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Follow the Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica blog for updates on SOAS Library resources, book reviews, websites, news-stories and much more

You can go to the Information skills pages on the BLE for general research guides, guides to the various databases and subject specific research guides

You can also use the Subject Guide for the Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica  on the main Library website for internet resources selected by Library staff : http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/subjects/anesj/

If you have any queries about the Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica collections in SOAS Library, finding books and journals, or using any of the online resources, you can contact me:

Mary Seeley (Subject Librarian for History and Religions; Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica)
Room C3 (Library)
Email: ms28@soas.ac.uk
Tel.: 020-7898-4195

or
David Pearson (Subject Librarian for Anthropology and Linguistics, including languages and linguistics of the Ancient Near East)
Room C2 (Library)
Email: dp10@soas.ac.uk
Tel: 020-7898-4177

The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls

Google have scanned five of the Dead Sea Scrolls and in partnership with The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, made them available over the here.

The scrolls available are The Book of Isaiah, the War Scroll, the Temple Scroll, the Commentary on Habbukuk Scroll and the Community Rule Scroll.

They have been photographed at a resolution 200 times more than the average consumer camera. The result are images that show the minute details in the text and the parchment.

Find out more about the project from this Googleblog post:
"From the desert to the web: bringing the Dead Sea Scrolls online"

State Archives of Assyria Bulletin: new open-access content

 The State Archives of Assyria Bulletin now has full-text open-access content from Vol.1 (1987) to Vol.10 (1996) and is indexed fully to date
Click here to access the journal directly or connect via the entry on the Library catalogue

SOAS Library also has this journal in print at Per 5L / 547330 (shelved on Level B)

Orient: new open-access content

Orient: the journal of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan (Nippon Oriento Gakkai) now has open-access content for Vol.1 (1960) - Vol.39 (2004)

Click here to access these volumes

The Library also has print holdings from 1960 to date at Per.5 / 278783