Henry Stadhouders
Forschungsinteressen
- Beschwörung
- Keilschriftphilologie
- Babylonische und Ninivische Medizin
- Religionen und Kulturen der Antike
Curriculum Vitae
| 1975 | Bachelor degree in Theology with minors in Egyptology and Assyriology obtained with distinction at Utrecht University |
| 1979 | Graduated with distinction as a M.A. in the History of Religions with subsidiaries in Egyptology, Assyriology, and Biblical Studies at Utrecht and Leiden Universities. |
| 1975 - 1979 | Teaching assistant charged with classes in Ancient Religions and Egyptology, at Utrecht University. |
| 1979 - 2014 | Employed at the Utrecht Faculty of Humanities as a staff member of the Departement of Theology and Religious Studies charged with lecturing in Biblical and Ancient Philologies. Over the decades I have taught quite a variety of academic classes and courses:
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| since 2005 | Research on a modest scale, specializing in cuneiform philology, and I have continued to do so after I resigned from Utrecht University in 2019 |
Research Projects
- A comprehensive edition of the Egalkura ritual texts. At present, the basic work of deciphering, transliterating and translating the pertinent clay tablets and establishing a critical text has been completed. A pilot study on the subject was published in 2013 (“A Time to Rejoice”); a follow-up study of semi-monographic proportions dealing with a couple of unpublished Egalkura tablets appeared in the Geller Festschrift (“From Awe to Audacity”).
- The Babylonian Medicine Project housed at the Freie Universität Berlin: blogs.fu-berlin.de/babylonianmedicine/. Currently, I am working on a diversity of unpublished cuneiform artefacts with a view to edit them in the Journal des médecines cunéiformes and related periodicals. In the project’s framework I held a TOPOI research fellowship there May through July 2015; a renewed research and teaching stay October 2017 through February 2018 was absolved with a number of draft papers part of which has meanwhile been published.
- As of October 2018 I have been working as an external collaborator for the Electronic Babylonian Literature Project based at the Munich LMU (https://www.ebl.lmu.de), feeding the project’s database with editions of mostly unpublished cuneiform tablets and revising fellow team-members’ work. During the summer months of 2019 through 2022 I worked in the project’s headquarters as a visiting scholar.
Publikationen (Auswahl)
- The ornithomantic chapter Iṣṣūru šikinšu: a new member of the Šikinšu family of treatises. Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 2021
- Simkó, K. & Stadhouders, H.: How to manage the hallow art of crafting strings of amulet beads? Answers from a Late Babylonian tablet in the Toronto Royal Ontario Museum. In: Le journal des médecines cunéiformes, 2020
- Two rituals to postpone an ill-omened childbirth: an edition of KAR 223 and duplicates. In: Journal des médecines cunéiformes, 2018
- The Unfortunate Frog: On Animal and Human Bondage in K 2581 and Related Fragments With Excursuses on BM 64526 and YOS XI, 3. In: Revue d'assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale, 2018
- A posological curiosity: the date stone as a unit of measurement (being an edition of BM 59626; ft. BM 40051, 54914, 59623, 64526). In: N.A.B.U. - Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 2018
- Stadhouders, H. & Johnson, C.: A Time to Extract and a Time to Compile: The Therapeutic Compendium Tablet BM 78963. In: Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic, 2018
- Stadhouders, H. & Panayotov, S. : From Awe to Audacity. Stratagems for Approaching Authorities Successfully: The Istanbul Egalkura Tablet A 373. In: Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic. Studies in Honor of Markham J. Geller (eds. Strahil V. Panayotov and Ludĕk Vacín), 2018
- The mirišmarû-Plant: Orthographic Novelties and a Consecratory Spell. In: Die Welt des Orients, 2018
