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sag-dab-sar · 1 year ago

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📚Websites & Books for ANE Study📚

For the Ancinet Near East with a focus on religion. Plus some translated ancient texts and random articles.

This post has gone through like 12 revisions so reblogs will look different opps.

Please leave a comment if a link breaks I'll do my best to find a new one

Getting Started On Research

JSTOR Guide LINK

Lumenlearning Guide LINK

Center for Online Education Guide LINK

Layman's Guide to Online Research by @/sisterofiris LINK

How to Vet Sources by me LINK

Websites for ANE Study

ETCSL | The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature — http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/catalogue.htm

ePSD | The Electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary — http://psd.museum.upenn.edu/epsd-frame.html

ORACC | Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus — http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/

ORACC's Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses Project — http://oracc.iaas.upenn.edu/amgg/abouttheproject/index.html

ETANA | Electronic Tools & Ancient Near East Archive — http://etana.org/

CDLI | Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative — https://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/about

CAD | The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago — http://www.aina.org/cad.html

Livius' Babylonian Section — https://www.livius.org/category/babylonia/

Avaliable Online Books

When using older books be aware that there may be inaccuracies and out of date information. If at all possible cross-reference and synthesize with newer materials. I have added years for this reason.

How to Use Internet Archive Library — Link

Books Specifically on Religion

Leick & Black's dictionaries are good starting off points but I always use additional source's because some of Black's info and Leick's info in particular tends to be more out of date than other authors. Frayne's Dictionary is very new and updated. I use these 3 in combo often.

Gods Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia by Jeremy Black and Anthony Greene (1992) Internet Archive

Ancient Near Eastern Mythology by Gwendolyn Leick (1991) Internet Archive

A Handbook to Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Near East by Frayne and Stuckey (2021) Internet Archive

From Goddesses in Context: On Divine Powers, Roles, Relationships and Gender in Mesopotamian Textual and Visual Sources by Asher-Greve and Westenholz (2013) PDF

The Cultic Calendars of the Ancient Near East by Mark Cohen (1993) PDF

Preforming Death Social Analysis of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Near East and Medditarian edited by Nicola Laneri (2007) PDF

Mesopotamian Ritual-prayers of “Hand-lifting”(Akkadian Šuillas) by Christopher G Frechette (2012) Internet Archive

When Gods Were Men: The Embodied God in Biblical and Near Eastern Literature by Esther Hamon (2008) Internet Archive

Books on ANE History in General

Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia by Stephen Bertman (2005) Google Books | Not avaliable online BUT highly recommended, easy read.

A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000- 323BC by Marc Van de Mieroop (2016) Internet Archive

Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia by Jean Bottero (1992) Internet Archive

Women in the Ancient Near East by Marten Stol (2016) Open Access

Chapter 3 Elamite from The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Ancient World Languages edited by Roger Wooard (2004) PDF

Sumerian Art by Andre Parrot (1970) Digital Library

The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Including the Demotic Spells edited by Hans Dieter Betz (1986) PDF (If that link breaks Google Books)

Translations

The Harps That Once by Thorkild Jacobsen Google Books

The Project Gutenberg Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms by Stephen Langdon PDF

Project Gutenberg's Sumerian Hymns, by Frederick Augustus Vanderburgh LINK

Ancient Near East Anthology of Texts and Pictures edited by Pritchard 1st Edition Internet Archive

A Hymn to Tammuz (Cuneiform Texts from the British Museum, Tablet 15821, Plate 18) J. Dyneley Prince (1909) JSTOR

Ludlul Bel Nemegi by Alan Lenzi the Akkadian "Poem of the Righteous Sufferer" LINK

The Flood Myths LINK

Enūma Eliš Translations: L W King Translation 1902 LINK | ETANA Translation LINK | Composite Translation LINK

Code of Ur-Nammu LINK

Code of Liptin Ishtar LINK

Articles

Random Assortment Because Mobile Link Limit

The Mesopotamian Pandemonium by Frans Wiggerman LINK

Phenomenon of God-nap in Ancient Mesopotamia A Short Introduction Erika D. Johnson LINK

Preforming Death Social Analysis of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Near East and Medditarian edited by Nicola Laneri LINK

New Year Ceremonies in Ancient Babylon: 'Taking Bel by the Hand' and a Cultic Picnic Religion Jeremy A Black LINK

