Enhancing the "Encyclopedia of Egyptology"

Recipient: Wendrich, Willemina Z (Los Angeles, CA 90095-1511 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA)

Goal: The second phase of development of an online encyclopedia with 1,000 peer-reviewed entries averaging 1,500 words on the history and culture of Egypt from 5500 B.C. to A.D. 641.

Description: Studying ancient Egypt means entering the complex whole of the history, beliefs, and practices of one of the earliest civilizations, which continues to fascinate scholars, students, and the general public until today. The abundance, magnificence and antiquity of the artifacts and other source materials force scholars to cooperate across disciplines and to continue to search for ever more efficient ways of storing, accessing and evaluating data. To encourage interdisciplinary studies and to prevent the wide dispersal of scientific results, the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology has as its goal to create a web-based comprehensive encyclopedia of about 4,000 entries on ancient Egypt, which will be the standard, updateable reference work in the field of Egyptology and related disciplines.

Grant: 189797 / PW-50095-08,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources,   Year Awarded: 2008

Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon [CAL]

Recipient: Kaufman, Stephen A (Cincinnati, OH 45220 USA) in affiliation with Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati

Goal: Technical consultation for publishing and maintaining an online, citation-based dictionary of all dialects of ancient Aramaic from the 10th century B.C. to A.D. 1400.

Description: The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project was launched in 1986, its target a traditional citation-based academic lexicon. The project has been supported by generous private and public grants, and has already produced many acclaimed interim reference publications in the area of Aramaic studies and has become the major online research site in this important field. Aramaic language and literature are of great significance for humanistic and religious studies, particularly for ancient history, biblical studies, Judaism, the development of Islamic science and philosophy, church history, history of religions, folklore, the history of law, and Gnosticism. This application is for a two year project to complete the systematic formatting and arrangement of all of our lexical data. At the end of that period it is planned that the complete dictionary itself will be available online as a "live" database.

Grant: 189704 / PW-50002-08,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources,   Year Awarded: 2008

The Arabic Novel in Translation

Recipient: Allen, Roger M (Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 USA) in affiliation with Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA 19081 USA)

Goal: A four-week summer seminar for fifteen high school teachers on the Arabic novel.

Description: The aim of this seminar will be to introduce 15 high-school teacher-participants to a literary tradition with which relatively few teachers in this country are familiar, that of Arabic, and more specifically to modern Arabic fiction and its cultural context.

Grant: 187047 / FV-50161-07,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2007

Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon [CAL]

Recipient: Kaufman, Stephen A (Cincinnati, OH 45220 USA) in affiliation with Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati

Goal: The preparation of a multivolume, citation-based dictionary of all dialects of ancient Aramaic from the tenth century B.C. to 1400 A.D.

Grant: 168010 / PA-50637-04,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation/Access Projects,   Year Awarded: 2004

A Cultural Heritage Initiative for Ancient Iraq

Recipient: Englund, Robert Keith (Los Angeles, CA 90095-1511 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA)

Goal: The development of an online catalog of cuneiform tablets at the Iraq National Museum that documents Mesopotamian civilization from 3300 B.C. until the Christian era.

Grant: 168205 / PI-50001-04,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Iraqi Cultural Heritage Initiative,   Year Awarded: 2004

Aramaic in Post-Biblical Judaism and Early Christianity

Recipient: Meyers, Eric M (Durham, NC 27708 USA) in affiliation with Duke University

Goal: A six-week seminar for 15 college teachers offering instruction in three key dialects of Aramaic and study of related historical, archaeological, social, and religious contexts.

Grant: 165493 / FS-50010-03,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for College Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2003

Enhancement of Spanish Program

Recipient: McIver, Barbara B (Orangeburg, SC 29115 USA) in affiliation with Claflin University

Goal: Improvements to the quality of Spanish language instruction at this historically black university through the purchase of additional equipment, new library acquisitions, and improved technology.

Grant: 157686 / HI-20845-01,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Presidentially Designated Institutions,   Year Awarded: 2001

Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon [CAL]

Recipient: Kaufman, Stephen A (Cincinnati, OH 45220 USA) in affiliation with Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati

Goal: The research and preparation of a multi-volume citation-based dictionary of Aramaic, an ancient Near Eastern language used at the time of Christ. Work on Christian Palestianian, Syriac, Jewish, and Mandaic Aramaic will be undertaken.

Grant: 158053 / PA-23459-00,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation/Access Projects,   Year Awarded: 2000

Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon [CAL]

Recipient: Kaufman, Stephen A (Cincinnati, OH 45220 USA) in affiliation with Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati

Goal: To support the completion of camera-ready copy for the DICTIONARY OF JEWISH BABYLONIAN ARAMAIC and the completion of 50 percent of the entries for the DICTIONARY OF JEWISH LITERARY ARAMAIC TRADITION.

