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Volker Rabens

**Volker Rabens** is chair of New Testament at Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

## Known work

* *The Spirit and Christ in the New Testament and Christian Theology*
* *Power from in between: The relational experience of the Holy Spirit and spiritual gifts in Paul’s churches’*
* *Johannine perspectives on ethical enabling in the context of Stoic and Philonic ethics*
* *Rethinking the ethics of John:" implicit ethics" in the Johannine writings*
* *The Holy Spirit and ethics in Paul: Transformation and empowering for religious-ethical life*
* *Paul’s Rhetoric of Demarcation: Separation from ‘Unbelievers’(2 Cor 6: 14–7: 1) in the Corinthian Conflict*
* *Ethics and the Spirit in Paul (1): Religious-Ethical Empowerment through Infusion-Transformation?*
* *Religions and trade: religious formation, transformation and cross-cultural exchange between East and West*
* *Inclusion of and Demarcation from ‘Outsiders’: Mission and Ethics in Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians*
* *“Indicative and Imperative” as the substructure of Paul’s theology-and-ethics in Galatians? A discussion of divine and human agency in Paul*
* *Pneuma and the Beholding of God: Reading Paul in the Context of Philonic Mystical Traditions*
* *Ethics and the Spirit in Paul (2): religious-ethical empowerment through the relational work of the Spirit*
* *The faithfulness of God and its effects on faithful living: A critical analysis of Tom Wright’s Faithfulness to Paul’s Ethics’*
* *Paul’s Mission Strategy in the Urban Landscape of the First-Century Roman Empire*
* *Reframing Paul’s Anthropology in the Light of the Dichotomies of Pauline Research*
Pieter Hartog

**Pieter Bärry Hartog** is Lecturer in Ancient Judaism at PThU Groningen.

## Known work

* *Pesher and Hypomnema: A Comparison of Two Commentary Traditions from the Hellenistic-Roman Period*
* *Hypomnema: A Comparison of Two Commentary Traditions from the Hellenistic-Roman Period. STDJ 121*
* *The Dead Sea Scrolls in Their Hellenistic Context* - with Jutta Jokiranta
* *Jubilees and Hellenistic Encyclopaedism*
* *Contesting Oikoumenē: Resistance and Locality in Philo’s Legatio ad Gaium*
Nicole Brisch

**Nicole Brisch** is Professor of Assyriology at the University of Hamburg.

## Known work

* *Tradition and the poetics of innovation: Sumerian court literature of the Larsa dynasty (2003–1763 BCE)*
* *The Priestess and the King: The Divine Kingship of Šū-Sîn of Ur*
* *Changing images of kingship in Sumerian literature*
* *Of gods and kings: divine kingship in Ancient Mesopotamia*
Nicolaas van Blerk

**Nicolaas Johannes van Blerk** is an Egyptologist and Senior Lecturer in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, University of South Africa.

## Known work

* *The concept of law and justice in Ancient Egypt, with specific reference to the tale of the eloquent peasant*
* *The emergence of law in ancient Egypt: The role of Maat*
* *Aspects of succession law in ancient Egypt with specific reference to testamentary dispositions*
* *The basic tenets of intestate (customary) succession law in Ancient Egypt*
Nijay Gupta

**Nijay K. Gupta** is a Professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary.

## Known work

* *Worship that makes sense: a cognitive and socio-literary approach to the theology of Paul's non-atonement cultic metaphors* - PhD-Thesis
* *1 and 2 Thessalonians (Zondervan Critical Introductions to the New Testament Series Book 13)*
* *The State of New Testament Studies: A Survey of Recent Research* - with Scot McKnight
* *Paul and the Language of Faith*
* *The New Testament Commentary Guide: A Brief Handbook for Students and Pastors*
* *A Beginner's Guide to New Testament Studies: Understanding Key Debates*
* *Living the King Jesus Gospel: Discipleship and Ministry Then and Now* (A Tribute to Scot McKnight)
* *Prepare, Succeed, Advance, Second Edition: A Guidebook for Getting a PhD in Biblical Studies and Beyond*
* *15 New Testament Words of Life: A New Testament Theology for Real Life*
Peter Brand

**Peter J. Brand** is an Egyptologist and Professor at the University of Memphis.

## Known work

* *The monuments of Seti I and their historical significance: epigraphic, art historical and historical analysis.*
* *Methods used in restoring reliefs vandalized during the Amarna Period*
* *Secondary restorations in the post-Amarna Period*
* *The monuments of Seti I: epigraphic, historical, and art historical analysis*
* *Ideology and Politics of the Early Ramesside Kings (13th Century BC): A Historical Approach*
* *Ideological imperatives: irrational factors in Egyptian-Hittite relations under Ramesses II*
* *Veils, votives, and marginalia: the use of sacred space at Karnak and Luxor*
* *The date of the war scenes on the south wall of the Great Hypostyle Hall and the west wall of the Cour de la Cachette at Karnak and the history of the late Nineteenth Dynasty*
Keith Dyer

**Keith D. Dyer** is an Associate Professor of New Testament at Whitley College.

## Known work

* *The prophecy on the mount: Mark 13 and the gathering of the new community*
* *"But concerning that day..."(Mark 13: 32):" prophetic" and" apocalyptic" eschatology in Mark 13*
* *When is the End Not the End? The Fate of Earth in Biblical Theology (Mark 13)*
* *The Empire of God, the Postcolonial Jesus, and Postapocalyptic Mark*
* *Beastly hybridity: Leviathan, behemoth, and revelation 13*
* *Ecological aspects of war: Engagements with biblical texts* - with Anne Elvey and Deborah Guess
Sonja Ammann

**Sonja Ammann** is Professor of Old Testament at the University of Basel.

## Known work

* *The Clothing of Cult Statues and Biblical Polemics against Iconic Worship*
* *Second Kings 24–25 and Jeremiah 52 as Diverging and Converging Memories of the Babylonian Conquest*
* *The Fall of Jerusalem: Cultural Trauma as a Process*
Willem VanGemeren

**Willem A. VanGemeren** is a Dutch-American scholar of Old Testament & semitic languages and Professor Emeritus of Old Testament and Semitic Languages at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

## Known work

* *The Sons of God in Genesis 6: 1-4*
* *Interpreting the prophetic word: An introduction to the prophetic literature of the Old Testament*
Tryggve Mettinger

**Tryggve Mettinger** is the retired professor of Hebrew Bible in Lund University.

## Known work

* *11. Intertextuality: Allusion and Vertical Context Systems in Some Job Passages*
* *The absence of images: The problem of the aniconic cult at Gades and its religio-historical background*
* *The Eden Narrative: A Literary and Religio-historical Study of Genesis 2-3*
Øyvind Bjøru

**Øyvind Bjøru** is an Asisstant Professor of Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin.

## Known work

* *The Historical Syntax of the Subordinative Morphemes in Assyrian Akkadian* - with Na‘ama Pat-El
* *The Indicative Markers in West Semitic and Their Relationship to the East Semitic Subordinative* - Na‘ama Pat-El
Reed Carlson

**Reed Carlson** is Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies and Director of Anglican Studies at United Lutheran Seminary.

