Journal of Near Eastern Studies
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| description | cultural-historical and archaeological journal |
| Area of Expertise | Assyriology , Egyptology , Hittitology , Biblical History and related subjects, Islamic Studies |
| language | English |
| publishing company | University of Chicago Press ( United States ) |
| Headquarters | Chicago |
| First edition | 1884 |
| Frequency of publication | half-yearly |
| editor | University of Chicago Press |
| Web link | www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jnes |
| ISSN (print) | 0022-2968 |
The Journal of Near Eastern Studies , founded in 1884 and initially published as Hebraica , is dedicated to the cultures and history of the Middle East, with a time frame ranging from prehistory to the end of the Ottoman Empire , i.e. until 1922. The focus of the paper published by the University of Chicago Press is on the one hand on Assyriology , Egyptology , Hittitology , Biblical history and the associated subjects, and on the other hand on Islamic studies with an emphasis on the period between early and early modern Islam. Accordingly, the main disciplines represented are history and languages, religion and literature, archeology and art history.
Initially the focus was on Old Testament studies, but in line with the changed scope of the subject, the journal was renamed the American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures in 1895 , after it had first appeared as Hebraica . The sheet was given its current title in 1942.
The journal appears every six months, with a division into specialist articles on the one hand and reviews on the other.