235th Annual Meeting of the AOS (2025) 
JHU-PTS Doctoral Symposium 
Fall 2024 Semester in Review 
DtrH: Books and Key Texts 
Does DtrH even exist? 
Learn to Read Ancient Aramaic: E. Cook (2022), Chapter Two, “Orthography”
Introduction This is the second post in a series that provides a resource to learn or review Biblical Aramaic and its related (Middle) Aramaic dialects... Read More
Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
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Introduction For the past two months, I’ve been meaning to write a post about my recent trip to Tanzania in East Africa back in January... Read More
Two New (Online) Publications
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Introduction The purpose of this post is to draw your attention to two new publications of mine in the online Database of Religious History (DRH).... Read More
Semester in Review: Fall 2023 at JHU
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As 2023 comes to a close and a new year begins, I spent quite a bit of time reflecting on the previous semester at Johns... Read More
A copper nail inscription of Ur-Nanše (E1.9.1.7)
Introduction The following text is an inscription that records Ur-Nanše’s construction of the shrine of G̃irsu. It is known from about 20 copies including nails,... Read More
A royal stone tablet inscription of Gudea (E3/1.1.7.4; P232332; IM 18647)
Introduction The following text is a royal stone tablet inscription of Gudea, a ruler of the city-state of Lagaš in the second half of the... Read More
A royal inscription of Gudea (E3/1.1.7.31)
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Introduction The following text is a royal inscription with over 150 exemplars on brick and clay cones known from G̃irsu, Uruk, and of unknown provenance.... Read More
A royal brick inscription of Gudea (E3/1.1.7.44)
Introduction This post presents my translation of a royal brick inscription of Gudea wherein he documents his achievement of the construction of Ning̃irsu’s É-ánzu-bábbar temple... Read More