Grant: 157879 / PA-22840-96,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation/Access Projects,   Year Awarded: 1996

Arabic Language and Culture National Institute for Secondary School Teachers

Recipient: Alosh, Mahdi (Columbus, OH 43210-0000 USA) in affiliation with Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, OH 43212 USA)

Goal: To support a three-year national project that will include a five-week insti- tute each summer on the Arabic language and culture, for high school teachers of social studies and languages in Columbus, Ohio, and at Amman, Jordan.

Grant: 142139 / EF-20216-94,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Special Opportunity in Foreign Language Education,   Year Awarded: 1994

A Summer Institute for Teachers of Hebrew at the Secondary and Post-Secondary Levels

Recipient: Gollan, Ruth (Waltham, MA 02254 USA) in affiliation with Brandeis University

Goal: To support a four-week summer institute for 20 high school and post-secondary teachers that will enhance the teaching of modern Hebrew and develop the requisite materials.

Grant: 142128 / EF-20161-93,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Special Opportunity in Foreign Language Education,   Year Awarded: 1993

WRITINGS FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD

Recipient: Parker, Simon B (Boston, MA 02215 USA) in affiliation with Society of Biblical Literature (Decatur, GA 30033 USA)

Goal: To support translation of primary secular and religious sources on the ancient Near East. Four volumes are planned: one on Hittite diplomacy, another on the beginnings of monotheism, one on Egyptian ritual, and the last on Ugarit myth.

Grant: 160204 / RL-21872-92,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Translations,   Year Awarded: 1992

Arabic Materials Development Project

Recipient: Al-Batal, Mahmoud (Atlanta, GA 30322-0000 USA) in affiliation with Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT 05753 USA)

Goal: To support the development of materials to use in teaching Arabic in its cultural context that will integrate formal written Arabic with the most widely spoken form.

Grant: 142093 / EF-20011-91,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Special Opportunity in Foreign Language Education,   Year Awarded: 1991

Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon [CAL]

Recipient: Kaufman, Stephen A (Cincinnati, OH 45220 USA) in affiliation with Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati

Goal: To support the preparation of a comprehensive lexicon of Aramaic, a major an- cient language, that will cover all ancient dialects, based on a new compila- tion of Aramaic literature from 925 B.C. to A.D. 1400.

Grant: 161298 / RT-21181-90,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Reference Materials - Tools,   Year Awarded: 1990

A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic

Recipient: Sokoloff, Michael W (Israel) in affiliation with Bar-Ilan University

Goal: To support the preparation of a dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, the dialect of the Jewish community of the Sasanian Period, 3rd to 7th century.

Grant: 161266 / RT-21038-89,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Reference Materials - Tools,   Year Awarded: 1989

Writings from the Ancient World 5: Hittite Myths

Recipient: Parker, Simon B (Boston, MA 02215 USA) in affiliation with Society of Biblical Literature (Decatur, GA 30033 USA)

Goal: To support the translation of a volume of Hittite myths in the series "Writingsfrom the Ancient World," which provides new information on the civilizations ofEgypt, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and Syro-Palestine.

Grant: 160090 / RL-21199-88,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Translations,   Year Awarded: 1988

Chicago Assyrian Dictionary [CAD]

Recipient: Reiner, Erica (Chicago, IL 60637 USA) in affiliation with University of Chicago

Goal: To support work on the CHICAGO ASSYRIAN DICTIONARY, an encyclopedia repository of the material culture; the legal, social, economic and political institutions; and the technical, medical, and scientific heritage of ancient Mesopotamia.

Grant: 161174 / RT-20609-85,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Reference Materials - Tools,   Year Awarded: 1985

Dialects and Languages of Iran

Recipient: Windfuhr, Gernot L (Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 USA) in affiliation with University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA)

Goal: To support an investigation of Iranian languages and dialects, making use of linguistic theory, linguistic history, and new linguistic data.

Grant: 160316 / RO-20907-85,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Basic Research,   Year Awarded: 1985

Chicago Assyrian Dictionary [CAD]

Recipient: Reiner, Erica (Chicago, IL 60637 USA) in affiliation with University of Chicago

Goal: To provide continuing support for "The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary."

Grant: 139519 / RT-20346-83,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Reference Materials - Tools,   Year Awarded: 1983

Computer-based Type Font Design and Typesetting System for Armenian

Recipient: Markosian, Lawrence Z (Stanford, CA 94305 USA) in affiliation with Armenian Assembly Charitable Trust (Washington, DC 20005 USA)

Goal: To provide supplementary support for development of a computer-based type font design and typesetting system for the Armenian language.

Grant: 139480 / RT-20233-82,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Reference Materials - Tools,   Year Awarded: 1982