2910, 2018

New Acquisitions in SOAS Library, August – October 2018: Ancient Near East, Semitics & Judaica

By Mary Fisk|October 29, 2018|Ancient Near East Semitics & Judaica, Art and Archaeology, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Semitics & Judaica|

This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library in the field of Ancient Near Eastern studies, Semitics and Judaica between August and October 2018. 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 Please note that e-book content is accessible

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3107, 2017

Ancient Near East, Semitics & Judaica: new acquisitions in SOAS Library for June & July 2017

By Mary Fisk|July 31, 2017|Ancient Near East Semitics & Judaica, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Religion|

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. Click on the hyperlink to go through to the item entry on the SOAS Library catalogue Please note that e-book content is accessible

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0604, 2017

2nd ICANNE Proceedings (International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East) now available online

By Mary Fisk|April 6, 2017|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology|0 comments

With thanks to the Agade mailing list for bringing the online publication of these conference proceedings to our attention. Note: All OrientLab online publications can be found at http://www.orientlab.net/pubs/ The original Agade posting was as follows: The long-delayed publication of the 2nd ICAANE Proceedings has now been achieved in the online open access series OrientLab Special Issues (one may refer to the Preface in vol. 1 for an account of the editorial

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3101, 2017

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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0310, 2016

Ancient Near East, Semitics & Judaica: new book acquisitions September 2016

By Mary Fisk|October 3, 2016|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Religions, South East Asia|0 comments

This is a selection of new books acquired for the Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica collections in SOAS Library during September 2016. Note that this subject area also includes modern Israeli / Palestinian studies Click on the hyperlink to view the record on the Library catalogue. E-books will only be accessible to SOAS staff and students Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations The SBL handbook of style: for biblical studies and

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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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2503, 2014

Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft: open-access content

By Mary Fisk|March 25, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology|0 comments

The Eberhard Karls Universitat Tubingen has made the first 100 volumes of the eminent Mitteilingen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft (MDOG) from 1898 to 1968 available on open-access. The journal contains reports from the excavations carried out by the German Archaeological Society (DOG) in the Ancient Near Eastern region, along with philological, historical, religious and cultural studies Click here to go to the University’s website and link to the journal

0702, 2014

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – December 2013 and January 2014

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

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Cyrus the Great: an ancient Iranian king / edited by Touraj Daryaee  “Thus speaks Ishtar of Arbela”: prophecy in Israel, Assyria, and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian period / edited by Robert P. Gordon and Hans M. Barstad. Models of Mesopotamian landscapes: how small-scale processes contributed to the growth of early civilizations / edited by T.J. Wilkinson, McGuire Gibson and Magnus Widell  Literature as politics, politics as

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0512, 2013

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 5, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Approaching rituals in ancient cultures: Questioni di Rito: Rituali come Fonte di Conoscenza delle Religioni e delle Concezioni del Mondo nelle Culture Antiche, proceedings of the conference, November 28-30, 2011, Roma / edited by Claus Ambos and Lorenzo Verderame.  Frühe Götterdarstellungen in Mesopotamien / Eva Andrea Braun-Holzinger Die Wahrsagekunst im Alten Orient : Zeichen des Himmels und der Erde / Stefan M. Maul Etudes Ougaritiques III

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1104, 2013

Open-access books from the British Institute for the Study of Iraq

By Mary Fisk|April 11, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology|0 comments

Apkallu, a winged genius with the head of a bird, from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Nimrud. Image from Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apkallu_Nimrud.JPG As a precursor to making all of its new publications available for free download, the British Institute for the Study of Iraq (BISI) has released a selected of volumes from its back catalogue on open-access (PDF download) These currently are: Series: Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud (click here to access the

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