Eva von Dassow

vonda001@umn.edu

Classical & Near Eastern Religions & Cultures

150D Nicholson Hall

216 Pillsbury Dr SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Curriculum Vitae

Collegiate Affiliation

Classical & Near Eastern Religions & Cultures

History

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

BA: Classics, University of Washington, 1981
MA: Classics, University of Washington, 1982
MA: Bible and Ancient Near East, New York University, 1991
PhD: Bible and Ancient Near East, New York University, 1997

Specialties

History of the ancient Near East
Hurrian language and literature
Syro-Mesopotamian society and politics

Publications

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Publications

On Writing the History of Southern Mesopotamia: von Dassow, Eva, Zeitschrift fí¼r Assyriologie, 89, 227-246, 1999.
Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol III: Private Archive Texts from the First Millennium BC. Ira Spar, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, von Dassow, Eva, 2000.
Landless and Hungry? Access to Land in Early and Traditional Societies. Research School CNWS, von Dassow, Eva, 1998.
The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1994. 2nd ed., Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, von Dassow, Eva, 1998.
What the Canaanite Cuneiformists Wrote: von Dassow, Eva, Israel Exploration Journal, 2003.
Lists of People from the Alalah IV Administrative Archives. Ugarit-Forschungen, von Dassow, Eva, 2003.
Greece Before Hellas: von Dassow, Eva, Modern Greek Studies Yearbook, 18/19, 2002/2003.
State and Society in the Late Bronze Age: Alalah Under the Mittani Empire. CDL Press, von Dassow, Eva, 2008.
Naram-Sin of Uruk: a New King in an Old Shoebox: von Dassow, Eva, Journal of Cuneiform Studies, 61, 63-91, 2009.
Canaanite in Cuneiform: von Dassow, Eva, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 124, 641-74, 2004 [2006].
Temporality and Periodization in Ancient Near Eastern History: von Dassow, Eva, Social Science History, 36/1, 113-143, 2012.
Piecing Together the Song of Release: von Dassow, Eva, Journal of Cuneiform Studies, 65, 127-62, 2013.
Constituent, Confederate, and Conquered Space: The Emergence of the Mittani State: de Gruyter, von Dassow, Eva, Levantine Polities under Mittanian Hegemony, 11-32, 2014.
Journal of Near Eastern Studies: University of Chicago Press, von Dassow, Eva, How to Get Credit and Avoid Foreclosure in Arraphe, 77/2, 235-48, 2018.

Activities

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Activities

Outreach

Mesopotamia in Minnesota: exhibition, catalogue, and web sites presenting cuneiform collections in Minnesota. Spring 2001 - Fall 2003

Creative

Embodying Gilgamesh: New Physical Language for Staging Epic Texts: Dramaturge on collaborative project resulting in a new play based on the Epic of Gilgamesh, directed by Lisa Channer. Fall 2009 - Fall 2010

Research

Social and political history of the Near East in the Late Bronze Age: reconstructing the development of social classes during the Late Bronze Age on the basis of primary source material found at Near Eastern sites. Spring 2002 - Fall 2005
Encoding Canaanite in cuneiform: investigating the representation of Canaanite language(s) in cuneiform script during the Late Bronze Age. Fall 2002 - Fall 2004
Freedom, Rights, and Governance in the Ancient Near East: An inquiry into the conceptualization of freedom, structures of governance, and rights in the societies of the ancient Near East, from the late 3rd to the mid-1st millennium BCE.. Fall 2007 - present
Toward a New History of the Ancient Near East: Preparing a new edition of Amélie Kuhrt, The Ancient Near East, c. 3000-330 BC. 2015 - 2022

Courses

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Courses

Akka 5011 - Elementary Akkadian I
Akka 5012 - Elementary Akkadian II
ANE/Hist 4051 - Ancient Near East & Egypt: Neolithic to 1500 BCE
ANE/Hist 4052 - Ancient Near East: 1500-323 BCE
Hebr 3201 -- Readings in Biblical Hebrew 1
CNES/Hist 5051 -- Before Herodotus: History and Historiography of Mesopotamia
CNES 1001 -- World of the Bible
CNES/Hist 3502 -- Ancient Israel: From Conquest to Exile
CNES 5713 -- Introduction to Ugaritic
Hist 3051 -- Ancient Civilizations: Near East and Egypt
CNES 3042, Literature of the Ancient Near East
HSem 3018: State Formation in the Middle East Ancient and Modern
HSem 3017W: Writing and Reading in the Ancient World