0407, 2016

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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3103, 2016

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica collections: March additions

By Mary Fisk|March 31, 2016|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 (print and electronic) added to the Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica collections during March 2016. Click on the hyperlink to go through to the Library catalogue record for each item Please note that this subject division also includes books on contemporary Israel and Palestine Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Mon dieu qu’ai-je fait? : Les diĝir-šà-dab-ba et la piété privée en Mésopotamie / Margaret

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0802, 2016

Archaeology and religion: two book reviews

By Mary Fisk|February 8, 2016|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Anthropology and Sociology, Art and Archaeology, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Religions|0 comments

Two books recently acquired by SOAS Library have been reviewed online: Defining the Sacred: Approaches to the Archaeology of Religion in the Near East / edited by Nicola Laneri (Oxford: Oxbow, 2015) Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir (Bar-Ilan University) in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review An “excellent”  collection of studies “dealing with various cultures, finds, issues and periods, ranging from the early Neolithic period until the Iron Age“. Regions studied include ancient

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0608, 2015

Two SOAS Library Book Reviews

By Mary Fisk|August 6, 2015|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica|0 comments

A couple of  reviews for books recently acquired by SOAS Library … 1.Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present and Collective Violence against the Armenians, 1789-2009 by Fatma Müge Göçek. Reviewed by Dr. Joanne Laycock(Sheffield Hallam University) in the Institute of Historical Research’s Reviews in History This book “is representative of the growing engagement of historians of this region and period with an expanding range of source material and a willingness

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1206, 2015

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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1805, 2015

Open access book series for the study of the Ancient Near East

By Mary Fisk|May 18, 2015|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Several major series from academic publishers Brill now have selected volumes available on open-access via Ancient World Digital Library. Click on the links below to access the collections Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East (10 titles) Titles include: Family religion in Babylonia, Syria and Israel / Toorn (1996) The care of the elderly in the Ancient Near East / Stol & Vleeming History and historical writing

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1105, 2015

History – March 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 11, 2015|History|0 comments

General and thematic The true history of tea / Victor H. Mair & Erling Hoh Trophies, relics and curios? : Missionary heritage from Africa and the Pacific / edited by Karen Jacobs, Chantal Knowles, Chris Wingfield Guantánamo diary / Mohamedou Ould Slahi ; introduction by Larry Siems ; edited by Larry Siems Case studies in transmission / Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, Ilkka Lindstedt, Robert Rollinger und Raija Mattila (Hgg.) The British industrial

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1004, 2015

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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0503, 2015

New and updated web resources for cuneiform studies

By Mary Fisk|March 5, 2015|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

  King Sargon and a dignitary (bas-relief in the Louvre Museum) (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sargon_II_and_dignitary.jpg) Assyrian Empire builders This project is a joint co-operation between the University of Cambridge, UCL and the University of Pennsylvania, and is linked to the Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus project (State Archives of Assyria) at the University of Helsinki. The focus  is on the correspondence between Sargon II of Assyria (721-705 BC), his predecessor Tiglath-pileser (744-727) and their governors and

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1209, 2014

The Ancient World in an age of globalization / ed. Geller (open-access e-book)

By Mary Fisk|September 12, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, History, Linguistics, Literature, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, South Asia|0 comments

Published as the latest volume in the Melammu series by the Freie Universität Berlin, The Ancient World in an age of globalization (edited by Markham J. Geller) looks at ancient societies from Greece to India, with articles on Phrygia and Armenia, and texts  from ancient Israel, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. “The globalization described in this volume extends over language barriers and literatures, showing how texts as well as goods can travel between societies and regions. This collection

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