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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Religions – September 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|October 15, 2014|Religions|0 comments

General and comparative The religious philosophy of Simone Weil: an introduction / Lissa McCullough. Religion and change in modern Britain / edited by Linda Woodhead and Rebecca Catto. Visualizing secularism and religion: Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, India / Alev Cinar, Srirupa Roy, and Maha Yahya, editors. Christianity Christian responses to Islam in Nigeria: a contextual study of ambivalent encounters / Akintunde E. Akinade.  Buddhism Buddhism, Unitarianism, and the Meiji competition for

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