Tuesday 26 April 2011

Prophets of the past: book review

Michael Brenner's "Prophets of the past: interpreters of Jewish history" (published in translation by Princeton University Press in 2010) is reviewed on Humanities and Social Sciences Net Online by Professor Moshe Rosman of the Department of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University.

Michael Brenner is Professor of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich. His book looks at Jewish historiography from the 18th century to the present

Find the book in SOAS Library at QO909 / 743994

Thursday 14 April 2011

New open-access book on Christianity and Judaism in late antiquity

Heresy and identity in late Antiquity (ed. by Holger Zellentin & Eduard Iricinschi; Mohr Siebeck, 2008)

Available in full-text from GoogleBooks, this monograph explores "the ways in which late antique groups defined their own socio-political borders and created secure in-group identities by means of discourses on "heresy" and "heretics"'
This book will be of interest to people studying Orthodox Christianity, early Christianity and Jewish-Christian relations in late antiquity


The link will shortly be posted to the Library subject guide for Religions, under Electronic Publications

Wednesday 13 April 2011

The Jews of Central Asia: history and cuisine

Online article from the Jerusalem Post in which chef Dennis Wasko explores the history of the Bukharian Jews of today's Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, including their cuisine.
A recipe for Bukharian Plov (a chicken and rice dish) is included!

Thursday 7 April 2011

Oriental Orthodox church history : open-access texts via ...

The Goussen Library on Oriental church history was collected by Heinrich Goussen (d.1927) and has been the subject of a digitisation project by the Universität Bonn since 2007.
This open access collection comprises over 1,000 digitised documents and books dating from the 16th – 20th centuries in Western languages, and also in Syrian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Armenian and Georgian, among others.

Links to this resource will shortly be added to the Library subject guide for Religions, under Electronic Publications, and Individual Religions: Christianity