1508, 2014

Coptic bibliographies (Macquarie University)

By Mary Fisk|August 15, 2014|Art and Archaeology, History, Linguistics, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Religions|0 comments

Interested in Coptic language and history? The Coptic Studies department at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) had put together a “traditional” bibliography covering Egyptian history in the first millennium C.E., Coptic language and dialects and Coptic art and archaeology for their staff and students Please note that Coptic Bibliographies does not contain links to full-text. Some external links to book reviews etc. have been added. Click here to access Coptic Bibliographies

1507, 2014

Trial access to Asian Films Online from Alexander Street Press

By Jiyeon Wood|July 15, 2014|Anthropology and Sociology, China and Inner Asia, Films and Sound Recordings, Japan, Korea, Linguistics, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Music, Media and Film Studies, Politics and International Relations, South Asia, South East Asia, Unknown|0 comments

We have trial access to Asian Film Online Volumes I and II from Alexander Street Press until 15th August 2014. Asian Film Online is an online streaming video collection of narrative feature films, documentaries, and shorts.This will be useful for scholarship in Asian studies, Middle Eastern studies, political science, postcolonial theory and criticism, anthropology, and linguistics. Asian Film Online: Volume I features more than 600 hours of film across the region with

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

0804, 2014

Syriaca.org: the Syriac reference portal

By Mary Fisk|April 8, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Linguistics, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Religions|0 comments

Newly launched under the auspices of a consortium of academic institutions including Princeton University and Vanderbilt University, Syriaca.org is an online reference work for the study of Syriac authors, literatures and manuscripts. Scholars of Syriac are invited to collaborate and contribute to the development of the portal, which will eventually comprise an ontology or classification system for Syriac studies a multi-lingual authority file for standardising references to Syriac authors, texts

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

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

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

0701, 2014

Linguistics – June to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 7, 2014|Linguistics|0 comments

Perspectives on aspect / edited by Henk J. Verkuyl, Henriette de Swart and Angeliek van Hout. Translating the multilingual city : cross-lingual practices and language ideology / Tong-King Lee. Verbs : aspect and causal structure / William Croft. Language attitudes, standardization and language change : perspectives on themes raised by Tore Kristiansen on the occasion of his 60th birthday / Marie Maegaard, Frans Gregersen, Pia Quist and J.Normann Jørgensen (eds.).

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

2410, 2013

Online bibliography of Semitic linguistics

By Mary Fisk|October 24, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Linguistics|0 comments

Hebrew square book script. Iraq. 11th century (from Schoyen Collection Manuscript) MS206: image from WikiMedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Targum.jpg) Gregorio del Olmo Lete’s (University of Barcelona) A bibliography of Semitic linguistics (1940-2010) is a digitized PDF version of a traditional print bibliography, covering a wide range of Semitic languages from ancient Akkadian and Ugaritic, through Ethiopic to modern Hebrew and South Arabic. The site allows users to navigate easily between the different