## Known work

* *Possession and Other Spirit Phenomena in Biblical Literature* - Th.D.-dissertation at Harvard University
* *Hannah at Pentecost: On Recognizing Spirit Phenomena in Early Jewish Literature.*
* *Provocateurs, Examiners, and Fools: Divine Opponents to the Aqedah in Early Judaism.*
Rainer Albertz

**Rainer Albertz** is Professor of Old Testament at the University of Münster, Germany.

## Known work

* *Hintergrund und Bedeutung des Elterngebots im Dekalog*
* *Jer2—6 und die Frühzeitverkündigung Jeremias*
* *Die» Antrittspredigt «Jesu im Lukasevangelium auf ihrem alttestamentlichen Hintergrund*
* *Religionsgeschichte Israels in alttestamentlicher Zeit: Von den Anfängen bis zum Ende der Königszeit*
* *Die Theologisierung des Rechts im Alten Israel*
* *Zürcher Bibelkommentare: Exodus 1-18*
William Webb

**William J. Webb** is an adjunct professor of New Testament and biblical studies at Tyndale Seminary in Toronto.

## Known work

* *Returning home: new covenant and second exodus as the context for 2 Corinthians 6.14-7.1*
* *Slaves, women & homosexuals: Exploring the hermeneutics of cultural analysis*
* *Corporal punishment in the Bible: A redemptive-movement hermeneutic for troubling texts*
Rhiannon Graybill

**Rhiannon Graybill** is an Old Testament scholar and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College.

## Known work

* *Jeremiah, Sade, and Repetition as Counterpleasure in the Oracle against Edom*
* *Are We Not Men?: Unstable Masculinity in the Hebrew Prophets*
* *‘Hear and Give Ear!’: The Soundscape of Jeremiah*
Tchavdar Hadjiev

**Tchavdar S. Hadjiev**, also known as **Charlie Hadjiev**, is a Lecturer in Old Testament Study and Hebrew at Belfast Bible College.

## Known work

* *The composition and redaction of the Book of Amos*
* *Zephaniah and the 'Book of the Twelve' Hypothesis*
* *The Theological Transformations of Zephaniah's Proclamation of Doom*
* *Elijah's Alleged Megalomania: Reading Strategies for Composite Texts, with 1 Kings 19 as an Example*
Miroslav Bárta

**Miroslav Bárta** is a Czech Egyptologist at Charles University.

## Known work

* *The Cemeteries at Abusir South I*
* *Location of the Old Kingdom pyramids in Egypt*
* *Tomb complex of the Vizier Qar, his sons Qar Junior and Senedjemib, and Iykai: Abusir South 2*
* *Journey to the West: The World of the Old Kingdom Tombs in Ancient Egypt*
* *Kings, viziers, and courtiers: executive power in the Third Millennium bc*
Yifat Thareani

**Yifat Thareani** is a research archaeologist at the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology at Hebrew Union College.

## Known work

* *The “Archaeology of the Days of Manasseh” Reconsidered in Light of the Evidence from the Beersheba Valley*
* *The Spirit of Clay: ʽEdomite Potteryʼ and Social Awareness in the Late Iron Age*
* *Rapport préliminaire sur les deux premières campagnes de fouilles à Tel Achziv* - with M. Jasmin and P. Abrahami
* *The Empire and the ʽUpper Seaʼ: Assyrian Control Strategies along the Southern Levantine Coas*
* *A Rare Discovery at Tel Achziv. A Phoenician Clay Mask Mold from the Ninth Century B.C.E* - with M. Jasmin and P. Abrahami
* *Revenge of the Conquered: Paths of Resistance in the Assyrian City of Dan*
* *The Empire in the Marshlands: In Search of the Structure of Assyrian Rule in the Hula Valle*
Simon Gathercole

**Simon Gathercole** is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Cambridge University.

## Known works

* *Where is Boasting? Early Jewish Soteriology and Paul's Response in Romans 1-5*
* *The Pre-existent Son: Recovering the Christologies of Matthew, Mark and Luke*
* *The Composition of the Gospel of Thomas: Original Language and Sources*
* *The Gospel of Thomas: Introduction and Commentary*
* *Defending Substitution: An Essay on Atonement in Paul*
Simonetta Ponchia

**Simonetta Ponchia** is an Assyriologist and Associate Professor at the University of Verona.

## Known work

* Royal Decisions and Courtiers' Compliance: On Some Formulae in Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Letters
* Mountain Routes in Assyrian Royal Inscriptions (part II)
* *The standard Babylonian myth of Nergal and Ereškigal: introduction, cuneiform text and transliteration with a translation, glossary and commentary* - with Mikko Luukko
* *Gilgameš and Enkidu: The Two-thirds-god and the Two-thirds-animal?*
Paul Holloway

**Paul A. Holloway** is the University Professor of Classics and Ancient Christianity at The University of the South.

## Known work

* *Consolation in Philippians: philosophical sources and rhetorical strategy*
* *Nihil inopinati accidisse–'Nothing unexpected has happened': A Cyrenaic Consolatory Topos in 1 Pet 4.12 ff.*
* *Left Behind: Jesus' Consolation of His Disciples in John 13, 31–17, 26*
Stefan Schorch

**Stefan Schorch** is a Professor of Old Testament and Chair for Biblical Studies University of Halle-Wittenberg.

## Known work

* *“A Young Goat in Its Mother's Milk”? Understanding an Ancient Prohibition*
* *The Samaritan version of Deuteronomy and the origin of Deuteronomy*
* *The Construction of Samari (t) an Identity from the Inside and from the Outside*
Thomas Kämmerer

**Thomas Richard Kämmerer** is a German scholar of semitics and Assyriology, who also serves as the execute of the Ugarit-Verlag.

