About DAWFA

The Digital Archive of William Foxwell Albright (DAWFA) is a digital humanities project by Matthew J. Saunders, a PhD candidate in Hebrew Bible and Northwest Semitic Philology at Johns Hopkins. DAWFA is a searchable database of all of Albright’s published works, based in large part on David Noel Freedman, The Published Works of William Foxwell Albright: A Comprehensive Bibliography (American Schools of Oriental Research, 1975). Each work is assigned one permanent number, called a “DAWFA number.” For example, DAWFA A are Albright’s longer works, such as books and monographs, and DAWFA A.1 is his unpublished dissertation, The Assyrian Deluge Epic (see further on the Sections below).

N.b., Freedman gave a separate number to every printing, edition, and translation, so one book can fill a dozen of his entries. DAWFA does not. Each book is one record, regardless of the number of revised printings and editions. The record cites the latest edition in the original language, and lists every earlier printing, revised edition, and translation on that same page. DAWFA numbers follow the order of first publication within each section. They do not match Freedman’s numbers. Each record names the Freedman numbers it gathers, so the two lists can be set side by side. DAWFA A.10, for example, is From the Stone Age to Christianity in its 1957 Anchor edition. Freedman spread that book across A-12, A-13, A-15, A-18, A-20, A-22, A-26, A-27, A-36, A-38, A-39, and A-50.

In Phase One of the project, I added each bibliography entry as a single record. In the next phase (projected to be completed in 2027), I will also attach PDFs of all works which exist in the public domain to their respective entry for ease of access.