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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Religions – May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 30, 2013|Religions|0 comments

E-books Encyclopedia of Hinduism / edited by Denise Cush, Catherine Robinson, Michael York. Books The logic of law-making in Islam: women and prayer in the legal tradition / Behnam Sadeghi. Receptacle of the sacred: illustrated manuscripts and the Buddhist book cult in South Asia / Jinah Kim. Not quite shamans: spirit worlds and political lives in northern Mongolia / Morten Axel Pedersen. Inquisition in early Islam: the competition for political

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – March 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 8, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Sacred killing: the archaeology of sacrifice in the ancient Near East / edited by Anne M. Porter and Glenn M. Schwartz Temple building and temple cult:  architecture and cultic paraphernalia of temples in the Levant (2.-1. Mill. B.C.E.) : Proceedings of a conference on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Institute of Biblical Archaeology at the University of Tübingen (28th – 30th of May

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Religions – August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 5, 2012|Religions|0 comments

e-books e-books are available to SOAS staff and students only, on or off-campus. Sinister yogis / David Gordon White – ebrary The origins of yoga and tantra : Indic religions to the thirteenth century / Geoffrey Samuel – Dawsonera Yoga body: the origins of modern posture practice / Mark Singleton – Dawsonera Introducing world Christianity / edited by Charles E. Farhadian – Dawsonera Endings: a sociology of death and dying / Michael C. Kearl. – Dawsonera

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 5, 2012|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations The Ugaritic texts and the origins of West-Semitic literary composition / by Dennis Pardee Picturing the past: imaging and imagining the ancient Middle East / edited by Jack Green, Emily Teeter and John A. Larson Hammurabi of Babylon / Dominique Charpin Methoden zur Restaurierung von ungebrannten und gebrannten Keilschrifttafeln : gestern und heute / Carmen Gütschow Disaster and relief management = Katastrophen und ihre Bewältigung /

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Religions – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 4, 2012|Religions|0 comments

e-Journals Journal of Religion in Japan Vol.1 (2012) onwards [Available to all users on-campus, and SOAS Students/Staff off-campus] Journal of Hindu Studies. Volume 1 (2008) onwards. [Available to all users on-campus, and SOAS Students/Staff off-campus] Books The Almohad revolution: politics and religion in the Islamic West during the twelfth-thirteenth centuries / Maribel Fierro Buddhist funeral cultures of Southeast Asia and China / edited by Paul Williams and Patrice Ladwig. Citizens

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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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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 29, 2012|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

The Mufti of Jerusalem and the Nazis : the Berlin years / Klaus Gensicke ; translated by Alexander Fraser Gunn. The origins of Israeli mythology : neither Canaanites nor crusaders / David Ohana ; translated by David Maisel. Walking Palestine : 25 journeys into the West Bank / by Stefan Szepesi. Babylonian prayers to Marduk / Takayoshi Oshima The Ahhiyawa texts / by Gary M. Beckman, Trevor Bryce, Eric H.

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