## Known work

* *Šimâ milka: Induktion und Reception der mittelbabylonischen Dichtung von Ugarit, Emār und Tell el-ʿAmārna*
* *Studien zu Ritual und Sozialgeschichte im Alten Orient*
* *Das babylonische Weltschöpfungsepos Enūma elîš*
* *Identities and Societies in the Ancient East-Mediterranean Regions*
Paul Delnero

**Paul A. Delnero** is an Associate Professor of Assyriology in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

## Known work

* *Variation in Sumerian literary compositions: A case study based on the Decad*
* *Sumerian literary catalogues and the scribal curriculum*
* *Memorization and the transmission of Sumerian literary compositions*
* *A Land with No Borders: A New Interpretation of the Babylonian “Map of the World”*
* *How to Do Things with Tears: Ritual Lamenting in Ancient Mesopotamia*
Mladen Tomorad

**Mladen Tomorad** is an Egyptologist and Associate professor at the University of Zagreb.

## Known work

* *Egyptian cults of Isis and Serapis in Roman fleets*
* *Evolution of ancient Egyptian funerary architecture from the Badarian culture until the end of the Old Kingdom*
* *Ancient Egyptian funerary practices from the first millenium BC to the Arab conquest of Egypt (c. 1069 BC–642 AD)*
* *Egypt during the Roman and Byzantine period until the Arab conquest (30 BC–AD 645)*
* *The end of Ancient Egyptian religion: The prohibition of paganism in Egypt from the middle of the 4th to the middle of the 6th century AD*
* *The Early Penetration of Ancient Egyptian Artifacts and Dissemination of the Cults of Egyptian Divinities in Istria and Illyricum (1st Millennium BC–1st Century AD)*
Oliver Dyma

**Oliver Dyma** is Professor of Old Testament at the University of Münster.

## Known work

* *Die Wallfahrt zum Zweiten Tempel: Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung der Wallfahrtsfeste in vorhasmonäischer Zeit*
* *Das Sacharjabuch und seine Rezeptionen*
* *„Levites as Prophets and Scribes and their Role in the Transmission of the Torah.“*
Vincent Pizzuto

**Vincent Pizzuto** is a Professor of New Testament and Christian Mysticism in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University, San Francisco.

## Known work

* *A cosmic leap of faith: an authorial, structural, and theological investigation of the cosmic Christology in Col. 1: 15-20*
* *Religious terror and the prophetic voice of reason: Unmasking our myths of righteousness*
* *The Structural Elegance of Matthew 1-2: A Chiastic Proposal*
Urban von Wahlde

**Urban C. von Wahlde** is professor of New Testament at Loyola University Chicago.

## *Known work*

* *The Gospel and Letters of John, Volume 1: Introduction, Analysis, and Reference (The Eerdmans Critical Commentary)*
* *The Gospel and Letters of John, Volume 2: Introduction, Analysis, and Reference (The Eerdmans Critical Commentary)*
* *The Gospel and Letters of John, Volume 3: Introduction, Analysis, and Reference (The Eerdmans Critical Commentary)*
The Two Testaments

**The Two Testaments** is a Biblical Studies-podcast hosted by scholars Rony Kozman and Will Kynes.

## Known guests

* Brent Strawn
* Roy Ciampa
* Frank Thielman
* Jeff Leonard
* Matthew Thiessen
* Tricia Vesely
* Tom Schreiner
* Tremper Longman
* Beverly Gaventa
* Brennan Breed
* Susan Eastman
* Scott Jones
* Haley Jacob
* Edward Greenstein
* Ross Wagner
* Dominick Hernández
* Michael Bird
* Nijay Gupta
* William Brown
* Rafael Rodriguez
* Carol Newsom
* Jason Staples
* Dale Allison
* Richard Hays
* Paul House
* Wayne Baxter
* Carmen Imes
* Jonathan Pennington
* Jon Levenson
* Jeannine Brown
* Jordan Ryan
* Sandra Richter
* Patrick Schreiner
* Michael Rhodes
* Nathan Eubank
* Amy-Jill Levine
* Melissa Ramos
* Anders Runesson
* Daniel Block
* Rebekah Eklund
* Terry Donaldson
* James Strange
Raymond Van Leeuwen

**Raymond C. Van Leeuwen** is Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at Eastern University.

## Known work

* *Context and meaning in Proverbs 25-27*
* *Proverbs 30: 21-23 and the biblical world upside down*
* *Wealth and poverty: system and contradiction in Proverbs*
* *Scribal Wisdom and Theodicy in the Book of the Twelve*
* *Cosmos, temple, house: building and wisdom in Mesopotamia and Israel*
Udo Schnelle

**Udo Schnelle** is a German Lutheran Theologian and Professor of New Testament at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.

## Known work

* *Theologie des Neuen Testaments*
* *Einführung in die neutestamentliche Exegese* - with Georg Strecker
* *Das Evangelium nach Johannes*
* *Einleitung in das Neue Testament*
Philip Yoo

**Philip Yoo** is an Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies at the University of British Columbia.

## Known work

* *The Four Moses Death Accounts*
* *Why Does Joseph Wash His Face?*
* *On Nehemiah 8,8a*
* *Armed for Battle?’ On the Meaning of חמשים in Exodus 13,18*
* *Hagar the Egyptian: Wife, Handmaid, and Concubin*
* *After These Things’ and its Composition in Genesis*
* *Once Again: The Yam Sûp of the Exodus*
* *Delegitimizing a Witness: Composition and Redaction in Joshua 22*
* *Dinah among Jacob’s Seventy: On Genesis 46,8-27*
Roland Deines

**Roland Deines** is Emeritus Professor of New Testament at the University of Nottingham and Professor of Biblical Theology and Ancient Judaism at Internationale Hochschule Liebenzell.

