GRBS is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal devoted to the
culture and history of Greece from Antiquity to the Renaissance,
featuring research on all aspects of the Hellenic world from prehistoric
antiquity through the Greek, Roman, and Byzantine periods, including
studies of modern classical scholarship.
Vol. 66 No. 1 (2026): Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
Die Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie (ZOrA) enthält
ausführliche und grundlegende Beiträge zu den neuesten internationalen
Forschungen auf dem Gebiet der Archäologie der Levante, Mesopotamiens
und der Arabischen Halbinsel und möchte zudem überregionale
Forschungsperspektiven stärker in den Vordergrund rücken. Das
Publikationsorgan steht allen AutorInnen offen, die zur Archäologie und
Geschichte der genannten Regionen beitragen möchten. Angenommen werden
insbesondere „Synthesen". Zudem steht die ZOrA allen DAI-Projekten als
Organ auch für ihre 'Berichte aus laufender Forschung' offenAktuelle Ausgabe
Die Arbeit ist eine kritische Neuedition eines der wichtigsten Texte der
mesopotamischen Geschichtsschreibung, der sogenannten 'Sumerischen
Königsliste'. Sie umfasst eine Analyse der materiellen Eigenschaften der
Manuskripte, eine manuskriptbasierte, kritische Edition, ein Vergleich
der unteschiedlichen Textvarianten, eine Rekonstruktion der
Textgeschichte und der damit verbundenen unterschiedlichen
Geschichtsvorstellungen vom frühen bis Jahrtausend v. Chr. bis hinein in
die Mitte des dritten Jahrtausends.
Ministries of Song is a tour-de-force study of the power of
women’s liturgical singing in late antique Syriac Christianity.
Extending women’s religious participation beyond the familiar roles of
female saints and nobles, Syriac churches cultivated a flourishing
tradition of women’s sacred song. Susan Ashbrook Harvey brings this
music to life as she uncovers the ways these now-nameless women
performed a boldly sung teaching ministry and invited congregations to
respond aloud. Harvey demonstrates how these choirs helped to shape the
formative ethical and moral ideals of their congregations and
communities. Women’s voices, both real and imagined, enriched the ritual
and devotional lives of Syriac Christians daily and weekly, on
ecclesial and civic special occasions, in sorrow or joy, with
authoritative theological significance and social and political
resonance. Arguing for the importance of liturgy as social history,
Harvey shows us how and why women’s voices mattered for ancient Syriac
Christianity and why they matter still.
“This rich and compelling book offers the first focused history of
Syriac women’s choirs in late antiquity and beyond. Harvey gives humane
voice to an institution that has been overlooked for too long.”
— Jeffrey Wickes, University of Notre Dame
“An enthralling guide to the vitality of women’s choirs and their
unique portrayals of storied biblical women in ancient Syriac Christian
worship. Through her unparalleled gifts as a storyteller and historian,
Harvey reveals how drama and devotion intertwine in these dynamic ritual
settings. A seismic achievement!” — Georgia Frank, Colgate University
Susan Ashbrook Harvey is the Willard Prescott and Annie McClelland
Smith Professor of History and Religion at Brown University. She is the
author of Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination.
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.