Ancient Near Eastern studies book reviews
Two recent acquisitions by SOAS Library on ancient Near Eastern studies and comparative ancient Near Eastern literatures have been reviewed in the Society of Biblical Literature’s Review of Biblical Literature
- Poetic astronomy in the ancient Near East : the reflexes of celestial science in ancient Mesopotamian, Ugaritic, and Israelite narrative / Jeffrey L. Cooley. (Eisenbrauns, 2013) – reviewed by Stephen C. Russell of John Jay College (City University of New York) – which “offers a judicious and compelling reconstruction of the main avenues along which the celestial sciences developed in the ancient Near East and the reflexes of those sciences in a wide variety of ancient literature”
- Poetic astronomy can be found in SOAS Library at QB520.93 /979249 and is also available to SOAS staff and students as an e-book on the Ebrary platform
- All the boundaries of the land : the Promised Land in Biblical thought in light of the ancient Near East / Nili Wazana. (Eisenbrauns, 2013) – reviewed by Esias Meyer of the University of Pretoria, South Africa – although the book “did not attempt to engage with contemporary debates about land ownership in the modern state of Israel” it presents a thorough discussion of the concept of the promised land as a literary device in ancient writings
- All the boundaries of the land is available to SOAS staff and students as an e-book on the Ebrary platform