## Known work

* *The Pre-Christian Paul* - with Martin Hengel
* *Jüdische Steingefässe und pharisäische Frömmigkeit: Ein archäologisch-historischer Beitrag*
* *E. P. Sanders’ ‘Common Judaism’, Jesus, and the Pharisees* - with Martin Hengel
Uri Gabbay

**Uri Gabbay** is an Associate Professor of Assyriology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Department of Archaeology.

## Known work

* *The King of the Demons: Pazuzu, Bagdana and Ašmedai*
* *Akkadian commentaries from Ancient Mesopotamia and their relation to Early Hebrew exegesis*
* *The balaĝ instrument and its role in the cult of ancient Mesopotamia*
* *Drums, Hearts, Bulls, and Dead Gods: The Theology of the Ancient Mesopotamian Kettledrum*
Yasir Ibrahim

**Yasir Ibrahim** is an associate professor at Montclair State University who specialises in Qur’anic studies.

## Known work

* *The spirit of Islamic law and modern religious reform: Maqāsid al -sharī`a in Muhammad `Abduh and Rashīd Ridā's legal thought* - PhD-Thesis
* *An Examination of the Modern Discourse on Maqāṣid al-Sharī'a*
William Loader

**William Ronald George Loader** is an emeritus professor of New Testament at Murdoch University.

## Known work

* *The Septuagint, Sexuality and the New Testament: Case Studies on the Impact of the LXX in Philo and the New Testament*
* *Sexuality and the Jesus Tradition*
* *The New Testament - with Imagination: A Fresh Approach to its Writings and Themes*
* *The Dead Sea Scrolls on Sexuality: Attitudes towards Sexuality in Sectarian and Related Literature at Qumran*
* *Sexuality in the New Testament*
* *The Pseudepigrapha on Sexuality: Attitudes towards Sexuality in Apocalypses, Testaments, Legends, Wisdom, and Related Literature*
* *Philo, Josephus, and the Testaments on Sexuality: Attitudes towards Sexuality in the Writings of Philo, Josephus, and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs*
* *The New Testament on Sexuality*
* *Making Sense of Sex: Attitudes towards Sexuality in Early Jewish and Christian Literature*
* *Jesus in John's Gospel: Structure and Issues in Johannine Christology*
* *Two Views on Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church, co-authored with Megan K. DeFranza, Wesley Hill, and Stephen R. Holmes*
Shane Thompson

**Shane M. Thompson** is an Assistant Professor of Bible and the Ancient Near East at North Carolina Wesleyan University.

## Known work

* *Maat in the Egyptian Controlled Southern Levant* - with Jessica Tomkins
* *Displays of Cultural Hegemony and Counter-hegemony in the Late Bronze and Iron Age Levant: The Public Presence of Foreign Powers and Local Resistance*
* *Power and Identity at the Margins of the Ancient Near East* - with Sara Mohr
Mladen Popović

**Mladen Popović** is an Old Testament scholar and head of the Qumran Institute of the University of Groningen.

## Known work

* *Reading the human body: physiognomics and astrology in the Dead Sea scrolls and Hellenistic-early Roman period Judaism*
* *Qumran as Scroll Storehouse in Times of Crisis? A Comparative Perspective on Judaean Desert Manuscript Collections*
* *Reading, Writing, and Memorizing Together: Reading Culture in Ancient Judaism and the Dead Sea Scrolls in a Mediterranean Context*
Wiebke Meinhold

**Wiebke Meinhold** is Professor and Director of the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Philology at the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen.

## Known work

* *Ištar in Aššur: Untersuchung eines Lokalkultes von ca. 2500 bis 614 v. Chr.*
* *Erbrecht nach altbabylonischen Kauf-und Tauschurkunden aus Nippur*
* *Das Vermögen der Familie des Mannum-mēšu-liṣṣur*
Reginaldo Gomes de Araújo

**Reginaldo Gomes de Araújo** is the Professor of Old Testament at the University of São Paulo.

## Known work

* *Theologie der Wüste im Deuteronomium*
* *Síntese teológica do Novo Testamento: de acordo com as testemunhas principais: Jesus, Paulo, João* - with Werner Kümmel, Sílvio Schneider and Werner Fuchs
* *Os ditos de Jesus e os escritos rabínicos*
Victor Matthews

**Victor Harold Matthews** is an Old Testament scholar and Professor in the Religious Studies department at Missouri State University.

## Known work

* *Jacob the Trickster and Heir of the Covenant: A Literary Interpretation* - with Frances Mims
* *Entrance Ways and Threshing Floors: Legally Significant Sites in the Ancient Near East*
* *Manners and Customs in the Bible*
* *Hospitality and hostility in Judges 4*
* *Hospitality and hostility in Genesis 19 and Judges 19*
* *Social world of ancient Israel: 1250-587 BC*E - with Don Benjamin
* *Social Sciences and Biblical Studies* - with Don Benjamin
* *The anthropology of slavery in the Covenant Code* - with Bernard Levinson
* *The anthropology of clothing in the Joseph narrative*
* *Honor and Shame in the World of the Bible*
* *The unwanted gift: implications of obligatory gift giving in ancient Israel*
* *Treading the winepress: actual and metaphorical viticulture in the ancient Near East*
* *Bible background Commentary: Genesis-Deuteronomy* - with John Walton
* *A brief history of ancient Israel*
* *Marriage and family in the Ancient Near East*
* *Physical space, imagined space, and "lived space" in ancient Israel*
* *Judges and Ruth*
* *Old Testament turning points: the narratives that shaped a nation*
* *Manners & customs in the Bible: an illustrated guide to daily life in Bible times*
* *The determination of social identity in the story of Ruth*
* *Studying the ancient Israelites: A guide to sources and methods*
* *More than meets the ear: Discovering the hidden contexts of Old Testament conversations*
* *Back to Bethel: Geographical Reiteration in Biblical Narrative*
* *Conversation and identity: Jesus and the Samaritan woman*
* *The Old Testament: text and context* - with James Moyer
* *The Hebrew prophets and their social world: an introduction*
* *The IVP bible background commentary: Old Testament* - with John Walton and Mark Chavalas
* *Remembered Space in Biblical Narrative*
Violaine Chauvet

**Violaine Chauvet** is a Lecturer in Egyptology in the Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at Liverpool University.

