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Tzvi Abusch
Lown 313
(781) 736-2969
abusch@brandeis.edu
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Tzvi Abusch
Tzvi Abusch
Tzvi Abusch, the Rose B. and Joseph Cohen Professor of Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Religion, received a Ph.D. in Assyriology from Harvard University. He has taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has held a number of awards and fellowships.
Most recently, he was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, where he was coordinator of the research theme group on magic and religion in the ancient Near East. His primary fields of research and publication are Mesopotamian religion, magic, literature and thought as well as biblical and Babylonian interconnections.
Among his recent publications on Mesopotamian magic and witchcraft are Babylonian Witchcraft Literature: Mesopotamian Magic (ed.), Some Reflections on Mesopotamian Witchcraft, Ascent to the Stars in a Mesopotamian Ritual, Witchcraft and the Anger of the Personal God, Considerations When Killing a Witch and The Internalization of Suffering and Illness in Mesopotamia. Recent articles on Mesopotamian mythology and thought include "Ishtar," "Marduk," "Gilgamesh's Request and Siduri's Denial" and "Ghost and God: Some Observations on a Babylonian Understanding of Human Nature."
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