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PhD Netanel Anor

Freie Universität Berlin

Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften

Professur für Wissensgeschichte (ohne Institut)

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Netanel Anor (PhD) graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a Bachelor of Arts in General History and a Master of Arts in Ancient Near Eastern Studies. He contributed to academic enterprises such as the GIF-German Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development: http://www.gif.org.il/Pages/default.aspx) project SEAL: Sources of Early Akkadian Literature (http://www.seal.uni-leipzig.de/), or the project Corpus of the Mesopotamian Lamentation-Priest with Dr. Uri Gabbay and supported by Israel Science Foundation. Netanel Anor also acted as co-editor of the historical review Hayo Haya

For his PhD project, Anor joined the Excellence Cluster Topoi at Freie Universität Berlin, in 2016 he successfully completed his thesis on “The Babylonian Extispicy Rituals: Theory and Practice” with Prof. Markham J. Geller. In 2018, he returned to Freie Universität Berlin after one term as PostDoc research fellow at Tel Aviv University where he investigated the transmission of omen literature to the Syro-Anatolian districts of the Late Bronze Age.

Netanel Anor’s main fields of interest are the different branches of Mesopotamian scholarship, especially those related to divination. He is also involved in research about the history and historiography of the oriental disciplines.

For an updated list of Netanel Anor’s publications, please also see:
https://fu-berlin.academia.edu/NetanelAnor

 

 

Monographs:

“The Babylonian Extispicy Rituals: Theory and Practice”, PhD thesis.

 

Articles in Academic Journals:

“The Oil Omens from Hattuša: An Investigation of the History, Purposes and Transmission of a Babylonian Divination Compendium” (with Yoram Cohen), Journal of Near Eastern Studies, forthcoming.

“Is the Liver a Reflection of the Sky?”, Aram 29, 2017, 195-206.

“Joseph Halévy and the “Sumerian Problem”: A Case of Essentialist Approach”, Philological Encounters 2, 2017, 321-345.

“Secret of Extispicy Revealed”, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Preprint 454, 2014, 7-19.

 

Articles in Collective Volumes:

“The Seer and his Client in the Ritual of Extispicy”, in: Johnson J. C., Patients and Patronage: at the Intersection of the Mesopotamian Technical Disciplines and their Clients, (Eisenbrauns), in press.

“Foreseeing the Future, Classifying the Present: On the Concepts of Law and Order in the Omen Literature”, Law and (Dis)Order in the Ancient Near East: Compte Rendu de la 59e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (Eisenbrauns), forthcoming.

 

“Mesopotamian Divinatory Inquiry: a Private or a State Matter?”, Private and State: Compte Rendu de la 58e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale 2017, 71-78.

“An Old Babylonian Oil Omen Tablet from the British Museum”, Magic and Medicine in Mesopotamia (Brill), forthcoming.