## Known work

* *The conception of private tombs in the late Old Kingdom*
* *Royal involvement in the construction of private tombs in the late Old Kingdom*
* *Decoration and architecture: the definition of private tomb environment*
* *Entrance-porticoes and portico-chapels: the creation of an outside ritual stage in private tombs of the Old Kingdom*
* *Between a Tomb and a Hard Place: Tomb Inscriptions as a Source of Historical Information*
* *Who Did What and Why: The Dynamics of Tomb Preparation* - with Richard Jasnow & Kara Cooney
Stephanie Dalley

**Stephanie Mary Dalley** is a British scholar of the Ancient Near East, who served as a teaching Fellow from the Oriental Institute at the University of Oxford.

## Literature

* *Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others*
* *The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced*
* *The City of Babylon: A History, c. 2000 BC – AD 116*
Seth Sanders

**Seth L. Sanders** Professor of Religious Studies at University of California, Davis, who specialises in Old Testament and Semitic languages.

## Known work

* *What was the alphabet for? The rise of written vernaculars and the making of Israelite national literature*
* *Cuneiform in Canaan: cuneiform sources from the land of Israel in ancient times* - with Wayne Horowitz and Takayoshi Oshima
* *The invention of Hebrew*
* *The Appetites of the Dead: West Semitic Linguistic and Ritual Aspects of the Katumuwa Stele*
Tero Alstola

**Tero Alstola** is a Finnish Assyriologist at the University of Helsinki.

## Known work

* *Judeans in Babylonia: a study of deportees in the Sixth and Fifth Centuries BCE* - PhD-Dissertation
* *Judean Merchants in Babylonia and their participation in long-distance trade*
* *Everyday Life in Exile: Judean Deportees in Babylonian Texts*
Petra Goedegebuure

**Petra Goedegebuure** is Associate Professor of Hittitology at the University of Chicago.

## Known work

* *The Hieroglyphic Luwian demonstrative ablative-instrumentals zin and apin*
* *Central Anatolian languages and language communities in the Colony period: A Luwian-Hattian symbiosis and the independent Hittites*
* *Focus structure and Q-word questions in Hittite*
* *The Luwian adverbs zanta ‘down’and\* ānni ‘with, for, against’*
* *The Luwian demonstratives of place and manner*
* *The alignment of Hattian: An active language with an ergative base*
* *Hittite iconoclasm: Disconnecting the icon, disempowering the referent*
* *Split-ergativity in Hittite*
* *Hittite noun phrases in focus*
* *The Hittite Demonstratives*
* *The use of demonstratives in Hittite: deixis, reference and focus*
* *The Hittite demonstratives: Studies in deixis, topics and focus*
Roy Gane

**Roy E. Gane** is Professor of Hebrew Bible & Ancient Near Eastern Languages at Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University.

## Known work

* *The role of Assyria in the Ancient Near East during the reign of Manasseh*
* *Re-opening the Katapetasma (" Veil") in Hebrews 6: 19*
* *Current issues in priestly and related literature: the legacy of Jacob Milgrom and beyond* - with Ada Taggar-Cohen
* *Old testament law for Christians: Original context and enduring application*
Tremper Longman

**Tremper Longman III** is an American Old Testament Scholar and Distinguished Scholar of Biblical Studies at Westmont College.

## Known work

* *Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry & Writings -* with Peter Enns
* *The Lost World of the Flood: Mythology, Theology, and the Deluge Debate* - with John Walton
Saana Svärd

**Saana Svärd** is a Finnish Assyriologist and Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies in the Faculty of Arts and the University of Helsinki. She's currently leading the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires and is specialised in Neo-Assyrian Women.

## Known work

* *Power and women in the Neo-Assyrian palaces* - PhD-Thesis
* Women, Power and Heterarchy in the Neo-Assyrian Palaces
* Changes in Neo-Assyrian Queenship
* Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East: First Steps and Future Prospects - with Agnès Garcia-Ventura
* Studying Gender: A Case Study of Female Administrators in Neo-Assyrian Palaces
* Neo-Assyrian Elite Women
* Cross-cultural Studies in Near Eastern History and Literature - with Robert Rollinger
* Gender and Methodology in Assyriology
* Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Anthology of the Earliest Female Authors - with Charles Halton
* Theoretical Approaches, Gender, and the Ancient Near East: An Introduction - with Agnès Garcia-Ventura
* Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East - with Agnès Garcia-Ventura
* Semantic Domains in Akkadian Texts - with Heidi Jauhiainen, Aleksi Sahala, and Krister Lindén
* (Re)constructing the Image of the Assinnu - with Martti Nissinen
* Women, Family Life, and Gender Roles in Ancient Mesopotamia - with Agnès Garcia-Ventura
* Third Workshop on Gender, Methodology, and the Ancient Near East: Enhancing Networking and Consolidating an Initiative - with Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Katrien De Graef
* Female Sages in Akkadian Literature
* Aššur and His Friends: A Statistical Analysis of Neo-Assyrian Texts - with Tero Alstola, Shana Zaia, Aleksi Sahala, Heidi Jauhiainen, and Krister Lindén
* Language technology approach to “seeing” in Akkadian - with Aleksi Sahala
* Fear in Akkadian Texts: New Digital Perspectives on Lexical Semantics - with Tero Alstola, Heidi Jauhiainen, Aleksi Sahala, and Krister Lindén
* Digital Approaches to Analyzing and Translating Emotion: What Is Love? - with Tero Alstola, Heidi Jauhiainen, Aleksi Sahala, and Krister Lindén
Wilhelm Pratscher

**Wilhelm Pratscher** is Professor of New Testament. at the University of Vienna.

## Known work

* *Der Verzicht des Paulus auf finanziellen Unterhalt durch seine Gemeinden: ein Aspekt seiner Missionsweise*
* *Der Herrenbruder Jakobus und die Jakobustradition*
* *Judas Iskariot im Neuen Testament und im Judasevangelium*
* *Der zweite Clemensbrief*
Ross Wagner

