0702, 2014

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – December 2013 and January 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|February 7, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Cyrus the Great: an ancient Iranian king / edited by Touraj Daryaee  “Thus speaks Ishtar of Arbela”: prophecy in Israel, Assyria, and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian period / edited by Robert P. Gordon and Hans M. Barstad. Models of Mesopotamian landscapes: how small-scale processes contributed to the growth of early civilizations / edited by T.J. Wilkinson, McGuire Gibson and Magnus Widell  Literature as politics, politics as

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2901, 2014

Open access monographs from the Oriental Institute (University of Chicago)

By Mary Fisk|January 29, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology|0 comments

Assyrian king hunting lions [Image from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AAssyrian_king_hunting_lions.png ; Attribution: By William C. Morey (Outlines of Greek History, pg. 40) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons] The Oriental Institute Assyriological Monographs (AS) volumes 1-27 (1932-2007) are available on the Oriental Institute website Topics include cuneiform studies (Akkadian, Babylonian, Sumerian, Amorite and Hittite) and studies of the civilizations of Ur, Sumer, Nippur and the Hittites Click here to access the papers    

1510, 2013

Ancient Near East Monographs on open-access

By Mary Fisk|October 15, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

The Society for Biblical Literature (Atlanta) in collaboration with the Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente (Buenos Aires) has launched a platform for open-access e-versions the Ancient Near East monographs series Publications currently available to download or to read online include Alan Lenzi’s Reading Akkadian prayers and hymns (2011) Link to the open-access content from the Society of Biblical Literature website or from the Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo

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2006, 2013

New blog on the history and culture of Iraq

By Mary Fisk|June 20, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica|0 comments

  Boat on the Euphrates By Christiaan Briggs (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) or CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARI) has just launched a blog aimed at “institutions, scholars and other individuals” interested in the history and culture of Iraq from ancient times until the present. The blog includes a thread where current  TAARI research fellows share reports from the field and

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2905, 2013

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 29, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Perché il male? : il problema della Mesopotamia antica / Claudio Saporetti ; con un contributo bibliografico di Giovanna Matini. Wissenskultur im Alten Orient Weltanschauung, Wissenschaften, Techniken, Technologien : 4. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 20.-22. Februar 2002, Münster Im Auftrag des Vorstands der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft / unter Mitarbeit von Susanne Paulus [and] Hans Neumann. A manual of Hurrian / by Arnaud Fournet. La collezione orientale

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2205, 2013

Archaeology after the Arab Spring

By David Pearson|May 22, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica|0 comments

Read this interesting article which examines the impacts the Arab Spring has had on archaeology in the countries effected by this recent political upheaval. [From The American Schools of Oriental Research Blog (ASOR) (Boston University), written by Jesse Casana, Professor of the archaeology (specializing in the Middle East) at the University of Arkansas. Found via the very useful British Association of Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA) facebook page – https://www.facebook.com/BAneareastarch  

2502, 2013

Mesopotamian deities: new web resource

By Mary Fisk|February 25, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Religions|0 comments

All you need to know about fifty ancient Mesopotamian deities, from Anu to Zababa, is brought together on Ancient Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses (AMGG), a new resource from ORACC (Open Richly Annoated Cuneiform Corpus). Enlil and Ninlil – from a mural decoration at Susa (image Paul Bedson http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EnlilandNinlil.jpg) The site is aimed at undergraduate students and provides concise information on the deities, with links to images, further readings and online projects. Click

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1902, 2013

Open-access texts from the Institut français du Proche-Orient

By Mary Fisk|February 19, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Religions|0 comments

The prestigious Institut français du Proche-Orient, with offices in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, aims to bring together study and research on all aspects of the ancient and modern civilizations of the Near East (including Libya, Syria, Jordan, Israel, the Palestinian territories and Iraq) A large number of IFPO publications are  now available on open-access from http://ifpo.revues.org/   The content is fully searchable and includes books, archaeological reports and the research reports, Les

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2401, 2013

Vicino Oriente is back!

By Mary Fisk|January 24, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology, History|0 comments

(By Dbachmann at en.wikipedia [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ancient_Orient.png) The journal Vicino Oriente (published by the Oriental Studies Section of Rome “La Sapienza” University”) is back on open access – although you will have to download a whole issue rather than browse and view individual articles on screen. The open-access content is currently from Vol.8 (1989) to Vol.15 (2011). Vicino Oriente covers Near Eastern archaeology, history and epigraphy and also takes

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2201, 2013

Newly online from the Oriental Institute (University of Chicago)

By Mary Fisk|January 22, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology|0 comments

(1) The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago has recently announced further releases of its back-listed publications online. These can be freely viewed as PDFs Click here to see titles released on 14th January 2013. (2) The bulk of the Oriental Institute’s Research Archives are also available. Click here to access via the AWOL blog (3) The latest Oriental Institute Seminar paper – Iconoclasm and text destruction in the Ancient Near East and

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