Deutsch Intern
  • Extracts from magical texts in antiquity (Greek, Hieratic, Demotic, Akkadian): British Library P 122; British Museum P Chester Beatty 7 and P Leiden/London, British Museum BM 34065
DFG Centre for Advanced Studies MagEIA

Jonathan Beltz

Education

2016–2023 Ph.D. in Assyriology, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Dissertation: Namtar: Deity, Demon, Agent of Fate (Advisor: E. Frahm) Approved (with distinction): 15 April 2023
2023 Certificate of College Teaching Preparation - Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2021 Baden-Württemberg/Connecticut Exchange - University of Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
2016–2019 M.Phil. in Assyriology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 
2012–2015 M.A. (Magna cum laude) in the Bible and the Ancient Near East, Rothberg International School of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
2007–2011 B.S. in Biblical Studies, Cairn University, Philadelphia PA ● Study Abroad Semester - Jerusalem University College, Jerusalem, Israel

Academic Awards

2023

The International Association for Assyriology Fund for Recent PhDs for Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale Attendance - International Association for Assyriology

The William J. Horwitz Prize for continuous excellence and distinction in a chosen field of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University - Yale University
2021 Baden-Württemberg/Connecticut Exchange - University of Heidelberg
2013 Dr. Sarah Mekler-Weisz Prize for Outstanding Students - Rothberg International School, Hebrew University

Relevant Professional Experience

2023–Present

Editorial Assistant - Yale Babylonian Collection (Agnete Lassen, supervisor) - Nemet-Nejat, K. Texts from the Time of Amēl-Marduk, Nergal-šarra-uṣur, and Lâbâši-Marduk (562-556 BC). (Yale Oriental Series 16)

2017–2023

Collections Assistant - Yale Babylonian Collection (Agnete Lassen, supervisor)

  • Collection Experience: Handling, retrieving, and reshelving objects; Cataloging and rehousing objects; facilitating tours; cataloging new library books
  • Digitization Project (Klaus Wagensonner, supervisor): HDR photography, flatbed scanning, RTI digitizing, image cleaning and processing, designed training materials for flatbed scanning software
  • Exhibition Experience: Women at the Dawn of History - Sterling Memorial Library, New Haven, CT (2020)
  • Exhibition Experience: Ancient Mesopotamia Speaks: Highlights of the Yale Babylonian Collection - Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, CT (2018)

Publications

Articles:

Submitted: “Everyday Magic?: Four Sumerian zi…pa3 Incantations on Amulets” Journal of Cuneiform Studies.

2022: “The Son of King Kurigalzu on a Kassite Prayer Seal.” Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2022/2, #65

2021: “A Tale of Two Plague Gods.” Biblical Archaeology Review 47/4 (Winter 2021), 58-59.

Exhibition Catalog Entries:

2020: Women at the Dawn of History, Agnete Lassen and Klaus Wagensonner (eds.), Yale Babylonian Collection
Object numbers: 6, 9, 16, 26, 27, 28, 46

2018: Ancient Mesopotamia Speaks: Highlights of the Yale Babylonian Collection, Agnete Lassen, Eckart Frahm, and Klaus Wagensonner (eds.), Yale University Press
Object numbers: 20, 30, 33, 42, 61, 99, 132, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140

Online Publications:

2017: “Assmann’s Of God and Gods” (4 parts) George L. Mosse Program in History Blog, University of Wisconsin-Madison (https://mosseprogram.wisc.edu/blog/)