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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 […]
Animals, Ancestors, and Ritual in Early Bronze Age Syria: An Elite Mortuary Complex from Umm el-Marra, edited by Johns Hopkins professor Glenn M. Schwartz, is a final report of the […]
Dr. Petra Creamer, Assistant Professor at Emory University, will present a lecture titled “The Other Side of the Empire: Rural Spaces Under Assyrian Control” on Thursday, March 7th, 2024. The […]
The Department of Near Eastern Studies is proud to announce that Morganne Ottobre, a PhD student at Johns Hopkins, won ASOR’s student paper award for her paper on the bilingual […]
It is with tremendous sadness that we learned of the passing of Marc Blum on Tuesday, August 15th, 2023. Marc was a great and true friend to us in the […]