Brill database trials

SOAS Library has a 30 day trial subscription (until 26th October) to the following Brill databases for the study of religions (and history of religions)

•  Religion Past and Present Online  RPP is the English language edition of the 4th edition of the German Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart. [note not all volumes have been published yet] SOAS Library has the German version in print
• Index to the Study of Religions - a cross searchable database of abstracts of articles contributing to the academic study of religions. The database currently contains 20,000 entries, and will have new content added as suitable articles are indexed
• Christian-Muslim Relations Online -the database covers relations between the two faiths between 600-1500 throughout the extended Mediterranean basin area, and comprises (along with introductory essays) over 200 detailed entries on all works recorded where Christian-Muslim encounters are described

These can be accessed from http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/resources/a-z/database-trials.html

Please let me know what you think!

(ms28@soas.ac.uk)

Book review: The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity

Review of "The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity"  from the Bryn Mawr Classical Review.

The collection of papers is edited by Andrew Cain and Noel Lenski and was originally presented at the 7th Biennial Conference on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity (Boulder, Colorado) in 2007.  

SOAS Library has a copy of the book at A270.2 / 733005

QSB books (Coptic & Coptic Church)

Books on the Coptic Church and the Coptic language (classmark QSB) have been returned from off-site storage and are temporarily located in Room C3 of the Library (Teaching and Research Support Office). If you need to consult them, please come to Room C3 during office hours (9-5) or make a request to Mary Seeley (ms28@soas.ac.uk)
Please note that L.QSB ("large size") books remain off-site

New from SOAS Research Online

Daniel Schwemmer's "Gauging the Influence of Babylonian magic ..."  (full details below) is newly available from SOAS Research Online

Schwemer, Daniel 'Gauging the Influence of Babylonian Magic: the Reception of Mesopotamian Traditions in Hittite Ritual Practice.' In: Cancik-Kirschbaum, Eva and Klinger, Jörg and Müller, Gerfrid, (eds.), Proceedings of: Internationales Symposium “Normierung und Emanzipation: Bausteine für eine Kulturgeschichte des 2. Jts. v. Chr. im Alten Orient”, Berlin 29.–30. Januar 2010. FU Berlin. (Submitted)