Ancient Near East studies

Ancient Near East studies (or ANE studies) is the field of academic study of the ancient Near East (ANE). As such it is an umbrella term for Assyriology, in some cases extending to Egyptology.

History of ANE studies

In Britain the first Assyriological appointments in the University of London date to 1904, when T. G. Pinches of the British Museum was appointed to a professorship.[1]

Societies

• American Oriental Society
• ARAM – ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies
• ASOR – American Schools of Oriental Research, Boston
• British Institute for the Study of Iraq
• CEHAO – Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente, Argentina
• Council for British Research in the Levant
• Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft
• The Melammu Project The Assyrian and Babylonian Intellectual Heritage Project, Helsinki.
• Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
• Société Asiatique, Paris
• Open Digital Ancient Near Eastern Studies (OpenDANES)

Universities with major ANE centres

• Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina
• University of Chicago Oriental Institute
• Columbia University[2]
• New York University Institute for Study of the Ancient World[3]

Common abbreviations of cited journals, sources and lexicons

The following list does not include journals in the field of Old Testament studies.

• Abzu – Bibliography From the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago[4]
• Ancient Near East Monographs (ANEM)
• ANES – Ancient Near Eastern Studies Annual journal from the University of Melbourne dedicated to the languages and cultures of the ancient Near East.
• ANET & ANEP – Ancient Near East Texts (Princeton 1950, 1955, 3rd ed. 1969)[5]
• AntOr – Antiguo Oriente
• BASOR – Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
• CAD – Chicago Assyrian Dictionary
• CHD – Chicago Hittite Dictionary
• ETANA – Electronic Tools and Ancient Neareastern Archives[6]
• ETCSL – Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, Oxford[7]
• JEOL – Jaarbericht Ex Oriente Lux
• JESHO – Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
• JCS – Journal of Cuneiform Studies
• JNES – Journal of Near Eastern Studies
• JSS – Journal of Semitic Studies
• KTU² - Keilschrift Texte aus Ugarit
• LAPO – Littératures anciennnes du Proche-Orient 1967–2002
• NEA – Near Eastern Archaeology Magazine
• Revista del Instituto de Historia Antigua Oriental
• RLA – Reallexikon der Assyriologie
• TUAT – Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testament 1982–1995, 2002

See also

• Chronology of the ancient Near East
• Genetic history of the Middle East
• Middle Eastern studies
• Quranic studies
• Religions of the ancient Near East / Middle Eastern mythology

References

1. Jerrold S. Cooper; Glenn M. Schwartz (1996). The study of the ancient Near East in the twenty-first century. Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 978-0-931-46496-6.
2. Columbia
3. NYU ISAW
4. ABZU links for all aspects of the Ancient Near East. Archived 2004-01-13 at the Wayback Machine
5. Stanisław Bazyliński A Guide to Biblical Research: Introductory
6. etana
7. Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature

Further reading

• ABZU bibliography, "A guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world"