0211, 2015

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – September and October 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 2, 2015|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Preludes to urbanism: the Late Chalcolithic of Mesopotamia / edited by Augusta McMahon, Harriet Crawford – Der Garten in neusumerischer Zeit / Karen Focke – Garden administration in the Girsu province during the Neo-Sumerian period / Angela Greco – History of ancient Israel, archaeology, and Bible collected essays = Geschichte Israels, Archäologie und Bibel : gesammelte Aufsätze / Hermann Michael Niemann ; herausgegeben von Meik Gerhards

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0708, 2015

Religions – June and July 2015

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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:

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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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1004, 2015

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – March 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 10, 2015|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations A city from the dawn of history: Erbil in the cuneiform sources / by John MacGinnis. Présence et pouvoir hittites à Ougarit : le cas des DUMU.LUGAL / Charlotte Lebrun. Documents of Judean exiles and West Semites in Babylonia in the collection of David Sofer / by Laurie E. Pearce and Cornelia Wunsch. Life, death, and coming of age in Antiquity: individual rites of passage in

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2703, 2015

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – February 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 27, 2015|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Engraved on stone: Mesopotamian cylinder seals and seal inscriptions in the old Babylonian period / by Rony Feingold. – Nineveh and its remains: the gripping journals of the man who discovered the buried Assyrian cities / Austen Henry Layard. [reprint of work originally published in 1849] Remembering the dead in the ancient Near East: recent contributions from bioarchaeology and mortuary archaeology / [edited by] Benjamin W.

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2002, 2015

Ancient Near East, Semitics And Judaica – December 2014 and January 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|February 20, 2015|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Poetic heroes: literary commemorations of warriors and warrior culture in the early Biblical world / Mark S. Smith. Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Hittitology : Warsaw, 5-9 September 2011 / edited by Piotr Taracha with the assistance of Magdalena Kepelus. Entre les fleuves – II : D’Assur à Mari et au-delà / [edited by] Nele Ziegler and Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum The sacrificial economy: assessors, contractors,

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1311, 2013

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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3107, 2013

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – July 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 31, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern civilizations Excavations at Tel Beth-Shean, 1989-1996 (Vol. 3 & Vol.4) Ebla and its landscape / edited by Paolo Malthiae & Nicolò Marchetti  Aspetti del sistema preposizionale dell’eblaita / Maria Vittoria Tonietti. The world of the Neo-Hittite kingdoms: a political and military history / Trevor Bryce. Linguistics studies in Phoenician: in memory of J. Brian Peckham / edited by Robert D. Holmstedt and Aaron Schade. The elements of

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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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0403, 2013

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – February 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 4, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Predicting the past in the ancient Near East: mantic historiography in ancient Mesopotamia, Judah, and the Mediterranean world / by Matthew Neujahr. Associated regional chronologies for the ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean. Vol. 2: the chronology of the island of Cyprus in the third millenium BC. (ARCANE 2) / [edited by] Edgar Peltenburg. Les texts des saisons 5 à 9 (Terqa Final Reports 2)

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