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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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – October 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 13, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

e-books Violence, nonviolence, and the Palestinian national movement / Wendy Pearlman. [e-book via Cambridge Books Online] Struggle and survival in Palestine/Israel / edited by Mark LeVine and Gershon Shafir. [e-book via ebrary] Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations De Hattusa à Memphis: Jacques Freu in honorem / Michel Mazoyer. Les religieuses et le culte de Marduk dans le royaume de Babylone / Lucile Barberon. Neo-Babylonian documents from Sippar pertaining to the cult

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 29, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Perché il male? : il problema della Mesopotamia antica / Claudio Saporetti ; con un contributo bibliografico di Giovanna Matini. Wissenskultur im Alten Orient Weltanschauung, Wissenschaften, Techniken, Technologien : 4. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 20.-22. Februar 2002, Münster Im Auftrag des Vorstands der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft / unter Mitarbeit von Susanne Paulus [and] Hans Neumann. A manual of Hurrian / by Arnaud Fournet. La collezione orientale

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Religions – January 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 29, 2013|Religions|0 comments

Les vivants et leurs morts : actes du colloque organisé par le Collège de France, Paris, les 14-15 avril 2010 / éd. par Jean-Marie Durand, Thomas Römer et Jürg Hutzli. Christian origins and Hellenistic Judaism: social and literary contexts for the New Testament / edited by Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts.  Conversion and narrative: reading and religious authority in Medieval polemic / Ryan Szpiech. Vie et spiritualité des

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – January 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 29, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Les vivants et leurs morts : actes du colloque organisé par le Collège de France, Paris, les 14-15 avril 2010 / éd. par Jean-Marie Durand, Thomas Römer et Jürg Hutzli. Tracing the earliest recorded concepts of international law: the ancient Near East (2500-330 BCE) / by Amnon Altman. Byzantium Road to Manzikert : Byzantine and Islamic warfare, 527-1071 / Brian Todd Carey. Jewish Studies The Miriam

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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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