2020 – 09

September 2020

Vol. 8, No. 9

Female worshipper from Nippur, ca. 2600–2500 BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 62.70.2.

#MeToo-potamia (or systemic gender inequality in Mesopotamia)

September 23, 2020

Max von Oppenheim (1860–1946) in his tent, Tell Halaf 1929 (© Max Freiherr von Oppenheim Foundation, Cologne)

Max von Oppenheim and His Tell Halaf

September 15, 2020

19th century Persian tzedakah box. Minneapolis Museum of Art 2001.177.8. Public Domain.

Charity (Tzedaqah) as a Late Antique Rabbinic Religious Idea

September 9, 2020

Sheep liver model from Mari, used for divination. Photo © 1998 GrandPalaisRmn (musée du Louvre) / Hervé Lewandowski.

Epidemics in Mesopotamia

September 1, 2020

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