1602, 2015

Ancient Near Eastern studies book reviews

By Mary Fisk|February 16, 2015|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Two recent acquisitions by SOAS Library on ancient Near Eastern studies and comparative ancient Near Eastern literatures  have been reviewed in the Society of Biblical Literature’s Review of Biblical Literature  Poetic astronomy in the ancient Near East : the reflexes of celestial science in ancient Mesopotamian, Ugaritic, and Israelite narrative / Jeffrey L. Cooley. (Eisenbrauns, 2013) – reviewed by Stephen C. Russell of John Jay College (City University of New

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0412, 2014

New online content from British Institute for the Study of Iraq

By Mary Fisk|December 4, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology|0 comments

The British Institute for the Study of Iraq continues to make complimentary copies of selected publications available to individuals, libraries and institutions as PDF downloads (single copy for personal use only) 36 documents are now freely available. Click here to access the lists The freely available works are: The Old Babylonian tablets from Tell al-Rimah / Dalley et al. (1978) Fifty years of Mesopotamian discovery: the work of the British

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1209, 2014

The Ancient World in an age of globalization / ed. Geller (open-access e-book)

By Mary Fisk|September 12, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, History, Linguistics, Literature, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, South Asia|0 comments

Published as the latest volume in the Melammu series by the Freie Universität Berlin, The Ancient World in an age of globalization (edited by Markham J. Geller) looks at ancient societies from Greece to India, with articles on Phrygia and Armenia, and texts  from ancient Israel, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. “The globalization described in this volume extends over language barriers and literatures, showing how texts as well as goods can travel between societies and regions. This collection

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2907, 2014

Mesopotamian mathematics & cuneiform tablets

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

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

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1205, 2014

Some updates on 2 open access journals on Hebraica & the Ancient Near East

By Mary Fisk|May 12, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology, History, Linguistics, Literature|0 comments

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

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