On Monday, December 2, 2024, Ashley Sterner’s interview with Prof. Glenn Schwartz on his discovery of cylinders with early alphabetic writing and recent ASOR book award airs during ‘On the […]
The Department of Near Eastern Studies is proud and happy to announce that Prof. Glenn M. Schwartz has received this year’s G. Ernest Wright Award from the American Society of […]
Isadora (Issy) Dellheim passed away at the age of 93 on August 5, 2024, and, less than two months later, her husband Arthur Dellheim passed away at the age of […]
Jacob Lauinger, Associate Professor of Assyriology in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, and Zeynep Türker, a PhD student in Assyriology, were recently featured in articles by CNN and Forbes discussing the discovery of […]
The Department of Near Eastern Studies is pleased to announce that Dr. Alice Mandell, the William Foxwell Albright Chair in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, has received both the […]
Isadora (Issy) Dellheim passed away at the age of 93 on August 5, 2024. She and her husband Arthur have been staunch friends of the department since the 1980’s. For […]
The Department of Near Eastern Studies is proud to announce the happy news that Rosanne Liebermann, a 2019 graduate from the Hebrew Bible/Northwest Semitic Philology program, has been promoted to the […]
The Department of Near Eastern Studies is proud to announce that Alison Wilkinson, a PhD student at Johns Hopkins, received the First Prize for Best Student Paper at the American Research […]
The theme of this year’s Lavy Colloquium is Jewish Monumentality. Welcome and Opening Remarks begins at 9:00am on Monday, May 6. The lineup of speakers include Aviva Ben-Ur, Elizabeth Bloch-Smith, […]
Dr. Timothy Harrison, Director of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, will give the 2024 William Foxwell Albright lecture titled “Portraits of a Forgotten Kingdom: The Tayinat Sculptures […]