December 16, 2002

JSTOR, the Scholarly Journal Archive, has the JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES (JNES) Vols. 1-55, 1942-1996, available for searching on their website. Also available are its predecessors, Hebraica , Vols. 1-11, 1884-1895; and The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures , Vols. 12-58, 1895-1941.

November 13, 2002

As part of its ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS ON-LINE, the Oriental Institute Publications Office announces one additional letter for the Chicago Demotic Dictionary, edited by Janet H. Johnson: B. This document is available as an Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) file.

September 26, 2002

Since the beginning of 2002 we have added some eleven thousand records to the on-line catalogue of the Oriental Institute Research Archives. We now have about 118,000 records in the on-line database.

Comments? Email Contact: oi-library@uchicago.edu

September 23, 2002

As part of its ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS ON-LINE, the Oriental Institute Publications Office announces an additional letter, Aleph, for the Chicago Demotic Dictionary, edited by Janet H. Johnson. This document is available as an Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) file.

September 16, 2002

Information regarding the development of the Online Edition of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary is now available.

September 16, 2002

The Epigraphic Survey has made available additional Chicago House Bulletins: Bulletin X, No. 1 (September 15, 1999); Bulletin XI, No. 1 (October 1999 - April 2000); and Bulletin XII, No. 1 (October 2000 - April 2001).

September 9, 2002

The Museum Education Department of the Oriental Institute is pleased to announce the launch of its new online Teacher Resource Center. Funded by a grant from the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation, the Teacher Resource Center includes teacher-developed lesson plans, in-depth descriptions and large images of key artifacts from our ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian collections, and an interactive area for children called "Kids' Corner."

August 30, 2002

The Epigraphic Survey homepage has been updated with information and photographs from their 2001-2002 season in Luxor, Egypt.

August 1, 2002

Norman Golb's article, The De Rossi Collection Of Hebrew Manuscripts At The Biblioteca Palatina And Its Importance For Jewish History, is now available. This document is in the Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF).

June 20, 2002

Six new/old articles are now available electronically from various Oriental Institute Research Project's:

June 19, 2002

Seven new/old articles are now available electronically from various Oriental Institute Research Project's:

June 18, 2002

Six new/old articles are now available electronically from various Oriental Institute Research Project's:

June 17, 2002

Six new/old articles are now available electronically from the Oriental Institute Museum and Oriental Institute Museum Volunteers Programs Home Pages:

June 12, 2002

The Oriental Institute Publications Office announces the publication of OIP 119. Theban Desert Road Survey in the Egyptian Western Desert, Volume 1: Gebel Tjauti Rock Inscriptions 1-45 and Wadi el-Hôl Rock Inscriptions 1-45. J. C. Darnell, with the assistance of D. Darnell and contributions by D. Darnell, R. Friedman, and S. Hendrickx.

Titles In Preparation and Forthcoming Titles has also been updated.

June 6, 2002

Eleven new/old articles are now available electronically from our Individual Scholarship and Membership Office Home Pages:

May 2, 2002

The Oriental Institute Publications Office announces the publication of Chicago Hittite Dictionary: S, fascicle 1 (sa- to saptamenzu), Hans G. Güterbock, Harry A. Hoffner, and Theo P. J. van den Hout.

April 8, 2002

On March 29th, the September-October 2001 Research Archives Acquisitions list was distributed to the 431 addresses subscribed to RABooks - the list which we rebuilt in February.

This document is also available on the web at:
http://oi-archive.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/RABooks.2001.9-10.html

Information on RABooks is available at the University's listhost Web site at:
https://listhost.uchicago.edu/mailman/listinfo/rabooks

as well as at the Oriental Institute Web site at:
http://oi-archive.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/RABooks.html

where each of the Acquisitions Lists we have broadcast are archived.

March 18, 2002

993 Archaeological Site Photographs from Mesopotamia (414 photos) and Egypt (579 photos), shot between 1973-1990 by John and Peggy Sanders are now available.

February 22, 2002

The Oriental Institute Publications Office announces the availability of its Print Publications Catalog - February 2002 in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF).

February 8, 2002

The 2000-2001 Oriental Institute Annual Report is now available. Links to its respective entires have been added to homepages of numerous Institute archaeological and philogical projects and departments.

February 6, 2002

The Oriental Institute Publications Office announces the publication of OIP 117. Seals on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets, Volume I: Images of Heroic Encounter. Mark B. Garrison and Margaret Cool Root.