**J. Ross Wagner** is an Associate Professor of New Testament at Duke Divinity School.

## Known work

* *The Christ, servant of Jew and Gentile: a fresh approach to Romans 15: 8-9*
* *From the heavens to the heart: The dynamics of Psalm 19 as prayer*
* *Heralds of the Good News: Isaiah and Paul" in Concert" in the Letter to the Romans*
* *Reading the sealed book: Old Greek Isaiah and the problem of Septuagint hermeneutics*
Rebekah Welton

**Rebekah Welton** is a lecturer in Hebrew Bible at the University fo Exeter.

## Known work

* *Ritual and the Agency of Food in Ancient Israel and Judah: Food Futures in Biblical Studies*
* *Isaac rebounds: a video game retelling of the Aqedah*
* *Ethnography and Biblical Studies: ‘A Land Flowing with Milk and Honey’ as a Case Study for Re-contextualising a Familiar Phrase*
* *Eating Upon the Mountains: Deviant Consumption and Commensality*
Peeter Espak

**Peeter Espak** is an Estonian Orientalist, theologian and Assyriologist who serves as Associate Professor of Sumerian Mythology and Literature in the Centre for Oriental Studies at the University of Tartu.

His work has been published by the likes of Harrassowitz Verlag, Society of Biblical Literature, Ugarit-Verlag, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Zaphon and Armand Colin.

## Notable works

* *The God Enki In Sumerian Royal Ideology and Mythology* - PhD-Thesis
* *Passing to the Underworld in Sumerian Texts*
* *Buying a slave's freedom in Assyria: A Cuneiform Tablet in the University of Tartu's Museum of Art* - with Vladimir Sazonov
* *Evolution toward the concept of Holy War in the Ancient Near East*
* *Some Early Developments in Sumerian God-Lists and Pantheon*
* *The Emergence of the Concept of Divine Warfare and Theology of War in the Ancient Near East*
* *Sumerian inim, Hebrew דבר יהוה and Polynesian mana in the Early Theories of Uku Masing*
* *Genesis 4,1 and Ancient Near Eastern Mythology: How Was the First Man Born?*
* *Was Eridu The First City in Sumerian Mythology?*
* *Public Speaking in Ancient Mesopotamia: Speeches before Earthly and Divine Battle*s - with Andreas Johandi
* *The Establishment of Ur III Dynasty From the Gutians to the Formation of the Neo-Sumerian Imperial Ideology and Pantheon*
* *One Possible Interpretation of the Structure of the Early Sumerian Pantheon*
* *Conceptualizing Past, Present and Future in Ancient Near East and Greece*
* *Male Sages in Sumerian Literature*
* *The Transformation of the Sumerian Temple Hymns*
* *Slave Buying His Own Freedom in Assyria* - with Vladimir Sazonov
* *The Emergence of the Concept of Divine Warfare and Theology of War in the Ancient Near East*
* *Cultural Crossroads in the Middle East: The Historical, Cultural and Political Legacy of Intercultural Dialogue and Conflict from the Ancient Near East to the Present Day*
* *What a God is Not. The Earliest Sources from a Comparative Perspective*
* *Genesis 11, 1–9 and its Sumerian Predecessors in Comparative Perspective: Early Views on “National Culture” and its Nature*
Stephen Russell

**Stephen C. Russell** is an Associate Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, who specialises in the Ancient Near East and Hebrew Bible.

## Known work

* *Images of Egypt in early biblical literature: Cisjordan-Israelite, Transjordan-Israelite, and Judahite portrayals*
* *Abraham's purchase of ephron's land in anthropological perspective*
* *The king and the land: a geography of royal power in the biblical world*
Outi Lehtipuu

**Outi Lehtipuu** is a Senior University in New Testament exegesis at the University of Helsinki. Her work has been published by the likes of Brill, De Gruyter, Sheffield Academic Press and Oxford University Press.

## Known work

* *The afterlife imagery in Luke's story of the rich man and Lazarus*
* *«Flesh and Blood cannot Inherit the Kingdom of God». The Transformation of the Flesh in the Early Christian Debates concerning Resurrection*
* *Debates over the Resurrection of the Dead: Constructing Early Christian Identity*
* *"What Harm Is There for You to Say Caesar Is Lord?": Emperors and the Imperial Cult in Early Christian Stories of Martyrdom*
Tanja Pommerening

**Tanja Pommerening** is an Egyptologist who works as a Professor at the University of Marburg.

## Known work

* *Die altägyptischen Hohlmaße*
* *The Early Dynastic origin of the water-lily motif* - with Elena Marinova & Stan Hendrickx
* *Writings of early scholars in the ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome, and Greece: translating ancient scientific texts* - with Annette Imhausen
* *Heilkundliche Texte aus dem Alten Ägypten: Vorschlag zur Kommentierung und Übersetzung*
* *Medical Re-Enactments: Ancient Egyptian Prescriptions from an Emic Viewpoint*
* *Classification in ancient Egyptian medical formulae and its role in re-discovering comprehensive and specific concepts of drugs and effects*
Raik Heckl

**Raik Heckl** is an adjunct professor of Old Testament at the Leipzig University.

## Known work

* *Moses Vermächtnis: Kohärenz, literarische Intention und Funktion von Dtn 1-3*
* *Psalm 72 und der Alte Orient: Grenzen und Chancen eines Vergleichs*
* *Wann ist mit dem Abschluss des Pentateuchs zu rechnen?*
* *Hiob-vom Gottesfürchtigen zum Repräsentanten Israels: studien zur Buchwerdung des Hiobbuches und zu seinen Quellen*
* *Inside the Canon and Out: The Relationship Between Psalm 20 and Papyrus Amherst 63*
* *Neuanfang und Kontinuität in Jerusalem: Studien zu den hermeneutischen Strategien im Esra-Nehemia-Buch*
William Osborne

**William R. Osborne** is an Old Testament scholar and Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at the College of the Ozarks.

## Known work

* *Elements of Irony: History and Rhetoric in Ezekiel 20: 1–44*
* *The early messianic „afterlife” of the tree metaphor in Ezekiel 17: 22–24*
* *The Tree of Life in ancient Egypt and the Book of Proverbs*
Pieter van der Veen

**Pieter Gert van der Veen** is a Dutch Old Testament scholar and senior lecturer at the Department of The Old Testament and Biblical Archaeology at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.

