Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – May 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 4, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

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

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History – February 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 6, 2014|History|0 comments

General & Comparative A cultural history of the human body / [general editors, Linda Kalof and William Bynum]. The encyclopedia of global human migration / edited by Immanuel Ness. Africa Orán-Mazalquivir, 1589-1639: una sociedad española en la frontera de Berbería / Beatriz Alonso Acero.  Where the Negroes are masters: an African port in the era of the slave trade / Randy J. Sparks. The ancient Red Sea port of Adulis

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Religions – December 2013 and January 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 3, 2014|Religions|0 comments

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 /

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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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History – November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 6, 2013|History|0 comments

Macau: the formation of a global city / edited by C.X. George Wei. Cisneros y la conquista española del norte de África : cruzada, política y arte de la guerra / Beatriz Alonso Acero. Research methods for history / edited by Simon Gunn and Lucy Faire. [also available as an e-book from ebrary] From reliable sources: an introduction to historical methods / Martha Howell and Walter Prevenier. Women shall not

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History – October 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 14, 2013|History|0 comments

Cultural encounters during the Crusades / edited by Kurt Villads Jensen, Kirsi Salonen, Helle Vogt. Monarchy and modernity in Egypt: politics, Islam and neo-colonialism between the wars / James Whidden.  The military collapse of China’s Ming Dynasty, 1618-44 / by Kenneth M. Swope.   Not even my name: from a death march in Turkey to a new home in America, a young girl’s true story of genocide and survival /

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – September 2013

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

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Tempel im Alten Orient : 7. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, 11.-13. Oktober 2009, München Im Auftrag der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft / herausgegeben von Kai Kaniuth, Anne Löhnert, Jared L. Miller, Adelheid Otto, Michael Roaf und Walther Sallaberger. Siedlungsgeschichte im mittleren Osttigrisgebiet : vom Neolithikum bis in die neuassyrische Zeit / Simone Mühl. The World of Berossos : Proceedings of the 4th International Colloquium on “The Ancient

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – August 2013

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

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Sole della Mesopotamia: considerazioni incomplete / Claudio Saporetti 4th century Karia : defining a Karian identity under the Hekatomnids / edited by Olivier Henry. Beyond hearth and home: women in the public sphere in neo-Assyrian society / by Sherry Lou Macgregor. The Cyrus cylinder and ancient Persia : a new beginning for the Middle East / John Curtis ; with an introductory essay by Neil MacGregor

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – June 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 2, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Iron Age hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions / by Annick Payne. Administrative Ur III texts in the British Museum / Marcel Sigrist, Tohru Ozaki  The photographs of the American Palestine Exploration Society / [compiled] by Rachel Hallote, Felicity Cobbing, and Jeffrey B. Spurr. Beyond Hatti : a tribute to Gary Beckman / edited by Billie Jean Collins and Piotr Michalowski. A glossary of Hurrian and Kassite / Arnaud

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Religions – June 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 1, 2013|Religions|0 comments

The Cambridge history of religions in the ancient world / general editor, Michele Renee Salzman Islam and political-cultural Europe / edited by W. Cole Durham Jr, David M. Kirkham, Tore Lindholm. The mediatization of religion: when faith rocks / by Luis Mauro Sa Martino. Passing the light: the Incense Light community and Buddhist nuns in contemporary Taiwan / Chün-fang Yü. Son of man: an African Jesus film / edited by

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