באו לא נתבלבל: המושג ״חייזר״ בקונטקסט האמור קשור לתיאוריות קונספירציה אנטישמיות של נאו-נאצים ועוד חברה טובים וההיסטוריה הולכת אחורה עד לפרוטוקולים של זקני ציון. אין כאן שום דבר ״חמוד״.

New book just out you may be interested in: Empires of Antiquities: Modernity and the Rediscovery of the Ancient Near East, 1914-1950 Billie Melman OUP Empires of Antiquities is a history of the rediscovery of the imperial civilizations of the ancient Near East

My new book, THE BABYLONIAN ŠUMMA IMMERU OMENS is at the printer's, and out soon. Do yourself a favour and order a copy - for yourself, family and friends, as well as your local library, before the print runs out.

Interested in Diplomacy and Border Disputes? See where it all started: three articles - all brought together under one title, “Forging an Empire” - dealing with the borders of the Hittite Empire in Syria at the 13th century BCE. telaviv.academia.edu/YoramCohen/Pap…

Hi Digital Assyriologists: We have managed to have the computer read cuneiform! (well, almost ...) See our Reading Akkadian cuneiform using natural language processing academia.edu/44389514/Readi… via Academia

The IOS Annual (the Israel Oriental Studies Annual) has been relaunched and is renewing its appearance. Volume 21 published by Brill will appear Dec 2021. We are now accepting contributions for Volume 22, which will appear in 2022. brill.com/view/serial/IO…

Are you saying that you hadn't yet read this? Four new articles about the Hunger Years, Bird omens, and Gilgamesh

Four new articles about the Hunger Years, Bird omens, Gilgamesh, and the Hurrians (this time with a link...😅) telaviv.academia.edu/YoramCohen/Pap…

Happy to tell you that two new volumes of IOS are now out! Merry Christmas and Happy Chanukah to all. Check them out at brill.com/display/serial…

Hebrew Woman - Speak Amorite!

And now for something completely different

A new article about - Grain Tribute in Hittite Syria and the Fall of Ugarit | Bulletin of the American Society of Overseas Research journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

סיפורה של אשור עם פרופסור יורם כהן youtu.be/jFxWIwXumVo via YouTube

Nothing better to do than read a paper on the Amarna Letters. It deals with scribal literacy, handwriting, and clay provenance. academia.edu/resource/work/…

Happy to announce the publication of IOS 24 - full of interesting stuff about Hittites and Anatolia, Egyptian and Ethiopian, South Arabian, and how Hasidic communities in America and Britain speak Hebrew. See brill.com/display/title/…

SHARED PROVERBS FROM THE CEDAR FOREST TABLET OF GILGAMESH AND QOHELET 4, 9-12 We reconstruct ll. 75-80 V, Epic of Gilgameš, comparing vv 9-12, 4 Qohelet (Ecclesiastes). We include a discussion of relationship b/t Gilgameš and Qohelet. academia.edu/128583538/A_SE… via Academia