Sebastian Fink – Hans Neumann: Vorwort

Silvia Alaura – Marco Bonechi: Dreaming of an International Discipline. Archibald H. Sayce, Cosmopolitanism and Assyriology at Oxford

Netanel Anor: Jaacov Peremen and the Notarikon: a Case of Anti-Sumerist Revival in Mid-Twentieth Century Palestine 

Sanna Aro: Impassioned Cuneiformists: Finish Assyriologists in search of clay tablets and networking with the international community of scholars (from Eneberg to Parpola)

Nicole Brisch: The Earliest History of Assyriology in Denmark: Friedrich Münter, Freemason, Illuminati, and Proto-Assyriologist

Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum: Das Konzept des „Despotismus“ und die Erforschung altorientalischer Gesellschaften im 20. Jh. n. Chr.

Vladimir Emilianov: Woldemar Georg Schileico: His Life and Contribution to Knowledge

Stefania Ermidoro: Layard and the first Assyriologists

Peeter Espak – Vladimir Sazonov: The Origin of Estonian Ancient Near Eastern studies from the 19th Century and its developments until the present day

Thomas L. Gertzen: Babel and Bible: Assyriology and Anti-Semitism

Ludger Hiepel: The Institutionalization of Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Münster. The nomination of Hubert Grimme, the foundation of the Oriental Seminar and the differentiation into independent seminars and institutes

Bernhard Hurch – Angelika Kellner: Der Kaukasus als Berührungspunkt der Sprachwissenschaft mit der Assyriologie. Der Briefwechsel zwischen Hugo Schuchardt und Carl Friedrich Lehmann-Haupt

Magdalena Kapełuś: Ignacy Radinski (1843–1920) – un assyriologue polonais

Reiko Maeshima: The establishment of the Babylonian society and the “transplantation” of the Sumerology in Japan in the Early Years in the Twentieth Century: The Influence of Panbabylonism and “Sumerian Problem” to Asia

Hans Neumann: Die institutionellen und wissenschaftspolitischen Rahmenbedingungen der Altorientalistik in der DDR im Spannungsfeld von Kontinuität und Wandel

Luděk Vacín – Jitka Sýkorová: The Beginnings of Czech Assyriology: A Reassessment

Agnès Garcia Ventura – Jordi Vidal: Strengthening Ties: Assessing the Presence of Spanish Scholars at International Conferences devoted to Ancient Near Eastern Studies (1948-1983)

Guangsheng Wang – Michela Piccin – Sven Günther: Alternative Perspectives from the Far East: Ancient Near Eastern Studies (including Egypt) in China

Abraham Winitzer: Toward Leo Oppenheim’s Dead Civilization and Stream of Tradition