Ancient Near East Research
Academic research skill for Biblical Hebrew, Semitic linguistics, cuneiform studies, and comparative Ancient Near Eastern research. Provides Sefaria API for Hebrew Bible, CDLI/ORACC for cuneiform databases, and web discovery via Omnisearch, Exa, Firecrawl, and Obscura for finding scholarly sources across JSTOR, Perseus, Persée, Google Scholar, and academia.edu. Triggers on Hebrew quotes, cuneiform, Sefaria, ANE research, Minoan, search for scholarship, find papers, literature review, scholarly search, academic search, Genesis/Tehom, Ugaritic, Talmudic sources, extract from PDF, OCR academic.
npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill ancient-near-east-research --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
## Additional Triggers This skill should also be activated for: - **Gnostic/Orphic**: "Nag Hammadi", "Sethian", "Gnostic", "Orphic", "On the Origin of the World", "demiurge" - **Etymology**: "purple etymology", "tip'eret", "p-r root", "Membliaros", "Kadmos", "Europa" - **Minoan parallels**: "Moses-Minos", "Bezalel-Daedalus", "Kaphtor", "Caphtor", "Linear A" - **OCR/tools**: "extract from PDF", "OCR academic", "compile quotations", "theme categorization" - **Paper research**: "Thera eruption", "Tempest Stela", "primordial waters", "Gaza as Minoa", "Manat" - **JSTOR**: "search JSTOR", "JSTOR article", "download from JSTOR", "saved articles", "academic database" - **Web Discovery**: "find papers about", "search for scholarship", "literature search", "Google Scholar", "academic search", "find sources", "discover research", "omnisearch", "Exa search" - **Source Extraction**: "extract from URL", "scrape academic page", "stealth fetch", "parse PDF URL", "get abstract from JSTOR" # Ancient Near East Research Academic research assistant for Biblical Hebrew, Semitic linguistics, and comparative Ancient Near Eastern studies. ## Core Capabilities 1. **Sefaria API** - Fetch Hebrew Bible passage
- Additional Triggers
- Core Capabilities
- Sefaria API Usage
- Fetching Texts
- Running the Fetch Script
- Direct API Calls
- Key Passages for ANE Comparative Research
- Cuneiform Database Resources
- Web Discovery & Source Extraction
- Source Escalation Ladder
- Tier 1: Omnisearch (Broad Discovery)
- Tier 2: Exa Neural Search (Domain-Filtered)
- Tier 3: Firecrawl (Page Extraction & PDF Parsing)
- Tier 4: Obscura Stealth Extraction (Bot-Protected Sites)
python3 ~/.claude/skills/ancient-near-east-research/scripts/fetch_sefaria.py "Genesis 1:1-3" python3 ~/.claude/skills/ancient-near-east-research/scripts/fetch_sefaria.py "Exodus 20:2" --hebrew-only python3 ~/.claude/skills/ancient-near-east-research/scripts/fetch_sefaria.py "Isaiah 45:7" --with-rashi Basic verse fetch curl -s "https://www.sefaria.org/api/v3/texts/Genesis.1.2" Search for Hebrew term curl -s "https://www.sefaria.org/api/search-wrapper?query=תהום&type=text&filters=Tanakh" Broad ANE topic discovery python3 ~/.claude/skills/omnisearch/scripts/omnisearch.py "Minoan Semitic linguistic connections" --academic Parallel multi-provider search for corroboration
What does the Ancient Near East Research skill do?
Academic research skill for Biblical Hebrew, Semitic linguistics, cuneiform studies, and comparative Ancient Near Eastern research. Provides Sefaria API for Hebrew Bible, CDLI/ORACC for cuneiform databases, and web discovery via Omnisearch, Exa, Firecrawl, and Obscura for finding scholarly sources across JSTOR, Perseus, Persée, Google Scholar, and academia.edu. Triggers on Hebrew quotes, cuneiform, Sefaria, ANE research, Minoan, search for scholarship, find papers, literature review, scholarly search, academic search, Genesis/Tehom, Ugaritic, Talmudic sources, extract from PDF, OCR academic.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill ancient-near-east-research --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From majiayu000/claude-skill-registry, a repository with 534 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.