1410, 2014

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – September 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|October 14, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Tribe and state: the dynamics of international politics and the reign of Zimri-Lim / by Adam E. Miglio. “Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Netherworld” and the Sumerian Gilgamesh cycle / by Alhena Gadotti. Karkemish : an ancient capital on the Euphrates / edited by Nicolò Marchetti Sourcebook for ancient Mesopotamian medicine / by JoAnn Scurlock. Byzantium From Byzantine to Islamic Egypt: religion, identity and politics after the

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1209, 2014

The Ancient World in an age of globalization / ed. Geller (open-access e-book)

By Mary Fisk|September 12, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, History, Linguistics, Literature, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, South Asia|0 comments

Published as the latest volume in the Melammu series by the Freie Universität Berlin, The Ancient World in an age of globalization (edited by Markham J. Geller) looks at ancient societies from Greece to India, with articles on Phrygia and Armenia, and texts  from ancient Israel, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. “The globalization described in this volume extends over language barriers and literatures, showing how texts as well as goods can travel between societies and regions. This collection

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1003, 2014

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – February 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 10, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Critical approaches to ancient Near Eastern art / edited by Brian A. Brown and Marian H. Feldman. Exploring the narrative: Jerusalem and Jordan in the Bronze and Iron Ages / edited by Eveline van der Steen, Jeanette Boertien, Noor Mulder-Hymans. Ancient Iran and its neighbours: local developments and long-range interactions in the fourth millennium BC / edited by Cameron A. Petrie. L’economia dell’antica Mesopotamia (III-I millennio

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0702, 2014

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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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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2311, 2012

New open-access titles from the Oriental Institute (University of Chicago)

By Mary Fisk|November 23, 2012|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Linguistics, Literature|0 comments

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago has released the following open-access monographs on ancient Near Eastern languages, literatures and cuneiform studies. These titles complete the Assyriological Studies series AS 24. The Hittite Instruction for the Royal Bodyguard. H. G. Güterbock and Theo van den Hout. 1991 http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/as/as24.html AS 21. Computer-Aided Analyses of Amorite. I. J. Gelb. 1980 http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/as/as21.html AS 19. The Akkadian Influence on Aramaic. S. Kaufman. 1974

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2507, 2012

Gilgamesh among us: Book review

By Mary Fisk|July 25, 2012|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Literature, Music, Media and Film Studies|0 comments

Professor Andrew George has reviewed Theodore Ziolkowski’s recent study Gilgamesh among us: modern encounters with the ancient epic (Cornell University Press, 2012) The book looks at “the cultural history of the reception of Gilgamesh in modern times, especially its popular reception and its impact on literature, art and music” To read the full review, go to the Institute of Historical Research’s Reviews in History  SOAS Library has a copy at QED892.1

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