Religions – December 2013 and January 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 3, 2014|Religions|0 comments

General & Comparative Bible and cinema: an introduction / Adele Reinhartz. Thin description: ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem / John L. Jackson, Jr. First light: a history of creation myths from Gilgamesh to the God particle / G.R. Evans.  Anatheism: returning to God after God / Richard Kearney. The dynamics of coexistence in the Middle East: negotiating boundaries between Christians, Muslims, Jews and Samaritans in Palestine /

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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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Art and Archaeology – June to August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 17, 2012|Art and Archaeology|0 comments

Cross-disciplinary perspectives on a contested Buddhist site : Bodhgaya jataka / [edited by] David Geary, Matthew R. Sayers, Abhishek Singh Amar. Orchha and beyond : design at the court of Raja Bir Singh Dev Bundela / Edward Leland Rothfarb. The Mucukunda murals in the Tyāgarājasvāmi temple, Tiruvārūr / V.K. Rajamani and David Shulman. The poetry of sculpture / Wu Weishan. Museums and biographies : stories, objects, identities / edited by

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Art and Archaeology – June 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 9, 2012|Art and Archaeology|0 comments

1982 / Simon Fujiwara edited by Miguel Amado. Departure from the homeland : Indo-Europeans and archaeology / edited by Marc Vander Linden, Karlene Jones-Bley. Tradition and change : contemporary art of Asia and the Pacific / edited by Caroline Turner. Utsukushiki Ajia no tamatebako : Shiatoru Bijutsukan shozō Nihon Tōyō bijutsu meihinten / Kawai Masatomo, Nishioka Yasuhiro, Shirahara Yukiko henshū.;美しきアジアの玉手箱 : シアトル美術館所蔵日本東洋美術名品展 / 河合正朝  UNESCO/Japanese Funds-in-Trust project : preservation of

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