In this article on the ASOR (American Schools of Oriental Research) blog, Ömür Harmanşah discusses how he came to write Cities and the shaping of memory in the Ancient Near East, published by Cambridge University Press in 2013, and also looks at concepts of architectural and urban space in more modern times (with a particular focus on Ankara) Click here to go to the Library catalogue, where you will also find
Cuneiform writing was devised initially for the purpose of keeping accounts, and for the first few centuries, it was used almost entirely for book-keeping. ORACC (Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus) at the University of Pennsylvania has added transcriptions and translations of around 1000 cuneiform mathematical tablets to its database. The text and editions on this site have been made available by Eleanor Robson (University of Cambridge), one of the founders
Yesterday morning I was shown an interesting piece on the International Institute of Social History website about commodity pricing in late Achaemenid and Hellenistic Babylon, by R.J. van der Spek from Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. The prices were recorded alongside other data by astronomers in the employ of the king. There are six key commodities in the listing: these are barley, dates, mustard, cress, sesame and wool. The earliest commodity price in
Seferad: estudios hebraicos, sefardies y de Oriente Proximo is a Spanish journal, first published in 1941, on the history and culture of the Spanish Jewish community and the Sephardic diaspora, including Hebrew and Ladino language and literature. Open access content is currently from 2001 to 2013. SOAS Library has print holdings from 1941 onward at Per 5 / 49429 (Level F) Access is either via the Seferad website or AWOL
(via the AWOL blog) – http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.co.uk/ The prestigious Journal of the American Oriental Society has made its out-of-copyright material available on open-access. Content covers research by American scholars and Orientalists on the literatures and civilizations of the Near East, North Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Inner Asia, the Far East and the Islamic World. Open-access volumes cover Vol.1 (1843) to Vol. 42 (1922) Click here to go to Journal of the
Photographs of James Breasted’s photographs documenting his journeys through the Near East in the period immediately following the First World War to record archaeological sites for the Oriental Institute (University of Chicago) have recently been added to the Oriental Institutes’s open-access photographic archive. Click here to go to the photographic archive page on the Oriental Institute’s website Clicking on the map allows you to select a site from those visited
The Eberhard Karls Universitat Tubingen has made the first 100 volumes of the eminent Mitteilingen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft (MDOG) from 1898 to 1968 available on open-access. The journal contains reports from the excavations carried out by the German Archaeological Society (DOG) in the Ancient Near Eastern region, along with philological, historical, religious and cultural studies Click here to go to the University’s website and link to the journal
Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica QLB415 / 755495 – An introduction to Ugaritic / John Huehnergard (reviewed in Marginalia) QI221.12 / 743308 – The formation of the Jewish canon / Timothy H. Lim (reviewed in Marginalia) QB930 / 737342 – Predicting the past in the ancient Near East : mantic historiography in ancient Mesopotamia, Judah, and the Mediterranean world / by Matthew Neujahr (reviewed in Review of Biblical Literature) [ON ORDER] – Anti-Judaism :
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Critical approaches to ancient Near Eastern art / edited by Brian A. Brown and Marian H. Feldman. Exploring the narrative: Jerusalem and Jordan in the Bronze and Iron Ages / edited by Eveline van der Steen, Jeanette Boertien, Noor Mulder-Hymans. Ancient Iran and its neighbours: local developments and long-range interactions in the fourth millennium BC / edited by Cameron A. Petrie. L’economia dell’antica Mesopotamia (III-I millennio
Publishers de Gruyter have made the inaugural issue of their new Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History available on open-access (articles can be downloaded and viewed as PDFs) Content of the first issue includes Intellectual history and Assyriology by Niek Veldhuis, and The history of science and ancient Mesopotamia by Francesca Rochberg Click here to go to Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History Vol.1, no.1 (2014)
