JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES. - A quarterly Protestant journal, published under the auspices of the University of Chicago. It began publication in Jan. 1942, under the editorship of G. G. Cameron. It deals with Egyptology, Semitic philology, Assyriology, and the culture and religion of Semitic peoples. Its principal contributors include J. Sainte Fare Garnot, P. Kahle, W. F. Albright, A. J. Festugière, and E. Wright. It frequently provides excellent reproductions of important manuscripts and documents.
It is the continuation of Hebraica, founded in 1884 under the editorship of W. R. Harper, which pursued chiefly philological aims and had excellent bibliographical lists. Its contributors included P. Haupt, S. R. Driver, T. K. Cheyne, and H. L. Strack. With vol. 11 (1895), it ceased to be called Hebraica and took the title American journal of semitic languages and literatures, which it retained until 1941 (vol. 58). The editorship was assumed by G. G. Cameron. Its principal contributors were M. Yastrow, E. G. Hirsch, G. F. Moore, and F. Brown.