## Known work

* *The Final Phase of Iron Age II in Judah, Ammon, and Edom (AOAT 415)*
* *A Double-Headed Bul Protome - Does it represent the Aramaean Mood God?*
* *Reconsidering the Authenticity of the Berekhyahu Bullae: A Rejoinder*
* *The Earliest Reference to Israel and Its Possible Archaeological and Historical Background*
Othmar Keel

**Othmar Keel** is a Swiss Egyptologist at the Université de Montréal.

## Known work

* *Gods, Goddesses, and Images of God in Ancient Israel*
* *Die Geschichte Jerusalems und die Entstehung des Monotheismus (Orte und Landschaften der Bibel)*
* *Creation: Biblical Theologies in the Context of the Ancient Near East*
* *Symbolism of the Biblical World: Ancient Near Eastern Iconography and the Book of Psalms* - with Timothy Hallett
Runar Thorsteinsson

**Rúnar Már Þorsteinsson** is the Professor of the New Testament at the University of Iceland.

## Known work

* *Paul and Roman Stoicism: Romans 12 and Contemporary Stoic Ethics*
* *Roman Christianity and Roman Stoicism: a comparative study of ancient morality*
* *Paul’s interlocutor in Romans 2: Function and identity in the context of ancient epistolography*
* *Jesus as Philosopher: The Moral Sage in the Synoptic Gospels*

## Links

* Uni Portal
* Google Scholar
Stephen Hultgren

**Stephen Hultgren** is a Senior Lecturer in New Testament and Coordinator of Biblical Studies at Australian Lutheran College.

## Known work

* *The Origin of Paul's Doctrine of the Two Adams in 1 Corinthians 15.45-49*
* *From the Damascus Covenant to the Covenant of the community: Literary, historical, and theological studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls*
Paul Trebilco

**Paul Trebilco** is the Professor of New Testament at the University of Otago.

## Known work

* *Paul and Silas—'Servants of the Most High God'(Acts 16.16-18)*
* *Jewish Communities in Asia Minor* - with Markus Bockmuehl
* *The early christians in Ephesus from Paul to Ignatius*
* *Self-designations and group identity in the New Testament*
Rune Nyord

**Rune Nyord** is the Assistant Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology at Emory University.

## Known work

* *Spittle, lies and regeneration: Some religious expressions on a stela from the First Intermediate Period*
* *The body in the hymns to the coffin sides*
* *Breathing flesh: Conceptions of the body in the ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts*
* *Prototype structures and conceptual metaphor. Cognitive approaches to lexical semantics in ancient Egyptian*
* *Memory and Succession in the City of the Dead: Temporality in the Ancient Egyptian Mortuary Cult*
* *Permeable containers: Body and cosmos in Middle Kingdom coffins*
* *"An Image of the Owner as He was on Earth": Representation and Ontology in Middle Kingdom Funerary Images*
* *“Taking Ancient Egyptian Mortuary Religion Seriously”: Why Would We, and How Could We?*
* *The concept of ka between Egyptian and Egyptological frameworks*
* *Seeing Perfection: Ancient Egyptian Images beyond Representation*
Nicolo Marchetti

**Nicolo Marchetti** is Professor of archeology and art history of the ancient Near East at the University of Bologna.

## Known work

* *Cultic Activities in the Sacred Area of Ishtar at Ebla during the Old Syrian Period: The Favissae F.5327 and F.5238* - with Lorenzo Nigro
* *Middle bronze age public architecture at Tilmen Höyük and the architectural tradition of old Syrian palaces*
* *Royal Statuary of early dynastic Mesopotamia* - with Gianni Marchesi
* *Karkemish on the Euphrates: excavating a city’s history*
* *Ebla and Its Landscape: Early State Formation in the Ancient Near Eas*t - with Paolo Matthiae
Samuel Boyd

**Samuel Lanham Boyd** is a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East, who serves as an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.

## Known work

* *Contact and context: Studies in language contact and literary strata in the Hebrew Bible* - PhD-Thesis
* *The flood and the problem of being an Omnivore*
* *Two Instances of Language Contact in Isaiah 45: 14*
* *Language Contact, Colonial Administration, and the Construction of Identity in Ancient Israel: Constructing the Context for Contact*
Murray Smith

**Murray J. Smith** is a lecturer in Biblical Theology and Exegesis at Christ College.

## Known work

* *The Gospels in Early Christian Literature*
* *The Political Context of the Gospels*
* *Paul in the Twenty-first Century*
* *The Thessalonian Correspondence*
* *The Lord Jesus and His Coming in the Didache*
* *The Book of Revelation: A Call to Worship, Witness, and Wait in the Midst of Violence*
* *God’s Righteousness, Christ’s Faith/fulness, and ‘Justification by Faith Alone’ (Romans 3:21-26)*
Randall Garr

**W. Randall Garr** is Professor of Northwest Semitic Languages, Hebrew Bible, Ancient Near East at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

## Known work

* *The Grammar and Interpretation of Exodus 6: 3*
* *'Image' and 'Likeness' in the Inscription from Tell Fakhariyeh*
* *In his own image and likeness: Humanity, divinity, and monotheism*
* *Dialect Geography of Syria-Palestine, 1000-586 BCE*
Petri Luomanen

**Petri Luomanen** is Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Culture and Literature at the University of Helsinki.

## Known work

* *Entering the kingdom of heaven: A study on the structure of Matthew's view of salvation -* PhD-Thesis
* *A Companion to Second-Century Christian 'Heretics'* - with Antti Marjanen
* *Introduction: social and cognitive perspectives in the study of Christian origins and early Judaism* - with Ilkka Pyysiäinen and Risto Uro
* *Recovering Jewish-Christian sects and gospels*
Stuart Campbell

