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Internet Resources for Ancient Near Eastern Studies

Reference Resources: TOCS-IN: Table of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists (Univ. of Toronto) - Not just classics, it includes over 18 journals relating to the ancient Near East; RAMBI - Current Contents of Periodicals on the Middle East; Bibliography of Asian Studies; Index to the Journal of Near Eastern Studies, v.1-55. Compiled by W. Randall Garr(U. Chicago, Oriental Institute) in .pdf format.; Women in the Ancient Near East: a Select Bibliography of Recent Sources in the Oriental Institute Research Archives (Oriental Institute, Univ. of Chicago); A Bibliography of Ugaritic Grammar and Biblical Hebrew in the Twentieth Century. By Mark S. Smith(U. Chicago, Oriental Institute); Encyclopaedia Iranica (Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia Univ.) - The free version of EI; need to download special fonts before you can search; Avestan Dictionary by Joseph H. Peterson; Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - searchable bibliography and selected photographs; Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature by Marcus Jastrow; The Babylonian Talmud the Soncino/Jews' College (London) translation; AEB: Annual Egyptological Bibliography (Leiden Univ.); Demotic Dictionary of the Oriental Institute (U. of Chicago); UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology [open version] -- (UCLA, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages); Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (Peshitta Institute, Leiden); Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (HUC/JIR); The Nag Hammadi Library - and index to the texts of the NHL in the Gnostic Society Library

Comprehensive Ancient Near East websites (collections of relevant links): MENALIB: AL-MISBAH (Univ. of Halle Library) - ancient and modern Middle East; MENIC : Middle East Network Information Center (U. of Texas Center for Middle Eastern Studies) - part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library - ancient and modern Middle East; ABZU (Etana Project) - ancient Near East; Etana: Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Texts (Etana) - core texts; MENA: Middle East North Africa Internet Resource Guide (Prof. Joseph Roberts, Univ. Of Utah) - ancient and modern Middle East; includes all regional religions; ArchNet -- Near Eastern archaeology site; Exploring Ancient World Cultures: Egypt (Univ. of Evansville); Exploring Ancient World Cultures: The Near East (Univ. of Evansville); Internet Sacred Text Archive: Egyptian Pyramid Texts, Book of the Dead, and others; Egyptology Resources; Internet Sacred Text Archive: Gnosticism Includes Mandaean and Manichean texts; Internet Sacred Text Archive: Ancient Near East Enuma Elish, Code of Hammurabi, Gilgamish, and others

Electronic Texts

Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) Collection of Archaeology. Full texts related to individual ancient world cultures. New titles are added regularly.

Early Dynastic Egypt

Early Dynastic Mesopotamia

Iranian Bronze Age

Khartoum Neolithic

Late Paleolithic Egypt

Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Maghreb

Lower Egypt Predynastic

Middle Paleolithic Egypt

Upper Egypt Predynastic

Treaties and Legal Contracts from the Ancient Near East (Univ. of Pennsylvania)

The Peshitta (Peshitta.org)

Digital Projects [and Image Databases]: ECAI Iraq (ECAI) - digital resources on all aspects of Iraqi history and culture from ancient to modern times; XSTAR: XML System for Textual and Archaeological Research (Univ. of Chicago, Oriental Institute) - includes The Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions and The Chicago Hittite Dictionary projects; CDLI: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (UCLA); WSRP - West Semitic Research Project (Univ. of Southern California); Sumerian Text Archive (Leiden Univ.); Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World; Canaan and Ancient Israel @ University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology - exhibit; Scrolls from the Dead Sea: the Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship -- an exhibit held at the Library of Congress; SAHD: Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database; Online Treasury of Talmudic Manuscripts(Jewish National and University Library); Sasanian Seals (Univ. of California, Berkeley. The Gans Collection; Deir el-Medina Database (Leiden Univ.); Oriental Institute Photographic Archive (Univ. of Chicago); Ancient Near East Site Maps (Oriental Institute Map Series); The University of Michigan Papyrus Collection; Duke Papyrus Archive (Duke Univ.); Princeton University Library Papyrus Home Page

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