Open Access Journal: Avar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Life and Society in the Ancient Near East

[First  posted in AWOL 31 Januar 2022, updated 17 April 2024]

 

Avar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Life and Society in the Ancient Near East 

ISSN: 2752-3527 (Print)

ISSN: 2752-3535 (Online) 

Avar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Life and Society in the Ancient Near East is a bi-annual open-access journal dedicated to publishing peer-reviewed scholarship on Anatolia, Egypt, the Levant, and Mesopotamia in the second and first millennia BCE that crosses and disrupts disciplinary boundaries. 

Submissions should explicitly seek to adopt, adapt, or integrate theories and methodologies from within the traditional fields of ancient studies (i.e. archaeology, Assyriology, biblical studies, Egyptology, Hittitology, etc.), as well as from socio-anthropological and scientific disciplines. 

Avar accepts traditional length articles and short notes in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2024)

Published: 2024-04-14

• Front Matter

  Eric Trinka

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Articles

• Bulls on Parade Metal Bovines, Pilgrimage Networks, and the Struggle for Israelite Identity in 1 Kings 12:25-33

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/aijls.v3i1.2848

  Timothy Hogue

  1-44

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• The Iltani Archive and the Messiness of Spousal Violence

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/aijls.v3i1.2838

  Noam Cohen

  45-72

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• Liken God to the (Disabled) Servant Approaching (Two) Bodies in Isaiah 40-55

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/aijls.v3i1.2845

  Eric Wagner

  73-106

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• Patronage, Sectarianism, and Cultural Hegemony Historical Speculations on the Socio-Cultural Background of the Hebrew Bible

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/aijls.v3i1.2844

  Emanuel Pfoh

  107-129

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• “My Hand Has Found, Like a Nest, the Wealth of the Peoples” (Isa 10:14): Conceptual and Ideological Blending in the Rhetoric of Isaiah 10

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/aijls.v3i1.2840

  Ekaterina E Kozlova

  130-162

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Vol. 2 No. 2 (2023). Special Issue Topic: Knowledge Construction and the Ancient Near East

Guest Editor: Zachary Rubin

Published: 2023-12-28

• Front Matter

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Special Issue Articles

• From Šulgi to Abraham: Encounters with Ur in the First Millennium BCE

  Zachary Rubin

  229–264

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• World Philology or Philology of the World: Commenting on Enuma Elish

  Sophus Helle

  265–296

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• The Decline and Fall of the Assyrian Court Scholar: A Social Network-Based Examination

  Christopher W. Jones

  297–354

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• Building Digital Projects to Outlive Their Funding

  Christian Casey

  355–378

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• Visualizing Pentateuchal Composition: A New View of the Creation of Ancient Hebrew Literature

  Seth L. Sanders, Walker Rhea, Kay White

  379–432

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Special Issue: Parenthood in the Ancient Near East

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2023)

Published: 2023-01-31

• Front Matter

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Articles

• Editorial

  Kristine Henriksen Garroway

  1-7

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Special Issue Articles

• Other than Mother On Childlessness as Part of the Social Identity of Nadītu Women

  Katrien De Graef

  9-30

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

  Luciana Urbano

  31-83

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• A Tearful and Busy Mother An Approach to the Construction of Motherhood through the Study of a Mesopotamian Baby Incantation

  Agnes Garcia-Ventura

  85-110

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• Discourse and Intercourse Women’s Speech and Sexuality in the House of the Father

  Sarah Fein

  111-152

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• Hiobs Vaterschaft und die Trauer um seine Kinder Eine Relektüre des Hiobbuches

  Anja Marschall

  153-198

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• The Wisdom of Israelite Mothers Technical Training and Life Lessons

  Carol Meyers

  199-228

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• Vol. 1 No. 2 (2022)

• Front Matter

  Avar TPLondon

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Articles

• The Case of Joseph’s Coat: Giving Gifts to Children in the Hebrew Bible

  Kristine Henriksen Garroway

  185-211

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• Domestic Religion in the Southern Levant: A Material Religion Approach

  Jeremy D. Smoak

  213-245

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• Human-Nature Blends and the Parent-Child Relationship in Isaiah and Neo-Assyrian Prophecy

  David Bosworth, Lucia Tosatto

  247-281

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• Perceptions of Power: Purple in Archaic Greek, Ancient Mesopotamian Inscriptions, and the Hebrew Bible

  Ellena Lyell

  283-311

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• Sennacherib's Sieges and Deportations Reliefs: How to Increase Emotions

  Laura Battini

  313-359

• Special Issue: Deviance in the Ancient Near East

  Vol. 1 No. 1 (2022)

 

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