This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library in the field of Ancient Near Eastern studies, Semitics and Judaica during April and May 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
This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library in the field of Ancient Near Eastern studies, Semitics and Judaica during November 2017. 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 to SOAS
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
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,
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
Coordinated by Bar-Ilan University, the Responsa Project is the world’s largest online collection of Torah literature “The database includes the Bible and its principal commentaries, the Talmud Bavli and Talmud Yerushalmi with commentaries, Midrash, Zohar, Halachic Law (Rambam, Shulchan Aruch with commentaries), a large Responsa collection of questions and answers (‘Shut’ in Hebrew), the Talmudic Encyclopedia etc.” Go to http://responsa.co.il/ from any computer on campus to explore the database &
Shoshannat Yaaqov : Jewish and Iranian studies in honor of Yaakov Elman / edited by Shai Secunda and Steven Fine The power of oratory in the medieval Muslim world / Linda G. Jones Hattha-Yoga : its context, theory, and practice / Mikel Burley ; with a foreword by David Frawley (isbn 9788120817067) Animals in the Qur’an / Sarra Tlili. Animism in rainforest and tundra: personhood, animals, plants and things in
