1308, 2015

New resource for Syriac studies on the web (syri.ac)

By Mary Fisk|August 13, 2015|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, History, Religions|0 comments

A section of British Library Add. MS. 14,425, a copy of the Peshitta, which is the Syriac translation of the Bible. The scribe of this manuscript added that it was written at Amida in AD 464. This excerpt contains the text of Exodus 13:14-16. (via Wikimedia Commons at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peshitta464.jpg) syri.ac : an annotated bibliography of Syriac resources online (hosted by the University of Oklahoma) has been developed from Resources for Syriac studies

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0805, 2015

Comparative Mythology (new open-access e-journal)

By Mary Fisk|May 8, 2015|Anthropology and Sociology, Religions|0 comments

Comparative Mythology is a new open-access e-journal published by the International Association of Comparative Mythology (based at the Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University) . Its aim is to  deal ” in comparative fashion, with the mythologies of all peoples and times.” Click here to read the inaugural issue for 2015  Contents: The Hero Who Releases the Waters and Defeats the Flood Dragon / Emily Lyle Cyavana Helps Ashvins,

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0503, 2015

New and updated web resources for cuneiform studies

By Mary Fisk|March 5, 2015|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

  King Sargon and a dignitary (bas-relief in the Louvre Museum) (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sargon_II_and_dignitary.jpg) Assyrian Empire builders This project is a joint co-operation between the University of Cambridge, UCL and the University of Pennsylvania, and is linked to the Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus project (State Archives of Assyria) at the University of Helsinki. The focus  is on the correspondence between Sargon II of Assyria (721-705 BC), his predecessor Tiglath-pileser (744-727) and their governors and

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2302, 2015

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage (new on open-access)

By Mary Fisk|February 23, 2015|Anthropology and Sociology, Religions|0 comments

The International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage (IJRTP) was founded by an international group of researchers – the Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Expert Group – in 2013 and is published by the Dublin Institute of Technology. The journal is a member of DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) Content has a global cover, and includes thematic and cross-disciplinary articles as well as those focusing on a particular faith or

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2708, 2014

Award-winning article on Late Babylonian Uruk by Kathryn Stevens (on open access until end of September)

By Mary Fisk|August 27, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

One of the two 2014 International Association for Assyriology Prizes for best first Assyriological article written after the PhD has been awarded to Kathyn Stevens for her article “Secrets in the Library: Protected Knowledge and Professional Identity in Late Babylonian Uruk” which was published in Iraq 75 (2013) pp. 211-253. In collaboration with Cambridge University Press, the British Institute for the Study of Iraq has made this article freely available through the new

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1306, 2014

Melilah (Manchester Journal of Jewish Studies) now on open access

By Mary Fisk|June 13, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, History, Religions|0 comments

  This interdisciplinary journal was first published in Hebrew by Manchester University Press between 1944 and 1955. The journal was relaunched in English in 2004, under the auspices of the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester and has,since then, been published annually The journal covers all aspects of Jewish history and culture from ancient times to the present day. The title Melilah refers to the ears of

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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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0704, 2014

Journal back-files on open access, including Journal of the American Oriental Society

By Mary Fisk|April 7, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology, China and Inner Asia, History, Linguistics, Literature, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Religions, South Asia, South East Asia|0 comments

(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

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0304, 2014

New on open-access: Hebrew Annual Review

By Mary Fisk|April 3, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Linguistics, Literature|0 comments

The Hebrew Annual Review was published by the Melton Center for Jewish Studies at the Department for Judaic and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures (Ohio State University) between 1977 and 1994. Content looks at all aspects of the Hebrew language and literature from Biblical times to the presnt The entire run of the journal has been made available on open-access through Ohio State University’s Knowledge Bank Click here to link

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