Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica: new acquisitions December 2016 and January 2017

By Mary Fisk|January 31, 2017|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology, History, Linguistics, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Politics and International Relations, Religions|0 comments

This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library in the field of Ancient Near Eastern studies, Semitics and Judaica during December 2016 and January 2017. Please note that this section of the Library also includes material on the history and politics of modern Israel / Palestine. Click on the hyperlink to go through to the item entry on the SOAS Library catalogue E-book content is accessible to SOAS

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Ancient Near East, Semitics & Judaica: new book acquisitions in October / November 2016

By Mary Fisk|December 1, 2016|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology, History, Linguistics, Literature, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica|0 comments

This is a selection of new titles (print and electronic) acquired by SOAS Library for the Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica collections. This section of the Library also includes material on modern Israeli / Palestinian studies. Please note that only SOAS staff and students will have access to e-books Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Lettres en akkadien de la “Maison d’urtēnu” : fouilles de 1994 / Sylvie Lackenbacher et Florence

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Selected new acquisitions for the Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica: June 2016

By Mary Fisk|July 4, 2016|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Religions|0 comments

The following is a selective list of new titles received for the Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica section of SOAS Library during June 2016. Please note that modern Israeli and Palestinian studies falls within this subject area Click on the hyperlink following each entry to go through to the SOAS Library catalogue Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations From the Mari archives: an anthology of Old Babylonian letters / Jack M.

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – November 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 17, 2015|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Mittelassyrische Urkunden aus dem Archiv Assur 14446 / Hervé Reculeau und Barbara Feller Philosophy before the Greeks: the pursuit of truth in ancient Babylonia / Marc Van De Mieroop Mesopotamian divination texts: conversing with the gods sources from the first millennium BCE / Ulla Susanne Koch Gods, kings, and merchants in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia / Dominique Charpin Byzantium Byzantium/modernism: the Byzantine as method in modernity /

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – August 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 1, 2015|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|

Ancient Near Eastern Civilisations A history of the ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 BC [3rd edition] / Marc Van De Mieroop Das Charisma der Könige. Zur Konzeption des altorientalischen Königtums im Hinblick auf Urartu / Julia Linke. Die neuassyrische und spätbabylonische Glyptik aus Tall Šēḫ Ḥamad / von Anja Fügert. Mari, ni Est, ni Ouest : (Supplément Syria II) The third tablet of the itkalzi ritual / Stefano de Martino,

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – June and July 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 6, 2015|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Altbabylonisches Lehrbuch [2nd edition] / Michael P. Streck The witchcraft series Maqlû / by Tzvi Abusch The gods rich in praise: early Greek and Mesopotamian religious poetry / Christopher Metcalf Following the Man of Yamhad: settlement and territory at Old Babylonian Alalah / by Jacob Lauinger Ancient Assyria: a very short introduction / Karen Radner Incantation and anti-witchcraft texts from Ugarit / Gregorio del Olmo Lete

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – May 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 12, 2015|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations “From Gilead to Edom”: studies in the archaeology and history of Jordan in honor of Denyse Homès-Fredericq on the occasion of her eightieth birthday / edited by Ingrid Moriah Swinnen and Eric Gubel. Ur: the city of the moon god / by Harriet Crawford Cultures in comparison: religion and politics in ancient Mediterranean regions / edited by Thomas R. Kämmerer and Mait Koiv. Traditions of written

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – April 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 13, 2015|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Canaanite religion according to the liturgical text of Ugarit [2nd edn ] / Gregorio del Olmo Lete. Transl. by W. G. E. Watson. Knowledge and wisdom: archaeological and historical essays in honour of Leah Di Segni / edited by Giovanni C. Bottini, L. Daniel Chrupcala, Joseph Patrich Memory and the city in ancient Israel / edited by Diana V. Edelman and Ehud Ben Zvi. Prophétisme et

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – March 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 10, 2015|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations A city from the dawn of history: Erbil in the cuneiform sources / by John MacGinnis. Présence et pouvoir hittites à Ougarit : le cas des DUMU.LUGAL / Charlotte Lebrun. Documents of Judean exiles and West Semites in Babylonia in the collection of David Sofer / by Laurie E. Pearce and Cornelia Wunsch. Life, death, and coming of age in Antiquity: individual rites of passage in

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – February 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 27, 2015|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Engraved on stone: Mesopotamian cylinder seals and seal inscriptions in the old Babylonian period / by Rony Feingold. – Nineveh and its remains: the gripping journals of the man who discovered the buried Assyrian cities / Austen Henry Layard. [reprint of work originally published in 1849] Remembering the dead in the ancient Near East: recent contributions from bioarchaeology and mortuary archaeology / [edited by] Benjamin W.

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