Ancient Jew Review (follow on Twitter at @ancientjew) is a web platform for the study of ancient Judaism containing “original pieces, surveys of the field, book reviews” and video content. It is edited by PhD students at Columbia and Yale Recent content includes Ayyssa Gray’s retrospective on her first book A Talmud in exile and a podcast interview with Dr Richard Kalmin of the Jewish Theological Seminary on his recently published
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Sole della Mesopotamia: considerazioni incomplete / Claudio Saporetti 4th century Karia : defining a Karian identity under the Hekatomnids / edited by Olivier Henry. Beyond hearth and home: women in the public sphere in neo-Assyrian society / by Sherry Lou Macgregor. The Cyrus cylinder and ancient Persia : a new beginning for the Middle East / John Curtis ; with an introductory essay by Neil MacGregor
Shani Boianjiu was born in Jerusalem twenty-five years ago, and grew up in a village near the Lebanese border. She later studied at Harvard. Her debut novel, The people of forever are not afraid, which chronicles the experiences of three teenage Israeli girls through their high school years, military service and on into civilian life, was published in English at the end of 2012. In the following interview (given to the online magazine Tablet in December 2012),
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations The Sumerian poem Enmerkar and En-suhkes-ana: epic, play, stage craft at the turn from the third to the second millennium B.C., with a score-edition and a translation of the text / by Claus Wilcke Mangiare divinamente : pratiche e simbologie alimentari nell’antico Oriente / a cura di Lucio Milano. Altorientalische Studien zu Ehren von Pascal Attinger : mu-ni u4 ul-li2-a-as ga2-ga2-de3 / herausgegeben von Catherine Mittermayer
