2910, 2018

New acquisitions in SOAS Library: Religions (August – October 2018)

By Mary Fisk|October 29, 2018|Africa, Ancient Near East Semitics & Judaica, China and Inner Asia, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, South Asia|

This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the Study of Religions 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 Seeking out the land: land of Israel traditions in ancient Jewish, Christian and Samaritan

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3103, 2017

Study of Religions: new acquisitions, February & March 2017

By Mary Fisk|March 31, 2017|China and Inner Asia, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Philosophy, Religions|0 comments

This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the Study of Religions collections during February and March 2017. 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 Materiality and the study of religion: the stuff of the sacred / edited by

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0511, 2015

Religions – September and October 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 5, 2015|Religions|

Comparative and thematic A noble death: suicide and martyrdom among Christians and Jews in antiquity / Arthur J. Droge, James D. Tabor. Bones: ancient men and modern myths / Lewis R. Binford ; with a foreword by F. Clark Howell The study of religion under the impact of fascism / edited by Horst Junginger Hermeneutics, politics, and the history of religions: the contested legacies of Joachim Wach and Mircea Eliade

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0708, 2015

History – June and July 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 7, 2015|History|0 comments

Comparative & Thematic The material of world history / edited by Tina Mai Chen and David S. Churchill The Oxford handbook of environmental history / edited by Andrew C. Isenberg The great sea: a human history of the Mediterranean [updated edition] / David Abulafia. Empire by treaty: negotiating European expansion, 1600-1900 / edited by Saliha Belmessous. The pursuit of history: aims, methods and new directions in the study of history

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1205, 2015

Religions – March 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 12, 2015|Religions|0 comments

Comparative and thematic Sharing sacred spaces in the Mediterranean: Christians, Muslims, and Jews at shrines and sanctuaries / edited by Dionigi Albera and Maria Couroucli. Heirs to forgotten kingdoms: journeys into the disappearing religions of the Middle East / Gerard Russell After secularism: rethinking religion in global politics / Erin K. Wilson (also available as an e-book) Buddhism Muktālatāvadānam of Ksẹmendra : Sanskrit text, Tibetan version with Hindi, English translations

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0505, 2015

Recent Acquisitions to SOAS Library reviewed

By Mary Fisk|May 5, 2015|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Gender, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Music, Media and Film Studies, Religions|0 comments

The following books have all been recently acquired by SOAS Library either in print or as e-books. Slandering the Jew: sexuality and difference in early Christian texts / Susanna Drake. [e-book only, via ebrary] – reviewed by Gail Labovitz on H-Net (who states that there is “much to be learnt” from this study on gender, sexuality and stereotypes of Jews within early Christian writings) Ancient Syria : a three thousand year

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0512, 2014

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – October 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 5, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations The ark before Noah: decoding the story of the flood / Irving Finkel. Legend, history and the ancient city: Babylon / Michael Seymour. Die babylonischen Kudurru-Inschriften von der kassitischen bis zur frühneubabylonischen Zeit : untersucht unter besonderer Berücksichtigung gesellschafts- und rechtshistorischer Fragestellungen / Susanne Paulus.  Le droit de la vente a Emar / Lena Fijalkowska.  Orient und Okzident in hellenistischer Zeit : Beiträge zur Tagung “Orient

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1510, 2014

Religions – September 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|October 15, 2014|Religions|0 comments

General and comparative The religious philosophy of Simone Weil: an introduction / Lissa McCullough. Religion and change in modern Britain / edited by Linda Woodhead and Rebecca Catto. Visualizing secularism and religion: Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, India / Alev Cinar, Srirupa Roy, and Maha Yahya, editors. Christianity Christian responses to Islam in Nigeria: a contextual study of ambivalent encounters / Akintunde E. Akinade.  Buddhism Buddhism, Unitarianism, and the Meiji competition for

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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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2008, 2014

History – July 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 20, 2014|History|0 comments

General & comparative Visualizing knowledge and creating meaning in ancient writing systems / edited by Shai Gordin State, faith, and nation in Ottoman and post-Ottoman lands / Frederick F. Anscombe Africa Contesting Caprivi: a history of colonial isolation and regional nationalism in Namibia Africa (4th edn) / edited by Maria Grosz-Ngaté, John H. Hanson, and Patrick O’Meara Dead was everything / Keith Smith The death penalty in Africa: foundations and

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