Yoram Cohen

· Current Position

2017-Present: Full Professor. Tel Aviv University. Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures.

· Previous Positions

1995-1997: Tel-Aviv University. Junior Teaching Assistant.

1998-2000: Harvard University. Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Teaching Fellow.

2002: Oxford University, Oxford. Dept. of Linguistics and Philology. Language Tutor.

2004-2007: Tel Aviv University. Archaeology and ANE Cultures. Lecturer.

2007-2012: Tel Aviv University. Archaeology and ANE. Tenured Senior Lecturer.

2012-2017: Tel Aviv University. Archaeology and ANE Cultures. Associate Professor.

2015-Present: Venice International University, Ca’Foscari, Humanities Seminar: Invited Lecturer.

2017, December: Erasmus+ Fellow, Complutense University, Madrid.

· Degrees

B.A. 1992-1995: Tel Aviv University. Archaeology and Classics, Latin.

M.A. 1995-1997: Tel Aviv University. Archaeology, Near Eastern Studies.

Ph.D. 1997-2003: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. Assyriology.

· Abbreviated List of Publications (last 10 years)

Books

2002. Taboos and Prohibitions in Hittite Society: A Study of the Hittite Expression natta āra. Heidelberg, Carl Winter Universitatsverlag.

2009. The Scribes and Scholars of the City of Emar in the Late Bronze Age. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns.

2013. Wisdom from the Late Bronze Age. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature.

2019 (sent to publisher). The šumma immeru Omens: A Study of Textual Transmission, Reception and Standardization, Zaphon.

Edited Books/Procedures

Yasur-Landau, A. (co-editor). 2005. Between East and West: Eretz Israel and the Ancient Near East-Intercultural Ties and Innovation in the Second Millennium BCE (Papers of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology Annual Symposium, April 29, 2004). Tel Aviv 32.2.

d’Alfonso, L. and D. Sürenhagen (co-editors). 2008. The City of Emar among the Late Bronze Age Empires: Chronology, Environment, Society: Proceedings of the Konstanz-Emar Conference, 25–6 April 2006. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag.

Gilan, A. and J. Miller (co-editors). 2010. Pax Hethitica: Studies on the Hittites and Their Neighbours in Honour of Itamar Singer. Wiesbaden: Harrasssowitz.

2018. Nebucchadnezzer: History, Archaeology and Memory. Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 7.1.

Journal Articles

2010. “‘Enlil and Namzitarra’: The Emar and Ugarit Manuscripts and a New Understanding of the ‘Vanity Theme’ Speech.” RA 104: 87–97.

2011. “The Administration of Cult in Hittite Emar.” AoF 38: 145–157.

2012. “The Ugu-mu Fragment from Ḫattuša/Bogazköy KBo 13.2.” JNES 71: 1–12.

2012. “Where is Bazi? Where is Zizi? ‘The Ballad of Early Rulers’ and the Mari Rulers in the Sumerian King List.” Iraq 74: 137–152.

2012. “Lexical Lists: Compositions for Reading, Writing and Interpreting the Cuneiform Script (Hebrew).” Shnaton, An Annual for Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies 22: 85–121.

2012. “The Emar Scribal School: A Test Case for the Distribution of Scribal Schools and Mesopotamian Culture in the Ancient Near East (Hebrew).” Beit-Mikra 57: 65–85.

2013. “Problems in the History and Chronology of Emar.” Kaskal 10: 281–294.

2013. “Line 118 of the Poem of Erra.” NABU 2013: 14–16.

2013. “Talmi-Sarruma Again. A Supplementary Note to NABU 2012/68 by J.-M. Durand.” NABU 2013: 13–14.

2013. “The Emeslam in the Epic of Erra.” NABU 2013: 14–16.

Wagner, A., Y. Levavi, S. Kedar, K. Abraham, and R. Zadok (co-authors). 2013. “Quantitative Social Network Analysis (SNA) and the Study of Cuneiform Archives: A Test-Case Based on the Murašû Archive.” Akkadica 134: 117–134.

