ETANA is a multi-institutional collaborative project initiated in August 2000, as an electronic publishing project designed to enhance the study of the history and culture of the ancient Near East.
The founding institutions and associations that conceived and implemented this project were:
- American Oriental Society
- American Schools of Oriental Research
- Case Western Reserve University
- Cobb Institute of Archeology
- Oriental Institute (University of Chicago)
- Society of Biblical Literature
- Vanderbilt University Divinity School
- Vanderbilt University Library
- Vanderbilt University Press
The Mellon grant funded the conversion of ABZU from a collection of static html pages to a database delivery platform, the digitization of almost 200 volumes of core materials for the study of the Ancient Near East, and the development of the web portal.
Professor Jack Sasson of Vanderbilt University conceived of the eTACT database, based on discussions at the Muenster Rencontre in 2006, a collection of English language translations of Akkadian texts, which was added to the ETANA portal in 2007.
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http://www.etana.org