New acquisitions: Ancient Near East, Semitics & Judaica, February / March 2018
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 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
Private and state in the ancient Near East: proceedings of the 58th Rencontre assyriologique internationale at Leiden, 16-20 July 2012 / edited by R. de Boer and J. G. Dercksen – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10242575
Divine and human hate in the Ancient Near East: a lexical and contextual analysis / by Andrew J. Riley – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10243573
Highlights of the collections of the Oriental Institute Museum / edited by Jean M. Evans, Jack Green, and Emily Teeter – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10250982
The royal mounds of A’ali in Bahrain: the emergence of kingship in early Dilmun / Steffen Terp Laursen, with contributions by Gianni Marchesi, Jesper Olsen [and] Thomas Van de Velde – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10253911
“Now it happened in those days”: studies in Biblical, Assyrian, and other ancient Near Eastern historiography presented to Mordechai Cogan on his 75th birthday / edited by Amitai Baruchi-Unna, Tova Forti, Shmuel Aḥituv, Israel Ephʹal, and Jeffrey H. Tigay. – 978-1575067-605
Spätsbabylonische Texte zum lokalen und regionalen Handel sowie zum Fernhandel aus dem Eanna-Archiv / von Kristin Kleber. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10254563
The “Great itkalzi Ritual”: the Šapinuwa tablet Or 90/1473 and its duplicate ChS I/1 5 / Stefano de Martino and Aygül Süel – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10254677
The craft of a good scribe: history, narrative and meaning in the First Tale of Setne Khaemwas / by Steve Vinson. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10255514
Therapeutic prescriptions against fever in ancient Mesopotamia / Andras Bacskay. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10264151
Papyrus Amherst 63 / edited by Karel van der Toorn. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10264233
Byzantium
Streams of gold, rivers of blood: the rise and fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade / Anthony Kaldellis. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10254934
Jewish Studies
Diaspora boy: comics on crisis in America and Israel / by Eli Valley. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10242699
Gershom Scholem: from Berlin to Jerusalem and back: an intellectual biography / Noam Zadoff ; translated by Jeffrey Green. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10243905
The correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem / edited by Marie Luise Knott ; translated by Anthony David. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257218
From forbidden fruit to milk and honey: a commentary on food in the Torah / Diana Lipton. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244601
On Jewish music: past and present [2nd edn.] / Joachim Braun. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10250884
Against anti-Semitism: an anthology of twentieth-century Polish writings / edited by Adam Michnik and Agnieszka Marczyk – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10254292
The Decalogue and Its cultural influence / edited by Dominick Markl – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257194
Heidegger and Jewish thought: difficult others / edited by Elad Lapidot and Micha Brumlik ; with Elan Reisner. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257097
The genius of Judaism / Bernard-Henri Lévy; translated by Steven B. Kennedy. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258338
Modern Israel / Palestine Studies
The Hebrew republic: Israel’s return to history / Colin Shindler. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10250990
E-books
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
A history of Babylon, 2200 BC-AD 75 / Paul-Alain Beaulieu. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258680
Byzantium
Byzantine Perspectives on Neoplatonism / Sergei Mariev (ed.) – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10254941
Jewish Studies
The Jewish Bible: a material history / David Stern. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10255454
The Chinese Jews of Kaifeng: a millennium of adaptation and endurance / edited by Anson H. Laytner and Jordan Paper. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10263904
Modern Israeli / Palestinian studies
The 1967 Arab-Israeli war: origins and consequences / edited by Wm. Roger Louis and Avi Shlaim. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258702
Mandatory separation: religion, education, and mass politics in Palestine / Suzanne Schneider. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258933
American presidents and Jerusalem / Ghada Hashem Talhami – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10263892