2910, 2018

New acquisitions in SOAS Library, August – October 2018: Philosophy

By Mary Fisk|October 29, 2018|Philosophy|

This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the Philosophy collections between  August and October 2018. Click on the hyperlink to go through to the item entry on the SOAS Library catalogue Please note that E-book content is accessible to SOAS staff and students only, with institutional log-in  Comparative and thematic Wittgenstein, religion, and ethics: new perspectives from philosophy and theology / edited by Mikel Burley. –

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1712, 2015

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – November 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 17, 2015|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Mittelassyrische Urkunden aus dem Archiv Assur 14446 / Hervé Reculeau und Barbara Feller Philosophy before the Greeks: the pursuit of truth in ancient Babylonia / Marc Van De Mieroop Mesopotamian divination texts: conversing with the gods sources from the first millennium BCE / Ulla Susanne Koch Gods, kings, and merchants in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia / Dominique Charpin Byzantium Byzantium/modernism: the Byzantine as method in modernity /

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0608, 2015

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – June and July 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 6, 2015|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

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

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3103, 2015

Religions – February 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 31, 2015|Religions|0 comments

Comparative and thematic studies Death and the Afterlife / edited by Jacob Neusner.  – Cannibal metaphysics: for a post-structural anthropology / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro   translated and edited by Peter Skafish – The postsocialist religious question: faith and power in Central Asia and East-Central Europe / Chris Hann and the Civil Religion Group – The hip hop and religion reader / edited by Monica R. Miller and Anthony B. Pinn

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0209, 2014

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – August 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 2, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Divination in the Ancient Near East: a workshop on divination conducted during the 54th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Wurzburg, 2008 / edited by Jeanette C. Fincke Divination, politics, and ancient Near Eastern empires / edited by Alan Lenzi and Jonathan Støkl. Sacred ritual: a study of the West Semitic ritual calendars in Leviticus 23 and the Akkadian text Emar 446 / Bryan C. Babcock. Incantation and anti-witchcraft

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0512, 2013

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 5, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Approaching rituals in ancient cultures: Questioni di Rito: Rituali come Fonte di Conoscenza delle Religioni e delle Concezioni del Mondo nelle Culture Antiche, proceedings of the conference, November 28-30, 2011, Roma / edited by Claus Ambos and Lorenzo Verderame.  Frühe Götterdarstellungen in Mesopotamien / Eva Andrea Braun-Holzinger Die Wahrsagekunst im Alten Orient : Zeichen des Himmels und der Erde / Stefan M. Maul Etudes Ougaritiques III

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0207, 2013

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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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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