Eli Tadmor
Research Interests
- Akkadian Literature
- Ancient Mesopotamian magic and ritual
- Assyrian and Babylonian mythology and religion
- Hebrew Bible
Curriculum Vitae
| 2018 | BA in Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures (Magna Cum Laude) and General History, Tel Aviv University |
| 2023 | MPhil in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University |
| 2024 | PhD in Assyriology, Advisor: Eckart Frahm, Yale University |
Academic Positions
| Since 09/2026 | Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, KFG MagEIA, University of Würzburg. |
Publications
a. Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
- “The Pain and Necessity of Kingship in Old Babylonian Etana,” Kaskal (forthcoming).
- “What Does Lamaštu Make Her Victims Drink?,” Altorientalische Forschungen (forthcoming).
- “How Išum Got His Name,” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 78 (2026), 199–214. https://doi.org/10.1086/741142
- “Reconsidering Six Lines in the Hymn to Ninurta as Savior,” Journal of the American Society for Premodern Asia 146/2 (2026). https://doi.org/10.7817/jaspa.146.2.2026.ar013
- “Erra’s Human Form,” Kaskal Nuova serie 2 (2025), 35–48. http://doi.org/10.30687/KASKAL/2036-5845/2025/01/004
- “Counting Lines in Erra,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 145/2 (2025), 369–79. https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.145.2.2025.ar016
- “More than a Single Truth: Polyvalence in Gilgamesh’s Dreams of the Meteorite and the Axe,” Kaskal 20 (2023), 71–82. https://doi.org/10.1400/296868
- “Erudite Savagery: Intertextuality in Ashurbanipal’s Account of the Siege of Babylon,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 82/1 (2023), 43–58. https://doi.org/10.1086/724083
b. Articles in Non-Peer-Reviewed Journals and Reviews
- “A Bibliographical Corrigendum on Emar 256 (E6 256),” NABU (forthcoming).
- “‘Living Yesterday’ in Ludlul II 39,” NABU (forthcoming).
- “The Woman Tiamat, or A Primordial Case of MI2,” NABU 2026/2, 121–22.
- “Goring the Land in Erra and Naram-Sin,” NABU 2025/4, 188–89.
- “On the Logic of Name Substitution in the Assyrian Version of Enuma Elish,” NABU 2025/3, 135–36.
- “Winnowing Down the Syntactical Possibilities of a Key Assertion in the Marduk Ordeal,” NABU 2025/3, 136–37.
- “The Shared Use of the Address ‘You, Man!’ in Erra and Ezekiel,” NABU 2025/1, 49–50.
- Review of Enuma Elish: The Babylonian Epic of Creation (eds. J. Haubold, S. Helle, E. Jiménez, and S. Wisnom), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 84/2 (2025), 385–89. https://doi.org/10.1086/737438
- Review of The Shape of Stories: Narrative Structures in Cuneiform Literature (eds. S. Helle and G. Konstantopoulos), Journal of the American Oriental Society 145/3 (2025), 648–51. Literary Fiction. https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.145.2.2025.r029
