AVAR: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Life and Society in ANE

ARTICLES ARE BEING TYPESET. WE REPEAT: ARTICLES ARE BEING TYPESET.

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Last but not least in Avar 4.2 is Matthew Ong's article, "Broad-scale Patterns in the Distribution of Ethnic Names in the Neo-Babylonian Oracc Corpus." 🧵(1/3)

Ong analyzes a vast number of ethnic terms in the Neo-Babylonian corpus, specifically the attributes ascribed to them, yielding interesting results. (2/3)

Samuel Boyd's article, the fourth in our recent issue, is called "Birds of a Feather: Animal Criticism, Domestication, and The Use of Bird Imagery and Metaphor in Proverbs and Ecclesiastes." 🧵 (1/3)

Boyd looks at every mention of a bird in these books of wisdom, revealing diverse uses of the bird that demonstrate a wide range of human and non-human animal relations. (2/3)

Our third article in the latest issue is by David Mulder, entitled "Temple/Herd: Mesopotamian Visions of Animal Community in the Early Third Millennium BCE." 🧵 (1/3)

Mulder discusses moving beyond an "ecological imperalist model of the wild needing taming" in analyzing seals that include animal imagery, expanding our imagery beyond the domestic for a larger and more robust imagined social community. (2/3)

The second article in our latest issue is called "Tiny Dancers: An Archaeological View of Hidden Figures on the Mari Plaque," by Anne Porter. 🧵(1/3)

Porter takes great care to (re)consider the many details on the Mari plaque, considering archeological and cultural contexts but allowing for multiplicity in cosmological meaning. (2/3)

It's Monday, and we're featuring the first article in our recently released issue by Ada Taggar Cohen, "Divine Approval and Support of the King Going into War: The Case of King Saul, Biblical and Hittite Descriptions." 🧵(1/3)

Taggar Cohen's work, which compares Hittite Ritual Texts on warfare/herem, recognizes that the *real* sin of Saul is his failure to inquire before he undertakes the act against Nob in 1 Samuel 21. (2/3)

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Closing out Avar 4.2 is "Broad-scale Patterns in the Distribution of Ethnic Names in the Neo-Babylonian Oracc Corpus," authored by Matthew Ong. avarjournal.com/avar/article...

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Second in the special section on animals is "Temple/Herd: Mesopotamian Visions of Animal Community in the Early Third Millennium BCE," written by David Mulder. avarjournal.com/avar/article...

Need some weekend reading? Avar 4.2 is LIVE! avarjournal.com/avar/issue/v...

The first article of this issue is by Ada Taggar Cohen, entitled "Divine Approval and Support of the King Going into War: The Case of King Saul, Biblical and Hittite Descriptions." avarjournal.com/avar/article...

We're sending proofs out and getting excited for you all to enjoy Avar 4.2 before ringing in the New Year!