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Ancient Near Eastern History Subject Guide

Research Databases


(Consult this list for interdisciplinary databases)

ATLA Religion Database


Journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews on such topics as biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues.
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Historical Abstracts


Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts is the leading electronic bibliography for historical study with indexing for more than 2,000 journals. In addition to key historical journals from virtually every major country Historical Abstracts includes a selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities that are of special interest to researchers and students of history.
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JSTOR


JSTOR is a database consisting of only full-text articles from interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journals. Journals are included on the basis of number of subscribers the journal has, citation analysis, recommendations from experts in the field, and the length of time that the journal has been published. Coverage for each title begins with the first publication, with most titles ending coverage between three and five years ago.
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Reference Materials



Civilizations of the Ancient Near East

- DS57 .C55 1995
A 4-volume encyclopedia with 189 interpretive essays organized thematically. One can readily find specific topics through the cross-referencing and indexing, and find further resources through the bibliographies in each article.
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Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt

- DT58 .O94 2001
Contains 600 articles covering political, religious, economic, social, and intellectual topics from the predynastic era to the period of Roman rule. Good cross-references, index, and bibliographies. Available in print and online.
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Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Ancient Near East

- DS56 .O9 1997
A 5-volume encyclopedia prepared under the auspices of the American Schools of Oriental Research, edited by Eric M. Meyers. The geographic coverage is from pre-history through the Crusades, covering the eastern Mediterranean to Iran, the Anatolian peninsula to the Arabian peninsula, and Egypt, Cyprus, and parts of North and East Africa.
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Web Sources



ETANA: Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives


Contains ABZU, a guide to the study of the ancient Near East; and CORE TEXTS - Classic (public domain) texts for teaching and research
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Periodicals



ejournal locator (SFX)


The Hekman Library ejournal locator provides title and subject access to all the electronic journals subscribed to by the Hekman Library.
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History Subject Guide Librarian


Schemper, Lugene

Theological Librarian

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