Books read, November 2009

[kateorman]

Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend. Whew. Two down, only nineteen to go.
Thomas Pynchon. The Crying of Lot 49. wat

Books bought
Philip Ball. Bright Earth: the invention of colour.
William S. Burroughs. Junky.
Bram Dijkstra. Idols of Perversity: fantasies of feminine evil in fin-de-siecle culture.
Richard Hammond. Or is that just me?.
Larry McMurty. Books: a Memoir.
Gerald Murnane. A Lifetime on Clouds.
Rosemary Radford Reuther. Goddesses and the Divine Feminine: a Western Religious History.

Books borrowed
Erik Hornung. The Egyptian Amduat.

Photocopy / download log ('Cos I just can't keep track of the bloody things!)

• Dijkstra, Meindert. Some reflections on the legend of Aqhat. Ugarit-Forschungen 11 1979 pp 199-210.
  
  
• Gray, John. The Bloodbath of the Goddess Anat. Ugarit-Forschungen 11 1979 pp 315-24.
  
  
• Gruber, Mayer. Hebrew qedešah and her Canaanite and Akkadian Cognates. Ugarit-Forschungen 18 1986 pp 133-48. (Duplicate?)
  
  
• Hillers, Delbert R. "The Bow of Aqhat: The Meaning of a Mythological Theme". in Hoffner, Harry A. (ed). Orient and Occident. Essays presented to Cyrus H. Gordon on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday. Alter Orient und Altes Testament, Bd. 22. Kevelaer, Butzon & Bercker; Neukirchen-Vluyn, Neukirchener Verlag, 1973.
  
  
• Hoffner, Harry A. "Incest, Sodomy and Bestiality in the Ancient Near East". in Hoffner, Harry A. (ed). Orient and Occident. Essays presented to Cyrus H. Gordon on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday. Alter Orient und Altes Testament, Bd. 22. Kevelaer, Butzon & Bercker; Neukirchen-Vluyn, Neukirchener Verlag, 1973.
  
  
• Pope, Marvin H. "The Goddesses Anat and Kali". in Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Orientalists (Summaries). New Delhi, The Congress, 1964, p 15.
  
  
• Weinfeld, Moshe. The worship of Molech and of the Queen of Heaven and its background. Ugarit-Forschungen 4 1972, p 133-154.
  
  
• Yamauchi, Edwin M. "Cultic Prostitution: a case study in cultural diffusion". in Hoffner, Harry A. (ed). Orient and Occident. Essays presented to Cyrus H. Gordon on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday. Alter Orient und Altes Testament, Bd. 22. Kevelaer, Butzon & Bercker; Neukirchen-Vluyn, Neukirchener Verlag, 1973.
  
  
• Young, Robert. "Egypt in America: Black Athena, Racism and Colonial Discourse". in Rattanasi, Ali and Sallie Westwood (eds). Racism, Modernity, and Identity: on the Western Front. Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, 1994.

Bits of books:-

• Benton, Gregor and Edmund Terence Gomez (eds). The Chinese in Britain: 1800-present: economy, transnationalism, identity. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
  Bernal, Martin. Black Athena: the Afroasiatic roots of classical civilization. London, Free Association Books, 1987.
  
  
• Leadbeater, Charles W. The science of the sacraments. London, 1920.
  Lefkowitz, Mary R. and Guy MacLean Rogers. Black Athena. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
  
  
• Pardee, Dennis. Will the dragon never be muzzled? Ugarit-Forschungen 16 1984 pp 251-5.
  
  
• Settar, S. and Gunther D. Sontheimer (eds). Memorial stones: a study of their origin, significance, and variety. Dharwad, New Delhi, Institute of Indian Art History, Karnataka University; South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany, 1982
  Shah, Ghanshyam. Economic differentiations and tribal identity. Delhi, Ajanta Publications, 1984
  
  
• van Dijk, Jacobus. 'Anat, Seth and the Seed of Pre'. in Vanshipout, H. et al (eds). Scripta Signa Vocis. Groningen, Egbert Forsten, 1986, pp 31-51.
  
  
• Zabkar, Louis V. Apedemak, Lion god of Meroe: a study in Egyptian-Meroitic syncretism. Warminster, UK, Aris and Phillips, 1975