Ancient Near East, Semitics & Judaica: new acquisitions in SOAS Library for June & July 2017
This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library in the field of Ancient Near Eastern studies, Semitics and Judaica during June and July 2017. 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 Civilisations
The anti-witchcraft ritual Maqlû: the cuneiform sources of a magic ceremony from ancient Mesopotamia / Daniel Schwemer – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10219472
La vie méconnue des temples mésopotamiens / Dominique Charpin – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10219474
Vogel und Fisch – ein sumerisches Rangstreitgespräch : Textedition und Kommentar / Sabine Herrmann – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220842
Atonement and purification: priestly and Assyro-Babylonian perspectives on sin and its consequences / Isabel Cranz – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220848
From the four corners of the earth: studies in iconography and cultures of the ancient Near East in honour of F.A.M. Wiggermann / edited by David Kertai and Olivier Nieuwenhuyse. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10222582
Letterature dell’antica Mesopotamia / Lorenzo Verderame – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215499
Les archives de la princesse Iltani découvertes à Tell al-Rimah (XIIIe siècle avant J.-C.) et l’histoire du royaume de Karana/Qaṭṭara / Anne-Isabelle Langlois. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10229774
Organization, administrative practices and written documentation in Mesopotamia during the Ur III period (c. 2112-2004 BC) a case study of Puzris-Dagan in the reign of Amar-Suen / Changyu Liu. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220314
The campaigns of Sargon II, King of Assyria, 721-705 B.C. / Sarah C. Melville. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220751
Forschungen in Resafa-Sergiupolis: Al-Mundir-Bau und Nekropole vor dem Nordtor. Basilika C / Thilo Ulbert; Michaela Konrad. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10222372
Ishtar / Louise M. Pryke. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10222592
At the northern frontier of Near Eastern archaeology: Recent research on Caucasia and Anatolia in the Bronze Age – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10221797
Proceedings of the 2nd Kültepe International Meeting. Kültepe, 26-30 July 2015. Studies dedicated to Klaas Veenhof / Fikri Kulakoǧlu & Gojiko Barjamovic (editors). – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10229989
Byzantium
Death and the afterlife in Byzantium : the fate of the soul in theology, liturgy, and art / Vasileios Marinis, Associate Professor of Christian Art and Architecture, The Institute of Sacred Music, Divinity School, Yale University. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220244
The Chronicle of Zuqnīn Parts I and II, From the Creation to the Year 506/7 AD / edited and translated by Amir Harrak. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215736
Byzantium and the emergence of Muslim-Turkish Anatolia, ca. 1040-1130 / Alexander Daniel Beihammer. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10229775
The Principality of Antioch and its frontiers in the twelfth century / Andrew D. Buck. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10229776
Hebrew and other Semitic Languages
The man who never stopped sleeping / Aharon Appelfeld; translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220731
A pigeon and a boy / Meir Shalev; translated from the Hebrew by Evan Fallenberg. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220732
Someone to run with / David Grossman; translated by Vered Almog and Maya Gurantz. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220733
The last Jew : being the tale of a teacher Henkin and the vulture, the chronicles of the last Jew, the awful tale of Joseph and his offspring, the story of secret charity, the annals of the Moshava, all those wars, and the end of the annals of the Jews / Yoram Kaniuk ; translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Harshav. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220735
The story of the encounter between monk Bahira and Muhammad, as it is recorded in the Syriac manuscript of Mardin 259/2: the monk encounters the Prophet / Abjar Bahkou – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10218936
The Chronicle of Zuqnīn Parts I and II, From the Creation to the Year 506/7 AD / edited and translated by Amir Harrak. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215736
Túrāṣ mamllā = Tūrrāṣ Mamllā : a grammar of the Syriac language / George Anton Kiraz. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220462
A unique Hebrew glossary from India: an analysis of Judeo-Urdu / by Aaron D. Rubin. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10055208
Estudios de intertextualidad semítica noroccidental : hebreo y ugarítico / Gregorio del Olmo Lete. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10219757
Jewish Studies
Rabbi Akiva: sage of the Talmud / Barry W. Holtz. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215743
The invention of Judaism: Torah and Jewish identity from Deuteronomy to Paul / John J. Collins. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10216241
The teak almirah / Jael Silliman. [a novel about Jewish communities in India] – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220464
Modern Israel / Palestine Studies
A national home for the Jewish people: the concept in British political thinking and policy making 1917-1923 / Dvorah Barzilay-Yegar – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220262
Where the line is drawn: crossing boundaries in occupied Palestine / Raja Shehadeh. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220563
City on a hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli settler movement / Sara Yael Hirschhorn – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220844
The only language they understand: forcing compromise in Israel and Palestine / Nathan Thrall. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220931
The dream: a diary of the film / Mohammad Malas ; introduced and annotated by Samirah Alkassim. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10222090
Jerusalem 1900: the Holy City in the age of possibilities / Vincent Lemire ; translated by Catherine Tihanyi and Lys Ann Weiss. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10222359
E-books
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
A companion to Assyria / edited by Eckart Frahm. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10221806
Byzantium
Performing Orthodox ritual in Byzantium / Andrew Walker White. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10222472
Jewish Studies
Maimonides and the Merchants: Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10221909
The origin of the Jews [electronic resource]: the quest for roots in a rootless age / Steven Weitzman. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10230052
Life is beautiful, but not for Jews: another view of the film by Benigni / Kobi Niv ; translated from the Hebrew by Jonathan Beyrak Lev. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10230115
Modernity and the Holocaust / Zygmunt Bauman. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10230146
Visual culture and the Holocaust / edited and with an introduction by Barbie Zelizer. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10230143
Anxious Histories: narrating the Holocaust in Jewish communities at the beginning of the twenty-first century / Jordana Silverstein. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10230523
Early Jewish Writings / Marie-Theres Wacker & Eileen Schuller – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10230294
Echoes of a lost voice: encounters with Primo Levi / Giorgio Calcagno, Gabriella Poli ; translated from the Italian by Nat Paterson ; edited by Carole Angier. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10230372
Elements of ancient Jewish nationalism / David Goodblatt. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10230332
Judaism, science, and moral responsibility / edited by Yitzhak Berger and David Shatz – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10230371
Multiculturalism and the Jews / Sander L. Gilman. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10230522
Modern Israeli / Palestinian studies
The West Bank and Gaza Strip: a geography of occupation and dissent / Elisha Efrat – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10222299
Jerusalem 1900: the Holy City in the age of possibilities / Vincent Lemire ; translated by Catherine Tihanyi and Lys Ann Weiss – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10222476
Palestine LTD.: neoliberalism and nationalism in the occupied territory / Toufic Haddad. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10230525