This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library in the field of Ancient Near Eastern studies, Semitics and Judaica during June & July 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
Comparative and thematic Shamanism, discourse, modernity / by Thomas Karl Alberts Religion, emergence, and the origins of meaning: beyond Durkheim and Rappaport / by Paul Cassell Dialogue in early South Asian religions: Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions / edited by Brian Black and Laurie Patton. Mindscaping the landscape of Tibet: place, memorability, ecoaesthetics / Dan Smyer Yü. Buddhism Buddhist attitudes to other religions / edited by Perry Schmidt-Leukel. Living karma:
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Altbabylonisches Lehrbuch [2nd edition] / Michael P. Streck The witchcraft series Maqlû / by Tzvi Abusch The gods rich in praise: early Greek and Mesopotamian religious poetry / Christopher Metcalf Following the Man of Yamhad: settlement and territory at Old Babylonian Alalah / by Jacob Lauinger Ancient Assyria: a very short introduction / Karen Radner Incantation and anti-witchcraft texts from Ugarit / Gregorio del Olmo Lete
Comparative & Thematic The Oxford handbook of religion and the arts / edited by Frank Burch Brown. Buddhism From birch bark to digital data: recent advances in Buddhist manuscript research: papers presented at the Conference Indic Buddhist Manuscripts: the state of the field, Stanford, June 15-19 2009 / edited by Paul Harrison and Jens-Uwe Hartmann. The Buddhist schools of the Small Vehicle / André Bareau ; translated from the French
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Les écritures mises au jour sur le site antique d’Ougarit (Syrie) et leur déchiffrement : 1930-2010 Commémoration du 80e anniversaire du déchiffrement de l’alphabet cunéiforme de Ras Shamra-Ougarit : Colloque international tenu au Collège de France, le jeudi 2 décembre 2010, et à l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, le vendredi 3 décembre 2010 / actes édités par Pierre Bordreuil, Françoise Ernst-Pradal, Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault, … [et
General & Comparative Bible and cinema: an introduction / Adele Reinhartz. Thin description: ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem / John L. Jackson, Jr. First light: a history of creation myths from Gilgamesh to the God particle / G.R. Evans. Anatheism: returning to God after God / Richard Kearney. The dynamics of coexistence in the Middle East: negotiating boundaries between Christians, Muslims, Jews and Samaritans in Palestine /