2014. “The Hanging Gardens of Babylon: Myth or Reality (Hebrew).” Odysseia 22: 33–44.

2014. “The Akkadian Wisdom Composition ‘Hear the Advice’: Traditional Wisdom versus Rebellious Skepticism (Hebrew).” Shnaton, An Annual for Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies 23: 203–222.

2015. “A Letter from the Governor of Emar to the Governor of Suhu Concerning a River Ordeal.” Revue Asiatique 303: 175–180.

2015. “The Wages of a Prostitute: Two Instructions from the Wisdom Composition ‘Hear the Advice’ and an Excursus on Ezekiel 16, 33.” Semitica 57: 43–55.

2015. “The Problem of Theodicy - The Mesopotamian Perspective.” OBO 278: 243–270.

2016. “Inscription before the Flood: The Assyrian Collection in the British Museum (Hebrew).” Historia: Journal of the Historical Society of Israel 37: 59–84.

Viano, M. (co-author) 2016. “A Land-Grant Document from Emar: A Re-Edition and Discussion of LN-104 (aka GsKutscher 6).” Kaskal 13: 57–71.

2017. “Parallel Hurrian and Hittite šumma izbu Omens from Hattuša and Corresponding Akkadian Omens.” AoF 44: 9–18.

2017. “An Assyrian Teacher at Ugarit? A New Reading of the Colophon of Šimâ Milka (‘Hear the Advice’) from the Maison aux Tablettes.” Bibliotheca Orientalis 74: 274–283.

2017. “Les neiges d’antan: ‘Early Rulers’ and the Vanity Theme in Mesopotamian Wisdom Literature and Beyond.” Antiguo Oriente 15: 33–55.

Llop, J. (co-author) 2017. “A Private Middle Assyrian Letter Sent by Pilta-ādur to Nabbānu (with an Aphorism Drawn from the World of Medicine).” ZA 107: 72–77.

Anor, N. (co-author) 2018. “The Oil Omens from Hattuša: An Investigation of the History and Transmission of a Babylonian Divination Compendium.” JNES 77: 195–206.

Torrecilla, E. (co-author) 2018. “A Mittani Letter Order from Azu (Had 8) and Its Implications for the Chronology and History of the Middle Euphrates Region in the Late Bronze Age.” RA 112: 149–158.

Torrecilla, E. (co-author) 2019. “On the Emar ‘Problem Documents’ and the Practice of (Re)producing Deeds.” AuOr 37: 143–157.

Book Chapters

d’Alfonso, L. (co-author) 2008. “The Duration of the Emar Archives and the Relative and Absolute Chronology of the City.” In: L. d’Alfonso, Y. Cohen and D. Sürenhagen (eds.), The City of Emar among the Late Bronze Age Empires: History, Landscape, and Society: Proceedings of the Konstanz Emar Conference 25-26.04.2006. Münster: Ugarit Verlag, 3–25.

2010. “The ‘Second Glosses’ of the Emar Lexical Lists: Akkadian or West Semitic?” In: L. Kogan (ed.), Proceedings of the 53rd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Volume 1: Language in the Ancient Near East. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 813–839.

2010. “Shortened Names at Emar and Elsewhere.” In: I. Singer (ed.), Luwian and Hittite Studies Presented to J. David Hawkins on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday. Tel Aviv: Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology, 32–43.

2010. “Rara Avis - A Study of the ḪU Section of the S^a Vocabulary.” In: H. Baker, E. Robson and G. Z”lyomi (eds.), Your Praise is Sweet: A Memorial Volume for Jeremy A. Black from Students, Colleagues and Friends. Oxford: The Griffith Institute, 29–40.

Kedar, S. (co-author) 2011. “Teacher-Student Relationships in Cuneiform Culture: Two Case Studies.” In: K. Radner and E. Robson (eds.), Handbook of Cuneiform Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 229–247.

