0608, 2015

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – June and July 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 6, 2015|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Altbabylonisches Lehrbuch [2nd edition] / Michael P. Streck The witchcraft series Maqlû / by Tzvi Abusch The gods rich in praise: early Greek and Mesopotamian religious poetry / Christopher Metcalf Following the Man of Yamhad: settlement and territory at Old Babylonian Alalah / by Jacob Lauinger Ancient Assyria: a very short introduction / Karen Radner Incantation and anti-witchcraft texts from Ugarit / Gregorio del Olmo Lete

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2002, 2015

Ancient Near East, Semitics And Judaica – December 2014 and January 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|February 20, 2015|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Poetic heroes: literary commemorations of warriors and warrior culture in the early Biblical world / Mark S. Smith. Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Hittitology : Warsaw, 5-9 September 2011 / edited by Piotr Taracha with the assistance of Magdalena Kepelus. Entre les fleuves – II : D’Assur à Mari et au-delà / [edited by] Nele Ziegler and Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum The sacrificial economy: assessors, contractors,

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0209, 2014

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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0707, 2014

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – June 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 7, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations La tour de Babylone : Etudes et recherches sur les monuments de Babylone / Béatrice André-Salvini (dir.) Apprendre le hourrite / Arnaud Fournet Interpretations of Sinuhe : inspired by two passages (proceedings of a workshop held at Leiden University, 27-29 November 2009) / ed. by Harold M. Hays, Frank Federer and Ludwig D. Morenz. Personal names in ancient Anatolia / edited by Robert Parker. Comment devient-on

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2402, 2014

Free Webinar on researching Propaganda at the British Library (12th March 2014)

By Mary Fisk|February 24, 2014|Archival collections, History, Politics and International Relations|0 comments

[this posting is forwarded from LIS-HISTORYRESEARCHLIBS@jiscmail.ac.uk] In Summer 2013 we [The British Library] hosted an exhibition, ‘Propaganda: Power and Persuasion‘, examining the communication of power, and attempts to persuade, through the use of visually striking material and the objects of everyday life. Examples of these can be found across the Library’s collections, and this webinar will describe the types of material that we used, how we used the Library to research

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1209, 2013

Archive of Indian Music- gramaphone recordings come alive!

By Farzana Whitfield|September 12, 2013|Music, Media and Film Studies, South Asia|0 comments

Image taken from: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/655660 Archive of Indian Music (AIM) is a repository of gramaphone recordings of India. AIM seeks to digitise and preserve for posterity the valuable slices of India’s cultural history and musical heritage. The Archive is a custodian of these treasures and makes these available to all. Listen to some of the best voices and the most divine instruments of this country cutting across various genres- Hindustani classical,

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0309, 2013

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – August 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 3, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

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

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1106, 2013

Films and Sound Recordings – March to April 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 11, 2013|Films and Sound Recordings|0 comments

Sound recordings Afrique, une histoire sonore : 1960-2000. Les chants du grelot et de l’arc Welcome to Mali / Amadou & Mariam. Khalifa Ould Eide and Dimi Mint Abba : Moorish music from Mauritania Rhythms of the Nile / Hossam Ramzy. Music in North India : experiencing music, expressing culture / George E. Ruckert. Traveller / Anoushka Shankar. The living room sessions, part 1 / Ravi Shankar. Chine : Musique

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0510, 2012

Films and Sound Recordings – August and September 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|October 5, 2012|Films and Sound Recordings|0 comments

Films Vietnam: American Holocaust / Narrated by Martin Sheen Blind pig who wants to fly / een film van Edwin. Le cinéma de Rithy Panh Boys on film 6 : Pacific rim. Lirʻot ʼim ʼani mehạyekhet = To see if I’m smiling / First Hand Films ; Noga Communications ; director and producer, Tamar Yarom. Song of Umm Dalaila : the story of the Sahrawis / Dakkuma Productions produced and

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0208, 2012

Films and Sound Recordings – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 2, 2012|Films and Sound Recordings|0 comments

Films Divine intervention [videorecording] : a chronicle of love and pain / a film by Elia Suleiman starring Elia Suleiman, Manal Khader, Nayef Fahoum Daher, Amer Daher, Jamel Daher, George Ibrahim … Cry, the beloved country Disgrace / Film Finance Corporation Australia presents in association with Newbridge Film Capital … [et al.] a Wild Strawberries/Sherman Pictures production a Steve Jacobs film director, Steve Jacobs writer, Anna-Maria Monticelli producer, Anna-Maria Monticelli,

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