Bodies of Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia
The Diviners of Late Bronze Age Emar and their Tablet Collection
Biographical note
Matthew Rutz, Ph.D. (2008), University of Pennsylvania, is Assistant Professor of Assyriology in the Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies at Brown University. His research focuses on divination, medicine, historiography, and scholarship in the ancient Near East.
Readership
All those interested in religion and divination in the ancient Near East, ancient libraries and archives, the archaeology of ancient texts, and the textual transmission of cuneiform literature.
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