This page lists (and links to) various journals and monograph series central to the field of the Near Eastern studies from the ancient periods through the medieval Middle East.
- Ancient Languages and Civilizations
- See esp. ALAC 1: Al-Jallad, The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia: A Reconstruction Based on the Safaitic Inscriptions (2022)
- Ancient Magic and Divination (highly recommended)
- Aramaic Studies (journal; edited by Aaron Michael Butts; highly recommended)
- Assyriological Studies (open access series from ISAC)
- Biblical Interpretation Series
- Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (open access from ISAC)
- Chicago Demotic Dictionary (open access from ISAC)
- Chicago Hittite Dictionary (open access from ISAC)
- Culture and History of the Ancient Near East
- Cuneiform Monographs
- Currents in Biblical Research (open access journal; highly recommended)
- Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1, The Near and Middle East
- Harvard Egyptological Studies
- Harvard Semitic Monographs (highly recommended)
- Harvard Semitic Studies (highly recommended)
- ISAC Museum Publications (open access from ISAC)
- See esp. ISACMP 1: Paulus, ed., Back to School in Babylonia (2023)
- ISAC Seminars (open access from ISAC)
- Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Near East (open access from ISAC)
- See esp. LAMINE 2: Al-Jallad, The Damascus Psalm Fragment: Middle Arabic and the Legacy of Old Ḥigāzī (2020)
- See esp. LAMINE 3: Donner and Hasselbach-Andee, eds., Scripts and Scripture: Writing and Religion in Arabia circa 500–700 CE (2022)
- Materials for the Assyrian Dictionary (open access from ISAC)
- Miscellaneous Publications of ISAC (open access from ISAC)
- Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies
- Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires (open access journal; highly recommended)
- Old Testament Abstracts (journal; highly recommended)
- Oriental Institute Communications (open access from ISAC)
- Oriental Institute Digital Archives (open access from ISAC)
- Oriental Institute Museum Publications (open access from ISAC)
- Oriental Institute Publications (open access from ISAC)
- Studia Semitica Neerlandica
- Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization (open access from ISAC)
- See esp. SAOC 73: Hardy, Lam, and Reymond, eds., “Like ‘Ilu Are You Wise”: Studies in Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures in Honor of Dennis G. Pardee (2022)
- See esp. SAOC 67: Hasselbach and Pat-El, eds., Language and Nature: Papers Presented to John Huehnergard on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (2012)
- See also SAOC 60: Miller, ed., Studies in Semitic and Afroasiatic Linguistics Presented to Gene B. Gragg (2007)
- Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics Online
- Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant
- See esp. SAHL 2: Schloen, The House of the Father As Fact and Symbol (2001)
- Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah
- Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism
- The History of Oriental Studies
- Vetus Testamentum Supplements
- To be continued