2021 – 08

August 2021

Vol. 9, No. 8

Priestley’s “A Description of a New Chart of History.” (1769)

Why Did the World End in 1200 BCE?

August 16, 2021

Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa). 1st century BCE; Israel Museum. Image by Google Cultural Institute via Wikimedia Commons

From Texts to Scribes: Evidence for Writing in Ancient Israel

August 16, 2021

Detail of an alabaster wall panel relief showing two scribes. The first holds a clay-tablet in his left hand; the second is writing on a roll presumably made of leather. Nimrud: Central Palace, 8th century BCE. Museum number: BM 1848,1104.5. © The Trustees of the British Museum

Neo-Assyrian Legal Practices – Law Without Lawyers

August 9, 2021

Conoid seal, Gaza, Iron Age IIB (ca. 830–700 BCE). Source: Keel, Corpus der Stempelsiegel-Amulette aus Palästina/Israel, Band IV, 129 fig. 3.

Cognitive Science and the Ancient Near Eastern Religious Imagination

August 2, 2021

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