Prof. Nathan Wasserman

Nathan Wasserman
Prof.
Nathan
Wasserman
Archaeology Institute
Archaeology and Ancient Near East

Research Fields

  • Akkadian literature
  • Mesopotamian magic
  • Mesopotamian epistolary texts
  • Mesopotamian history

About

Born in Jerusalem (1962)

BA and MA (1983-87), PhD (1993, Assyriology): The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Professor of Assyriology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2011-2014      Vice-dean for research, Faculty of Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2010–2011     Mercator Guest Professor (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) at the Altorientalisches Institut, University of Leipzig

2008–2014    Associate professor in Assyriology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (27.4.2008 –18.11.2014)

2002–2008   Senior lecturer in Assyriology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (13.5.2002 – 26.4.2008)

1995–2002    Lecturer in Assyriology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1.4.1995 – 12.5.2002)

1993–1994     Post-doc, UPR 193, CNRS, Paris (équipe de Mari) 

 

Selected Publications

 “Style and Form in Old-Babylonian Literary Texts,” Cuneiform Monographs 27, Leiden/Boston: Brill/Styx, 2003.

“Akkadian Love Literature of the 3rd and 2nd Millennium BCE,” Leipziger Altorientalistische Studien 4, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016.

 Labor Pains, Difficult Birth, Sick Child: Three Old Babylonian Incantations from a Private Collection,  Bibliotheca Orientalis 75 (2018), 14–25.

“The Susa Funerary Texts: A New Edition and Re-Evaluation and the Question of Psychostasia in Ancient Mesopotamia,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 139 (2019), 859–891.

 The Flood: The Akkadian Sources. A New Edition, Commentary, and a Literary Discussion (Orbis

Biblicus et Orientalis, 290), Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2020.

 

Teaching

Jerusalem: 2017/18

Akkadian for Beginners; BA (Mon. and Wed. 10:30-12:00) ► course

 Death in the Literature of Mesopotamia; BA (Winter semester, Mon. 16:30-18:00) ► course

You Cross Regularly Through the Heavens: The Great Shamash Hymn; BA (Summer semester, Wed. 14:30-16:00) ► course

 Akkadian incantations against demons, sickness, and various animals; MA  (Mon. 12:30-14:00) ► course

Leipzig: December 2017

Reading Tablets from Photos (4–7 December: "Blockseminar". With Prof. M. P. Streck)

Jerusalem: 2018/19

Kings & Cities: Introduction to the History of Ancient Mesopotamia; BA (Summer semester, Mon. 16:30-18:00) ► course

Wisdom Literature: Advanced Akkadian; BA (Summer semester, Mon. 12:30-14:00) ► course

The Assyrian Dialect: Letters; BA (Summer semester, Wed. 10:30-12:00) ► course

Jerusalem: 2019/20

Introduction to Akkadian; BA (Winter semester, Mon. and Wed. 10:30-12:00) ► course

Akkadian Texts for Beginners ; BA (Summer semester, Mon. and Wed. 10:30-12:00) ► course

Jerusalem: 2020/21

Reading in the Laws of Hammurapi; BA (Winter semester, Mon. 10:30–12:00) ► course

Selected Old Babylonian Letters: BA (Winter semester, Mon. 13:00–14:30) ► course

Kings & Cities: Introduction to the History of Ancient Mesopotamia; BA (Summer semester, Mon. 17:00-18:30) ► course

The Flood in Akkadian Literature (Summer semester, Mon. 10:30-12:00) ► course