Open Access Journal: Avar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Life and Society in the Ancient Near East

Avar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Life and Society in the Ancient Near East is a bi-annual open-access journal dedicated to publishing peer-reviewed scholarship on Anatolia, Egypt, the Levant, and Mesopotamia in the second and first millennia BCE that crosses and disrupts disciplinary boundaries. 

Submissions should explicitly seek to adopt, adapt, or integrate theories and methodologies from within the traditional fields of ancient studies (i.e. archaeology, Assyriology, biblical studies, Egyptology, Hittitology, etc.), as well as from socio-anthropological and scientific disciplines. 

Avar accepts traditional length articles and short notes in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

Special Issue: Deviance in the Ancient Near East

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2022)

Published: 2022-01-28

Articles

• Interdisciplinarity as Departure and Return: Methodological Boundary Crossing in the Ancient Near East

  Isaac M. Alderman, Shane M. Thompson, Eric M. Trinka

  1-6

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• Eating Upon the Mountains: Deviant Consumption and Commensality

  Rebekah Welton

  7-28

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• "His heart is low" Metaphor and making sense of illness in cuneiform medical texts

  Moudhy Al-Rashid

  29-49

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• The Deviant Villain The Construction of Villainy as Deviant Otherness in Mesopotamian Royal Rhetoric

  Ilan Peled

  51-87

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• The resistance to mainstream assumptions about retribution in Job and Tobit as theologically positive deviance

  Katherine Southwood

  89-112

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• Godless People and Sunless Skies Deviant Space in the Tukulti-Ninurta and Nebuchadnezzar Bilinguals

  Ben Dewar

  113-138

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• A Stranger in the House Situating Deviance in an ‘Alterity’ Research Approach

  Melanie Wasmuth

  139-183

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