Peer-reviewed scholarship on Anatolia, Egypt, the Levant, and Mesopotamia from the 3rd through 1st mill. BCE that crosses and disrupts disciplinary boundaries.
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Last but not least in Avar 4.2 is Matthew Ong's article, "Broad-scale Patterns in the Distribution of Ethnic Names in the Neo-Babylonian Oracc Corpus." 🧵(1/3)
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Ong analyzes a vast number of ethnic terms in the Neo-Babylonian corpus, specifically the attributes ascribed to them, yielding interesting results. (2/3)
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Samuel Boyd's article, the fourth in our recent issue, is called "Birds of a Feather: Animal Criticism, Domestication, and the Use of Bird Imagery and Metaphor in Proverbs and Ecclesiastes." 🧵 (1/3)
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Our third article in the latest issue is by David Mulder, entitled "Temple/Herd: Mesopotamian Visions of Animal Community in the Early Third Millennium BCE." 🧵 (1/3)
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Mulder discusses moving beyond an "ecological imperalist model of the wild needing taming" in analyzing seals that include animal imagery, expanding our imagery beyond the domestic for a larger and more robust imagined social community. (2/3)
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The second article in our latest issue is called "Tiny Dancers: An Archaeological View of Hidden Figures on the Mari Plaque," by Anne Porter. 🧵(1/3)
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Porter takes great care to (re)consider the many details on the Mari plaque, considering archeological and cultural contexts but allowing for multiplicity in cosmological meaning. (2/3)
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