Professor Richard Parkinson's blog for the British Museum discusses his current work in connection to a new commentary on the famous ancient Egyptian poem, The Tale of Sinuhe. This narrative about an official’s troubled life-story was written in about 1850 BC and survives in many manuscripts, including one in a collection of texts that was buried in a tomb at Luxor in around 1680 BC, and is now known as the Ramesseum papyri.
It is with profound sadness that we announce the death of our dear colleague Stefano Zacchetti (1968-2020), the Yehan Numata Professor of Buddhist Studies.
Taube Philanthropies/OCHJS Doctoral Scholarship in Hebrew and Jewish Studies
The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies has been awarded a grant by Taube Philanthropies toward the Taube Family Doctoral Student Scholarship Fund.
John Lowe has been awarded a five-year European Research Council Starting Grant for the project LINGUINDIC - Linguistics from India: new ideas for modern linguistics from ancient India.