**Stuart Campbell** is Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Manchester.

## Known work

* *Whose Bones are those? Preliminary Comparative Analysis of Fragmented Human and Animal Bones in the “Death Pit” at Domuztepe, a Late Neolithic Settlement in Southeastern Turkey*
* *Dying for a change? Bringing new senses to Near Eastern Neolithic mortuary practice: Bringing new senses to Near Eastern Neolithic mortuary practice*
* *Understanding symbols : putting meaning into the painted pottery of prehistoric northern Mesopotamia*
* *The State of the Stone: Terminologies, Continuities and Contexts in Near Eastern Neolithic Lithics*
* *Stones of the living and bones of the dead? Contextualising the lithics in the Death Pit at Domuztepe*
* *From site to landscape: assessing the value of geoarchaeological data in understanding the archaeological record of Domuztepe, south-east Turkey*
* *The obsidian at Arpachiyah, Iraq; an integrated study*
* *Scale and integration in Northern Mesopotamia in the early 6th Millennium cal. BCE*
* *Producing Adornment: Evidence of different levels of expertise in the production of obsidian items of adornment at two late Neolithic communities in northern Mesopotamia*
* *Burying things; practices of cultural disposal at late Neolithic Domuztepe, southeast Turkey*
* *It’s ritual, isn’t it? Mortuary and feasting practices at Domuztepe*
* *Climatic changes and social transformations in the Near East and North Africa during the ‘long’ 4th millennium BC: A comparative study of environmental and archaeological evidence*
* *Multiple sources: The pXRF analysis of obsidian from Kenan Tepe, S.E. Turke*
* *Caucasus connections? New data and interpretations for Armenian obsidian in Northern Mesopotamia*
* *The sources of some obsidian beads found at Kish, Southern Iraq*
* *The Emergence of Pottery in West Asia*
* *Tell Khaiber: an administrative centre of the Sealand period*
* *Synthesis: The Emergence of Pottery in West Asia*
* *Figurines in Prehistoric Mesopotamia*
* *A Kassite Settlement in Southern Babylonia - investigation at Tell Khaiber 2*
* *Absolute dating and the early pottery of south-west Asia*
* *Diversity in obsidian use in the prehistoric and early historic Middle East*
* *Charax Spasinou: New Investigations at the capital of Mesene*
* *The Obsidian from Umm Dabaghiyah, a Proto-Hassuna site in Northern Mesopotamia*
* *Summary report on excavations at Tell Khaiber, an administrative centre of the Sealand period, 2013-2017*
* *Obsidian provenance analyses at Göytepe, Azerbaijan: Implications for understanding Neolithic socioeconomies in the southern Caucasus*
* *Ancient Charax Spasinou (Iraq) – Interpreting a multi-phase city based on magnetometer survey data*
* *Profiling an unlocated source: Group 3d obsidian in prehistoric and early historic Near East*
* *The mirror, the magus and more: reflections on John Dee's obsidian mirror*
* *Proteomic analysis of archaeological ceramics from Tell Khaiber, southern Iraq*
Seth Richardson

**Seth Richardson** is a lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.

## Known work

* *Death and dismemberment in Mesopotamia: discorporation between the body and body politic*
* *Early Mesopotamia: the presumptive state*
* *Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem: Story, History and Historiography* - with Isaac Kalimi
Shana Zaia

**Shana Zaia** is an Assyriolgoist Assistant Professor in the department of Art and Culture, History, Antiquity at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

## Known work

* *State-Sponsored Sacrilege:“Godnapping” and Omission in Neo-Assyrian Inscriptions*
* *How To (Not) Be King: Negotiating the Limits of Power within the Assyrian Hierarchy*
* *Destination Eanna: Cultic Assemblies Visiting Uruk During the Neo-Babylonian Period* - with Rosaura Cauchi
* *My Brother’s Keeper: Assurbanipal versus Šamaš-šuma-ukīn*
* *Kings, Priests, and Power in the Neo-Assyrian Period*
Walter Brueggemann

**Walter Brueggemann** is an American Protestant Old Testament scholar and progressive theologian.

## Known works

* *Genesis: Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching*
* *Isaiah: 1-39*
* *A theological introduction to the Old Testament*
* *Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, dispute, advocacy*
* *An introduction to the Old Testament: The canon and Christian imagination*
Stefan Münger

**Stefan Münger** is an Associate Professor in the Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Bern.

## Known work

* *Egyptian stamp-seal amulets and their implications for the chronology of the early Iron Age*
* *Stamp-Seal Amulets and Early Iron Age Chronology: An update*
* *Kinneret – An Urban Center at the Crossroads* - with Jürgen Zangenberg & Juha Pakkala
* *Early Iron Age Kinneret–Early Aramaean or Just Late Canaanite? Remarks on the Material Culture of a Border Site in Northern Palestine at the Turn of an Era*
Stephen Vinson

**Stephen Vinson** is an Egyptologist and Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University.

## Known work

* *Boats of Egypt before the old kingdom*
* *The earliest representations of brailed sails*
* *Egyptian boats and ships*
* *The Accent's on Evil: Ancient Egyptian" Melodrama" and the Problem of Genre*
* *The Names “Naneferkaptah,”“Ihweret,” and “Tabubue” in the “First Tale of Setne Khaemwas”*
Yasuyuki Mitsuma

**Yasuyuki Mitsuma** is an Assyriolgoist who serves as Assistant Professor at the University of Tsukuba.

## Known work

* *Offices of Generals in Seleucid and Aršakid Babylonia*
* *From preliminary diaries to short diaries: the first and second steps in the compilation process of the Late Babylonian astronomical diaries*
* *Earliest datable records of aurora-like phenomena in the astronomical diaries from Babylonia* - with Hisashi Hayakawa, Yusuke Ebihara, Akito Davis Kawamura, Hiroko Miyahara, Harufumi Tamazawa and Hiroaki Isobe
* *The earliest drawings of datable auroras and a two-tail comet from the Syriac Chronicle of Zūqnīn* - with Hisashi Hayakawa, Yasunori Fujiwara, Akito Davis Kawamura, Ryuho Kataoka, Yusuke Ebihara, Shunsuke Kosaka, Kiyomi Iwahashi, Harufumi Tamazawa and Hiroaki Isobe
* *The earliest candidates of auroral observations in Assyrian astrological reports: Insights on solar activity around 660 BCE* - with Hisashi Hayakawa, Yusuke Ebihara and Fusa Miyake
Odette Boivin

**Odette Boivin** is Visiting Assistant Professor at NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, who specialises in Babylonian history.

## Known work

* *The First Dynasty of the Sealand in Mesopotamia* - PhD-Thesis
* *A Hymn of Ayadaragalama, King of the First Sealand Dynasty, to the Gods of Nippur: The Fate of Nippur and Its Cult during the First Sealand Dynast*y - with Uri Gabbay