Comparative Mythology (new open-access e-journal)

By Mary Fisk|May 8, 2015|Anthropology and Sociology, Religions|0 comments

Comparative Mythology is a new open-access e-journal published by the International Association of Comparative Mythology (based at the Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University) . Its aim is to  deal ” in comparative fashion, with the mythologies of all peoples and times.” Click here to read the inaugural issue for 2015  Contents: The Hero Who Releases the Waters and Defeats the Flood Dragon / Emily Lyle Cyavana Helps Ashvins,

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – August 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 2, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Divination in the Ancient Near East: a workshop on divination conducted during the 54th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Wurzburg, 2008 / edited by Jeanette C. Fincke Divination, politics, and ancient Near Eastern empires / edited by Alan Lenzi and Jonathan Støkl. Sacred ritual: a study of the West Semitic ritual calendars in Leviticus 23 and the Akkadian text Emar 446 / Bryan C. Babcock. Incantation and anti-witchcraft

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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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Religions – October 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 12, 2013|Religions|0 comments

e-books The genesis of the bodhisattva ideal / Anālayo ; [Center for Buddhist Studies, University of Hamburg].  [open-access e-book via University of Hamburg] The Palaeolithic origins of human burial / Paul Pettitt [e-book via ebrary] Introduction to the history of Indian Buddhism / by Eugène Burnouf; translated by Katia Buffetrille and Donald S. Lopez Jr. [e-book via ebrary] Books Les religieuses et le culte de Marduk dans le royaume de

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – November 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 4, 2012|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

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

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South East Asia – August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 18, 2012|South East Asia|0 comments

2010 International Seminar and Screening of Thai Cinema : proceedings, 16-18 April, 2010, Shanghai, China / [edited by Raksarn Wiwatsinudom … [et al.].]. A gentleman’s word : the legacy of Subhas Chandra Bose in Southeast Asia / Nilanjana Sengupta. An end to a war : a Japanese soldier’s experience of the 1945 death marches of North Borneo / written by Ueno Itsuyoshi, translated by Mika Reilly, edited by Richard W.

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