2012. “The Historical and Social Background of the Scribal School at the City of Emar in the Late Bronze Age.” In: W. van Soldt (ed.), Theory and Practice of Knowledge Transfer: Comparative Studies Pertinent to Schools of Cuneiform Writing. Leiden: Netherlands Institute for the Near East, 115–127.

2012. “Aḫi-malik, The Last Overseer in the City of Emar.” In: K. Abraham and Y. Fleischmann (eds.), Looking at the Bible and the Ancient Near East through the Same Eyes: A Tribute to Aharon Skaist. Bethesda: CDL Press, 13–27.

2012. “An Overview of the Scripts of Emar.” In: E. Devecchi (ed.), Palaeography and Scribal Practices in Syro-Palestine and Anatolia in the Late Bronze Age: Papers read at a Symposium in Leiden, 17–18 December 2009. Leiden: Netherlands Institute for the Near East, 33–45.

2013. “Emar.” In: R. Bagnall (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2382–2383.

2013. “Fearful Symmetry: The Poetics, Genre, and Form of Tablet I, Lines 109–18 in the Poem of Erra.” In: D. Vanderhooft and A. Winitzer (eds.), Literature as Politics, Politics as Literature: Essays on the Ancient Near East in Honor of Peter Machinist. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1–29.

2013. “Emar.” In: C. A. Dale (ed.), Encyclopedia of Biblical Reception (Volume 7). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 792–798.

2016. “Sheep Anatomical Terminology in the šumma immeru Omen Series and Additional Texts.” In: J. Fincke (ed.), Divination as Science: A Workshop Conducted during the 60th Recontre Assyrologique Internationale, Warsaw 2014. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 79–92.

2016. “The Scribal Traditions of Late Bronze Age Emar.” In: S. Yamada and D. Shibata (eds.), Cultures and Societies in the Middle Euphrates and the Habur Areas in the Second Millennium BC – I: Scribal Education and Scribal Traditions. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 121–133.

2017. “Head or Tails: The Transmutations and Peregrinations of a Sapiential Theme in Mari, Hittite, and Neo-Assyrian Sources as well as in the Hebrew Bible and Post-Biblical Compositions.” In: A. Baruchi-Unna, T. Forti, S. Ahituv, I. Eph’al and J. H. Tigay (eds.), Now It Happened in Those Days: Studies in Biblical, Assyrian, and Other Ancient Near Eastern Historiography Presented to Mordechai Cogan on His 75th Birthday. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 539–552.

2017. “The Historical Geography of Hittite Syria.” In: E. Ullmann and M. Weeden (eds.), The Brill Handbook of Hittite Geography and Landscape. Leiden: Brill, 295–310.

2018. “An Old Babylonian List of Sheep Body-Parts (BM 29663).” In: S. V. Panayotov and L. Vacín (eds.), Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic: Studies in Honor of Markham J. Geller. Leiden: Brill, 132–148.

2018. “Enlil and Namzitarra: A History of Its Transmission and Reception (Hebrew).” In: M. Cogan (ed.), In the Lands of Sumer and Akkad: New Studies. Jerusalem: The Israel Academy, 64–81.

2018. “Why ‘Wisdom’? Copying, Studying, and Collecting Wisdom Literature in the Cuneiform World.” In: T. M. Oshima and S. Kohlhaas (eds.), Teaching Morality in Antiquity: Wisdom Texts, Oral Traditions, and Images. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 41–59.

2019. “Forging an Empire: The Land of Aštata According to the Šattiwaza Treaty (CTH 51) and Additional Sources.” In: G. Chambon, M. Guichard and A.-I. Langlois (eds.), De l’argile au numérique. Mélanges assyriologiques en l’honneur de Dominique Charpin. Leuven: Peeters, 279–298.

2019. “Cuneiform Writing in Bronze Age Canaan.” In: A. Yasur-Landau, E. H. Cline and Y. M. Rowan (eds.), The Social Archaeology of the Levant: From Prehistory to Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 245–264.

