New Acquisitions in SOAS Library, August – October 2018: Ancient Near East, Semitics & Judaica
This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library in the field of Ancient Near Eastern studies, Semitics and Judaica between August and October 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
The cuneiform uranology texts: drawing the constellations / Paul-Alain Beaulieu, Eckart Frahm, Wayne Horowitz, John Steele. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10287226
What’s in a name? : Terminology related to the work force and job categories in the ancient Near East / [edited by] Agnès Garcia-Ventura. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292633
Assyrian and Babylonian scholarly text catalogues: b medicine, magic and divination / [edited by] Ulrike Steinert – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10291408
The socio-economic organisation of the Urartian Kingdom / by Ali Çifçi. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10221774
Aramaic magic bowls in the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin: descriptive list and edition of selected texts / by Siam Bhayro, James Nathan Ford, Dan Levene, Ortal-Paz Saar ; with contributions by Matthew Morgenstern, Marco Moriggi, Naama Vilozny. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10291526
The revival of the Anu cult and the nocturnal fire ceremony at late Babylonian Uruk / by Julia Krul. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10286138
The history of Phoenicia / Josette Elayi; translated from the French by Andrew Plummer. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292850
Sumerian literary and historical inscriptions / by William W. Hallo ; with the assistance of Harold Torger Vedeler ; edited by Mark E. Cohen and Ulla Kasten. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292858
Homer’s allusive art / Bruno Currie. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10293276
It’s a long way to a historiography of the Early Dynastic Period(s) / edited by Reinhard Dittmann and Gebhard J. Selz ; in collaboration with Ellen Rehm. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294421
Sennacherib, King of Assyria / by Josette Elayi. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294730
Discovering Babylon / Rannfrid Thelle. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294731
Hebrew and other Semitic Languages
Progressing in Hebrew – level dalet: lower advanced / Esther Delshad.[In Hebrew] – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10291975
The Orchard / Yochi Brandes ; translated from the Hebrew by Daniel Libenson. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292318
What we talk about when we talk about Hebrew: (and what it means to Americans) / edited by Naomi B. Sokoloff and Nancy E. Berg. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294321
גמחת האורות = The niche for lights \ מאת אבו חאמד מחמד אל-עזאלי ; תרגם מערבית קלסית לעברית בת-זמננו, הקדים מבואות וביאורים, העיר הערות וחילופי נוסחאות, אבי אלקיים – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294684
Zion’s Fiction: a treasury of Israeli speculative fiction / Sheldon Teitelbaum and Emanuel Lottem (editors): Avi Katz (Illustrator) – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294703
The Dead Sea scrolls and the study of the humanities: method, theory, meaning: proceedings of the eighth meeting of the International Organization for Qumran Studies (Munich, 4-7 August, 2013) / edited by Pieter B. Hartog, Alison Schofield, Samuel I. Thomas. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294170
Jewish Studies
Early Judaism: new insights and scholarship / edited by Frederick E. Greenspahn – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292275
Creating Judaism: history, tradition, practice / Michael L. Satlow. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10290968
Sephardic women’s voices: out of North Africa / Nina B. Lichtenstein. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292345
The Routledge companion to Jewish history and historiography / edited by Dean Phillip Bell. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294702
Judaism and the economy: a sourcebook / edited by Michael Satlow – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294732
The Jews in late antiquity / Rodrigo Laham Cohen. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10295095
Modern Israel / Palestine Studies
Rise and kill first: the secret history of Israel’s targeted assassinations / Ronen Bergman ; translated by Ronnie Hope. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10290865
Traces of racial exception: racializing Israeli settler colonialism / Ronit Lentin – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10290999
Under my window / Michal Ronnen Safdie ; foreword by Ari Shavit. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294696
E-books
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
Mountain peoples in the ancient Near East: the case of the Zagros in the first millennium BCE / Silvia Balatti. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10300592
Byzantium
Reading in the Byzantine Empire and beyond / edited by Teresa Shawcross, Ida Toth. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10301519
Hebrew and other Semitic languages
Jewish languages in historical perspective / edited by Lily Kahn. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292434
I have built you an exalted house: temple building in the Bible in the light of Mesopotamian and North-West semitic writings / Victor (Avigdor) Hurowitz. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10300812
Jewish Studies
Blood for thought: the reinvention of sacrifice in early rabbinic literature / Mira Balberg – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292674
The rabbinic conversion of Judaism: the unique perspective of the Bavli on conversion and the construction of Jewish identity / by Moshe Lavee. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292435
Seeking out the land: land of Israel traditions in ancient Jewish, Christian and Samaritan literature (200 BCE-400 CE) / by Ze’ev Safrai. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292690
Global Jewish foodways: a history / edited and with an introduction by Hasia R. Diner and Simone Cinotto ; foreword by Carlo Petrini. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292120
The Aggada of the Bavli and Its Cultural World / Geoffrey Herman – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10293479
Jews and the left: the rise and fall of a political alliance / Philip Mendes – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10293472
Revelations of ideology: apocalyptic class politics in early Roman Palestine / by G. Anthony Keddie. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10295242
Modern Conservative Judaism: evolving thought and practice / Elliot N. Dorff ; foreword by Julie Schonfeld. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10301421
Modern Israeli / Palestinian studies
Israel/Palestine and the queer international / Sarah Schulman. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10291959
Preventing Palestine: a political history from Camp David to Oslo / Seth Anziska. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10291946
The Oxford illustrated history of the Holy Land / edited by Robert G. Hoyland, H. G. M. Williamson. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10300938
CATCH-67: the Left, the Right, and the legacy of the Six-Day War / Micah Goodman ; translated by Eylon Levy. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294722
Hearts and minds: Israel and the battle for public opinion / Nachman Shai; translated by Ira Moskowitz. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294990