New Acquisitions in SOAS Library, August – October 2018: Ancient Near East, Semitics & Judaica

By Mary Fisk|October 29, 2018|Ancient Near East Semitics & Judaica, Art and Archaeology, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Semitics & Judaica|

This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library in the field of Ancient Near Eastern studies, Semitics and Judaica between August and October 2018. Please note that this section of the Library also includes material on the history and politics of modern Israel / Palestine. Click on the hyperlink to go through to the item entry on the SOAS Library catalogue Please note that e-book content is accessible

Read More

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)

Read More

Vicino Oriente is back!

By Mary Fisk|January 24, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology, History|0 comments

(By Dbachmann at en.wikipedia [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ancient_Orient.png) The journal Vicino Oriente (published by the Oriental Studies Section of Rome “La Sapienza” University”) is back on open access – although you will have to download a whole issue rather than browse and view individual articles on screen. The open-access content is currently from Vol.8 (1989) to Vol.15 (2011). Vicino Oriente covers Near Eastern archaeology, history and epigraphy and also takes

Read More