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

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Are you doing interdisciplinary work on Anatolia, the Levant, Egypt, and Mesopotamia from the third through the first millennia BCE? Publish with Avar! avarjournal.com/avar/submissio…

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You've just read Avar 4.2, but Avar 5 begins our Rolling Issues! This means we will have your work online first, so you don't have to wait until all articles are compiled to share. We'd love your submissions: avarjournal.com/avar/submissio…

Go read it to find out! avarjournal.com/avar/article/v… (3/3)

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

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)

Enjoy this Monday read: avarjournal.com/avar/article/v… (3/3)

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)

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)

GO READ IT: avarjournal.com/avar/article/v… (3/3)

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)

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)

Intrigued? Go read! (3/3) avarjournal.com/avar/article/v…

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)

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)

In other words, you should go read this now (3/3): avarjournal.com/avar/article/v…

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)

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)

We're following up on your weekend homework.