Wayne Horowitz
Wayne Horowitz (born Roslyn, New York) is an archeologist and academic. He specialises in the ancient Near East and Assyriology. Activities. Wayne Horowitz received his BA from Brandeis University. He completed his Ph.D. thesis (this later leading to the work "Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography") at Birmingham University under the supervision of W. G. Lambert. Horowitz lectures at the Rothberg School for Overseas Students in the Department of Assyriology. Prof. Horowitz is leading a team making available in publication the decipherment of a Law code fragment (18th-17th century B.C.E.), the first found in Israel that shows features similar to the  law code of Hammurabi. (From a website showing Copyright 2008 - 2011 AFHU ) Publications. His published works based on Sumerian and Akkadian texts written in cuneiform, these containing writings which in some way consider the structure of the Cosmos, are considered authoritative. Articles. "The Shofar and the Ancient Near East" (Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem exhibition September 2011) "A Kettle Drum ritual during Iyar-Seleucid Era 85" (March 2001) NABU 1991-80,"The Amarna Age: Inscribed Clay Cylinder from Beth-Shean"(1996), "Computed Tomography (CT) Imaging of Sealed Clay Cuneiform Tablets" (in Hebrew). HaTebah Archaeologia WeMedeah 3 (1995) 8-12 "Two New Ziqpu-Star  Texts." Journal of Cuneiform Studies 43 (1994) 89-98; "A Join to Enuma Anu Enlil 50". Journal of Cuneiform Studies 43 (1994) 127-129; "Moab and Edom in the Sargon Geography." Israel Exploration Journal 43 (1993) 151-156; ""A Parallel to Shamash Hymn 11-12 and the Melammu of the Sun"." N.A.B.U. (1993) 54-55; "Mesopotamian Accounts of Creation." Encyclopedia of Cosmology. Ed. N. Hetherington (Garland Press, 1993) 387-397; ""Two Abnu-Sikinsu Fragments"." Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 82 (1992) 112-121; ""A Kettle-Drum Ritual during Iyar Seleucid Era 85"." N.A.B.U. (1991) 52-53; ""The Reverse of the Neo-Assyrian  Planisphere CT 33 11"." Grazer Morgenlandische Studien 3 (1991) 149-159; ""Antiochus I, Esagil, and a Celebration of the Ritual for Renovation of Temples"." Revue d'assyriologie 85 (1991) 75-77; "Two Notes on Etana's Flight to Heaven". Orientalia 59 (1990) 511-517; "The Isles of the Nations: Genesis 10:5 and Babylonian Geography." Studies in the Pentateuch (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum XLI. Ed. J. A. Emerton (1990) 35-43; "More Writings for Ursa Major with Determinative gis." N.A.B.U. (1990) 2-3; "Two Mul-Apin Fragments". Archiv für Orientforschung 36/37 (1989/90) 116-117; "A Middle-Assyrian Exemplar of Urra". Archiv für  Orientforschung 35 (1989) 161-178; "An Akkadian Name for Ursa-Minor: mar.gid.da.an.na = eriqqi samami". Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 79 (1989) 242-245; "The Babylonian Map of the World." Iraq 47 (1988) 147-165; "Birmingham Astronomical Cuneiform Texts." Festschrift for W. G. Lambert (in press); "Halley's Comet and Judean Revolts Revisited." Catholic Biblical Quarterly (in press); "Unrest in Canaan: An Amarna Period on a Letter from Bet Shean" (in Hebrew). Kadmoniot (in press). References. original source:Faculty of the Hebrew University