / Grace Paley ; edited by Kevin Bowen and Nora Paley ; introduction by George Saunders. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10241194
Studies in Judaism and pluralism: honoring the 60th anniversary of the Academy for Jewish Religion / edited by Leonard Levin. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10241631
The Jews in Egypt and in Palestine under the Fātịmid caliphs: a contribution to their political and communal history based chiefly on genizah material hitherto unpublished / Jacob Mann. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/598970
Belonging: the story of the Jews, 1492-1900 / Simon Schama – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10237172
The origins of Yahwism / edited by Jürgen van Oorschot and Markus Witte – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10242354
Hasidism : a new history / David Biale, David Assaf, Benjamin Brown, Uriel Gellman, Samuel C. Heilman, Moshe Rosman, Gadi Sagiv, and Marcin Wodzinski ; with an afterword by Arthur Green – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244305
Perceiving the other in ancient Judaism and early Christianity / edited by Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Wolfgang Grünstäudl, Matthew Thiessen – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244349
A History of Judaism / Martin Goodman. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244416
Modern Israel / Palestine Studies
A Jerusalem anthology: travel writing through the centuries / edited T.J. Gorton and Andree Feghali Gorton – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10242236
The Palestine-Israel conflict: a basic introduction (4th edition) / Gregory Harms ; with Todd M. Ferry – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10243032
Gaza Weddings / Ibrahim Nasrallah ; translated by Nancy Roberts.[Novel] – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10242984
Africa and Israel: a unique case in Israeli foreign relations / Arye Oded. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10243357
Palestinian citizens of Israel: power, resistance and the struggle for space / Sharri Plonski. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10240676
The Soviet-Israeli War, 1969-1973: the USSR’s military intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli conflict / Isabella Ginor, Gideon Remez. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244620
Hebrew women join the forces: Jewish women from Palestine in the British forces during the Second World War / Anat Granit-Hacohen ; translated by Ora Cummings. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244648
E-books
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
Ancient prophecy: Near Eastern, biblical, and Greek perspectives / Martti Nissinen. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244306
Fighting for the king and the gods: a survey of warfare in the ancient Near East / Charlie Trimm. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10254060
The comparable body: analogy and metaphor in ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman medicine / edited by John Z. Wee. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10253912
Jewish Studies
Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory./ Elizabeth Rosner –https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244442
Rabbinic tales of destruction: sex, gender, and disability in the ruins of Jerusalem / Julia Watts Belser. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244415
Ethical monotheism: a philosophy of Judaism / Ehud Benor – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10250911
Uprooted: how 3000 years of Jewish civilization in the Arab world vanished overnight / Lyn Julius.
Judaism: the basics / Jacob Neusner. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10250951
Jews, race, and popular music / Jon Stratton. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10250953
My perfect one: typology and early Rabbinic interpretation of Song of Songs / Jonathan Kaplan. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10253964
Modern Israeli / Palestinian studies
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: a people’s war / Beverley Milton-Edwards. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10243012
State Expansion and Conflict: In and between Israel/Palestine and Lebanon / Oren Barak.- https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244555
The Jewish origins of Israeli foreign policy: a study in tradition and survival / Shmuel Sandler. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244412
The Golan Heights: political history, settlement and geography since 1949 / Yigal Kipnis. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244567
Crisis in the Middle East: Israel and the Arab states 1945-2007 / Michael Scott-Baumann – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244551
American policy toward Israel: the power and limits of beliefs / Michael Thomas. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244582
The dream of Zion: the story of the first Zionist Congress / by Lawrence J. Epstein. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10250992
The Hebrew republic: Israel’s return to history / Colin Shindler. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10253892
Across the wall: narratives of Israeli-Palestinian history / edited by Ilan Pappé and Jamil Hilal. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10254064
Israeli cinema: East/West and the politics of representation / Ella Shohat. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10254065