2403, 2014

Some recent reviews of new books in SOAS Library

By Mary Fisk|March 24, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Religions, South Asia|0 comments

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 :

0603, 2014

Hebrew Studies journal now on open-access

By Mary Fisk|March 6, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Linguistics, Literature|0 comments

Hebrew Studies is an internationally recognized scholarly journal for the study of the Hebrew language and literature across all periods. Content after 1990 has now been made available on the Free Library platform Click here to access Hebrew Studies on open-access via AWOL (Ancient World Online) SOAS Library has holdings of Hebrew Studies in print from No.17 (1976) onward, and the preceding title Hebrew Abstracts from No.1 (1954) to

2002, 2014

Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History – open-access sample issue

By Mary Fisk|February 20, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

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)

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

2901, 2014

Open access journals for History, Religions, and Ancient Near Eastern studies

By Mary Fisk|January 29, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Religions|0 comments

The following open-access titles with content of interest to students of History, Study of Religions and Ancient Near East, Semiitcs and Judaica have recently been announced on the AWOL blog (http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.co.uk/) Click on the title of each journal to access content MELA Notes (Middle East Librarians Association – MELA advise that users download issues 1-63 (1973-1996) to their own computer’s hard drive. Issues from no.64 (1997) onward can be viewed via

1301, 2014

Who Owns Antiquity? Museums, Repatriation, and Armed Conflict

By Mary Fisk|January 13, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Archival collections, Art and Archaeology, History|0 comments

Brian Rose (Penn State University) gave a lecture at Stanford Humanities Center on 4October 2013: “Who Owns Antiquity? Museums, Repatriation, and Armed Conflict“. The video of that lecture is now posted online: <http://www.stanford.edu/dept/classics/cgi-bin/web/node/4879> It is posted on Apple’s iTunes (about an hour): <https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/who-owns-antiquity-museums/id385665061?i=194306743&mt=2>. (notice posted on the Agade mailing list by A.J. Cave on 10th January 2014)

2811, 2013

The UNESCO Silk Road Online Platform

By Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb|November 28, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology, China and Inner Asia, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Religions, South Asia|0 comments

Following its ten years project entitled The integral study of the Silk Roads, Roads of Dialogue and following its consultation with member states, UNESCO has worked at establishing an online platform on the Silk Road in order to promote the outcomes of that former project. The UNESCO Silk Road Platform for Dialogue, Diversity and Development has been recently released. It is to be UNESCO’s unique platform for global exchange about

2511, 2013

The Diachronic Corpus of Sumerian Literature

By David Pearson|November 25, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Linguistics|0 comments

The Diachronic Corpus of Sumerian Literature (DCSL) project seeks to establish a web-based corpus of Sumerian literature spanning the entire history of Mesopotamian civilization, over a range of 2500 years. It will make this corpus accessible and searchable on the model now provided by the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL). The ultimate research aim of the project is to make the corpus available for analysis in terms of

0711, 2013

Hebrew manuscripts digitization project at the British Library

By Mary Fisk|November 7, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Archival collections, History, Religions|0 comments

1250 of the 3000 plus Hebrew manuscripts in the British Library’s collection are to be digitized over the next three years in a project mainly funded by the Polonsky Foundation. The selected manuscripts will showcase the “creativity and intense social activities” of the Eastern and Western Jewish communities over 1000 years and will be available on open-access in their entirety For more information on the scope and content of the

2410, 2013

Islamic Manuscript Studies : Research Guide

By Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb|October 24, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica|0 comments

Islamic Manuscript Studies : Research Guide The guide published by Evyn Kropf at University of Michigan offers resources for the study of the manuscripts and manuscript cultures of the Islamic world. Welcome Identifying and Locating Manuscripts Collections and Catalogues Online Collection Research Guides Islamic Manuscripts in North America Arabic Script Palaeography Manuscript Description Bibliographical Resources Reading Lists Associations, Institutes and Research Initiatives Other Online Research Guides For more information about