0112, 2016

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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2701, 2015

Reviews of four recently acquired books in SOAS Library

By Mary Fisk|January 27, 2015|Africa, Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, History, Religions|0 comments

Review of Biblical Literature Postcolonial perspectives in African biblical interpretations / edited by Musa W. Dube, Andrew M. Mbuvi, and Dora R. Mbuwayesango (Society of Biblical Literature, 2012) – U220 /742744 (“well-written, … and useful to both teachers and students of biblical studies interested in postcolonial approaches.) Cursed are you!: the phenomenology of cursing in cuneiform and Hebrew texts / Anne Marie Kitz (Eisenbrauns, 2014) QC133.44 /758375 (“ambitious and meticulously executed

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1408, 2013

Round-up of recent web resources on Byzantium

By Mary Fisk|August 14, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology, Gender, History, Literature, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Religions|0 comments

Siege of Constantinople (1453) from a manuscript in the Bibliotheque Nationale (France) (image from: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Constantinople_1453.jpg ; [this file is in the {PD-US} domain in the United States] Portail des resssources Byzantines (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland) The public part of this portal includes Project Typika (a database of terms relating to artifacts and raw materials mentioned in Byzantine documents), an interactive guide to web resources on Byzantium and a traditional bibliography Dumbarton Oaks Resources

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0804, 2013

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – March 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 8, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Sacred killing: the archaeology of sacrifice in the ancient Near East / edited by Anne M. Porter and Glenn M. Schwartz Temple building and temple cult:  architecture and cultic paraphernalia of temples in the Levant (2.-1. Mill. B.C.E.) : Proceedings of a conference on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Institute of Biblical Archaeology at the University of Tübingen (28th – 30th of May

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3001, 2013

Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit online

By Mary Fisk|January 30, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology, History, Religions|0 comments

This is a digital index to  Die Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit (PbmZ) currently being complied by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy with the aim of documenting the lives of individuals active in the Byzantine World. Part 1 (641-867 AD) is now completely indexed and searchable (some 11,500 articles) Although copyright restrictions mean the full-text cannot be viewed, you can see an opening extract and obtain the page references for the print volume. Part 2

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0509, 2012

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 5, 2012|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

 Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Pilgrimage and household in the ancient near East / Joy McCorriston “With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains”: historical and literary studies on ancient Mesopotamia and Israel / Hayim Tadmor ; edited by Mordechai Cogan Stories from ancient Canaan / edited and translated by Michael D. Coogan and Mark S. Smith The monuments of Syria: a guide / Ross Burns

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0509, 2012

Religions – August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 5, 2012|Religions|0 comments

e-books e-books are available to SOAS staff and students only, on or off-campus. Sinister yogis / David Gordon White – ebrary The origins of yoga and tantra : Indic religions to the thirteenth century / Geoffrey Samuel – Dawsonera Yoga body: the origins of modern posture practice / Mark Singleton – Dawsonera Introducing world Christianity / edited by Charles E. Farhadian – Dawsonera Endings: a sociology of death and dying / Michael C. Kearl. – Dawsonera

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0508, 2012

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 5, 2012|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations The Ugaritic texts and the origins of West-Semitic literary composition / by Dennis Pardee Picturing the past: imaging and imagining the ancient Middle East / edited by Jack Green, Emily Teeter and John A. Larson Hammurabi of Babylon / Dominique Charpin Methoden zur Restaurierung von ungebrannten und gebrannten Keilschrifttafeln : gestern und heute / Carmen Gütschow Disaster and relief management = Katastrophen und ihre Bewältigung /

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0907, 2012

Art and Archaeology – June 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 9, 2012|Art and Archaeology|0 comments

1982 / Simon Fujiwara edited by Miguel Amado. Departure from the homeland : Indo-Europeans and archaeology / edited by Marc Vander Linden, Karlene Jones-Bley. Tradition and change : contemporary art of Asia and the Pacific / edited by Caroline Turner. Utsukushiki Ajia no tamatebako : Shiatoru Bijutsukan shozō Nihon Tōyō bijutsu meihinten / Kawai Masatomo, Nishioka Yasuhiro, Shirahara Yukiko henshū.;美しきアジアの玉手箱 : シアトル美術館所蔵日本東洋美術名品展 / 河合正朝  UNESCO/Japanese Funds-in-Trust project : preservation of

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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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