Tablet of Destinies and the Transmission of Power in Enūma eliš by Karen Sonik LINK

Theology and Worship in Elam and Achaemenid Iran by Koch LINK

The Four Winds and the Origins of Pazuzu by Frans Wiggermann LINK

Evil against evil. The Demon Pazuzu by Nils P Heeßel LINK

New Readings in the Amarna Versions of Adapa and Nergal and Ereshkigal by Shlomo Izre'el LINK

Sumerian Texts Involving The Netherworld and Funerary Offerings by Jeremiah Peterson LINK

The Origin of the Mystical Number Seven in Mesopotamian Culture: Division by Seven in the Sexagesimal Number System by Kazuo Muroi LINK

Athirat: As Found at Ras Shamra Justin Watkins LINK

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deadstonemasonssociety · 2 years ago

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Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative

By making the form and content of cuneiform texts available online, the CDLI is opening pathways to the rich historical tradition of the ancient Middle East. In close collaboration with researchers, museums and an engaged public, the project seeks to unharness the extraordinary content of these earliest witnesses to our shared world heritage.

#cuniform #translation #library

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christianworldf · 6 years ago

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New Post has been published on Christian Worldview Institute

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Dating Daniel: Prophecy or History?

The Book of Daniel has traditionally been considered an amazing prophecy, as it was supposedly written around the 6th century BCE, but predicted events that would come to pass centuries later. In this video, we examine the dating of the writing of the Book of Daniel – exactly how old is ‘old’, and was it written before the events it predicts, or after they had already taken place?

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For general information and sources relating to the Ancient Near East, we recommend these websites: ABZU – https://bit.ly/2Cr1A8u (collection of free and open-access data) University of Chicago Oriental Institute – https://bit.ly/2RcIiMl (great collection of free books and articles) Livius.org – https://bit.ly/2Gzj5rx (general encyclopedia on the ancient world) ETCSL – https://bit.ly/2QJsAZS (Sumerian literature) ORACC – https://bit.ly/2QJsL7u (collection of projects relating to Mesopotamia) EPSD – https://bit.ly/2PY99aw (Online Sumerian dictionary) CDLI – https://cdli.ucla.edu (Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative)

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tomsci-the-dwjehuter · 3 years ago

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Instead of telling people they're lazy, be the change you want to see in the world and make it easier for them to access quality information.

That being said, I am in a mesopotamian polytheist server and so I happen to have some resources!

nevermind that I have never used them because my brain just emotionally refuses

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12uE9DSrxjxcOlwwFJAIhk9yRvc6e52ENvIC3tbWTGGk/edit?usp=sharing

As a revivalist wannabe-recon polytheist I think some things need to be recognized:

Not everyone has access to the newest most well researched data, and may rely on old sources because they are available

Not everyone has access to university or academic material in general

Not everyone has the skills or experience to read academically dense text even if they do have access

I hate anti-intellectualism, I hate misinformation, and I love learning the history of the practices I base my religion on. But, having access to, and the ability to understand, the best sources is a luxury. My blog's easiest days to make posts with information was 2017- mid 2019. Why? I was a university student with major database access and in 2017 specifically I had a library I could walk to in like 5 minutes. I don't have either now so posts with a research component take longer to make.

In other words, don't act like every polytheist or pagan has the same access to information and knowledge as you do. Or that they're being "lazy" in their practice by not researching.

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christianworldf · 6 years ago

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New Post has been published on Christian Worldview Institute

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Evidence for the Exodus? An Egyptologist's Perspective - Interview with Dr. Maggie Bryson

Perhaps no story is more central to the Hebrew Bible than the Exodus from Egypt. The historicity of the event spoken of in the Bible has long been debated, though many still consider the matter to be quite certain. We are very fortunate to be joined by Dr. Maggi Bryson, a brilliant Egyptologist, who will share her perspective on this controversial topic.

For a recent publication on studies concerning the Exodus, see Thomas Levy, et al. (eds.), Israel’s Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective: Text, Archaeology, Culture, and Geoscience (2015 edition) [https://www.amazon.com/Israels-Exodus-Transdisciplinary-Perspective-Quantitative/dp/3319047671/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?crid=2KUCURNN6LSAM&keywords=israel%27s+exodus+in+transdisciplinary+perspective&qid=1554570824&s=gateway&sprefix=exodus+transfix%2Caps%2C121&sr=8-1-fkmrnull]

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