Books read, June 2010

[dreamer_easy]

Paul Davies. The Eerie Silence: Are We Alone In The Universe?
Christopher Isherwood. Mr Norris Changes Trains.
Joyce Tyldesley. Daughters of Isis.

Books borrowed
Ray Bradbury. Something Wicked This Way Comes.
Richard E. Cytowic and David M. Eagleman. Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia.
Charles Darwin. The Origin of Species.
Paul Davies. The Eerie Silence: Are We Alone In The Universe?
Orhan Pamuk. Other Colours.
R.T. Rundle Clark. Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt.
Neal H. Walls. The Goddess Anat in Ugaritic Myth.
David Gordon White. Myths of the Dog-Man.

Luverly gift!
Allen Shawn. Wish I Could Be There.

Photocopy/Download Log

• Asher-Greve, Julia M. "Decisive Sex, Essential Gender". in S. Parpola and R. M. Whiting (eds). Sex and gender in the ancient Near East: proceedings of the 47th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Helsinki, July 2-6, 2001. Helsinki, Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2002.
  - "The Essential Body: Mesopotamian Conceptions of the Gendered Body". in Wyke, Maria (ed). Gender and the body in the ancient Mediterranean. Malden, Mass, Blackwell, 1998.
  
• (part of) Bergman, Jan. Isis-Seele und Osiris-Ei: zwei ägyptologische Studien zu Diodorus Siculus I 27, 4-5. Uppsala, Universitetet, Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1970.
  
• (part of) Beaulieu, Paul-Alain. "Ištar-of-Uruk". in The pantheon of Uruk during the neo-Babylonian period. Leiden, Boston, Brill: STYX, 2003.
  
• Bird, Phyllis A. "The end of the male cult prostitute: a literary-historical and sociological analysis of Hebrew qadeš-qedešim". in Emerton, J.A. (ed). Congress volume: Cambridge, 1995. Leiden, Brill, 1997.
  
• Cooper, Jerrold S. "Buddies in Babylonia: Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and Mesopotamian Homosexuality". in Riches Hidden in Secret Places: ancient Near Eastern studies in memory of Thorkild Jacobsen. Winona Lake, Ind, Eisenbrauns, 2002.
  
• Dalley, Stephanie. "Evolution of Gender in Mesopotamian Mythology and Iconography with a Possible Explanation of ša rešen, 'the man with two heads'." in S. Parpola and R. M. Whiting (eds). Sex and gender in the ancient Near East: proceedings of the 47th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Helsinki, July 2-6, 2001. Helsinki, Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2002.
  
• Derchain, Philippe. "Dieux et Mythes". in Elkab. Vol 1. Bruxelles, Fondation égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1971.
  
• Colless, Brian. "Ba'al's relations with Canaanite goddesses". in Dillon, Matthew (ed). Religion in the ancient world. Amsterdam, A.M. Hakkert, 1996.
  
• Foster, Benjamin R. "Ea and Saltu". in de Jong Ellis, Maria (ed). Essays on the ancient Near East in memory of Jacob Joel Finkelstein. Hamden, Conn, Archon Books, 1977.
  
• (part of) Germond, Philippe. Sekhmet et la protection du monde. Genève, Editions de Belles-Lettres, 1981.
  
• (part of) Känel, Frédérique von. Les prêtres-ouâb de Sekhmet et les conjurateurs de Serket. Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1984.
  
• George, A.R. "Four Temple Rituals from Babylon" [2. Simanu]. in George, A.R. and I.L. Finkel. Wisdom, Gods and Literature: studies in Assyriology in honour of W.G. Lambert. Winona Lake, Ind, Eisenbrauns, 2000.
  
• Henshaw, Richard A. "Appendix Three: The assinnu, kurgarrû and Similar Functionaries". in Female and male - the cultic personnel: the Bible and the rest of the ancient Near East. Allison Park, Pa, Pickwick Publications, 1994.
  
• Kramer, Samuel Noah. "Inanna and the Numun-Plant: a new Sumerian myth." in Rendsburg, Gary et al (eds). The Bible World: essays in honor of Cyrus H. Gordon. New York, Ktav Pub. House, Institute of Hebrew Culture and Education of New York University, 1980.
  
• (part of) Louden, Bruce. The Iliad: structure, myth, and meaning. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
  
• McCaffrey, Kathleen. "Reconsidering Gender Ambiguity in Mesopotamia: Is a Beard Just a Beard?" in S. Parpola and R. M. Whiting (eds). Sex and gender in the ancient Near East: proceedings of the 47th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Helsinki, July 2-6, 2001. Helsinki, Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2002.
  
• Oden, Robert A. "Religious Identity and the Sacred Prostitution Accusation". in The Bible without theology. Urbana, IL, University of Illinois Press, 2000.
  
• (part of) H. te Velde. Seth, God of confusion: A study of his role in Egyptian mythology and religion. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1977.
  
• (part of) Alix Wilkinson. The Garden in ancient Egypt.
  
• (part of) de Wit, Constant. Le rôle et le sens du lion dans l'Égypte ancienne (2nd ed). Luxor, Hussein, n.d.