New acquisitions for SOAS Library: Ancient Near East, Semitics & Judaica (November 2018 – January 2019)
This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library in the field of Ancient Near Eastern studies, Semitics and Judaica between November 2018 and January 2019. 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
Assyromania and more: in memory of Samuel M. Paley / edited by Friedhelm Pedde and Nathanael Shelley – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294121
Mesopotamian medicine and magic: studies in honor of Markham J. Geller / edited by Strahil V. Panayotov, Ludek Vacin ; with the assistance of Gene Trabich. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10302340
Structures of power: law and gender across the Ancient Near East and beyond / edited by Ilan Peled, with contributions by Brian Muhs [and twelve others]. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294423
The art of divination in the ancient Near East: reading the signs of heaven and earth / Stefan M. Maul; translated by Brian McNeil and Alexander Johannes Edmonds. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294587
Alphabet scribes in the land of cuneiform: sēpiru professionals in Mesopotamia in the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid periods / Yigal Bloch. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294848
How did the Persian king of kings get his wine? : the upper Tigris in antiquity (c.700 BCE to 636 CE) / Athony Comfort and Michał Marciak – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10301286
The material and ideological base of the old Babylonian state: history, economy, and politics / Lukáš Pecha. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10302861
Complete Babylonian: a comprehensive guide to reading and understanding Babylonian, with original texts / Martin Worthington. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303492
Behind the scenes of the Old Testament: cultural, social, and historical contexts / edited by Jonathan S. Greer, John W. Hilber, and John H. Walton – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303385
La medicina assiro-babilonese / a cura di Frederick Mario Fales con la collaborazione di Francesca Minen – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303900
be-Artsot Shumer ṿe-Akad / be-ʻarikhat: Mordekhai Kogen.
בארצות שומר ואכד : מחקרים חדשים, יום עיון לכבוד יעקב קליין בהגיעו לגבורות / בעריכת: מרדכי כוגן. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10304045
The tale of the Poor man of Nippur / by Baruch Ottervanger ; with the assistance of Yigal Bloch. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10304162
Sea and the combat myth: North West Semitic political mythology in the Hebrew Bible / Joanna Töyräänvuori – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10309326
A companion to ancient Near Eastern art / edited by Ann C Gunter. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10308266
Hebrew and other Semitic Languages
Middle Egyptian / Peter Beylage – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10300595
Jerusalem of people and places: a reader for beginning and intermediate levels / by Sara Israeli and Tamar Perles – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10304132
Recording village life: a Coptic scribe in early Islamic Egypt / Jennifer A. Cromwell. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303062
The Commentary of Gabriel of Qatar on the East Syriac Morning Service on Ordinary Days: text, translation, and discussion / Alex C. J. Neroth van Vogelpoel. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10300237
Jewish Studies
The religious worldviews reflected in the Dead Sea Scrolls : proceedings of the Fourteenth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 28-30 May, 2013 / edited by Ruth A. Clements, Menahem Kister, Michael Segal. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10304125
Diasporas in antiquity / edited by Shaye J.D. Cohen, Ernest S. Frerichs – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303662
Judaism: the genealogy of a modern nation / Daniel Boyarin – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303610
Studies in contemporary Jewry. I / edited by Jonathan Frankel – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10230301
Hasidic people: a place in the New World / Jerome R. Mintz. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303681
Discovering Second Temple literature: the scriptures and stories that shaped early Judaism / Malka Z. Simkovich. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10308519
Modern Israel / Palestine Studies
Beyond Post-Zionism / Eran Kaplan. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10300899
E-books
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
Sargonic Texts from Telloh in the Istanbul Archaeological Museums. Part 2 / Benjamin R. Foster. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303787
Hittite local cults / by Michele Cammarosano. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10304257
Byzantium
Strangers to themselves: the Byzantine outsider: papers from the thirty-second Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, March 1998 / edited by Dion C. Smythe. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303770
Jewish Studies
Writing on the wall: graffiti and the forgotten Jews of antiquity / Karen B. Stern. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10302544
The Cambridge History of Judaism. Volume 6, The Middle Ages: The Christian World / edited by Robert Chazan – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10302909
Land, Center and Diaspora: Jewish Constructs in Late Antiquity / Isaiah Gafni – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303680
Maimonides’ on Coitus: A New Parallel Arabic-English Edition and Translation / Gerrit Bos – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10304186
Discovering Second Temple literature: the scriptures and stories that shaped early Judaism / Malka Z. Simkovich. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10308519
How old is the Hebrew bible? : A linguistic, textual, and historical study / Ronald Hendel and Jan Joosten. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10308710
The Jews: a history [3rd edn.] / John Efron, Matthias Lehmann, Steven Weitzman. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10308615
Women of valor: Orthodox Jewish troll fighters, crime writers, and rock stars in contemporary literature and culture / Karen E. H. Skinazi. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10309102
Between Iran and Zion: Jewish histories of twentieth-century Iran / Lior B. Sternfeld. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10309103
Modern Israeli / Palestinian studies
Our American Israel: the story of an entangled alliance / Amy Kaplan – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10302545
The Israel-Palestine conflict: one hundred years of war [3rd edn] / James L. Gelvin – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10304122
Self-criticism after the defeat / Sadik al-Azm; translated from the Arabic by George Stergios ; foreword by Fouad Ajami ; preface by Sadik al-Azm ; introduction by Faisal Darraj. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10304094
Colonialism and the Jews / edited by Ethan B. Katz, Lisa Moses Leff, and Maud S. Mandel. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10304255
Hamas the Islamic resistance movement / Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10304135
Beyond the nation-state: the Zionist political imagination from Pinsker to Ben-Gurion / Dmitry Shumsky. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10308711