ETANA is back!

The ETANA (Electronic Texts and Near Eastern Archives) project is back with a new fully searchable database. 

The project has digitized and is continuing to digitize out-of-copyright texts (plus some that have been made available as open-access resources) on ancient Near Eastern Studies. There are currently over 350 texts available. 

A comprehensive listing of the core-texts is also available directly via the AWOL blog

New books in the SOAS ANE collection

The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia, 10,000 - 323 B.C.E. / edited by Sharon Steadman and Greegory McMahan (and published this year by Oxford University Press) has just been received by the Library and will shortly be available at QF939.2 / 740084 


Click HERE to go to the Library catalogue

New books in the SOAS ANE collection

SOAS Library has recently received the following two volumes in the Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology series. These will shortly be on the shelf at L. QE890 / 985764

• Garšana studies / edited by David Owen (CUSAS 6)
• Early dynastic mu-iti cereal texts in the Cornell University cuneiform collections / Salvatore Monaco (CUSAS 14)

Medieval Hebrew poetry in Muslim Egypt: book review

J.M.S Yeshaya's Medieval Hebrew poetry in Muslim Egypt: the secular poetry of the Karaite poet Moses ben Abraham Dar'i is reviewed by Dr. Esperanza Alfonso (CSIC - Spanish High Council for Scientific Research) in the online Medieval Review

Find a copy of the book in SOAS Library at QN892.412DAR / 744272
Link to the Library Catalogue from here

Williams College Museum of Art: new content on Cuneiform Digital Library

Images and records for 45 items from the Assyriological collections at the Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, Massachusetts) have recently been uploaded to the Cuneiform Digital Library

Click here to view

Akkadian at Yale: interview with Professor Benjamin Foster

In an interview taken from the Yale Daily News, Katerina Karatza interviews Benjamin Foster, the Lattan Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature and curator of the Yale Babylonian Collection.
Professor Foster talks about his exceptional students, extinct languages and the Yale Babylonian Collection

Amorites and Canaanites: two videos on ancient migrations

(1) Tracing the Amorites (1) - traces the movement of the western Semitic speaking Amorites from Arabia to the Levant

(2) The Semitic Amorites (2) - looks at the establishment of the Amorite peoples in northern Canaan (Phoenicia) between 1200 and 539 BC