Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – August 2013

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Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations

• Sole della Mesopotamia: considerazioni incomplete / Claudio Saporetti
• 4th century Karia : defining a Karian identity under the Hekatomnids / edited by Olivier Henry.
• Beyond hearth and home: women in the public sphere in neo-Assyrian society / by Sherry Lou Macgregor.
• The Cyrus cylinder and ancient Persia : a new beginning for the Middle East / John Curtis ; with an introductory essay by Neil MacGregor and a translation of the Cyrus Cylinder by Irving Finkel.
• The house of prisoners: slavery and state in Uruk during the revolt against Samsu-iluna / by Andrea Seri.

Byzantium

• On ikinci ve on üçüncü yüzyıllarda Bizans dünyasında değişim : bildiriler = Change in the Byzantine world in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries : proceedings / [editörler, Ayla Ödekan, Engin Akyürek, Nevra Necipoğlu].

Hebrew and other Semitic Languages

• Foreigners and Egyptians in the late Egyptian stories: linguistic, literary and historical perspectives / Camilla Di Biase-Dyson.
• Reconfiguring surrealism in modern Hebrew literature: Menashe Levin, Yitzhak Oren and Yitzhak Orpaz / Giulia Miller.
• Neʻarot le-mofet / Śahrah Blaʼu.
• Pitʼom defiḳah ba-delet / Etgar Ḳaret.
• Mifraśim ḳashim = Hard sails / Yonatan Berg.
• Ḳivrot ha-taʼaṿah. / Aharon Megged
• Yamim be-seʻarah / Mikhal Shaleṿ.
• Aḥaronim 2011-2012 = Last 2011-2012 / Ṭoviyah Ribner.
• Shevaʻ poʼemot / Aharon Shabtai
• Ben ḥaverim / ʻAmos ʻOz.
  [also available in English: Between friends]
• Tsilah / Yehudit Ḳatsir.
• Zot ha-Yonah / ʻorkhim Halit Yeshurun ; Yaʼir Ḳedar.
  [Accompanied by sound recording : 7 ha-selilim shel Yonah Ṿolakh = the 7 tapes ]

Jewish Studies

E-books

• The Sabra: the creation of the new Jew / Oz Almog ; Haim Watzman, translator. [available via ebrary]

• The invention and decline of Israeliness : state, society, and the military / Baruch Kimmerling. [available via ebrary]

Modern Israeli and Palestinian Studies

• De notre envoyé spécial à Jérusalem : au coeur de la Palestine des années vingt / Jacob Israël De Haan ; édition présentée et établie par Nathan Weinstock.
• The politics of Israel’s past: The Bible, archaeology and nation-building / edited by Emanuel Pfoh, Keith W. Whitelam
• Israel, Jordan, and Palestine: the two-state imperative / Asher Susser.
• Israel’s death hierarchy: casualty aversion in a militarized democracy / Yagil Levy.
• Israel’s clandestine diplomacies / edited by Clive Jones and Tore T. Petersen.
• Blair, Labour and Palestine: conflicting views on Middle East peace after 9/11 / by Toby Greene.