The Amorites: Rethinking Approaches to Corporate Identity in Antiquity
Most of our approaches to identity in antiquity fixate upon a binary, constructed in modern scholarship. But individuals embrace multiple collective identities, whether social, ide
The Cushites: Race and Representation in the Hebrew Bible
The Cushites are mentioned 54 times in the Hebrew Bible. The texts are conscious of skin color but what mattered was the relationship with God.
Are Monuments History? (Neo-) Hittite Meditations on Two Memes
Many societies express power by building monuments to commemorate people or events. Tearing down monuments are also expressions of power, but of a different sort.
Coping with Ethnicity in Pharaonic Egypt
Ancient Egyptians had ambivalent attitudes towards foreigners. Most royal propaganda was negative, but the reality was quite different.