Ancient Near East studies (or ANE studies) is the field of academic study of the
Ancient Near East
The ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia (modern Iraq, southeast Turkey, southwest Iran and northeastern Syria), ancient Egypt, ancient Iran (Ela ...
(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
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docume ...
was appointed to a professorship.
Societies
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American Oriental Society
The American Oriental Society was chartered under the laws of Massachusetts on September 7, 1842. It is one of the oldest learned societies in America, and is the oldest devoted to a particular field of scholarship.
The Society encourages basi ...
* ARAM –
ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies
Aram may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Aram'' (film), 2002 French action drama
* Aram, a fictional character in Japanese manga series ''MeruPuri''
* Aram Quartet, an Italian music group
* ''Aram'' (Kural book), the first of the three ...
* ASOR –
American Schools of Oriental Research, Boston
*
British Institute for the Study of Iraq
The British Institute for the Study of Iraq (BISI) (formerly the British School of Archaeology in Iraq) is the only body in Britain devoted to research into the ancient civilizations and languages of Mesopotamia. It was founded in 1932 and its a ...
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CEHAO – Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente, Argentina
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Council for British Research in the Levant The Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) is a non-profit organisation that promotes humanities and social science research in the Levant. It consists of two research institutes, the Kenyon Institute in Jerusalem and the British In ...
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Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft
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The Melammu Project The Assyrian and Babylonian Intellectual Heritage Project, Helsinki.
*
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
*
Société Asiatique, Paris
Universities with major ANE centres
*
Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina
*
University of Chicago Oriental Institute
*
Columbia University
Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manha ...
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New York University Institute for Study of the Ancient World
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
*
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)
* AntOr –
Antiguo Oriente
''Antiguo Oriente'' is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Center of Studies of Ancient Near Eastern History (CEHAO) (Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, Buenos Aires). It is one of the few scholarly journals in the ...
* BASOR – ''
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research''
* CAD – ''Chicago Assyrian Dictionary''
* CHD – ''Chicago Hittite Dictionary''
*
ETANA – Electronic Tools and Ancient Neareastern Archives
*
ETCSL – Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, Oxford
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
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* JEOL – ''Jaarbericht Ex Oriente Lux''
* JESHO – ''Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient''
* JCS – ''Journal of Cuneiform Studies
The ''Journal of Cuneiform Studies'' was founded in 1947 by the Baghdad School of the American Schools of Oriental Research. The journal presents articles about ancient Mesopotamian language and history in English, French and German.
External l ...
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* 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
''Near Eastern Archaeology'' is an American Academic journal, journal covering art, archaeology, history, anthropology, literature, philology, and epigraphy of the Near Eastern and Mediterranean worlds from the Palaeolithic through Ottoman Empire, ...
* Revista del Instituto de Historia Antigua Oriental
* RLA – '' Reallexikon der Assyriologie''
* TUAT – ''Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testament'' 1982–1995, 2002
See also
* Genetic history of the Middle East
* Religions of the ancient Near East
The religions of the ancient Near East were mostly polytheistic, with some examples of monolatry (for example, Yahwism and Atenism). Some scholars believe that the similarities between these religions indicate that the religions are related, a be ...
/ Middle Eastern mythology
* Chronology of the ancient Near East
* Middle Eastern studies
References
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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"
Oriental studies
Ancient Near East