0707, 2014

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – June 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 7, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations La tour de Babylone : Etudes et recherches sur les monuments de Babylone / Béatrice André-Salvini (dir.) Apprendre le hourrite / Arnaud Fournet Interpretations of Sinuhe : inspired by two passages (proceedings of a workshop held at Leiden University, 27-29 November 2009) / ed. by Harold M. Hays, Frank Federer and Ludwig D. Morenz. Personal names in ancient Anatolia / edited by Robert Parker. Comment devient-on

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2702, 2014

History – December 2013 and January 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|February 27, 2014|History|0 comments

General & Comparative Farewell to Salonika: city at the crossroads / Leon Sciaky. Transatlantic slavery: an introduction / [text by Richard Benjamin … and David Fleming]. Borders: a very short introduction / Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen.  Red stamps and gold stars: fieldwork dilemmas in upland socialist Asia / edited by Sarah Turner Early modern things: objects and their histories, 1500-1800 / edited by Paula Findlen. Medicine and colonialism:

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0208, 2013

History – July 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 2, 2013|History|0 comments

An intellectual history for India / edited by Shruti Kapila ; with an afterword by C.A. Bayly. The monetary history of Iran: from the Safavids to the Qajars / Rudi Mathhe, Willem Floor and Patrick Clawson. The politics of reproduction in Ottoman society, 1838-1900 / by Gülhan Balsoy African voices on slavery and the slave trade. Volume 1, The sources / edited by Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene, Martin A.

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3107, 2013

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – July 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 31, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern civilizations Excavations at Tel Beth-Shean, 1989-1996 (Vol. 3 & Vol.4) Ebla and its landscape / edited by Paolo Malthiae & Nicolò Marchetti  Aspetti del sistema preposizionale dell’eblaita / Maria Vittoria Tonietti. The world of the Neo-Hittite kingdoms: a political and military history / Trevor Bryce. Linguistics studies in Phoenician: in memory of J. Brian Peckham / edited by Robert D. Holmstedt and Aaron Schade. The elements of

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0207, 2013

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – June 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 2, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Iron Age hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions / by Annick Payne. Administrative Ur III texts in the British Museum / Marcel Sigrist, Tohru Ozaki  The photographs of the American Palestine Exploration Society / [compiled] by Rachel Hallote, Felicity Cobbing, and Jeffrey B. Spurr. Beyond Hatti : a tribute to Gary Beckman / edited by Billie Jean Collins and Piotr Michalowski. A glossary of Hurrian and Kassite / Arnaud

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2504, 2013

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – April 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 25, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations The Cyrus cylinder: the great Persian edict from Babylon / edited by I.L. Finkel The archive of Mušēzib-Marduk, son of Kiribtu and descendant of Sîn-nāṣir : a landowner and property developer at Uruk in the seventh century BC / Grant Frame. Commerce and colonization in the Mediterranean Bronze Age / Maria Eugenia Aubet. The Philistines and other “sea peoples” in text and archaeology / edited by

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2901, 2013

Religions – January 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 29, 2013|Religions|0 comments

Les vivants et leurs morts : actes du colloque organisé par le Collège de France, Paris, les 14-15 avril 2010 / éd. par Jean-Marie Durand, Thomas Römer et Jürg Hutzli. Christian origins and Hellenistic Judaism: social and literary contexts for the New Testament / edited by Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts.  Conversion and narrative: reading and religious authority in Medieval polemic / Ryan Szpiech. Vie et spiritualité des

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0401, 2013

Religions – December 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 4, 2013|Religions|0 comments

Sanctity and self-inflicted violence in Chinese religions, 1500-1700 / Jimmy Yu Mamluks and animals: veterinary medicine in medieval Islam / by Housni Alkhateeb Shehada. On old age: approaching death in antiquity and the Middle Ages / edited by Christian Krötzl, Katariina Mustakallio. Conversion and apostasy in the late Ottoman Empire / Selim Deringil

0607, 2012

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – June 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 6, 2012|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near East Mobile pastoralism and the formation of Near Eastern civilizations: weaving together society / Anne Porter Looking north : the socioeconomic dynamics of the northern Mesopotamian and Anatolian regions during the late third and early second millennium BC / edited by Nicola von Laneri, Peter Pfälzner and Stefano Valentini Une bibliothèque au sud de la ville : textes 1994-2002 en cunéiforme alphabétique de la maison d’Ourtenou / Pierre Bordreuil et

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2904, 2012

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 29, 2012|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

The Mufti of Jerusalem and the Nazis : the Berlin years / Klaus Gensicke ; translated by Alexander Fraser Gunn. The origins of Israeli mythology : neither Canaanites nor crusaders / David Ohana ; translated by David Maisel. Walking Palestine : 25 journeys into the West Bank / by Stefan Szepesi. Babylonian prayers to Marduk / Takayoshi Oshima The Ahhiyawa texts / by Gary M. Beckman, Trevor Bryce, Eric H.

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