Forthcoming. “An Akkadian-Hittite List of Body Parts (KBo 1.51).” To Appear in a Festschrift. Chicago: Oriental Institute Press of the University of Chicago.

Forthcoming. “The ‘Hunger Years’ and the ‘Sea People’: Preliminary Observations on the Recently Published Letters from the ‘House of Urtenu’ Archive at Ugarit.” To Appear in a Festschrift.

Forthcoming. “Three Amarna Notes: Scribal Training, Scribal Hands and Tablet Provenance.” To Appear in a Festschrift.

Anor, N. (co-author). Forthcoming. “Forging an Empire: The Borders of Carchemish According to CTH 50 (KUB 19.27).” To Appear in a Festschrift.

Torrecilla, E. (co-author). Forthcoming. “Hittite Cult in Syria: Religious Imperialism or Religious Pluralism?”

Wasserman, N. (co-author). Forthcoming. “Mesopotamian Wisdom Literature.” In: W. Kynes (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Wisdom and Wisdom Literature. New York: Oxford University Press.

Forthcoming. “Of God and Men: Animal and Plant Disputation Poems and Fables in Babylonia, Persia and Greece.”

Web-based Databases and Publications

d’Alfonso, L. and D. Sürenhagen (co-authors). 2008. “The Emar Online Data-Base,” from (http://www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/emarkonk/).

Zadok, R., S. Kedar and A. Wagner (co-authors). 2010. “Cuneiform Texts mentioning Israelites, Judeans, and Related Population Groups,” from (http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ctij).

2016. “Commentary on šumma immeru, izbu ahû (CCP 3.6.3.E), Cuneiform Commentaries Project (E. Frahm, E. Jiménez, M. Frazer, and K. Wagensonner), 2013–2019.” Cuneiform Commentaries Project, from (http://ccp.yale.edu/P348493).

Reviews

2008. “Review of Horowitz, W. and Oshima, T. ‘Cuneiform in Canaan: Cuneiform Sources from the Land of Israel in Ancient Times.’ Israel Exploration Society, 2006.” BASOR 349: 83–86.

2009. “Review of Itamar Singer, ‘The Hittites and their Culture,’ Encyclopedia Mikra’it 26, Jerusalem 2009 (Hebrew).” Kathedra 134: 139–142.

2012. “Review of ‘Assyrian Royal Inscriptions: History, Historiography, and Ideology,’ edited by I. Ephal and N. Na’aman. Jerusalem 2009 (Hebrew).” Shnaton, An Annual for Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies 21: 333–339.

2014. “Writing, Reading and Literacy in the Ancient Near East (A Review Article of A. Demsky, Literacy in Ancient Israel, Bialik Institute Jerusalem 2012) (Hebrew).” Kathedra 152: 167–187.

2015. “Review of Rutz, M. ‘Bodies of Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Diviners of Late Bronze Age Emar and Their Tablet Collection,’ Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2013.” JNES 74: 135–142.

2015. “Review of De Vos, M. ‘Die Lebermodelle aus Boǧaköy’. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013.” ZA 105: 121–126.

2016. “Review of Bachvarova, M. R., ‘From Hittite to Homer: The Anatolian Background of Ancient Greek Epic’, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.” Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2016.11.14: 1–5.

2016. “Review of Beckman, G., ‘The babilili-Ritual from Hattuša (CTH 718)’, (Mesopotamian Civilizations 19), Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2014.” ZA 106: 260–263.

2018. “Review of Yona, S. et al., ‘Marbeh Hokmah: Studies in the Bible and the Ancient Near East in Loving Memory of Victor Avigdor Hurowitz’, Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2015.” Review of the Society of Biblical Literature (http://www.bookreviews.org): 4pp.

2019. “Review of Eckhart Frahm (ed.), A Companion to Assyria.” RBL 7: 1–7.

Forthcoming. “Review of Altman, A., ‘Political Treaties of the Ancient Near East’, The Bialik Institute, Jerusalem, 2018 (Hebrew).” Zion.

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