History – April 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 9, 2014|History|0 comments

Comparative & Thematic Thinking, recording, and writing history in the ancient world / edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub. Activating the past: history and memory in the Black Atlantic world / ed. by Andrew Apter and Lauren Derby. The Cambridge history of capitalism / edited by Larry Neal and Jeffrey G. Williamson. The monks of Kublai Khan, emperor of China: medieval travels from China through Central Asia to Persia and the

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – April 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 8, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations State correspondence from the New Kingdom to the Roman Empire: the role of long-distance communication in the cohesion of early empires / edited by Karen Radner. Hittites: an Anatolian Empire / Metin Alparslan, Meltem Alparslan-Dogan (eds.) = Hititler : bir Anadolu imparatorlugu / Metin Alparslan, Meltem Alparslan-Dogan (eds.) Götterwort in Menschenmund : Studien zur Prophetie in Assyrien, Israel und Juda / Manfred Weippert. Neo-Babylonian trial records

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Cambridge Digital Library : 25,000 faith-related images recently released

By Mary Fisk|January 21, 2013|Religions|0 comments

Past Horizons, the archaeology website, describes and illustrates the latest batch of releases on the Cambridge Digital Library. These latest releases include some 25,000 images focusing on important texts from Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Jainism and HInduism Click here to read the Past Horizons feature with links to a selection of key documents, including the 2,000 year old copy of the Ten Commandments on the Nash Papyrus, the 4th / 5th century Gospels

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – December 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 3, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern civilizations A Sumerian chrestomathy / Konrad Volk, with the collaboration of Silvano Votto and Jessica Baldwin Hebrew studies Seride teshuvot : a descriptive catalogue of responsa fragments from the Jacques Mosseri collection, Cambridge University Library / by Shmuel Glick ; with Dotan Arad … [et al.] Jewish studies The lawgiver / by Herman Wouk Jewish identity and politics between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba : groups, normativity,

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