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

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

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!

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

Goussen Library (Universität Bonn)

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 16^th – 20^th 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

The Hebrew God: lectures from the Collège de France

Go to the Collège de France's website to download copies of course material from Thomas Römer's ongoing lecture series "Le dieu Yhwh: ses origines, ses cultes, sa transformation en dieu unique".


This comprises bibliographies and PowerPoint presentations (in French)

Jainism in 2nd century India

Article from the online edition of the Indian newspaper The Hindu reports on the discovery of a fragment bearing Tamil-Brahmin script at Pattanam in the Ernakulam district of Kerala that establishes the presence of Jainism on the west coast of India in the 2nd century AD.

"Hymns of Zoroaster": online article

This feature from the news website Today's Zaman looks at the historical background to Professor M.L. West's recently published "The hymns of Zoroaster: a new translation of the most ancient sacred texts of Iran".
For more details and book reviews, go to publisher I.B. Tauris' website.

SOAS Library has a copy at PLB295 / 733763