Avar

2022 - 2023

Current editor(s): Isaac Alderman, Shane M. Thompson and Eric M Trinka

From Transnational Press London, UK
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Volume 2, issue 1, 2023

Editorial: Parenthood in the Ancient Near East pp. 1-7

Kristine Henriksen Garroway

Other than Mother: On Childlessness as Part of the Social Identity of Nadītu Women pp. 9-30

Katrien De Graef

“No me desobedezcas, ¡solo ve! La política matrimonial de Zimri-Lim de Mari o de la disposición masculina sobre los cuerpos femeninos pp. 31-83

Luciana Urbano

A Tearful and Busy Mother: An Approach to the Construction of Motherhood through the Study of a Mesopotamian Baby Incantation pp. 85-110

Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Mireia López-Bertran

Discourse and Intercourse: Women’s Speech and Sexuality in the House of the Father pp. 111-152

Sarah Fein

Hiobs Vaterschaft und die Trauer um seine Kinder: Eine Relektüre des Hiobbuches pp. 153-198

Anja Marschall

The Wisdom of Israelite Mothers: Technical Training and Life Lessons pp. 199-228

Carol Meyers

Volume 1, issue 2, 2022

The Case of Joseph’s Coat: Giving Gifts to Children in the Hebrew Bible* pp. 185-211

Kristine Henriksen Garroway

Domestic Religion in the Southern Levant: A Material Religion Approach* pp. 213-245

Jeremy D. Smoak

Human-Nature Blends and the Parent-Child Relationship in Isaiah and Neo-Assyrian Prophecy pp. 247-281

David Bosworth and Lucia Tosatto

Perceptions of Power: Purple in Archaic Greek, Ancient Mesopotamian Inscriptions, and the Hebrew Bible pp. 283-311

Ellena Lyell

Sennacherib's Sieges and Deportations Reliefs: How to Increase Emotions pp. 313-358

Laura Battini

Volume 1, issue 1, 2022

Interdisciplinarity as Departure and Return: Methodological Boundary Crossing in the Ancient Near East pp. 1-6

Isaac M. Alderman, Shane M. Thompson and Eric M. Trinka

Eating Upon the Mountains: Deviant Consumption and Commensality pp. 7-28

Rebekah Welton

“His heart is low”: Metaphor and Making Sense of Illness in Cuneiform Medical Texts pp. 29-49

Moudhy Al-Rashid

The Deviant Villain: The Construction of Villainy as Deviant Otherness in Mesopotamian Royal Rhetoric pp. 51-87

Ilan Peled

The Resistance to Mainstream Assumptions about Retribution in Job and Tobit as Theologically Positive Deviance pp. 89-112

Katherine Southwood

Godless People and Sunless Skies: Deviant Space in the Tukulti-Ninurta and Nebuchadnezzar Bilinguals pp. 113-138

Benjamin Dewar

A Stranger in the House: Situating Deviance in an ‘Alterity’ Research Approach pp. 139-183

Melanie Wasmuth