Ancient Near East, Semitics & Judaica: recent acquisitions for SOAS Library, April & May 2018

By Mary Fisk|May 25, 2018|Ancient Near East, Ancient Near East Semitics & Judaica, Art and Archaeology, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Politics, Religion|

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 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

Übergangszeiten : Altorientalische Studien für Reinhard Dittmann anlässlich seines 65. Geburtstags / \c [edited by] Kai Kaniuth, Daniel Lau und Dirk Wicke – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258018

Mehrsprachigkeit : vom Alten Orient bis zum Esperanto / Herausgegeben von Sebastian Fink, Martin Lang und Manfred Schretter – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258873

The Elamite world / edited by Javier Álvarez-Mon, Gian Pietro Basello and Yasmina Wicks. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258777

From Sasanian Mandaeans to Ṣābians of the marshes / by Kevin T. Van Bladel. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258779

Implementing meanings: the power of the copy between past, present and future: an overview from the ancient Near East / edited by Silvana Di Paolo. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10266923

The First dynasty of the Sealand in Mesopotamia / Odette Boivin – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10267613

The reign of Nebuchadnezzar I in history and historical memory / John P. Nielsen – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10266924

Euphrat und Tigris im Alten Orient / Theresa Blaschke. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10267146

Topography and toponymy in the ancient Near East: perspectives and prospects / Jan Tavernier. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10267233

Water for Assyria / edited by Hartmut Kühne. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10268880

ICAANE Wien Proceedings 2016 [2 vols] – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10268866

Sumerian texts from Ancient Iraq: from Ur III to 9/11 / Benjamin Studevent-Hickman. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10269077

Mari, le temple d’Ishtar revisité : nouvelles conclusions / Jean-Cl. Margueron ; avec une contribution de Juan Luis Montero Fenollós. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258929

Visualizing emotions in the Ancient Near East / Sara Kipfer (ed.). – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10266905

A short history of the Phoenicians / Mark Woolmer. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10268645

Sources of evil: studies in Mesopotamian exorcistic lore / edited by Greta Van Buylaere, Mikko Luukko, Daniel Schwemer, Avigail Mertens-Wagschal. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10269551

Hebrew and other Semitic Languages

Les manuscrits syriaques de parchemin du Sinaï et leurs ‘Membra disjecta’ / Paul Géhin. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10254942

Studies in Semitic linguistics and manuscripts : A liber discipulorum in honour of Professor Geoffrey Khan / edited by Nadia Vidro, Ronny Vollandt, Esther-Miriam Wagner and Judith Olszowy-Schlanger. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10269630

Jewish Studies

The Talmud: a biography / Barry Scott Wimpfheimer – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10263919

The stakes of history: on the use and abuse of Jewish history for life / David N. Myers. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10267831

Greetings from Angelus: poems Gershom Scholem ; translated from the German by Richard Sieburth ; introduced and annotated by Steven M. Wasserstrom. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10268732

Books of the people / editor, Dr. Stuart W. Halpern. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10236242

The wandering Jew has arrived / Albert Londres; translated by Helga Abraham. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10242045

Skies of parchment, seas of ink : Jewish illuminated manuscripts / edited by Marc Michael Epstein ; with contributions by Eva Frojmovic, Jenna Siman Jacobs, Hartley Lachter, Shalom Sabar, Raymond P. Scheindlin, Ágnes Vető, Susan Vick, Barbara Wolff, and Diane Wolfthal. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10266944

Modern Israel / Palestine Studies

Sadness is a white bird / Moriel Rothman-Zecher. [novel] – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258229

The lanterns of the king of Galilee / Ibrahim Nasrallah ; translated by Nancy Roberts. [novel] – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10267953

In days to come: a new hope for Israel / Avraham Burg ; translated by Joel Greenberg. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10269023

The last earth: a Palestinian story / Ramzy Baroud ; With a foreword by Ilan Pappe. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10269025

 

 E-books

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations

Sophene, Gordyene, and Adiabene : three regna minora of northern Mesopotamia between east and west / by Michal Marciak. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10267564

Jewish Studies

A historian in exile: Solomon ibn Verga, Shevet Yehudah, and the Jewish-Christian encounter / Jeremy Cohen. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10266862

What’s divine about divine law? : early perspectives / Christine Hayes. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10267047

DeColonial Judaism: triumphal failures of barbaric thinking / Santiago Slabodsky. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10267423

 

Modern Israeli / Palestinian studies

Sewing the fabric of statehood: garment unions, American labor, and the establishment of the state of Israel / Adam M. Howard. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10267357

The Zionist ideas: visions for the Jewish homeland–then, now, tomorrow / Gil Troy ; foreword by Natan Sharansky. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10267356

 

 

 

 

 

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